12 More roses are now up on the board. I think I may be half done. I need to dive into my scraps and even whole pieces for more colors. But it is looking so much better.
I also had to get the emission checked to license my car. They told me it is old enough now that I don’t have to get another on this car which is nice. Now I just have to keep it running.
Then off to get a new battery for my watch which stopped. These kind of trips just seem like a waste of time, but necessary. Oh, yes, and then the grocery shopping. Please tell me why we women can get all this done inside a couple of hours and our DH think we have just scheduled an entire day.
It is still raining, and we are threatened with snow on Monday, but there is a bright light ahead. A week from Sunday, the sun is scheduled to shine.
And I did get a bit of knitting done. This particular stitch is a bit challenging, but I will press on. Who knows I may learn to get faster.
Have a Happy Sabbath and a great weekend
PS For readers who knew her, Alice Kirkman passed away this week.
One is never too old to learn. Mary came over today I had fun learning once again (refreshing) the basics of digitizing for applique. I have several quilts that I want to do including
this owl and flower quilt that will be so much easier to do and neater looking if I digitize the designs for the eyes and wings and do them with the machine embroidery. It is fun and can carve a few hours out of your day while you are having fun. And there is a snowman quilt next on my list. On my, I can find so many things that will be much easier and prettier with this method.
Project for January: Zigzanular socks are finished. These socks are a Prairie Girl Design by Suzie White. I knit them with Knit Picks Felici. The colorway is Bubble. It is a nice variation to the striped socks.
Instead looked at this pile of “who knows what” and found a bill that should be paid next week. S0 that was timely. I also filed several papers, put all the garden magazines together and found homes for several of the other items.
I started this quilt and cut all the straight pieces, then decided to work smart instead of so hard, so Mary is coming over Sunday to teach me to digitize these pieces so I can do them on the embroidery machine, which is both neater and faster. Another project delayed.
I took this photo for the beginners in this group. If you have a place where directions call for you to sew across the diagonal, then trim. I like to sew a second line a machine foot away into the discard area. Then I have many little squares to trim which I can make into something else (very small) The white squares here were 2″ and the discard triangle netted 1 3/8″ squares. I wouldn’t want to sew those little squares, but this way they are easy and after several quilts, I have a good number of them. Yes, I suppose all in different places, but maybe I could find them and put them in one place and do something with them
The red potatoes aren’t holding as long as the while ones, so we either use them fast or we toss them. This is the use them fast method. My Bosch has a French fry cutter and I attach a bread bag on the shoot for ease of cleaning as well so it doesn’t shoot to far.
I had to blur out the pattern on these because the designer is not ready to distribute it. But I wanted you to see the colors. I have pulled all this out, because once again, the second skein was started at the wrong end. I thought I could live with it, but I can’t. So they are taken apart and when I have recovered from having to undo them, I’ll make another pair. All 4 skeins have now been checked and 2 were skeined reverse at the factory.
I think this really matches the day or maybe the month. Twisted Madness sock is the knitting chosen for a competition on
I thought this was interesting. This is from the two balls you see above. I would not have guessed there was that much blue in it. And perhaps that is how much of each color is in the ball. It will be interesting to see it develop.
