Ugly or Interesting?

You know how sometimes when you start a project, thinking it’s going to be beautiful, and it turns out totally different than you expected, and not quite so beautiful?
That’s what is happening with the socks I started last night.  I’m using Cookie A’s Monkey sock pattern on knitty.com that has been so popular on Ravelry [...]

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Leaf Details

I have one or two hours left of quilting to do on my Primrose Path table runner for my March TIF project.
This photo shows some of the detail quilting.
I’ve taken the templates used to cut out the curved pieces that form the “flowers” on this piece and used them to echo the fabric tessellations with [...]

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Signs of Spring and Socks

Even though our night temps are still below freezing, the perennials are making a good start on spring.  The iris, hollyhocks and maximillian sunflowers are putting in an appearance already in our garden. 

 
This morning I grafted the toe on the second of John’s socks.  So it seemed appropriate to do a photo [...]

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Lovely Lace

I’m so excited about my Blue Optic Waves Shawl.  I took it off the blocking board today and it is beautiful.  It far exceeded my expectations.
As I’ve written before, I started out with this lovely Brooks Farm Duet yarn to make a Bias Self-Fringing Shawl.  I got it finished to the point of cutting [...]

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Making Progress

For the last couple of weeks it hasn’t felt as though I’ve made much progress on anything.  Although I’ve been working on several projects, they’ve all been in middle stages with not much to show, and very little feeling of accomplishment.
But now I’m beginning to feel like things are coming along.  Last night I [...]

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March TIF Update

I know it’s nearly the end of the month, and there’s no way I’ll be finished, but I AM making progress on my March Take It Further (TIF) project.
The half-yard I dyed yesterday for the backing turned out great.  I was afraid I had put it in too large a container and it wouldn’t come [...]

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Ewww! What Is It?

Definitely not eye candy, but everything I’m working on is mid-process so there’s nothing exciting to show today.
What is it?  Not spinach or collard greens, but 1/2 yard of fabric being dyed blue green for the backing on my March TIF project. 
This is the first time I’ve tried dyeing anything larger than a fat [...]

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Surprise Package

On Saturday I received a surprise package in the mail from Sue Bleiweiss.  A week or so ago she was dyeing some velvet and laces in preparation for her Creative Mixed Media Journaling Techniques Class (which I’m planning to take), and she generously decided to give some away.  I was so surprised when I [...]

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Easter Stitches

Happy Easter!  The greeting shared among Christians this day is:
Christ is Risen!  Christ is Risen, indeed!

Since it is Easter I thought I would post a picture of a counted cross stitch cross I completed a while back.  It’s Mike Vickery’s Emerald Cross.  I really like the color combinations on it.  He has a number of [...]

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Fabric Gymnastics

I have this annoying propensity to create quilt designs that are extremely difficult to execute.  My March TIF is another one. 
As I drew the curves for the tessellating primary cell, I had in mind construction, so I tried not to make them too sharp.  But now that I’m putting the blocks together I’m finding that [...]

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