This past week I finished a quilt from stash and made two pillowcases from purchased fabric with some left over. Still I’m very happy with my numbers.
Fabric added this week: 3.25 yards
Fabric added to date: 8.229 yards
Fabric used this week: 5.91 yards
Fabric used to date: 38.487 yards
Net used to date: 30.258 yards
The question now is how will my numbers look after a girls day out to a couple of quilt shops next Saturday…
See how others are doing with their stash over at Patchwork Times.
It seems like I’ve knit the same 2 or 3 rows 4 or 5 times now.
I’ve started the border. If I had another skein of the yarn, I’d make this shawl a bit bigger. Worked from the top down, I marked the end of the skein with the red thread. The second skein didn’t go near as far as the third skein was started a couple of rows before the border.
I’m in the process of ripping out row 6 of the border and I suspect I’ll have to rip out row 5 again. Maybe next week I’ll get past row 7.
Check out the links over at Patchwork Times to see what others are working on.
This month the letter is “O” and the block is Octagon and Twist. It is the 14th block of Dorothy Young’s Alphabet BOM. It’s not to late to join.
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Quilted, bound, label, washed, cases made and into the mail. OK, it won’t arrive on Friday, but I gave it my best shot.
This is the weirdly titled “August C”. The goal was to get it finished and to UPS by 8 PM Wednesday evening. About 7 o’clock I realized that wasn’t going to happen, so I ran over to Jo-Ann’s to get fabric for a couple of pillowcases.
The quilt measured 66″ x 82″ before it was washed. In my haste, I only got the width after washing 63″. The batting is Warm & Natural. The quilting is “A Little Bit of Fluff” using King Tut Cinnaberry — a red variegated thread. It took just over 2 pre-wound bobbins.
Getting this quilt done was not on my list for the year, but it is on the UFO list so all is good.
A casual comment Sunday night has me renting time on the long arm to get this top quilted, bound, labeled and delivered by Friday. We’ll see if I can make it happen.
Friday night and all day Saturday, I attended a local PhD retreat — Projects Half Done — sponsored by a local quilt shop. In keeping with the theme of Projects Half Done and to work on this year’s UFO list, I took my Orca Bay to work on.
No, I did not do all of that this past weekend. I just those purple string triangles that I have stacked up in a square. Yesterday I took stock of what I had done before packing the project away for another retreat. I was afraid that I had more star blocks to make, but it turns out I have nearly 70 +/- QST extra units. Whew!
So, now I have completed all of the clues up through 6. In clue # 7, I have 4 more black & white triangle units to make and I need to cut neutral triangles for the border. The box has not been put back on the shelf, so I may go ahead and cut the remaining pieces so it will be ready to go for the next retreat.
The shamrock is either a wall hanging or the first block of a new quilt – I haven’t decided yet. It was made as part of the fun and games at the retreat.
Next week, I hope to show progress on Eeyore, but we’ll see. I’ve started the border on the shawl….
Check out the links over at Patchwork Times. I’m sure we’ll see some great inspiration.
I spent hours sewing Friday night and all day Saturday – but yet I have no output to report. I worked on Orca Bay and there are a “billion pieces” in that quilt and I’m still piecing. As the retreat was for our “PhD” we receive a FQ “diploma”. I’ll dig it out of my stuff in the next day or so.
Fabric added this week: 0.25 yards
Fabric added to date: 4.979 yards
Fabric used this week: 0 yards
Fabric used to date: 32.577 yards
Net used to date: 27.598 yards
To see how others are doing with their stash, checked out the links over at Patchwork Times.
March’s goals in many ways are a repeat of February’s goals.
I’ll work on the DWR this month in smaller increments. I irritated my wrist last month with my marathon quilting session.
Same goal for Eeyore — get the applique done.
Orca Bay is this weekend’s retreat project. I’m working on the red string blocks which I’m making in purple. I’ll probably put the project away after the retreat and save it for the next one since I didn’t work on Eeyore at all in February.
Now if I can keep the knitting going along, but not taking over, I might just get this list done. Of course having 3 more days in the month will make a difference too.
Here’s my February recap:
I got distracted. There was the baby quilt from the Deadline III pattern; applique flowers started (what’s up with that?) and a bit of knitting.
There’s no picture of the knitting but night before last I got to the last row before the border and decided I need to make the shawl bigger, so I think I need to do 6 more repeats. But then I dropped a stitch and I’ve got to rip back to fix it — that’s what happened to my other twisty pin – it’s stuck in my knitting.
Anyway I hope to get back on track with quilting starting with a retreat I’m going to this evening and tomorrow. How much retreating I get done will depend on how much I get called from work. Fortunately I’m only 20 minutes away so I can do both.
N is for New York Star. Twelve blocks left, but it’s not too late to join.
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