Friday was an odd day. A huge smoke cloud moved in and made everything hazy. When I got home around 7:30pm, this is what it looked like:
The sun was actually much redder than this, but the picture gives you an idea of what it looked like. Very strange.
I did make it to WWKIP at Purlescence finally around 2:30pm on Saturday. There were 5 or 6 of us outside; I think there were a few inside, but I didn't go in...I just knitted and chatted with the other people there. I worked on the sleeves for the Crossover Top, trying hard to finish them.
We took the Husband's parents out to dinner that night for a combination Father's Day and Birthday celebration. We went to Original Joe's in downtown San Jose. Boy, was it busy down there! I hardly recognize that area of town anymore. It's so different from when I went to San Jose State eons ago.
Sunday, I started a new baby quilt and quickly got bogged down. I bought a kit and it was not clear which fabric belonged to which part of the block. There was no picture of this version of the quilt. I was able to figure out the feature and border fabrics because there are large prints. However, of the remaining fabrics, I could only figure out one for sure simple because the pattern called for 1/3 yard for the background (the only one in the pattern) and there was only one 1/3 yard cut in the kit. After assigning the remaining fabrics so that the pink fabric is featured (it's for a girl), I started cutting...and cutting... The 48 2-inch squares did me in and I quit for the day. This is going to take a while.
After that I needed Sirena's soothing song, so I spun for a couple of hours. I'm still working on the Mermaid Falkland from Yarn Wench. I'm working on bobbin #2.
I did manage to finish the sleeves for the Crossover Top last night. I redid the shoulder seams as I wasn't happy with them. I have now started the front edging and hope to finish this sweater SOON. I am so ready for socks!
Since I have no finished knitting to show you, here's another picture where I've played with Picnik's photo effects. This is a picture of the deep pink azaleas in our parking lot at work. I applied the Holga-ish effect, using 20% fade to retain a small amount of the pink.
2 comments:
Hi Marie, I'm barely a quilter but maybe you already use a rotary cutter for cutting your multiples of quilt squares? If not, I'd give that way a go, it's easier and you can layer the fabrics and cut nice clean lines. Hope the quilt goes well! Terry
I do have a rotary cutter and an Altos cutting system--and I used them for this quilt. I just got annoyed with the number of fussy little pieces I had to cut for a six square baby quilt after having to guess about which fabric to use for the different pieces!
(just call me cranky...)
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