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!

Just Cruisin' Along...........

Just cruisin' along with my knitting--

I'm happy that I'm on the third yarn in the pattern--

yeah me!

This is January pattern for Hat group on Ravelry--

Always running behind and my goal was to knit

at least 5-7 hats in 2018.

Well, you can see that I made a mistake way back in 

first color--I didn't see it till I was too far removed

and said--'darn it' and knit along!

Just cruising along with my knitting and this is easy

pattern to follow but there it was --three pinks!!

instead of just two--well, this time I tinked back

to the mistake as those three together threw the

whole pattern off.  This pattern is from Darn Knit Anyway--

I'm cruisin' again!!  Maybe, I'll finish before April

as March pattern comes out--still have February to knit......

Weavers Gathering!

It was our February meeting of WSW (Westside Weavers)--

we are a small group but mighty!  Our experiences are varied

but Sharing is a big part of our

meeting--times of trouble, sadness, health issues, friendships

we made, weaving problems and solutions--

During "show and tell" time, Penny had this gorgeous Shetland wool--

boy, wish I knew this last November!  It would have been

perfect for Shetland lace knitting project--oh, well,

we touched it lightly and could see it being spun into a

fine thread. 

Connie shared her Christmas gift--

a stitching joy to behold!  

Rosemary had her Christmas cards--she used portions of

her parents wool blanket--bringing back memories of

her childhood--she did some eco-dyeing on the wool

and used the insets for her cards--very clever!

Another clever idea from Rosemary--all those photos

you receive over the years--all from one family--she

used to make these delightful balls for decorations

for her memory tree.

Such colorful twill towels were shared by Pat--

nice handle--20 epi cotton--

She had several with different weft colors to

accent the warp--we all wanted to sneak one into

our bags to take home!  

Good work Pat!

Laughs, Friends, Fun, Sharing, and we end the 

the day with lunch.