Quilt as you go

Remember this?

Here's how it looks today:

This is from the quilt as you go class I'm taking at The City Quilter.  You can see where the blocks are joined.  The top row is not yet done.  I'm doing this little doll quilt just to practice the technique.  It's pretty easy for a "normal" quilter.  I, who can't make a straight 1/4" seam, am fudging merrily away.  The two sets of blocks will get a cross joining of that royal blue Kona.

I'm back to appliqueing the Hexified quilt.  I'd like to finish it before I die.  Hah.  

 

Octagons and hexies

Yesterday's progress on the octagon quilt.  Slow work, but very relaxing.  The little black octagon is already sewn to the large square, and now needs to be attached to the side of the little orange flower one.  I'm thinking that I should first attach another large square first.  This is easy easy work; the hard part is figuring out in which order I should sew these guys together.

Third block in progress.  That skinny little needle is nasty.  I keep poking myself with it.  No blood, yet, but any second now.

Better Hexified Pics

Yesterday's pics were truly awful.  The colors really looked horrible.  So, I just took some blurry, but much better-colored pics.

Hexies!

 First hexie block unpressed.

They're coming along, those cute hexie rectangles.  I love all the handwork.  It's so portable and easy, and pretty much auto-pilot.  Given that I'm a lazy craft woman, auto-pilot is what I like.

Here's the same block, but pressed.  A bit out of focus, 'cause I didn't use the tripod.

Here is the planned layout.  Maybe.  Who knows?  I'll see.  I'm planning on another row, so it should be OK in size.

Each block will have a border of either one of two greens, or one of two yellow/oranges.

Here's the first block layed out on the darker green to get the idea of what I want.

I'm not sure how big I'll make this quilt.  Probably lap size, because I like to cuddle underneath quilts and not put them on my bed.  OK, the real reason is that boredom will set in and then I'll finish it up.  In the meantime, I'm not bored at all, and am really enjoying all the hand work.  BTW, the hexies were appliqued onto the Kona white.  I'm not great at it, but I suspect I'll be pretty good by the time this quilt is done.

Now I need a name.  I'm thinking of Hexified.

The Yarnarian is in Project Heaven!

I do love starting new projects. Finishing? Eh. Yes, it's nice to have the completed object, but the fun is in the planning and starting. So a really fun sock is in the works. This is being knitted from the first long skeins I played with. I never put it up for sale because of that bit of white that kept peeking through, but it's nice enough for knitting. So here it is:



The pattern is loads of fun to do, and not terribly difficult once you figure out where to place your needle.

Remember the multi-colored triangle scarf that I kept posting and frogging? It's baaaack, with a much nicer neck edge. That last neck edge was awful. I kept seeing it and it offended me mightily. The Hubbo never saw what was wrong with it, but then he's the Hubbo and not a knitter.

So, I frogged for the umpteenth time, and am now happy. Yes, I know it looks as if it could use a good blocking. It can use a good blocking, and that will make all those nice woolly stitches line up and look good. It always does. Happiness is wool. So, I changed the edging yet again, and I really, really like it. It's going to make its way onto a sock or something else. It's a weirdly worked zigzag, not done in the usual fashion, and I quite like it. Look for it, because it's going into my pattern collection.




I'm into serious zigzagging these days. It seems that every new project that I start has a zig and a zag.

But here's what I'm really excited about! The crochet blankie, the one with the hexagons. I'm have the time of my life playing with this. So, of course, I'm now thinking of the next one. It's a very nice change from knitting, different arm and hand motions, and I've always liked doing Grannie pieces. As you can see, I have a long way to go, but I'm not in a hurry. I'm doing it in a skinny DK, more of a sport weight, but crochet is much heavier than knitting, so it feels like a worsted wt. object. Such fun! Clearly I'll have to do different grannies for the American Girl dolls in the family. And a winter, spring, summer, and fall grannie or two or three or four. Ach, I'm getting grandiose here. OK, I'll finish this one first.



Off to work some more on it. If you've never crocheted, go learn how; it's tons of fun, and lace crochet is amazing, quite different from knit lace.

Polzic - Thank you. I like your legos, too.

CathyR - The yarn really does stripe. I knew it would, but it's one thing to know it and another to actually knit it. The poor scarf, it's been frogged so many times. I'm knitting it in Bambi, and it's holding up. It's getting a tiny bit fuzzy, but so would any yarn frogged 5 times. Too bad on the crochet for you. I can only do it in little time spans because it is hard on my hands too.

itsJUSTme-wendy - That's a great idea. I'm thinking of making some blankies for the various dolls our granddaughters own.

Linda - Actually crochet hurts me lots more than knitting. Don't know why either. Also, for the life of me, I can't figure out how to decrease within a pattern.

Henya - So now I'm about 1/4 way through with the blankie, and I'm already planning the next one.