knitting

The last 8 blocks...................... from Exuberant Color

This strata has the last two Nancy Crow fabrics that I chose for the 16 patch quilt. I had eliminated these in the beginning but I didn't have many choices left. There are 59 different fabrics in the pieced blocks.

There are 2 blocks of each of these combinations, the last 8 blocks. Now I need to spend some time at the design wall.

Here are the next three dishcloths that are all at the same spot, ready to do decreases.

I baked scones yesterday to warm up the kitchen, and also to give me some breakfast food. I ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 2 weeks ago. under knitting , strip piecing

Sunshine Scarf from Monas Creativity

A great knitting project when travelling, this is mostly knitted in Madeira.
Pattern:Solskinnsskjerf by Wenche Roald on Ravelry

Yarn:Alpakka Silke by Sandnes Garn

Needle size: 3 mm

added by Mona 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under alpakkasilke , knitting , scarf , solskinnsskjerf

This and that............... from Exuberant Color

The first day of every month is usually spent looking through things, attempting to clean off a table, just miscellaneous things.

I have had the 2 fabrics laying on my die cutter for over a week so I finally cut the pieces I needed for one more block.

I sewed the last block and then sewed this piece together. It will be the center of a medallion quilt, to be designed slowly, a little at a time. It is approximately 30" x 40" right now.

With those pieces off the design wall I could do the layout for these pinwheel ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 1 month, 3 weeks ago. under black and white , kaffe fabric , knitting , quilts made with triangles , stash , triangles

Week 39 of 2025 from Thread Head

This week I finished another Ranunculus (pattern by Midori Hirose) -

For this one I used some commercial yarn I had leftover from my first top down sweater, that I made 12 years ago. I had just over two skeins of worsted weight wool and I never thought I would be able to make a sweater (more like a vest really). The yarn is Cascade Venezia Worsted, a merino/silk blend.

The Ranunculus is a great pattern, knit on big needles it works up fast (I even knit the yolk on another one this week, to get my Mom started on ...

added by Joanne 2 months ago. under knitting

Hello Spring from Romany Quilting

Spring has arrived and it was time to change the small wall hanging just inside the front door. Down came Welcome to Winter and up went Hello Spring. I hand stitched the pretty floral design and finished it up with machine quilting in 2022.

Spring has arrived

Our Spring weather is often temperamental and we have had heavy wind and rain. The wind blew, blew, blew, creating a carpet of yellow kowhai blossoms scattered across the lawn in the back yard. Our native tuis love the kowhai nectar and have been feeding off the tree, in between busily chasing any ...

added by Jenny 2 months ago. under binding , birds , knitting , trees , weather

Fabric from the 1990s.................. from Exuberant Color

I spent the day yesterday pressing 32 Nancy Crow fabrics from the 1990s. A friend wants to make a 16 patch with them. While I cut for her I cut for 2 quilts for myself. I have more of her fabrics but some just weren't suitable to be cut up in small pieces.

I stopped at 40 stitches on this dishcloth because there wasn't much yarn left. It looks like I could have gone to 41 stitches...but I'm happy I stopped when I did.

I now have 6 great-grandchildren. The newest baby was born yesterday, a ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months ago. under knitting , stash

Flitting from one thing to the next................ from Exuberant Color

Instead of working on any project I decided to look for a back for this little 40" quilt top. I only looked in the Brandon Mably stash (Kaffe collective). Since this is 40" I can use one width of fabric for the back but I need more than 1 yard. I did the "feel test" on the fabrics on the shelf. I know what 1 yard feels like so I was feeling for a thicker fold. My first run through produced these 5 fabrics. The criteria is that it has to be a print that is not as effective cut ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 1 week ago. under kaffe fabric , knitting , triangles

Free entertainment................. from Exuberant Color

As I was walking through the living room yesterday afternoon I saw several trucks across the street. Finally....the city decided to trim all of the dead branches that hovered above the driveway to this little house (that just sold at the end of August). I missed seeing them getting cut off but got to watch the removal of the top of the tall tree.

He had a rope attached to the half he just cut off and he lowered himself and the branch to the ground. He returned to the top and got the last section cut off.

Then ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 1 week ago. under knitting , nature

Not working...................... from Exuberant Color

Sometimes you have to play with some blocks to find out what isn't working. I had company yesterday so last night I just pulled out the baggie of 44 three inch 9 patches. I placed them on my sewing table edge to edge to see if they would make a nice table runner top. What I quickly realized is that there are lots of dark colors in these blocks.

I had a stack of batik squares in the same size so I just put them on every other block that was on the table. My conclusion? Neither of them ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 1 week ago. under 9 patch , batiks , knitting

Ready for top and bottom borders......................... from Exuberant Color

The top is sewn on this zig zag but I haven't decided how wide the border at the top and bottom will be. I will press this today and hopefully make a decision.

