Stitching progress

  Many pieces are cut,  many sections are sewn, but I wanted to put together a couple blocks to see how it was going to look.

I like it.    So before I go back to stitching more pieces, time to go layout a shawl or two that needs blocking and there’s a bit of cooking and baking I want to do.

 

 

False Starts

Sometimes there are projects that just need to go sit in the corner until they straighten themselves out.

Earlier this week  I wound lots of yarn and restarted a scarf until I finally found a combination I decided to go forth with.  Last night  my nemesis was the challenge charity quilt.  Rather than just clearing off the table to start a different project, I thought …I just stitch up the section that I have sitting here so I’ll have at least half the blocks done.  It’s not a big quilt so it wouldn’t take long.

  So what’s wrong with that picture?  I forgot to add the background triangles to the side sections of the block on the far right top and bottom.  SHEESH!  So now there’s a whole stack of them to rip apart but I’m putting that project in a time out.  It’s going to the closet shelf to sit and think awhile about all the trouble it seems to be causing me!

 

I did get two knit items out of the UFO bin — ends woven in and they are now blocked.  What a difference blocking makes.  The yarns are even silkier softer than they originally were.

Here’s The Loopy Ewe Second Quarter Challenge project — Lanquais.  It needed to be a stranded project.  This will be going to my sister.

I love the little picot edges at the bottom of the look and the bottom of the scarf.  They are done with a different method in this pattern since those sections are folded and the picots stick out in the middle than I had done before but I really like it and will use that on other projects.  This was Cascade 220 Superwash yarn.

Also Scalene — which I made for a Camp Loopy project last year but had never gotten around to blocking.   Blocking helped this project tremendously.  It just wouldn’t drape nicely no matter what I did so it got put in timeout in the blocking basket.  I really didn’t think I would like it at all but I so love the yarn – Three Irish Girls.   It now is drapey and lovely and will definitely be worn.  It’s asymmetrical and has a loop on one side that lets you wear it several different ways.

 

 

 

 

Now I need to go dig through the basket to see what I want to block today.

In the meantime, while I’m awaiting for my Amazon order of batting to arrive today, I’m going to start cutting pieces for Cobbled Path.  I decided rather than “black”, I will use the dark teal batik shown in the photo and the “white” will be a bit scrappy too using the light tan batiks in the photo – once I figure out if I have enough of them.