Sew slow

Oof, where did 6 weeks go?

Congrats on your adventures and your completed projects!! I successfully guessed which pattern Smallest would like best, lol. Sorry about all the time you wasted on the bad sweater pattern. :(

I have made progress on three projects since I last posted. 

1. The quilt is coming together - I have one block of 8 horizontal strips, one block of 4, one block of 2, and three more pairs waiting to be sewn up. 

2. The green of the peacock has grown, though only slightly. The stitches are so small that I have to work on it without my glasses on / with my face up close like an old person. It's ridiculous, I know. But also, it means that it's not a good project if I'm in any moving vehicle on the off chance I poke a needle in my eye.

3. I've come back to the flowers cross-stitch; the last post I can find that shows a picture is this one from Dec 2023. Between then and August 24, I did a bit of work on the leaves in the bottom left (see first photo), and through today I've finished that block, added a second color blue to the top right flowers, and am more than halfway done with the leaves of the middle right yellow flowers (see second photo). I still don't know who I am making this for, humph. Maybe Mom would like a little garden since she can't grow her own anymore?

I aspire to finish the pinwheels this weekend, and then I will talk to a long-arm person to make sure that I'm preparing the quilt sandwich correctly. 

I also want to cut out the white hexagons this month, as I have a big trip coming up in October that will be perfect for sewing.

I also need to regroup on my projects list, as I think I only have 3 completed so far and I was aiming for 25. Hmm...

Yay for sewing!

- Catherine

No More Kids!

Well, it has happened!  We are all alone at home.  I had a nice drive to Vermont with The Boy.  It was long, but entertaining.

When we got to Massachusetts, we were driving along the Pike and I was thinking about how fun it was to visit you in Amherst, and then I realized that a friend from grad school is there now.  It was close to dinnertime, so we called her and met up with her and her son for dinner there.  Very fun, and great to be out of the car for real food!

Me and my friend Tina (not college roommate Tina)

The move-in on Thursday went well, I got talked at a lot by school people.  It was helpful.  I stayed with my Rice/S&B friend Laura M. who lives about an hour away from The Boy in Peterborough, New Hampshire.  It was so fun to see her (and her husband), and see her house in the midst of kitchen renovation, and talk and talk and talk!  She also has a very sweet dog (also a Lucy!).

Lucy was a stray dog in Aruba!

I came back late on Saturday and I think for the first time in many, many flights there were no small children on my flights!  What is this magic?!

I did go to Green Mountain Spinnery while I was there, and they do think there is a market for Icelandic sheep wool, but they can't process it.  I bought yarn for a sweater.

I did work on your sweater while we were driving, and I have some bad news.  Below, behold the sweater:

Check out the width on that puppy.  The sweater it's on top of is a boxy cut sweater that is baggy on me.  It is 25 inches across, so 50 inches around.  I think it is Too Large (and this is also before blocking!).  I'm going to look for a better pattern that won't require heavy modification, or see if I can use a book of patterns that I have to create our own.  So sorry!

The yarn for Smallest's vest came in.  It's a surprisingly small amount of yarn, so hopefully it's all correct!

Oh yeah, I have that quilt to make too!  We don't seem to be using the table for dinner any more, so maybe I can just set up the sewing machine there.  That would be excellent!

 

Margie