I finished one of the three started dishcloths. Usually I can get 2 out of one ball of yarn. Even though they all say they have the same number of yards it is pretty obvious to me that I'll only get a little over a half of another from this ball. I have at least 2 more balls of this color so I'll be ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 2 weeks ago. under kaffe fabric , knitting , machine quilting , triangles , zig zag

The start................. from Exuberant Color

The top and bottom row are the easiest to sew because every square is the same. The other rows will have the variety of green sprinkled through them so I'll have to pay attention to get them back up on the design wall in the right place after I sew the 2 triangles together.

Meanwhile in spare moments here and there I have started 3 dishcloths. They are all at the same stage now, ready to do decreases on every row. I can pick up whichever color I feel like working on.

It only got up to 65 yesterday ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under food , knitting , triangles

My inside garden....................... from Exuberant Color

I don't have anywhere outside to put my Thanksgiving/Christmas cacti in the summer that the squirrels don't bother them. When I have windows open in nice weather I put some of them on the sill to enjoy the sun and fresh air. This is an east window, facing out the front of my house.

The west window has a few too. The one on the right is pretty sad looking and I re-potted it hoping to bring it back to life.

Here are some of my larger cacti where they reside year round. I have more plants ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 2 months, 3 weeks ago. under knitting , nature

Wooly Socks and Daffodil Day from Romany Quilting

It's just as well that I have finished a couple of pair of woolly socks recently, as Winter has returned with a vengeance. After weeks of fine, calm, sunny but cool days we now have wind, rain and cold temperatures. Spring may be just around the corner, but our Spring weather is often fickle and rather changeable.

My two pair of nice, thick, wooly socks used up some remaining sock yarn. The dark pair was knitted using double knit navy wool, and the rest of coloured sock yarn I had left over from knitting myself a pair of 4ply ...

added by Jenny 2 months, 4 weeks ago. under health , knitting , socks

Lots of little progress................ from Exuberant Color

The next third of floral squares have been sorted and placed in the same order as the ones on the design wall (shown yesterday). Now I need to decide if I will just shift the rows to the right so same fabrics don't line up from top to bottom in the quilt or will I mix up the fabrics in each row as I place them on the design wall.

As I was walking through the kitchen yesterday morning I noticed the dappled sunlight highlighting some of the tall flowers. Here I go again with a photo that is ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months ago. under hunter star , knitting , nature

Singles And Doubles. from Sunburnt Quilts

The single refers to the hat I have knitted. It matches the jumper in my last post. Because the balls of wool from Bendigo are 200grams, I often find there is enough left over for a scarf or a hat.

I am hoping to deliver the jumper and hat this evening when we go to watch a basketball game.

The doubles refers to two quilts made with almost identical fabric.

The centre fabric continues the surf theme.

The only difference is in the yellow outer borders, but that doesn’t really show up in the photos. To help distinguish them ...

added by karen 3 months, 1 week ago. under knitting , quilts (Comments)

Lots Of Progress, But Only One Finish. from Sunburnt Quilts

I often wonder if the Winter weather makes me take on projects that take a while to finish. Do I choose ones that are going to keep me inside where it is warm? Maybe I sub-consciously do.

I have been keeping the needles working in the evenings to finish this jumper for Miss 10yo. She has already seen the yarn and very much approved of the colour.

The yarn is machine washable wool from Bendigo Woollen Mills. It is from the Prism range and the shade is Fairy Tale.

This is a closer look at the colour gradations.

It is ...

added by karen 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under embroidery , felt , knitting , quilts , work in progress (Comments)

Binding finished..................... from Exuberant Color

The binding was finished all by machine last night. I will check it by daylight today to make sure I didn't miss any spots, black thread on black fabric....

I started another dishcloth too. I wish this yarn was white and black instead of cream and black.

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 3 months, 3 weeks ago. under binding , knitting

Saving a block.................... from Exuberant Color

If you read yesterday's post, you know I miscut a strip and was short one segment for a 16 patch block. I briefly thought about just forgetting about that block, but I'm going for 120 blocks so I really needed it. I don't like chunks cut out of my yardage. I guess that is a leftover feeling from having worked at quilt shops and always having a clean edge on yardage. I cut 2 squares out of each of the 2 fabrics and finished piecing the block.

I finished another dishcloth last night. It is not as ...

added by Exuberantcolor/Wanda S Hanson 4 months ago. under knitting , marcia derse fabric

Rug Hooking, Knitting and a RSC Baby Quilt in Progress from The Cozy Quilter

After making 6 purple hollow nine patch blocks last week, I took out the bag of blocks that I have made so far this year and discovered that I had enough to make a baby quilt. I took them to the guild sewing day this week and laid them out on the design wall as shown above. I sewed them together and today, pin basted it and started the quilting--diagonal lines in both directions through each square.

I'm using 28wt white thread in the top and 50 wt white in the bobbin. The backing was in my stash.

I ...

added by The Cozy Quilter 4 months ago. under baby quilts , crochet , finn , gardens , knitting , potato chip blocks , rainbow scrap challenge , rug hooking , scrappy quilts , slow sunday stitching , walking foot quilting

YARN BABE! from Kwilty Pleasures

I like to knit...but I like to sew more.

Therefore, I Might NOT be a Yarn Babe.

I did finish this cowl late 2024.