And now, for a ‘quick’ project

Last year I bought this pattern:

I’ve admired it for a while. I like Dora a lot and am very impressed with how she has built her business. I’d seen many versions online so wanted to give it a try.

At the same show, I bought a package of Cherrywood fabric remnants. Cherrywood dyes the most amazing cottons, somehow or another they end up with a suede feel. No I didn’t check to see what size the quilt was. Turns out that most of those fabric remnants are simply too small for this pattern. Oops, I’ll have to find another project for that.

The elements within the sections are just too big. So now I have decided to go into my stash and use fabrics I have on hand. No buying anything new for this project.

I enlarged the outline sketch and colored it in. Oops, everything will be reversed.

Looks like I’ll be using a bunch of Batiks, but I must combine them with other fabrics.

At this point, I think it was still going well, but then I made a mistake (trying to follow a backwards schematic)

Are you seeing a change? Mostly in the small slivers of white and taupe. I literally had to rip out most of what I had done and start over again. So I wanted more contrast with those slivers, since I’m working with what I have on hand, I didn’t have enough fabric to make them all the same, nor did I have enough fabric to make them very different. Oh well, I think it will be fine.

So far, so good.

Its’ working! I did find a mistake in the light slivers, but I won’t point it out and I won’t fix it. I bet I’ll be the only one to see it anyway. There has been so much ripping out going on here!! I get it, Judy Niemeyer does a ton of work creating the templates for the fabric patches. I’m on my own here and in some cases, I’m worried about not having enough fabric. I’m probably being a fool in regard to that. But sew and flip – I often done cover the patch completely. My stiletto seam ripper is working overtime. It also has to do with the fact that I’m rushing and impatient. After the slow hand appliqué.

It will be fine, I’m liking what I’m seeing here.

The shawl is growing, I knit half with one needle and added another needle so I could sort of stretch it out and see that it is still ok. Then again, I’ll be blocking the heck out of this, I’ll make it work.

Finally, my son sent me this picture. See the stripped knit elephant. I made this for a college friend, 10 years ago. His name is Pilpel – which is Hebrew means pepper, it’s also a play on the word Pil – which is elephant in Hebrew. I’m so thrilled that he is doing so well. I love it when I have a chance to see my old creations out in the wild.

Leah

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