Showing posts with label yarn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yarn. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 March 2016

Cutting corners

Literally.

And thousands more to go!  



Triangles. I see them in my sleep. 

***
As an antidote, I have finished this ten stitch blanket from scraps.
 

It is a double, that will be a car/picnic blanket. 
It took 2 years on and off, 1/3 million stitches! 

***

The next on-off scrap blanket is this one....


It is really interesting to knit, no seams as it's knit as you go and grows quickly. 

***

The clipped triangles are still being made into broken dishes blocks for a friends housewarming quilt. I am making the more random sets into pinwheels for charity quilts





A couple of hundred to have the seams spun, then be pressed, about the same still to piece. 


***
I sewed the crumbs up that I had made from cutting mini broken dishes blocks, as they were all from 2" strips and easy to sort.


The crumb strips join the three sacks of  string and crumb strips waiting to be trimmed down for a crumb quilt and piano key borders!



***

Monday, 2 February 2015

Saturday, 1 November 2014

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.