I like to think of myself as a monogamous crafter. Within each craft, only one project at a time. So I’m knitting a linen sweater, and I might have a pair of socks on the needles as well, simply because I can travel with those easily.
Using linen yarn I’ve had forever and a pattern I just bought on my trip to DC.
I’ve been wanting to use this yarn forever, but just haven’t found the right project. Although the store sample was made of cotton, the pattern is written for linen, so why not! I have to knit this sweater in stripes because I have all these colors. This is a top-down raglan sweater, so when I knit the stripe on the body, I want the sleeves to correspond with a similar stripe. It’s a guessing game, as well a playing yarn chicken.
So far I have won! I finished the sleeve stripes without running out of yarn! although as you can see, I got pretty close to losing. You will have to wait until I’m done to see how this all works out. But now, back to quilting.
I rarely buy charm packs, those 5″ squares all cut from one line of fabric. LAMQG was having a fundraiser, people brought all kinds of fabric they no longer wanted and things were sold for just a few dollars a piece. So I bought this charm pack and got to work.
Once a quilt is finished, I’m not sure it matters which direction the seams are ironed. It was easier to simply iron the center patch out, but, by ironing the seams in, the patch stands out a little from the background. So that is how I ironed them.
Boy am I having fun with my new design wall, it does make a difference while making quilts. Looking at something on a wall in front of me is very different than looking down at the floor. This pattern Baby Kisses is from the Missouri Star Quilt company. OMG, if you haven’t watched these tutorials, you are in for a treat! Using pre-cuts and easy instructions Jenny Doan and her family have come up with a gazillion quilt patterns.
I’m not switching over to precuts any time soon. It certainly is fun to follow these tutorials from time to time. At first, I thought this would become a charity quilt.
I’m selfish, I like this too much, this will have to be a gift for someone I know and care about.
I kept changing and rearranging my blocks. Scrappy only goes so far with me, I need a certain order.
All four blocks are done.
Quilt top finished! So now this is waiting to be quilted, while I still work on my Splendid Sampler. Since that is a year long project it is fine to make other quilts, the problem is I now have two other quilt projects going as well.monogamousllen off the monagamous wagon! More on those quilts soon.