It's been a while....

 Many projects have been worked on since my last post, some have been finished😇, most not. 

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I have been taking stock of my crafting tasks in the last month or so......things have got out of hand!  It has been a useful exercxise whist recovering from back injury. I am trying to get as many of the quilt tops together and finnished as I can, to eliminate all the boxes and baskets of bits. I'm counting plastic storage donation  as a win! 

I have  way too many four  patches from   2" and 1 1/2" strips, made as leaders and enders.  These four patches and pinwheels which I sewed up this week from pre-made scrappy four patches  and red  pre-cut triangles  will be pieced into Patches and Pinwheels, a free pattern  on Bonnie Hunters blog page. They need pressing first, along with a lot of other stuff!  This project hasn't  scratched the surface of the four patches. It will probably be a gift. There are enough scrappy four patches for two quilts and I have more precut triangles......slow and steady😏

I have lots of small four patches and 1 1/2" strips from another project.   I had tried out scrappy houses a while ago, so I have made 15 six  patch strips like this with  what I had. Thats another small pile out of the way. 

I will add to these as I cut more strips. More on the pressing pile.

I have also worked on the scrappy strip block pile, making up the strips, pressing cutting, making up the blocks for trimming to 10" square.  So much to cut and press! 

Old clothing, edge strips, uglies, orphan blocks, wonky blocks, crumbs and chunks, selvedges, ribbon from christmas gifts, it all goes in. 

Linked to Quilting is more fun than Housework...: Oh Scrap! : Strings

These are the leader-ender  broken dishes I have been working on for a couple of years, cut from 2" strips, now being pieced into blocks. I think I have enough for a top. I'm not sure how to set them, side by side, or borders? 

I have been grateful for the things I have finished this winter. This picture is titled Unmade Bed- a puzzle quilt, a ten stitch blanket and a 16 patch leader ender quilt, along with the duvet. Cozy!

Archie the grandpup approves when I sit him

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These are some of the projects I have worked on in the last few months.....

there is much more going on.....

I put these completed  blocks togeather last week. I really like this one, it will be a gift. 

This winter, I put togeather two of these blankets with crochet, made from scrap yarn. the squares are double sided, nice warm pockets , it's very heavy. These took 16 years: I remember when I tried the first square.  As you can tell, I don't do sittting still really. 

I have made and yarn bombed  many jellyfish from scap yarn and buttons.

Much more to come! 

Thanks for dropping by.

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Mittens and orphans

Two finishes today: super thick crochet mitts for my 8 month old granddaughter and a quilted mat for her play tent (at Christmas)

The mat was made from orphan blocks from Bonnies sisters choice, that I gave as a gift a couple of years ago

Scrumbled cushion cover

Back and front, variegated yarn. About 15" square.

Lots of freedom

Pillow lava: free motion quilted border, 1/2 way round.  Pink variegated thread.

And a bit of freeforming, to make a cushion cover........

More scrumbles

Work in progress............

I'll tell you a yarn............

I have finished 3 knitted garments in the last few days, they have been long promised to the recipients.  I have also been scrumbling........all works in progress.......they will be put together eventually  for a stairwell wall hanging.

Another fine mess

A new portable project: I bought this pattern from Ravelry-I'm using it for yarn I buy in charity shops, small balls and random oddments of DK, in the spirit of scrap quilting.  I'll be keeping a ball of something and a hook in my bag for odd moments. I have decided ugly unloved yarn has it's uses.

It's an easy pattern if you can crochet, made in individual units and joined as you go. 

Of course, this colourway is gorgeous!

And this weeks read: informative and poetic.

The New Mania

I have discovered scrumbling. these are my first attempts that will probably end up as one wallhanging. Embellishments still needed: works in progress. Using yarn oddments (even the smallest lengths), milk bottle caps, fabric scraps.  Beading and patches to hide the ugly bits to follow!

What a wind-up!

 

More sorting through the room full of stash-today, I tackled the yarn.   

I used to buy sacks of bin-ends, cones of 1 and 2 ply yarn, to make Kaffe Fassett jumpers.  Today I wound 5 strands to make DK yarn for a jumper, balls numbered so the colour mix flows when I get round to knitting it up.  It barely scratched the surface of whats there!

I took the pink-red-coral-lavender downstairs and wound these balls to crochet into Aran weight chevron blanket whilst I watched Mr Attenborough's 'Africa'.

 

Evenings have been spent on hand quilting 'Kiss in the Corner'-I have almost reached an edge, I feel progress is being made!

Dissolving Resolve

Having outed myself on a previous post about all I am going to get done in the next few weeks-it's my birthday at the end of march so there is a TARGET date-I didn't  get off to the most the most industrious start! To be fair, visiting took up time over Christmas (excuse!) and I was really tired yesterday (pathetic!).  Hopefully by the end of today I will have organised everything I need to in order to have a clear conscience and proceed forthwith with the sewing tasks! 

I needed something to occupy those spare moments over the festivities so I played with some crochet cotton from a charity shop that I had had in the stash for years (not enough of it to make a garment and too nice a colour for dishcloths) and made texture effects for the tactile quilts-enough for several dozen! I got a bit carried away as I haven't done crochet for years, I had forgotten how relaxing it was and how quickly things grow...............

I have been thinking about the tactile quilts non-stop as it's going to give me a chance to practice texture effects, which have long been on the list of things I want to master.  Must finish Moth in the Window first, before I do a single tactile-orientated sewing stitch!  I think I may end up doing far too complicated a job for what is required, but as I will only make one to start with there will be time for feedback. I will be setting aside practice blocks for my own quilt along the way.

Oh, and I also told my son I would loose 14lb by the time he got back from the Far East at the start of March.  Hmmmmm....... it should me me that's dissolving, not my resolve!