A Few More Places

Shaky Handwriting

I've decided against adding any words or letters to the top from yesterday. I'd like to use a dark purple binding to frame it, but I don't have enough fabric left, so I might let the project marinate for a little while before finishing it up.

Looking around at the Liberated Amish Get Together site, I was inspired to get back to a project I started in another one of Tonya's online events back in September 2007! I'm making a quilt for myself (for once) with place names of all the places I've lived. It's a long list! After finishing up all the short ones, I'm trying to move onto the 10+ letter places without making them so large that they dwarf the others. My 'handwriting' was a little shaky with the first one after such a long break, but I'm quite satisfied with the next one. As always, thanks to Tonya for her tutorial!

Inspired!

I was so inspired by Clare's quilt for Tonya's Liberated Amish Get Together that although I didn't join in back in January, I woke up this morning and got this top (it's 36"x54") finished in one day! It was quite a marathon, but I just love the result! Thanks for the inspiration Clare and Tonya!

I'm Still Here!

I've been helping a friend learn to quilt recently, and it's meant that my machine has been busy, but I've been using the time to finish up a bunch of almost finished knitting projects. Here's one long-lingering quilty finish, as well. I started this quilt back in August and just did a simple loopy thing for the quilting. I'm still not sure which side is the front!

Eine Kleine Gestrickte Zwischenmusik

Just a little knitting interlude...

While helping a friend learn to quilt last weekend, I was able to finish up a few knitting projects that had been lingering in their last stages of completion. Two pairs of mittens started in 2oo8, plus one started this year.

The brown ones based on the Quo Vadis pattern and made with Patons Classic Wool; the white ones are Lovikkas made with Järbo yarn (free pattern på svenska on their site); and the grey ones are improvised using Patons Shetland Chunky (not enough wool content, in my opinion, but loved the yellow flecks).

Finishing is fun - I should do it more often! I haven't set any kind of resolution, but I would like to get both my knitting and quilting UFOs under control this year.

A Picture Perfect Day!

I wonder if it's too crazy to set a goal of finishing one large project a month this year? Probably.

Back with My Foot on the Pedal

The lame ankle wasn't so good for sewing on the machine (or cutting or ironing for that matter), but I finally got back to work on the white/red/pink liberated quilt this weekend. I decided to piece the back, using a technique that I found on another blog ages ago (I can't seem to find the link, can someone help me out?). I love the way it turned out, but even though it looks like I threw it together, piecing the back really meant putting in the time to make two fronts! I can definitely imagine making some more tops this way in the future. The scrap bins overfloweth. I've decided that pin-basting on the floor is my least favorite part of the whole quilt-making process, but at least it forced me to vacuum today. I'm about 1/3 of the way through the quilting, so hopefully there'll be some finished photos by the end of the week!