fred_mouse (
fred_mouse) wrote2016-07-11 09:41 pm
Craft diary
It is so long since I've done a craft round up that I don't think that there is much point in looking at where I was, and what I was working on. Instead, I'm giving myself a new start, with the hope that each Monday I'll spend five minutes looking at what changes have happened in the listed projects (and what has been added) in the past week. This one is going to have slightly longer descriptions, but future ones will just be title/progress. So, what are my active projects?
Active
Active
- rainbow blanket (crochet) – This is using up two variegated yarns, a rainbow, and a browns. At this point, I've finished off four ~30cm squares (15 rounds), which are rainbow in the middle and brown around the outside. Two have 12 rounds of rainbow, and two have 7 (this is because there was much less rainbow than brown, which I worked out after I'd done the centres for two). Today I'm sewing in the ends, and then I'm hoping that insipiration will strike as to What Next.
- quilt block swap (patchwork) – there are three swap blocks (from two concurrent swaps, mostly with the same people) currently in my house. One was finished last night at a social gathering, and then ironed when we got home; it is currently at the front door to be passed on this evening. The second (blue star, hand sewing) has all the pieces cut, and about 1/3 of the sewing done—I've been working on that this morning while the kids have been skating. The third (either the pink or the brown star – one is for the swap, one is for me) is in a bit more of a mess. This is a simplified Lone Star block, and while I have the central diamonds sorted, I keep stuffing up the rest. Need to work out which pairs to sew together, and what pieces to then y-seam in. [thought – maybe I should be not trying to be fancy, but make the smaller block, and then add sashing to size. This might solve the problem with not being able to cut the pieces right, which I've now done more than once][also, I think one of the sets of diamonds is missing one where I stuffed up]
- Lone Star block (patchwork) – this is the slightly more complicated version of the aforementioned block—those are 2*2 diamonds, this is 3*3. Also at the stage of all the diamonds are done, and I have progress paralysis.
- scorpion quilt (applique, quilting) – finished the applique on the weekend, and started the quilting. Probably half the quilting (contrast black thread, silhouetting the appliqued abstracted scorpion) has been done. Have to take the quilting to the corners of the quilt, and then fill in some gaps in the middle. Also decide on binding, then cut and sew said binding.
- baby quilt with the green back (quilting) – this one is upside down on the music/sewing room floor, and for the life of me can't think what the top is. Quilting is a bit over half done (worked on just before we went away, but not this weekend, but I think it still counts as active)
- pink sampler quilt (patchwork/quilting) – this is a completed top (1 m square), waiting on the other two quilting projects to move past the quilting stage. I have the backing selected, but not the wadding sorted (it is in a room somewhere). Once I'm ready to consider quilting it, I'll clear enough space to sandwich it.
- fancy circles crochet-along (crochet) – this is the one where I had a go at a crochet along square, enjoyed it enough that I decided to make a blanket from it. 4/16 squares are complete, all the rest are started.
- jacket for youngest (knitting) – last piece of progress was sewing the fronts and back together at the shoulders. I've had a couple of goes at knitting them on to then make the collar, but I'm struggling to get it to sit right, and get the stitches evenly selected (which makes me realise that I have stitch markers, and I could work it that way!!!)
- cat blankets (knitting) – I have one done, sitting on the hall shelf, to be taken to the Cat Haven, but the plan was to get ariaflame's knitting machine up and running, and then use up some of the other unloved yarn so that I had a few to take, and got a feel for the knitting machine. I've started the set up for the knitting machine, but the instructions are not the easiest to follow. I'm going to have to allocate an hour to watching videos, and see how I go.
