Full string quilt

Taken just now on a sunny (and cold) day outside. I love making string quilts.  It's all about the color!

A new spring quilt!!

 I love making string quilts.  Anything goes, and they are mindlessly easy to do.  So this is the latest one.

Spring Poem, yet again.

 You know what today is, right?  First day of spring.  So here's the annual spring poem!

Spring Poem, yet again.

Here it is!  The Spring Poem

High up, over the tops
Of the feathery grasses, the grasshoppers hop.
They won't eat their suppers,
They will not obey
Their grasshopper mothers and fathers who say:
"Listen my children, this must be stopped.
Now is the time your last hop should be hopped.
So come eat your suppers and go to your beds."
But the little grasshoppers just shake their green heads.
"no, no," the naughty ones say.

"All we have time to do now is to play.

If we are hungry we'll nip at a fly,
Or nibble a blueberry as we go by.
But not now. Now we must hop.
And no one, but no one can make us stop."

The end.

What is this?

 Ta da!  Finally joined up the arms and body on my yoke sweater.  Started on Dec 31.  Took me long enough.  The truth is that I can't knit as quickly as I used to.  But it doesn't much matter.  Color work, here I come.  (Well, after the couple of inches of grey.)

It is a darker grey.  Yoke colors will include the borders but add more deliciousness.  I just love working Fair Isle sweaters.

Yarn is Jamieson & Smith Shetland, bought at The Woolly Thistle.  

And speaking of Shetland, we're currently watching Shetland on Britbox.  I have no idea what took us so long to watch this series, but it's wonderful.  Now if they would just take a shot at all the yarny goodness. 

Scrappy blocks

 4 scrappy blocks made from leftover fabric.  Larger blocks are made from 2.5" squares, and the teensy blocks are made from 1.5" blocks.  Cute little guys.

I'm doing this as a leader/ender project. It's such fun, and I'm not going to make a dent in my scraps.  Not even a little dent.

Little itty-bitty squares

 I'm happily cutting out 1.5" squares from fabric scraps.  Can't tell you why I like doing this, but I do.

My plans are to do a scrappy quilt using both 1.5" and 2.5" squares and some strips.  Pattern is by Lori Holt, and it's calling me.  Checkerboard Chain quilt. 

It's amazing how many teensy squares you can get from stuff that you'd toss.