Florence

More finished projects today!

I am steaming through my unfinished projects at the moment!

 

I have made 2 of these scarves recently.

The first got a quick mention in my June post, but never a proper 'reveal'!

They were both beautiful to knit, easy-peasy, relaxing, squeeze-some-in-during-your-lunchbreak kind of knitting.

  The first in this beautiful teal colour.

 

 The second in very pretty almost white.

I will miss having these to pick up in spare minutes.

The pattern, if you want your own Florence can be found here, each scarf is knitted with just one ball of Rowan Kidsilk Haze.

 

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Finished - place mat

I'm not happy that this is called a place mat.

But I can't think of a better name for it!

Anyway - it is finished, and I'm very happy with it!!

Crocheted in 4 ply cotton yarn, pattern can be found here

 

It has been a very busy, very crafty day today :) photos and ta-dah moments soon!!

 

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Hexie quilt update

Or, I could have called this post 'Last one, last one, LAST ONE!'

I have been working hard on this quilt, my poor, sore fingers will tell you how hard I have worked.

Even though it has been stupidly hot, I have still had a big pile of quilt on my lap in any free moments I could find.

And today I will quilt the last hexie flower.

'Last one, last one, LAST ONE!'

There it is, with a pin in the middle still, waiting to be quilted, looking all pretty!

A bit of a close-up for you.

Oh, I love this quilt sooooo much! It has already gone all crinkly, just from the hand quilting.

I can't wait to get it washed and see how it turns out!

Did I mention that that lovely paisley hexie flower is the LAST ONE I have to quilt?!

I fear I may be becoming slightly hysterical about it all!

Um, one more photo?

Just because it's sooo pretty!

Urgh, don't look at the messy garden in this one, clearly I have NOT been spending my time gardening this week!!!

Right, I'm off to quilt my LAST hexie flower now :)

Then I'll make a start on quilting the edge - haha, didn't mention that did I? Bet you all thought I was almost finished!

 

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June

I'm a bit ashamed to be writing my 'what-I-made-in-June' post on 13th July!!

I will try to do better next month!

To be honest, there is not much to show for June, in terms of crafting.

But here it is, a little collection of photos to show what I was up to in June...

 

1. Miss M's hexagon quilt - still being hand quilted...

2. Wine jacket Father's Day gift :)

3. Florence scarf - another gift

4. The beginnings of a new ripple blanket - for a friend expecting a baby boy in November

5. Saturday sampler quilt blocks

6. A crochet mat, started.

7. Florence again!

8. Still quilting...

9. Ripple is growing nicely!

 

An awful lot of my time has been spent under that quilt, slowly quilting away. I swing from being totally in love with it to hating it with a passion! My aim is to finish it before I go to the Festival of Quilts in August. That is where I bought the fabrics for it last year and I would really like to be able to say I finished it in under a year!!

 

So if you don't hear from me again for a while - you know what I'm doing!!

 

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Saturday Sampler - June blocks

Ooh it has been a while since I blogged!

Things have been a bit crazy busy round here, and to be honest, I'm just hanging on til the end of term, not much is getting done, the house is a tip, but there are only 2 more weeks to go! :)

There has been a little stitching, knitting and crochet, but not loads.

I will try to put together some 'June' photos of what I did manage to achieve, but for now I have a couple of photos of my June sampler blocks. They were finished in June, on time, I just didn't photograph them!

 

So that is it from me today - short and sweet!

Will be back soon with more June photos - hopefully!

 

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Waiting

Poor Miss M.

She is so desperate for her quilt to be finished she stole the end I wasn't quilting to snuggle under!!

Think I need to stitch faster :)

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Le Challenge - Maritime

Oh dear. So today is the day to enter our 'Maritime' projects.

Only one problem - this morning, I still had nothing to enter.

NOTHING!

Unless you count a pile of maritime fabrics. Which I bought weeks ago, full of ideas about what I could make, worried that I didn't have enough fabric for all my ideas!

But then life got in the way. Work got busy. Home got busy.

There's not been much crafting at all in the past few weeks. Nor much blogging!

 

But never fear!

I managed to rustle up a last minute entry!

This is a novelty gift for Father's Day (so I'm really hoping my dad doesn't read my blog before I see him tomorrow!!) I used one of my maritime fabrics to make it qualify as my entry - two birds with one stone and all that!!

 

 

Not too bad considering I had NOTHING 2 hours ago!!!

 

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