Purple Socks

Knitting these socks lately ...

  

I find that it works well for me to have both socks going at once, so they both kind of get done at the same time!

UFO Quilt Progress

My UnFinished Objects are coming along!

This past long weekend gave me a little sewing time ...

I put three borders on this one ...

... (two white borders with a purple one in between)...

It's the final step in getting this 1008-square quilt top finished.

And, I put a couple two-yard pieces of fabric together with a whole bunch of pretty scraps ...

... to make a quilt back ...

... for this quilt top.

So, that feels like a lot of progress for these two.

I just checked, and these two haven't showed up in my UFO list this year, but I mentioned them a few times a couple years ago (See here and here and here.)

 

I'm linking this post to this week's UFO Challenge link party at Jo's Country Junction. 

Seventh Sunday of the year

UFOs by hand ...

This past week, I haven't done a lot of sewing, and what I have done has been hand-stitching.

My Vintage-Inspired English Paper Piecing has been a fun long-term project.

Right now, I'm adding whiteish diamonds around the edges. Finishing this row requires another 50 or so diamonds.

There'll be another row of colorful diamonds soon, but I'm not sure if that's next, or if I'll need more of the white-and-cream.

Even my kitty-quilt-inspector has been enjoying this project!

I'm linking this post to Jo's weekly UFO Challenge at Jo's Country Junction, and looking forward to seeing what UnFinished Objects other quilters have been working on!

Sixth Sunday of the year

UFO Progress this week

This past weekend, I made some progress on another elaborate quilt back. Lately, in an effort to use what I have instead of buying more, I've been coming up with some really fun quilt backs.

Actually, by piecing a quilt front AND piecing a quilt back: both will be interesting, and both will use LOTS of scraps!

So, here's what's going on with this one. I've been needing fabric for a back to my pumpkins quilt. My favorite thrift store has recently had a "Free" box outside in front of the store. Occasionally, there's free FABRIC in that box, which is pretty awesome.

When this plain brown fabric was there for free (5 yards!?), I was delighted. Even though I thought of having a plain, solid brown quilt back, that felt boring. Besides, I've got lots of scraps.

ALSO - I've been wanting to try a quilt from this book: Country Girl Modern (written by Jo and Kelli from Jo's Country Junction!) ... See the quilt in the upper-right hand corner of the book cover? That one.

The quilt design is called Connect Four. Since I needed big blocks with small scraps, I changed up the size/construction of the blocks to work with the scrappy pieces I mentioned at the end of this post. Similar idea to Jo's design, though, and it's my inspiration. 

In other news, I'm making progress on the latest sock-knitting!

So, that's my UFO report for the week. I'm linking this post to the weekly UFO Challenge at Jo's Country Junction.

More of the Why

Why do I quilt?

Lots of reasons ... One of them is fabric!

The blue fabric with pink roses that my grandmother sent me years ago ...

It has made it into a few quilts lately ...

 

 

The fabric from my favorite red-and-white plaid shirt ... and the ubiquitous golden yellow fabric that never gets gone -- it just seems to multiply ...

 

One or both shows up in each of the quilts in this section ...

 

 

 

 

   

  

   

 

  

 

Recycled shirt fabric ... (Remember my favorite fabric designers?)

 

 

 

 

Cute fabric ...

 

Vintage-y fabric ...

 

 

 

Batiks!