According to the Family Circle magazine, you burn 400 kj per hour knitting…
Category Archives: Inspiration
Quilting Again
I’ve begun quiting this quilt – I’m free-motion quilting using a double heart pattern (it’s from Quilting Arts magazine June July 2011). See below
It’s coming together quite nicely, but I have trouble covering the quilt in a fluid direction (I have to stop and start).
Filed under Free Motion Quilting, Inspiration, Quilting
Knitted Dinosaurs
As you’re probably all aware, Miss P is a huge dinosaur fan – we have a quilt, a cushion and a T-Shirt, so when I saw this book at Dymocks I just had to have it. You can find more about it here.
Both girls have requested this dinosaur …
On a cursory reading it seems OK.
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A New Quilt Design
I’ve got a few projects on the go, but I am waiting for supplies. This quilt needs wadding, but I don’t want to take Miss A and P to the fabric store – too much nice stuff that they want and it always ends badly, and then this cushion for Miss P needs vliesofix, which I have ordered online.
So while waiting for these supplies I have designed another quilt.
It is going to consist of 12 blocks each 10 inch square. The two edge strips will be white (and will work like sashing). I’ve been inspired by the Fenced In quilt in The Practical Guide to Patchwork (By Elizabeth Hartman). The remaining four pieces will be one of six fat quarters (in the image above).
My plan is to rotate alternate blocks by 90 degrees (as happens in the Fenced In quilt).
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Sewwitty’s 2011
Where did 2011 go?
Last year I made
- Four pairs of socks (I was aiming for 12)
- Two quilts and a quilt top
- Two dolls
- A skirt
- Finally finished Miss A’s birth sampler
- Embroidered and Appliqued four T-Shirts
- Finished knitting my scarf
- Made an apron for the school fete.
- Made fourteen hair clips
- Two cushions
- Knitted a jumper for Miss P (although it was too small)
- One set of quilted coasters.
- Machine Embroidered cards
- Designed 4 machine embroidery foundation pieced quilt blocks
When I look back over the year I am pleasantly surprised by how much I achieved. I would have liked to have done more, but at the time I felt like I wasn’t achieving anything.
I meet almost all of my 2011 goals (see here).
2012 is going to be the year of finishing things – I have the dinosaur quilt to finish, an applique dinosaur cushion to start (bit of a dinosaur theme) and I’ve just started a pair of toe up socks (but more of that later).
I’m going to keep working on my machine embroidery designs, challenge myself with my knitting and try to use the stuff in my stash!
Filed under Inspiration, miscellaneous
Book Purchases
Yesterday I bought two books from Amazon (the Australian dollar is doing so well).
Modern Top-Down Knitting by Kristina McGowan and
Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitting Workshop.
Reviews to follow in due course.
Filed under Inspiration, Knitting
More Progress
Slowly working away on my knitting. I’m intrigued by knitting in the round and I’m quite keen to try a big person version. Maybe something like this or this (although this my be beyond my current ability).
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Baking
My self-imposed challenge of blogging every day has meant that today I’m struggling to find something to write about. As we all know, craft takes time and although I have made some progress on my knitting – it would look very similar to yesterday’s image.
Today I made chocolate cup cakes. I made Chocolate Cake No.2 from the Golden Wattle cook book. Stuck them into patty pans (it made 9) and then sprinkled icing sugar over the top.
Filed under Baking, Inspiration
Redback Spider Costume
Today the girls had to go to school as something Western Australian. This is Miss P dressed as a redback spider. It’s been the best costume – it’s simply a black t-shirt, black leggings and I sewed four extra legs to the t-shirt (stuffed opaque tights). We’ve taken the red patch of the back and used it as a Charlotte (from Charlotte’s Web) costume.
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An Outing
As I’m still caught up in a tangle (somewhat of my own making), I went for a walk to the DNA Tower (see above – image from lifeonperth.com) to get out of the house, get some fresh air and a new perspective. It has worked for the moment.
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