Hiatus
February 6, 2010
I’m going on hiatus for awhile. I need some space from the internet. I’m not sure how long I’ll be away from both flickr and here. Stay well, readers!
Moebius!
January 29, 2010
I’m knitting a moebius scarf. I saw it in “Knitting Around” by Elizabeth Zimmerman and thought it was really cute. So I’m branching out from making socks to making a cowl in moss stitch. I get all my bamboo needles from Knittn Kitten where they are super inexpensive, so I picked up a regular pair today since I had been knitting on double points. It was getting a little scary, what with coming dangerously close to having one end slip off.
I finished making a shirt today with my Liberty fabric. I’ll wear it tomorrow & get Chris to take a picture.
Also, want to know a quick way to de-stash? Find that your cat has peed in a box full of fabric remnants. It will make you decide real fast what’s worth washing several times to save, and what’s not. Yikes.
Craft Quilting
January 20, 2010
I’ve been making a few pot holders with leftover fabrics. They are usually a bit wonky in shape. I use whatever thick fabric scraps I have to put inside. For this one, I have a wool felt blanket that’s been cut up for awhile, and it was thick enough that I only had to put one layer inside. Sometimes I’ll put two or three layers of flannel.
Now, this guy, I don’t know. I just sewed it using some scraps and it looks pretty Americana to me. It’s about doll quilt size. I’m not sure what to do with it, it’s not really my style, but I still like it. So it’s hanging out in my studio until I figure it out.
I really love this! I used some vintage fabric samples I’ve had for ages and never wanted to cut into. But as I’m trying to de-stash, these fabrics came under the knife. I also wanted something to hang in the bedroom because I have yet to hang anything up in there. For some reason the wall color did not turn out at all. It looks blue in this picture, when it’s really a light green. I stuck it into the wall with sewing pins… maybe not a very permanent hanging device but good enough ’til it finds a good spot.
Oh, and those last two projects used a pattern called log cabin. It’s super easy, although it requires sewing a line, jumping up, ironing it back, and repeating for as many pieces as you sew. I averaged around 40 jump-up sit-downs during the last project.