I finished the four tube socks my two Seattle grands; I need to get going to mail out all their Christmas boxes!
The ball of brown yarn was a hat out of that Jacob cursed wool.
I was running out of yarn on the vest and fantasizing about a trash-it party, when I remembered this hat I made out of the yarn last year and put it away 'cuz it was so ugly.
RRRIIIIPPPPPIIIIIITTTTTT!
Now I will have enough yarn for that vest!
I am so over knitting it but I am going to finish or else!
On to happier thoughts; I love Saturdays! I don't know why since technically everyday is like a Saturday when you are retired but I definitely shift gears mentally and just enjoy the day!
Off to the studio I went where I made some more center pieces for Christmas...both of these are gifts!
Then I did some surgery on this little bear who is an antique since he was a gift to me at my birth and I believe there was a matching outfit to go with him. He used to be pink and grey stripes with pink corduroy pads on his paws.
He is filled with sawdust or I should say used to be. Most of it had hardened and condensed so that he was mostly flat so he couldn't sit up anymore.
I bought some crushed, ground walnut shells to use to refill him.
I was able to open the stitching in the back, fill him up and stitch it closed so he is nice and round again!
I finished the circles quilt!
I ended up using the straight stitching all up and down every block the same and this way the stitching line could be continuous.
It looks modern and clean!
Next week it will be bound and washed and I will show you the finished quilt!
I decided to do something with the growing stack of finished paintings!
I hung them in the hall to my studio so I can enjoy my very own art gallery!
I loaded the next quilt on the frame and set a trap....
When I went out to finish the circles quilt this morning, some naughty cat had tried to sleep on it last night and they were too fat so it popped half of the pins on the top, ripped the edging of the quilt backing and torqued the layers!
I was very unhappy.
So tonight , after I loaded the new quilt on the frame, I didn't want a repeat of last night.
I rolled the quilt forward to there was more of the quilt on the roller to protect the fragile edge and then I put some contact paper across the quilt top-STICKY SIDE UP!
I hope to make a very bad memory for one of my fur babies so this will stop!
Stay tuned!
(Bill and I laughed thinking about a cat careening through the house with the contact paper flying along with it, meowing all way! )
And lastly, I received a nice little package from Missouri Quilt Co-pins, scissors, measuring tape and a modern print fat quarter for the price of shipping!
I love a sweet deal!
They are a great company to buy from!
Wow, that was a very full post about a very productive day! I love the circles quilt -- something about straight line quilting overlaid on circles is so pleasing. And I love that you art-galleried the hallway!!
ReplyDeletePS -- I certainly hope the brown vest is absolutely amazing when it's done to help ease the pain of the whole cursed process!!! 😆
ReplyDeleteThat's is just too funny about the kitty. I've caught mine getting into my fabric projects so I've been pinning foil to everything they could ruin which is a lot at the moment. How nice to have a wall with all of your paintings. You did a wonderful job of framing them.
ReplyDeleteI love your tube socks!
ReplyDeleteLove your little bear - so sweet!
ReplyDeleteI have a little panda, which apparently was my Mom's but as soon as I could crawl, I stole it from her. He's in pretty rough shape, but i love him.
It must be the week for naughty kitties. Giroux has been doing some naughty things that he never thought of before. Thankfully, it did NOT involve sharp pins.
ReplyDeleteah, we had to set up a mouse trap to keep the dog from chewing up the sofa blanket! it worked, she wasn't trapped of course, but the snapping sound made her fly off the sofa:) I hope she remembers, before she tries to sneak up to it again...
ReplyDeleteand I love the circle quilt with the modern "minimalist" quilting! not to fussy, the colours are great - perfect! "enjoy" the finishing of the brown monster - you'll be glad you kept at it!