Friday 14 January 2022

2022 Week 2

So we start a new year with a new blog post - and some actual finishes!!!!

None were quite as smooth as they should have been though!

The Janet Claire sludge fabrics got added to a fleece backing with a lot of flaffing and measuring: I like clams but I dont see loads of them in my future!



I decided to use the sewing machine to blanket stitch them down: sometimes she was very happy, 

Other times she was a right pain in the neck!

Anyway: quilt got joined and bound, and was delivered on Wednesday - juts two weeks late, and she's very happy with it!

Another finish has been posted to Norway for a cousin's newish grandson.  His name, Sverre, is an old Viking king's name.  His mum is cousin to Theia and Saga's mum, so although I made a different type of I-spy quilt I wrote his names in the same style


Annoyingly I managed to trap some loose fabric on the back when I embroidered one of the names, but I added a strip of the blue spraytime to the back to match the front and the binding and that hid the problem!!!


I stitched badges for the scouts and other uniform groups that delivered the village Christmas cards

And I got to the hairdressers for a trim and a bit of colour!!!!

With a bit of help from Lisa my stack of granny squares . . . 

Is starting to become a bloanket

I have completed the January Hexi flower swap hexies

And received all the December ones

Lisa's Jim got me a fabric pack for Christmas: mostly mustards and teal.  He is colour blind so I know he sometime struggles to choose colours but he said he bought these because they must go together as they came in a pack, and I overheard him say that he chose a pack he liked in case I made him something from it.  This is the problem with having daughters - it honestly never occurred to me that Jim might want something patchwork!!!!  Also he lives in a house with a number of quilts I have made for Lisa over the years and a fair number of blankets that she has crocheted, so I don't know that making him one would have occurred to me . . . well now it has!  He has the box room as his 'play room' where he plays computer games, and there is a small mustard sofa bed in it

This was the pack he got for me

I ordered a few more mustards and a replacement teal, cut them into 2.5" strips

And now I have a flimsy round-the-world in mustard and teal!

I need to find the right colour fleece for the backing but I rather like it - hope he does too!

4 comments:

  1. You have been very productive as always. Well done on sorting the entrapped fabric! You have a very impressive stack of granny squares. Looking forward to seeing the end product.

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  2. WOW! What a start to the New Year x Machines are wonderful .. when playing nicely .. but then again.. !! Well done x I am sure he will love the blue and mustard x

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  3. Lucky Jim - giving you a present and getting it back made into a quilt! It looks great and I'm sure he'll love it. Your clamshells quilt is really beautiful. I love clamshells but they never make it off my to do one one day list. And your crochet is growing fast. I have yet to begin making anything this year! Happy 2022 :)

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  4. Crikey! That's a lot going on! THe Trip quilt looks amazing - lucky Jim! As does that clamshells quilt - no hint of your struggles with it. I quite enjoy them, but only by hand, and not enough to do a project of any useful size.....! x

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