I have to admit, I feel a little inadequate compared to my favorite crafty podcasts. It sounds like those ladies are always finishing something, while I seem stuck in crafty backlog. Of course my favorite quilty podcast ladies have higher-end sewing machines, have been sewing much longer, and do more by machine than I do. Still, how do they get everything done? Most of them have kids and full time jobs, and still finish enough projects to make me envious.
*I'm still working on the wildflower shawl.
*I have about 2 inches left on the sweater I'm knitting for my niece, then I have the sleeves to pick up and knit.
*I'm quilting the Firefly wallhanging.
*I'm cutting strips for the hidden star log cabin quilt.
Today, my goal is to finish cutting log cabin strips and start working on the background for the TARDIS hanging. I want it to be a giant hexagon made out of triangles of two different fabrics. I have a ruler for the right kind of triangle, but I'm going to enlarge it. Those two have to be in Memphis by March 20. I'm a little nervous about making the deadline, since I haven't started on one of them yet. Well, I should get off the computer and get going.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Monthly update! As opposed to forgetting to blog for, like, 3 months. I'm calling it progress.
I'm still working on....I think most of the things I talked about before. I'm quilting the first Firefly wallhanging. This one is Wash's quilt. I'm really happy with how it's coming together, I just wish it was coming along faster. This weekend, I'm going to start working on the Doctor Who quilt. This should be interesting. I also want to start on a log cabin quilt from the Jelly Roll Quilts book. I bought fabric in November, finally figured out what to do with it about a month ago, and still haven't started. *sigh* C'est la vie.
I'm still working on....I think most of the things I talked about before. I'm quilting the first Firefly wallhanging. This one is Wash's quilt. I'm really happy with how it's coming together, I just wish it was coming along faster. This weekend, I'm going to start working on the Doctor Who quilt. This should be interesting. I also want to start on a log cabin quilt from the Jelly Roll Quilts book. I bought fabric in November, finally figured out what to do with it about a month ago, and still haven't started. *sigh* C'est la vie.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Here we go again.
The idea for this blog was to sort of be an idea notebook for me, and I need to get back to using it. Yes, yes, I've said this before.
Okay, most of what I've been doing lately is knitting. Here are the knitting projects I have on deck:
1. A wildflower lace shawl, which is a very simple pattern, but this time, I'm going to try a knitted-on lace border. I'm using Madeleine Tosh merino light in Geranium.
2. Sweet Fern fingerless mitts in a nice worsted weight green wool.
3. A baby sweater for my niece, in hot pink cotton.
I've actually got several other lace shawls on tap, or at least I have multiple skeins of lace weight or sock weight yarn in my stash, and shawls are so lovely.
Here are the quilting projects I have lined up (in my head):
1. (WIP) a whole-cloth Provencal-style quilt, which got put aside to work on Christmas presents.
2. A winter lap quilt in reds and greens. I bought a bunch of fat quarters for this, and have added to it since. I think I'm going to use a log cabin/hidden star pattern from the Jelly Roll Quilts book.
3. A Japanese-inspired quilt using Kate Spain's Good Fortune line. I bought a layer cake with some of my Christmas money. I'm going to buy a yard of a print to use as a border and some solid navy blue fabric to use as background fabric, and I should be good to go.
4. I have a pattern from Fig Tree Quilts, from the newsletter, Fresh Figs. It's a translation of a vintage quilt, with red tulips set in a lattice. I wanted to make this for myself in red, aqua, and apple green. I might still, but the sheer volume of quilts I want to make and keep, just for this year, is disturbing me a little. I'm thinking of making this with pink tulips for my sister for her birthday.
5. I have a Ruby jelly roll that's burning a hole in my stash, and would pacify my need for something in the red, aqua, and apple green color palette. There is a quilt in a magazine I wanted to make that was alternating snowball and 9-patch blocks with a wide border that had swags of thick green rickrack and yo-yo flowers. I had been collecting fabric for this, but I have a similar pattern in the Jelly Roll Quilts book, and I think I could easily add the elements that I like from the other quilt to this one.
6. I want to make a classic Dresden plate quilt in 1930's reproduction fabrics.
So that's my wish-list. What am I going to do first? Well...
Neale had an idea about a year ago to make science fiction art quilts, and display/sell them at the art show at MidSouth Con. I've kind of slacked on this. It was one of those things that I thought I'd do when I got a more lucrative job, to buy the materials, but stuff happened. So I'm going to try to start small. We'll see how it goes.
Okay, most of what I've been doing lately is knitting. Here are the knitting projects I have on deck:
1. A wildflower lace shawl, which is a very simple pattern, but this time, I'm going to try a knitted-on lace border. I'm using Madeleine Tosh merino light in Geranium.
2. Sweet Fern fingerless mitts in a nice worsted weight green wool.
3. A baby sweater for my niece, in hot pink cotton.
I've actually got several other lace shawls on tap, or at least I have multiple skeins of lace weight or sock weight yarn in my stash, and shawls are so lovely.
Here are the quilting projects I have lined up (in my head):
1. (WIP) a whole-cloth Provencal-style quilt, which got put aside to work on Christmas presents.
2. A winter lap quilt in reds and greens. I bought a bunch of fat quarters for this, and have added to it since. I think I'm going to use a log cabin/hidden star pattern from the Jelly Roll Quilts book.
3. A Japanese-inspired quilt using Kate Spain's Good Fortune line. I bought a layer cake with some of my Christmas money. I'm going to buy a yard of a print to use as a border and some solid navy blue fabric to use as background fabric, and I should be good to go.
4. I have a pattern from Fig Tree Quilts, from the newsletter, Fresh Figs. It's a translation of a vintage quilt, with red tulips set in a lattice. I wanted to make this for myself in red, aqua, and apple green. I might still, but the sheer volume of quilts I want to make and keep, just for this year, is disturbing me a little. I'm thinking of making this with pink tulips for my sister for her birthday.
5. I have a Ruby jelly roll that's burning a hole in my stash, and would pacify my need for something in the red, aqua, and apple green color palette. There is a quilt in a magazine I wanted to make that was alternating snowball and 9-patch blocks with a wide border that had swags of thick green rickrack and yo-yo flowers. I had been collecting fabric for this, but I have a similar pattern in the Jelly Roll Quilts book, and I think I could easily add the elements that I like from the other quilt to this one.
6. I want to make a classic Dresden plate quilt in 1930's reproduction fabrics.
So that's my wish-list. What am I going to do first? Well...
Neale had an idea about a year ago to make science fiction art quilts, and display/sell them at the art show at MidSouth Con. I've kind of slacked on this. It was one of those things that I thought I'd do when I got a more lucrative job, to buy the materials, but stuff happened. So I'm going to try to start small. We'll see how it goes.
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