…and the triangles haven’t driven me bonkers yet!

This pattern is absolutely fabulous – imagine sewing 58 teeny tiny triangles together to make a border and it fits to the millimeter – no squeezing or stretching whatsoever. Brilliant!

Helen

I bet you thought I’d gone on holiday – I’ve been missing in action for the last few days, but  no fear, I’ve been here, just a little silent. Not because I had nothing to say though. More that it was just time to stop faffing about and get this quilt on the road. So I’ve been here – in the garret – sewing my little woolly socks off rather than skipping around in the ether reading and writing blog posts.

Brrr! – or Brrr! minus the borders at least – is now sashed together. I love how its come together. The photos are rather dark and aren’t very true to colour, mainly because their is no natural light here at all at the moment. We’re living in the usual November fog bank. So think a little softer, a little pinker and away from rust and you’ve got it. if the sun ever shines again I’ll get an outside photo.

Now it’s time to get on with the 250 HSTs that I need to make for the border.

Ho hum!

I’m dreaming about them again!

For those of you who asked, this quilt is going to my 85 year old mother for Christmas. She won’t know what to do with it, but I think at least it will be too big to be put in a drawer and kept for ‘best’!

(Brrr! by Susan Kass Johnson – the pattern can be found in Quilters Newsletter, December 2007 edition – proof that it truly is worth clipping out and keeping all those mountains of patterns!)

Have a happy and productive Tuesday!

Helen

This afternoon I pulled out the storage box containing my bear paw blocks….this little lot slipped onto the back burner a while ago, but I think I’d like to try and get them finished up in time for Christmas. I hadn’t quite remembered that I only need another 6 and then I can start sashing them all together.

Somehow six seems a very manageable number.

I love this fabric and the pattern and if I say so myself, I’m surprised that it seems to have been put to one side.

I have vague memories of dreaming about making tiny half square triangles.

Maybe that was it!

Helen

I’ve been knitting….and knitting….and then some…

For months.

And no matter how hard I try, I don’t seem to be getting to the end.

I’m making one of those projects that will keep going forever and ever and never be finished.

And I really want it to be finished because I want to wear it.

This is my version of Color Affection by Veera Välimäki (who has to be one of the very best designers around, in my humble opinion) You can see what it should look like here. Pretty scrummy eh? I have no idea how long my version is. It’s just a big scrunched up jumble on a round needle that goes on and on….I think I must be up around 500 stitches a row. It goes on forever and ever into infinity. I have to sit down for what feels like half an hour just to get one row knitted.

I’m coming very slowly towards the end of the short row section, where the rows come over at an angle to join the regular knitting. It’s seriously cool. I love the design and I really, really love the Rowan Cashsoft yarn I’m using. I love the soft smoochyness of it. I love the colors. I have tons of things that it will look wonderful with.

I just wish that I could be done with it. I’m dreaming about how it feels to cast off a billion stitches at the end of a project that has taken over my life….

Oh and as a little interlude I did manage to finish these blocks for Lush in the Sew Euro-bee-an bee….they were done in the twinkling of an eye. (Sorry about the dark photo – I’ve been living in a bank of fog for the last few days. there is seriously no light here at all…it feels like we’re living in a glass of milk)

Unlike something else I’m not going to mention…again…till it’s done…

Helen

I finished up my second Backyard Baby tote yesterday…..

here the two of them are – the outsides….

and the insides….

I’m happy with the result – but won’t be doing any more of those teeny weeny squares and sashing for a while I don’t think!!

I also got some lovely post yesterday….

From Fiona at Poppy makes (EEEEP EPP Bee)

I now have 6 blocks…and I love the way they look together. This is going to be a really gorgeous quilt – hopefully the other blocks will start coming in the mail anytime now.

I also got more Sew Euro-bee-an Sea Glass blocks from Tacha. This afternoon I think I might start trimming all these blocks to size and perusing about the next step. Once I’ve caught up with some outstanding bee blocks, that is!

So much to do…and so little time….I think I need the fairies to give me a few more hours in my day!

Have a good one!

Helen