Saturday, February 11, 2012

A Start and a Finish


I took a day off from QAWM and finished my 2nd Knitalong Sweater. This time I actually pretty much followed the pattern directions, except for a few things. I made the armhole bigger and then of course had to add more sleeve stitches, and as you can see, I was right to make those changes.
Doing a knitalong at the same time as a quiltalong is confusing as to where to put my priorities. I am not good at multi-tasking. So now that I finished this garment, and Dave moved his ladders and painting stuff out, I began to reclaim my studio. Sweeping, decluttering, rearranging, eliminating, having a cuppa...


I thought I would put away the fused fabric and bring out the unfused for a quilt as you go project, but as I gathered the fused, I found an old set of tiny blocks. Hmmm. These could be the start of larger blocks, and since I was feeling the upcoming Valentines Day, I thought, how about pink? That did it! Now my excitement level is raised and I will make some more pink and toss in some greens (in anticipation of Spring) and have a new wall quilt for my girly pink bedroom. YAY!

Yesterday I got an email asking if there was a Flickr page for the new QAWM 2012 pictures, which there is, and when I went to retrieve the url, I saw a big bunch of FOs! I haven't even posted mine, shame on me. Take a look here:  http://www.flickr.com/groups/1860371@N25/

And one more thing....last night it snowed and now we have Good QAWM weather. Stay indoors and quilt!


Brrrrr.


5 comments:

  1. Looks like you finished the sweater just in time for the cold.

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  2. With the temps here dropping steadily since I woke up, i wouldn't be surprised to see snow later today. Brrr...let's get to quilting!

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  3. Those little squares are really colorful and cute. I'm so excited that I am learning to knit so I can understand your knitting talk. Always crocheted and wove but never knitted!

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  4. That swweater is really showing off your girlish figure. Looking great!

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