The Last Project of 2013?

This is felted wool applique. Pattern:  "Top of the Morning "#183", by Geoff's Mom Pattern Co.  Very cute, eh?  The polka dots are APPLIQUED.  I bought the kit at a quilt show in the fall. The felted wool is appliqued to a silk background. I added a linen backing. TaDa!!  21 x 44 inches.

A long quilting weekend

Julie's very pink quilt -- I have forgotten what kind of flowers those are.

We sewed our socks off over a long weekend at the lake.  Many pieces were finished or almost finished. 

Julie's applique project 

Sheila's paper piecing quilt

Julie's stars quilt -- 2 blocks

  

 Lisa completed fronts and backs for FOUR quilts this weekend!!  Wow! 

Lisa - Daniel's "little monkey" quilt for cabin bedroom

Lisa - The Very Bright Quilt for Noel's bed in the corner of the cabin bedroom -- look back in the blog -- this quilt has been featured on several occasions

Lisa - Wow. Another cabin quilt featuring a Laurel Burch print

Lisa - Quilt for Summer's bed at the cabin

slowly things get done

This is block number one of a quilt I'm making for my daughter -- Block #3 of Vintage Valentine by Verna Mosquera. It was designed to be done in shades of pink and off-white/tan, but MY daughter wants plumy purples and sagey greens . . . I think I started this in January?
On to block #6 (doing the vertical striped background ones first).

Moving on to MITTENS, but in the meantime, another hat

Knitted hat for Lisa - this is a much lighter weight yarn than the other two - knitted on Size 3 needles.

And yet another hat

Madeleine Tosh DK

Hat for Nora

Yet Another "Another Hat"

Lisa liked Nora's 'Another Hat' (see previous post), so I offered to make one for her. She gave me a ball of yarn that she brought home from England last year -- King Cole brand, Riot. This hat is knitted at a finer gauge, since the yarn is not as thick as the Malabrigo Rio.  It striped up beautifully, don't you think?

This was inspired by a hat in a book, but I have changed it enough that I think I could claim it was my own pattern. I added the earflaps, changed the geometry of the crown, and also changed the striped pattern.  The stripes are made with stockinette rows alternated with reverse stockinette rows, so the reverse stockinette rows stick out, making those ridged stripes.

I like it so well, I would like to make a sweater with this detail at the collar and cuffs. 

Another Hat

I think this yarn is just fabulous, but I wanted to experiment with a small project, so here is a hat. It is simple stockinette and reverse stockinette stitch. The pattern is modified from the Cosima pattern (pg. 122) in Hip Knit Hats: 40 fabulous designs, by Cathy Carron (2005). The yarn is Malabrigo Rios - worsted weight - color: Iris

Recent Knitting is All Blue

I have three finished knitting projects, and look! they are all blue.

Number One:  A pair of sockweight lace gauntlets. These were a Downton Abbey Mystery Knit-a-Long. The idea was that we got a piece of the pattern each week, to knit as we watched the latest installment of Downton Abbey. These were  finished back in February. Yarn: Knit-Picks Stroll fingering weight.

Number Two:  This wavy hat is knit  in a fan lace pattern.

Yarn is Madeleine Tosh Merino DK, Color Mica.  Pattern is the cover pattern from Weekend Hats, by Cecily Glowik MacDonald and Melissa LaBarre.

While it appears that it is knitted from side to side, it is actually a fancy twisted rib. 20 stitch x 18 row pattern.

Number Three: The Dragon Wing Shawl This is a nice circular shawl in a pretty pattern. (You can have your very own - they are on sale at YarnSmith Knitting Patterns.  Yarn:  JoJoland Melody. The photos are not color exact, but it's a nice mottled denim color.

The top section is knit back and forth, increasing in an arc to keep it round, then there is what seemed like an unending border knit around the bottom 32 sts x 12 rows. Actually, the edging is interesting - it is a combination of three patterns.

Spring Update

The formatting defeats me here!  What I see is not what I get.  Sounds a little like needlework projects sometimes!! 

 

Embroidery

Bird

 

 

 

 

Pattern: Silverpebble Icon http://silverpebble-jewellery.blogspot.com/
Threads: Kreinik & YLI Silk

 

 

 

 

Heart

 

 

Pattern: Valentine 2010 free download http://kviltstina.blogspot.com/
Threads: DMC

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knitting

Cowl

Pattern:  Garter stitch
Yarn:  Wool Classica by Manos del Uruguay, color 113; 2 Skeins
Needles:  US 10.5
Button: Dill 45 mm




Shawl

Pattern:  Lace Shawl by Candace Eisner Strick in Vogue Knitting Fall 2011

Yarn:  Plymouth Dreambaby D.K. Color 0128, 4 skeins
Needles:  US 6










 Sweater

Pattern:  Juliet by Sarah Johnson
Yarn:  Biggo by KnitPicks in Green Tea Heather 7 skeins
Needles:  US 10
(sad to say it is much too large...guess this is better than much too small.  Love the pattern and yarn though so will be frogging and remaking at some future date...)

Sewing

Blue items made for quilting basket to be auctioned at school

Pincushions

Patterns: Scrap and inspired by this post  http://kansastroublesquilters-lynne.blogspot.com/2013/03/kt-bernina-quilt-shop-countdown.html

Fabric:  Green - Paisley Wings by Michael Miller

             Red Stripe - Hall of Fame by Emily Herrick for Michael Miller

             Blues - PamKittyMorning by Holly Holderman for Lakehouse Fabrics

             Green - Stash

Project Bag and Needle Book

Patterns: NeedleCase by Mary Pat Pogue & Kelly Hansen in Circle of Friends for Ginger Cookie Company
Fabric: Blues - PamKittyMorning by Holly Holderman for Lakehouse Fabrics
            Green - Stash
            Yellow - Oz by Sanae for Moda

 

Market bag

The pattern is from Jane Austen Knits, Summer 2012. They called it the "Pemberly Reticule" in the magazine, but I call it a Market Bag. Yarn from Knit Picks, Comfy Fingering (75% Pima Cotton, 25% Acrylic), color: Blackberry. The pattern calls for 861 yards, but this bag only used about 550 yards. The bottom is worked with double yarn on size six needles. The upper pattern, called "Cathedral Windows" was knit half on size 5 needles and half on size 4.