A Finished Top

So......here are those bullseye blocks.
All sewn together.....

I'm still not in love with the thing but it doesn't matter.

A big Thank You to my friend Nancy for the gift of fabric from her stash that I used for the borders...there are several more cuts that will work great as the back and the binding.

I'm looking forward to getting it quilted, bound and washed....and donated at the next guild meeting.

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Scraps, Mostly

I was trying to clean up my disaster-area sewing space.

As usual, I got sidelined.

I found a pile of un-sewn bullseye blocks that I had long ago abandoned when I learned that sewing with scraps that I didn't like only created blocks that I didn't like.....

So these got packed away, thinking that I would toss them into my donation bag and drop them off at the thrift shop.

Well, I never did that, and the pieces have resurfaced.

My cleaning and tidying stopped and I decided to sew them together and turn them into a charity quilt for the guild I belong to.

I still don't like them all that much, but I'll get these squared up, sewn together, and have them out of my life once and for all by the end of the month.

I look forward to seeing them done.

Working on those bullseye blocks has just added more to my overflowing scrap pile!

(One of many, I'm sorry to say)

Before I had to leave my sewing room for the day I got another Pineapple Crazy block done.

Only about 250 more to go...

Playing with Scraps

For some reason, I decided to start making these Pineapple Crazy blocks from the Bonnie Hunter book String Fling.

There are 45 pieces in each 5" block, but like Bonnie said in her blog post today 

(http://quiltville.blogspot.com)

they are all short seams!

The top 4 blocks show how the dark pattern emerges.

There are 250+ of these blocks in the quilt , and that doesn't count the border blocks.

I have no deadline for making this quilt.

I'm just going to make the blocks when I feel like it.

One thing is for certain, I have more than enough scraps to use to make this thing!

Knitting Season

Just showing another Lovely Ribbed Cowl from Purl Soho.

This is , I think, the 4th one I've knit this winter.

Gifted to Claudette because green is her color!

Cat Knitting Part 2

So Doug got to try out his new knitted cowl…..

He was feeling a little camera shy…so it was hard to get a really good shot of him….
He didn't seem to object to wearing it at all, and didn't try to remove it, so I think I will make him another one soon…I'm sure he's going to want to be able to switch things up once in awhile!

A Little Cat Knitting….

My latest project, hot off the needles last night.  A knitted cowl for Doug the Cat.
It's knitting season for me, and after making several cowls for the girls, friends and myself I decided Doug needed one as well.  I found this little beauty on a blog that linked me to Ravelry…
it is The Triangle Cowl for Tiny Creatures by Sylvia Bo Bilvia.
It only took a tiny bit of yarn and a few minutes of knitting seed stitch, which is not my my favorite and my hands are not happy this morning….
I'll be seeing Doug this evening so he will get a chance to try this on and I will treat him to a little fashion photo shoot.
But for now, the cowl is being modeled by Rex.  He likes it very much.

Happy Valentine's Day!