Autumn Jubilee Time

From My Carolina Home is hosting An Autumn Jubilee with

Quilt Along, a Sew Along, a Stitch Along, all with free patterns and posts on gardening, cooking, tablescapes, cardmaking and more!! 

first project for Autumn Jubilee begins with a stitch along using wool felt--

She gives an detailed account of how to felt your wool; along

with a pattern to satisfy your wool stitching itch.

large pumpkin designed to be stitched onto a 9-inch square.  Add embellishment to it and add some words in two weeks.  Then we’ll mount it on a 12-inch wool base, and do the final finishing.

This just the first of many projects throughout the Autumn Jubilee!

Mystery?

Another Mystery?  WOW!  How I love mysteries--all kind of

mysteries!  This one is Miranda Jollie Designs .  A fun time to

begin work on a fingerless glove--love my FLGs!

How about a mystery that covers your feet as well

as your hands?  Here is a perfect month long knitting

challenge from Anita Grahn--this one is

Celebrate Life!  I like that title!

You can find both of these mysteries on

Ravelry--the sock mystery is in several languages!

How about a mystery to read?  This is an interesting

story that takes place in Thailand--information about

foods and daily life but a couple of mysteries to

go along.  I so enjoyed this one, I will find the second

one in the series.

How About some Flurries??

Oh My Goodness!  While searching for something else, I

came upon this...

Fort Worth Studio was not only hosting a Halloween mystery

quilt but this is the next one upcoming on their agenda!

The patterns are free--here is their kit for that special

Christmas quilt!

Oh boy, getting out into the world of quilting can get you!

Autumn Is In The Air!!

It's time to open the windows and enjoy that

cool fall air--well, I'm wishing for that cool fall

air to flow through my windows--but, alas,

we live in the South where Fall is a sprinkling of a day

or two.

The calendar reads "Fall"--doesn't matter, we can

keep our fingers crossed for that one day of cooler air

blast!

I've been rummaging through my yarns--amazing what I find

These are a hodge podge of spun yarns--some are

cotton singles, some are silk singles .

It's a good day to take the spinning wheel to the patio and

try to catch that breeze!

Pale color and good match for each other

I'll ply them together to have cotton/silk blend two ply

This one ball was already plied--we'll call her the "mother"

of the these yarns.

I Thought I'd Never Finish!!

For some projects, it seems to me, they just go on and on............

I finally finished! with Toni Lorenz's pattern--granted it begin

June 26 and here it is September, I guess it wasn't all that long

The pattern is Shetland Hap Meets Estonian--it's a lovely lace

pattern--you can find on Ravelry.

I knit with my handspun cotton and went for the smaller size--

so glad I did--if not, I would be knitting forever!!

It came to bind off and loosely was the requirement--

That is where you can get technical--looking at

different bind offs--first, there is Grandma's Favorite bind off

Which is a backward crochet, which I did for a few stitches--

Then tried Stretchy Bind off, which is knit off through back loop--

Both work okay--there are other bind offs but

This project has been bound off and is ready for 

blocking!! 

Coming Along.......................

I began this Riley Blake Designs Quilt "Meet The Makers" of 2018

I love the look of the finished quilt--why begin another project when

you have 20+ waiting to be completed????? That's the question of

the time!

But, It's such a lovely quilt and I have fabric!

Just look at it!  Isn't this the prettiest thing you have ever seen?!

Well, almost!  It is lovely though! and right now I have 16 of the 

blocks done!! That's something to crow about, isn't it?

These are the first 8 blocks--I finally dug into my hand-dyed

fabrics--don't know why I was preserving them--they look

great in this block!

The second set of 8--done, finished--

well, of course, I don't have enough for the third set of 4--

do you hear that??  

Only 4 for the third set--

Along comes fourth block --

Love that video tutorials are given for each block and you

can stop and start where you need.

Halloween Mystery Quilt

The Quilting Company has taken away my sanity!

I love Halloween!  I love Fall!  I love anything with Orange!

But, doing this clue was not my favorite way of spending a day!

Doing Kaleidoscope is not easy; although we began with

these wedges: 

Seemed simple enough--until you put them together--

oh, the website has detailed descriptions, but somehow,

my hands went one way and my brain another!

Now, these turned out okay- I'm thinking for

the top one, I'll add a spider in the middle--that could

cover a multitude of uneven centers!

and the finished quilt,,,,,,,,,