Both pairs of socks are done! The sad part is that here in the middle of April, I still need wool socks!
Ooh-this is one nasty picture! Look at those bunions! Sorry-maybe you don’t want to look!
…and on my needles! This is the first time I have started cuff down, circular needle socks by myself. Yay!
Not a whole lot to show, but I am making these babies:
Are you working on anything exciting today?
Diane
1. That finished is better than perfect. (Although I still spent some time picking out stitches)
2. Wonky sometimes works. I think that the jar tops are my favorite part!
3. My micro-stippling is ok but would be better with an open toe foot – so I ordered one!
4. I can use the foot to help me gauge distances when quilting. (I wish I had figured that one out sooner!)
5. The quilting that takes the longest (in terms of starting and stopping) doesn’t always show up. For example, the brown, above.
6. I think that I switched the border and binding fabrics. My less than perfect quilting would have been less noticeable!
7. I am becoming a little more confident in my machine quilting!
What did you learn today?
Diane
This is what you get when Mom is good with LOTS of gel and your grandsons are a couple of cool dudes!
…and on the frame!
I made this quilt a couple of years ago (yeah, yeah, old story!). I have decided to play a little and use different thread colors and quilting motifs.
Buddy enjoys consulting with me on the quilting. His input is very important!
Below is a quilt I am making with my beginning quilting class. It is a little retro but it teaches a lot of piecing fundamentals. I think I will be quilting it on my Bernina and the walking foot.
It is a little more red than I had planned but I really do like the simplicity. There is no big print to “pop” but oh well…
Diane
P.S. Don’t you love this font? It reminds me of my days in 3rd grade, teaching cursive!
It occurred to me the other day that I had done no quilting on my frame since August! So I pulled out an old project, cleaned and oiled my machine and got ready to do some quilting.
I wasn’t sure what color thread I wanted to use so I wound a small bobbin and did some practice on scraps from the quilt. The color and tension looked good so I wound some more bobbins, rethreaded everything and went to work.
(The blue tape is for me to know how far I can quilt-sometimes I forget or mis-gauge)
I did one row and rolled the quilt and this is what I saw:
I think that I put my bobbin in incorrectly(I was having a little trouble) resulting in this mess on the back. Grrr!!
It could have been worse: those stitched will be easy (relatively speaking) to pull out.
I always suggest that you fix mistakes before stopping for the day but I just didn’t have it in me. So now I know what I will be doing tomorrow!
Diane
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