Stitching A Year in the Garden

Sometimes, there is an opportunity to stitch a peaceful scene

Elefantz Designs offers such lovely patterns to

stitch and enjoy as time goes along.

You can find March's free pattern now--available till

April 1--

Luckily, I remembered to save January's pattern in

my Craftsy file--

Not so lucky for February--I needed to purchase for

a small fee of $2--well worth the cost for pattern.

I have my needles ready along with my perle cotton--

let my evenings be filled with pulling threads through

luxury linen.

Cable Challenge

How about a challenge to kick off your Monday--a Cable challenge!

Solene Knits is offering a 10 day mystery knit along--

oh, I love mysteries!  and here is a chance to learn

interesting things about cables--

A cowl pattern leading you into simple rope cables to

complex traveling cables with textures and lace--

I'm hoping to learn tips and tricks to create pretty cables as

I knit this cowl--or it could be a scarf instead.

And it's all free!

The challenge runs from Monday March 12th through

Wednesday March 21

I'm in!

It seems cable are just wanting to be learned to

be knitted!

Sign up at the Solene Knits website or

check it out on Ravelry.

The Color of March--Yellow!

The third bear in the Beary Colourful Quilt is the Yellow Bear of Being Active Outdoors. This bear is cheerful and energetic and is just itching to get out and have some fun. Grab this pattern from Clever Chameleon and your yellow fabric scraps to bring some

sunshine into your March stitching!

Yellow, the color of sunshine, hope, and happiness, has conflicting associations. On one hand yellow stands for freshness, happiness, positivity, clarity, energy, optimism, enlightenment, remembrance, intellect, honor, loyalty, and joy, but on the other, it represents cowardice and deceit. A dull or dingy yellow may represent caution, sickness, and jealousy.

Studies show that the meaning of the color yellow can be warmth, cheerfulness, increased mental activity, increased muscle energy. The color yellow helps activate the memory, encourage communication, enhance vision, build confidence, and stimulate the nervous system.

Do You Ikea?

Have you seen this?  It's from a postcard set at Ikea designed

by Tom Frazier 

This quilt was designed by Jeli Quilts and she has the free

pattern!! What a color blast!  

Now, Sandra of Musings of a Menopause Melon is hosting a QAL--

Of course, I'm late coming to the party but this is calling my name!

And if color isn't your thing--here is another mathematical 

challenge for you, designed by Sarah Goer.

There is a fabulous tutorial on how to design your

own

Donate!

The Clementine Quilt Along benefits the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to help advance cures and means of prevention for catastrophic pediatric diseases. Fat Quarter Shop is happy to be partnering with Moda Fabrics to match up to $20,000 of donations for this awesome cause. And, on top of that, Fat Quarter Shop will auction their Clementine Quilt Along quilt at the end of the program, and 100% of the auction proceeds will go to our St. Jude campaign. So please DONATE today!

The patterns appear monthly but you can still get the last two now on

Fat Quarter Shop's website.

How Would You Interpret This?

 Chain and Bar Quilt, Maker Unknown, Alberta, c. dates not specified, cotton, 185.5 cm x 179 cm, from the collection of University of Alberta Museums.

How would you interpret this quilt in modern day fabrics?  Mary Elizabeth Kinch

is leading a quilt along for this "Foothills Quilt"--she has laid out a series 

on how the QAL would work.  There are many lessons to be learned from

this quilt--so jump on the foothills wagon and let's learn together

about history.

The pattern and instructions will be on her site till May 10th; then it

will come down as she journeys around the country teaching this

interesting pattern.

Cables! Cables! Cables!

We have been striping wallpaper in the master bath--

up and down ladders, peeling, picking up papers--

by afternoon, all I want to do is sit, relax and

knit--there is so many other things that I 

should be doing. 

It's a treat to get to my knitting 

and now

I'm enthralled with cables!

Elizabeth Ravenwood on Ravelry is hosting a monthly

cable knit along--cables are something I haven't knit often;

thought this would be a good exercise to learn

some of my cables are lopsided but I'm learning.

Then there is a new book  (Something New to Learn About Cables)

coming out March 15

authored by Arnell-Culliford knitwear.

I definitely haven't learned much about cables yet--I'm just

looking forward to the pattern for March Knitalong. 

And look!  FLG (fingerless gloves) pattern for February is 

Aegwynn Laure Marmier--

cables!!  more to learn about cables!