The Treehouse

Wool Gathering...

I'm definitely making progress on the yarn stash - I had a very woolly weekend! The cardigan is coming along nicely - the back and one front are finished and the second front is underway. Early last week I finished the first sock and got the second one going...felt a bit guilty about the cardigan at that point so switched to that! The cardigan looks lovely but doesn't make for particularly interesting knitting (they're good projects to do while watching the tele!) so I made a start on crocheting a matching scarf with some lovely, soft merino wool that I discovered lurking in the same box as the cardigan wool.

 

The pattern for the scarf is a ripple pattern that I found on the Attic 24 blog The pattern is super easy - lots of trebles, I love those! I had been saving that particular pattern to make a large blanket with but decided that a scarf would be a nice way to test out if I could do it or not. It's a gorgeous pattern and once the scarf is done I will definitely start on the large blanket...the blanket may take a while though!

Feeling the need to get back to needle and thread for a little while now :)

What sort of crafter are you?

Are you the sort that starts and finishes a project before moving on to another one? Or are you the type that has a gazillion things on the go at once?

I am type 2!

I think the only crafting area that I cover where there is currently no activity whatsoever is scrapping...and cardmaking but maybe cards don't count as I've currently been pondering over a Christmas card design!

In knitting - I have the stripey cardigan on the go and of course, my Fair Isle type socks. The cardigan was flourishing due to the great error on the socks. Last Sunday night I took the sock and ripped it right back and now it's grown tremendously :D

In crochet - there is a granny square blanket on the go, and I'm contemplating a ripple blanket

In patchwork - the lovely Tail Feathers is on the go, the Quilt Aid quilt is on the go, Matthew's quilt needs its quilting finishing off and Catherine's quilt needs putting together. I'm starting my Dear Jane quilt this month :blush: and I've just commenced some place mats :double blush: I'm sure there's more but I'm embarrassed enough already!

In needlework - well, countless applique projects plus a lovely little pattern called Geranium Cottage - couldn't resist that, I love Geraniums you see.

Here's this week's progress anyway - as you can see, the sock is nearly done, the cardigan is getting there...almost up to the arms and that's my second Quilt Aid block being blanket stitched.

Now...if I could just locate my tape measure I would know for sure how much more sock and cardigan I need to knit!

Stitching catch up...

Just as we were about to leave for our holiday I grabbed my bag of crochet stuff...just in case I ran out of sewing and reading to do - there was of course no chance of that as I'd prepared quite a lot of stitchy stuff to do on holiday, lol! As I mentioned in my previous post, I got a little carried away with the crocheting and in fact - never touched the stitching at all :o I made a multitude of little granny squares for a baby blanket and finished off this bag...

I photographed it outside this morning as it's lovely sunny here today so the colours are a bit washed out - it's a lovely blue/green/cream yarn. I thoroughly enjoyed making this and it was really fairly quick once I got over the problem with how to start off.

Before we went away, I finished of the second of the Tail Feathers blocks - I love these quilt blocks fulll of little birds.

More outdoors photography this morning! See the little pods in the bottom block - all blanket stitch...yum yum! I think I mentioned that I'm a little behind on this project - still finishing off block 3 and block 4 has arrived :o That's this week's task to complete and I'm getting there. 

I also have some Quilt Aid blocks in progress - one a stitchery similar to the Tail Feathers and also by Natalie Lymer, another one is all raw edge applique finished with more yummy blanket stitch and the third one, by Sue Daley, has some English paper piecing on it. I was really excited to do that one as I've not tried EPP before. Unfortunately though, when the kit arrived there was a piece of fabric missing and the background fabric piece was too small. I contacted the shop to let them know and when we returned from our hols the replacements were waiting for me - I'm hoping to get playing with those again either tonight or this weekend. I did start doing the EPP but had to stop because of the missing fabric...I'm eager to get going again and even more excited that the finishing kit that I bought, also designed by Sue Daley, has more English paper piecing in it.

Last week I went to the Great Northern Quilt Show...dutifully chaffeured by the dh bless him. I have photos to share of some of the quilts that were on display there tomorrow.