Today was the annual Vice President's day at the Oxford Guild. Many quilters were working on Anita's Arrowhead blocks, a pattern chosen by our VP, but I decided to bring along some hand stitching to work on instead. Earlier in the week, I thread basted my Arizona quilt so that I could hand quilt it. I am using 28 wt grey Aurifil thread for big stitching. So far, so good!
I had several opportunities this week to add stitches to my Winter Woods cross stitch project. The deer is done and I also did the snowflake. I am working on the part below the deer which includes several trees. I still need to add some stars in the sky and the eye of the deer.
I also hand stitched the binding on my potato chip baby quilt today. I had finished the quilting earlier in the week.
You can see my straight stitch walking foot quilting in the next couple of pictures. I will block this quilt to get it to lie flat.
The Rainbow Scrap Challenge colour for February is blue so I put together some light blue hollow nine patches this week. I may make some turquoise blocks too.
After several months of not knitting, I decided that the only way my scarf is going to get done is if I try to work on it most days. I have the yarn bowl and scarf on the coffee table to remind me to pick it up and knit!
It was very cold today where my daughter and Finn live, but the sun was shining and Finn enjoyed sunbathing by the window. He likes lots of blankets in his bed as well as some toys...
My daughter's crocheted book blanket will have 11 granny squares for the books she read in January.
Here are the books she read in January along with their ratings. She does not give very many 5/5's. (only 3 books got this rating last year out of the over 120 books she read)
Last Sunday, my husband and I went for a walk at the local park. I took this picture of a milkweed pod, dried out and cracked open, seeds and fluff still inside.
I will link up with Angela for the RSC, Kathy for Slow Sunday Stitching and Frederique for her weekly link up.
love that quilting in the first photo. How do you do so many crafts and make progress = I have a knitting project going but never seem to find time to work on it - do you just say ok - Tuesday (or whatever) is knitting day?
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