With all my posts about Austin, you’d think this has become a travel blog. Well I’m not done with Austin, but I have jumped back into my crafting as well, so here we go.
A good friend, Ryan is dealing with a brain tumor, the stress it puts on both him and his wife are unbelievable. They are in Chicago, so yes, I can pray and send money to Ryan’s Road to Recovery. But I can’t go over and help out or even bring a dinner. So I do the next best thing I can – make a quilt.
I have no idea what the final quilt will look like, I’m using grey for the background, reds, blues, greens, orange, masculine colors and paper pieced stars.
I love the process of paper piecing, little by little an image appears.
First block done!
Of course there has to be something on the needles, I started a sock on the flight to Austin, got to the heel and messed it up. When I got home a friend had linked to Dalekanium, so I ripped out the sock and started over.
The stretched stitches add a certain oomph!
And finally, no I didn’t spin this yarn, a friend did and it’s on it’s way to me right now!!! Spinning is one craft I have no interest in, but boy do I love handspan yarn. And these colors are completely me!
And now, back to images from Austin.
Leah
Ryan is very lucky to have a friend like you!