Monday, February 17, 2025

A little stitching

Red let me do a little boro inspired sashiko stitching on his denim jacket!  I love having a son that likes stitching!

Monday, February 10, 2025

February block


February block for the Saturday Sampler. I picked the wrong fabric at one point so I had to use my ooops kit.  I also managed to cut the dark blue points wrong so I had to hit the oooops kit again!

Some sewing

I cut and sewed on the stop border for the baby quilt.  I had planned to add a blue focus fabric border-wasn't sure on the width-but when I looked I had just enough blue left for the binding.  I'm going to do a slightly wider binding.  Quilt top is about 46 square which should fit nicely on some orange minky!












This next bit is in-progress.  It's the Parsonsfield QAL that Lori at Humble Quilts started in 2023.  I cannot find the darn fabric I bought from her expressly for this QAL so I started with some other fabric I had bought from her.  I also pulled a bunch from my Civil War stash.  Next up is a mess of four patches that are 2.5 square!

Hot Mess

So I'm knitting away on some Hot Mess yarn for Red.  CO 68 K1P1 for 13 rows K2P2 for 71 rows Heel over 34 sts This is Hot Mess yarn, spe...