Friday, March 13, 2020

Weekly Sewing Report

True Confessions:  I started a new project this week.  As I have been cleaning out my sewing storage area, I discovered that I have a large collection of batiks.  They had not all been stored together so I put them in their own (large) bin as I found them here and there around the room.  I decided that I needed to make a batik quilt or two in an effort to use them up.  Pulling out an assortment of blues, greens, golds, oranges, reds and purples, I decided to make Bonnie Hunter's Scrappy Trips pattern.  Here is one of the blocks I have made this week. 


This will be a lap quilt with 20 blocks.  I even found some fabric for the borders in my collection...  So far, I have 7 blocks pieced and the rest of the blocks are started.  I spent some time earlier in the week cutting all the strips I will need.  I have lots of variety!


On the knitting front, I finished my first dish cloth, although I still need to weave the ends in.  I learned how to do this on a Youtube video last night so hope to do that today.


I started a second dish cloth using the same pattern and it is half finished already.  I have taught myself how to "unknit" when I made a mistake.  I'm getting faster at knitting and hope to tackle something more challenging soon. I have some wool and a pattern for a hat.  Here is my second dish cloth:


My husband could not understand how I would knit using circular needles so I gave him a demo one night this week.  He had only seen people knit with straight needles before now.

My daughter has made a bit of progress on her cross stitch feather project.  She does not have much time for stitching right now as she is very busy at work.


The Elgin Piecemakers Guild issued a Music Challenge in the Fall and the projects are due at the March meeting.  We were each given a fat 8th of a black and white music note print which was to appear in our piece in which we were to depict a song.  I picked my song and hatched a plan.  I have been working on this project over the last 6 weeks or so and, this week, finished it off.  I just have the binding left to stitch down by hand.  Here is a sneak peak of the front,


And, here is where I will be stitching today.


Finn will be coming to visit and stay with us for a few weeks soon.  We will be going for lots of walks --my sewing machine time may go down a bit when he is here but I will keep busy with hand work and knitting.


I will be linking up with Kathy's crew of Slow Stitchers on Sunday morning.

14 comments:

  1. Love your batik "Trip" it will be just gorgeous with all those saturated colors throughout...Stay safe hugs, Julierose

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  2. That's going to be such a pretty rainbow kind of quilt.
    That's a neat edging on the dish cloth. I'm so glad I live in a time of the internet. Happy Stitching/knitting!

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  3. I was just thinking today that I should revisit my scrappy trips UFO. Yours is going to be lovely!

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  4. That Trip Around the World is going to be gorgeous! I've admired BH's pattern for a while now so I'll watch yours unfold and be super-jealous! Lol! When I "unknit" I call it "tink"ing. That's knit backwards! Both of your dishcloths looks great!

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  5. You have a gorgeous collection of batiks! Your new 'use it up' quilt will be lovely. Good progress with your knitting too, sewing the ends in is the worst bit! And it will be so nice to have Finn to stay a while!

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  6. Those batiks are very pretty and would be hard to resist to not start a project. I did not know the potholders are knitted in a triangle shape and then end up square. Youtube is great for learning new stuff or when one needs a refresher. You'll enjoy your time with Finn and perhaps take him for walks as that is about all one can do when out of the house.

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  7. Wow, you most definitely have a wide variety of batiks. I really like how they look in quilts. You are doing well with the knitting. I just learned how to knit cables. I am still all thumbs with the process, but they look good at least. Enjoy your time with Finn. You have many weeks of love, cuddling and walks in your future.

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  8. Oh that batik trip is going to be wonderful! I have a alot of scraps that need to be tamed. But, no new starts here yet!

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  9. This past month I learned a new term when it comes to "un-knitting"...the word is "TINK"...which is "knit" spelled backwards, lol.

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  10. Great projects and dish cloth! I need to get working on Bonnie's Frolic mystery. This seems to be coming together very slowly for me this year as I have worked on three blog hops the past three months. Now that that is over I hope to make some progress

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  11. I love the new batik project!
    And the knitting is coming along really well... good for you! I find that challenging!
    Thanks for linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching!

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  12. You have some wonderful projects to keep you stitching, love those knitted wash clothes.

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  13. Those batiks are lovely. They will make a lovely lap quilt. Have a fun time walking sweet Finn.

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  14. I love that type of dishcloths. My mom used to make those like crazy and give them to friends and family. Woohoo for the Finn visit. I love pictures of Finn.

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