Confessions

My cutting table is a mess!  It holds 2 quilts in progress (Orca Bay and RRCB), plus bits and strips from the last couple of projects, fabric I'm collecting for another quilt (don't remember which one), I think a couple of DVD's and the box from my 1st Kindle (don't know why I am keeping it).

Just as bad is my ironing board.

I need a day just dedicated to cleaning.

That's all I'm admitting to - right now.

Mary

May Knitting Project

I started my May knitting project on April 30th - the pattern is called Favorite Scarf Ever and the yarn I am using is Knit Picks Imagination Gingerbread House.  I do like the yarn but I do not love it but I do love the colors in this painted yarn.  The pattern is an easy knit and across 45 stitches goes rather quickly.

Here I am knitting a scarf thinking of cooler weather on these 80 degree days and it's only May 1st.

Mary

Design Floor Monday

After taking almost a month off from sewing I am regenerated and ready to sew again.  I have 2 WIP on my cutting table to choose from - Orca Bay and RRCB.

I decided to work on my Orca Bay and I am making some good progress on it.  I had most of the Ohio Star blocks together along with the blue and red strip pieces before my break.  I needed to get my Flying Geese blocks together before I started to assemble the quilt.  Now seeing a 1/4th of the quilt coming together I hope this will keep me mortivated to continue on.

The only thing that may interrupt my progress is I have 2 more quilts in my head I want to do - in fact I already bought the fabric for one of them.

Oh please - someone keep me focused, my cutting table can only hold 2 WIP!

Happily sewing along,
Mary

My Only April Finish

Pretty sad - the only project I completed for April was a pair of socks and these I started on the 15th.

The socks were for Loopy Ewe's Second Quarter Challenge and the pattern is called Repeat Performance from the Knit Purl Hunter.  The yarn is a cotton yarn (required fiber type for the challenge) from Crystal Palace Yarns - Panda Cotton and the color is Tropical Peach.

Now that I have had my break from quilting I am regenerated and have started working on my Orca Bay quilt and hopefully I can finish the top in May.

Back to the Sewing Machine!

Mary

Bernat Mystery KAL



For the past 6 weeks I have been working on my blanket for the Bernat KAL.  The yarn is Waverly from Bernat.  This yarn is great to work with and so soft - yarn snobs may disagree since it is an acrylic yarn.  I'm still a week behind on the Mystery, I need to sew the squares together and the clue for the borders should be released today.

Off to start my day.

Mary

Busy Day

Managed to finally do the binding on 2 Table Runners and also quilt two others.

Planted the first raised bed garden and got the next bed ready to plant within the next week.

Did five loads of laundry.

Did some grocery shopping.

Took a nap during the race.

And knitted some.

Time to call it a day!

Back to work tomorrow.

Mary

Oh My! It's March Already!

Sure has been a while since I posted anything.  No major accomplishments here.  Managed to quilt a couple of quilts.  The picture is the my February UFO Challenge - Snow Business - I completed the top in 2007 and I still have the binding to finish.  My 'To be Binded' pile is getting bigger - I now have 2 quilts and 2 table runners to bind.

I have done some knitting since the first of the year.  The pattern for the socks is called

Cable Lagoon and I finished them in January.  In the center is Knit Night Gloves which actually were done from yarn left over from a scarf I also finished in February (but yet to weave the ends and take a picture).  And the red circle is a beret called Springtime in Philadelphia, first time I knitted a beret.  Currently I participating in the Bernat KAL - we are in our 4th clue and I am behind, so knitting is taking up allot of my quilting time.

So that's what I have been up to!

Mary