Quilty fun

 Just finished last night. Squared Up quilt made from all sorts of leftover pieces. Larger pieces are 2.5", and the little ones are 1.5". It was such fun to make this. I do love scrappy quilts!

 

 

Actual quilt is a tad darker. Dopey phone!

And, in progress, some lovely blocks.

 

There will be an alternate block between these guys.

And knitting? A cancer sock that I started last fall. When the Hubz was diagnosed, I went into sock mania. All those endless waiting rooms. The hospital fiasco. More waiting rooms. His catastrophic side effects from Keytruda. You get the picture. Socks are just mindless little objects and very easy to knit when under stress.

No pictures 'cause it's just a sock.

Still here!

I just realized that my last post was at the end of January! Good grief! I'm still knitting and quilting, but at a slower rate. Why? I don't know. It just is.

And what do I have to show for my efforts? A brand-new Bohus-style yoke sweater. Bottom-up. Endless knitting on body and sleeves. Join them and then the fun begins. I do love Fair Isle knitting. I love any stranded knitting. But this time, I thought I'd play with Bohus knitting. Way back when, Meg Swansen of Schoolhouse Press, did a Wool Gathering on Bohus knitting. I used most of her chart for this sweater, but it's easy enough to do my own. Next one will be a Ruth Bohus sweater.

Yarn is Shetland, my favorite for color work. Mostly Jamieson & Smith with some Spindrift tossed in. 

Quilting? I'm somewhat in between taking pictures. At the moment, I'm binding a leader-ender quilt, and I have 4 more quilts to be bound. Plus one at the quilt shop for longarm quilting, and 3 in progress. I might have too much going on. But they do get finished eventually.

Happy Spring!

Happy Passover! 1st seder is Sat night and I'm Not doing it. Not this year.  Off to DD. It's awfully nice not to have all that work. I do love making a seder, but this is a year for self-care. Both the Hubz and I are still recovering from 2024 and his health issues. 

Finished!

 I really ought to keep track of when I start a quilt, but I don't. This one has been hanging out in the to-be-bound pile and I finally finished it yesterday. Just needs a wash and crinkling.

The color is pretty close. Just think a bit darker.

Scrappy quilts

I love scrappy quilts! The best part about quilting is pulling fabrics, and I have the biggest crayon box of fabrics going. And, as all you quilters know, you never ever can use up all your scraps. Still, I try. Hah!This is this year's leader/ender quilt. It's a pattern from Bonnie Hunter from 2022. I'm calling it a  Jigsaw Quilt. I had such fun with it that I'm doing it again. This time, my scrappy colors are blues, greens, turquoises, and such. I started it at the beginning of Jan, and figure it'll take me maybe a year to finish.This is just 4 block put together, not a final thing at all.

So, that's my current leader/ender quilt. The "real" quilt looks like flowers to me. I think the pattern is Road to Oklahoma, but it's not made that way. I looked at it, and thought that it was just easier the way I'm making it. 

This also qualifies as a scrappy quilt in that I've pulled lots of pinks, greens, and turquoises.  These blocks will not be sewn together. I'm going to do a sort of Irish chain block in between these guys.

It's a lot of fun, but I have to pay close attention. Good exercise for my brain.

New quilts in progress

 It's 2025, and new quilts are in progress.The color is close to accurate!!

Just needs to get to the quilt shop for quilting.

 

I just started this today. All made with leftovers.

 

Knitting?  Just normal sweater in progress. I knit on auto-pilot. Quilting makes me think.

My drunken candles

 Last night we lit all the candles on the menorah. So, 8 candles plus the one that lights them all.

This is our immigration menorah. So my question is: why are the candles burning at different rates? Why are they leaning in all different directions? All from the same box of candles. I have no answer. It is what it is. But they are kind of cute.

First quilt of 2025

 Pen saw this on her last visit and wanted it. So here we are: my first finished object of 2025!

One of my favorite blocks to do. There's a lot of matchy stuff with all those points, but it's still pretty easy.