Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Whoa, what happened to the time?

I'll tell you what happened to the time. I lost one of my wood double pointed that I was using for my endpaper fingerless gloves and COULD NOT work with anything but bamboo or wood. But I had to wait 2 weeks before any of the knitting shops had 2.75mm back in stock. Picked them up yesterday and got back at it.

In the meantime I was working some more on my first grown up size quilt. Here is the laboratory. Like all good labs, there is much research going on in the form of working around boo boos.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Will I ever be able to pretty this up??

I am working on my first sewing machine quilt and it is my first full sized quilt. Boy oh boy do these ever sew up fast compared to hand stitched quilts. I will post pictures of the blocks once I learn more about working with the layout. In the mean time I have finished my gauge swatch, voila. (See what I mean about my layout style). Any hooo, I decided to switch the background and pattern colours with each other.
We all enjoyed the Olympics with the final hockey game being watched here at home with the elder family members (real solid sports fans, especially the ladies). Wow! What a great hockey game. Both teams are amazing athletes. Well done!