Rose of Sharon - Continued

Applique is one of those things you can work on later in the afternoon when you're back is hurting from the day's activities.  It's nice to sit for a few minutes and hand sew.  Here's my progress. You can see I have  the middle squares all finished and put together.

Now I am working on the border.  I am enjoying this more and more.  I love the old fashion squares with applique borders.  And the fact that it's small keeps it from being overwhelming.  I could make quite a few of them.

Juliet and a New Scarf

After I made Eloise her yellow socks, I still had quite a bit of that yarn leftover. It is yarn I've had sitting around and I don't really care for it.  It's an acrylic and soft, but not my style.  So I made a scarf for Juliet from some of it.

She didn't really want to perform for me that day, so here's what we got.

 

 The scarf is a lace.  I'm always looking for lace patterns.

 It has a large buttonhole, so for a child it's great because it won't fall off.  This one is still a little large for her.

The Veggies and Fruits are ready to Can!

I got my food all harvested and it's ready to go.  I don't get dirty hands from this kind of canning.

 

One picture isn't enough for a blog post, so here's some granddaughters in their chair fort.

I had to have 2 pictures since I wanted a smile on each of them.

A Couple Pairs of Socks

I've been knitting for a few years now, but had never knitted socks, except for booties and baby socks.

So I thought I'd give it a try.  I had bought yarn for this project a while back knowing that I wanted to do it sometime.  I also like lace knitting so that was the type of sock I wanted to do.  Straight stockinette?  No,no.

But as you can see, of course with the yarn I chose you can not see the pattern at all. I'll have to do it again with a more solid yarn.

 

While knitting, my granddaughter who is always interested in what I'm making, asked me what it was.  When I told her I was making socks, she told me that I should make her some also.  What's a grandma to do?  Make her some also.

 These are a lace knit also with a solid yarn.  You can see the pattern on this pair.

 The socks are also a little large for her.  But that means they'll last a while.  She likes them.

My Fall Harvest Basket Quilt

I know it's past fall now, but this lovely wallhanging is completed and ready for next fall.  This one had it's pitfalls in the piecing stage as you can very well see.  Quilting really helped it out and it will look lovely on a wall.

You can see the magazine I  got the pattern out of here.

 The applique was a lot of fun.  So was the quilting.

 

Piecing is not my forte. So you're not getting a closeup of the  X's.  Also the diamonds are lacking.

But it's for me.  I'd rather enjoy the process than be too frustrated.  Although I am into learning, practicing and getting better.

 

A Canning Cupboard Without the Work of Canning

 Over the last couple of years, I collected fruit and vegetable fabrics.  I made potholders with some, but I still have quite a bit.

So I decided to make a plan for a canning cupboard.  I've pinned several that I am using as examples of what I want.  It's not the kind of quilt you want to cuddle up in (with all this food hanging on you?) so I am making it into a wall hanging that could hang in someone's kitchen, I hope.  I have no wall space in mine. I just like the idea of making it.

It was quite fun just drawing it out.

I think maybe the round jar should be candies.

As I  took these fabrics out of the bin they were stored in, I saw that I had other project ideas and fabrics in there also.  I had forgotten about these.  Hmmm....

Here is a list of all my WIP's this far.

Love Entwined - applique

Joe and Sarah's Quilt - quilt

Farm quilt - a little here, a little there

Rose of Sharon - applique

Pam's Quilt - find border fabric

Canning wallhanging - get all fabrics together

Stefan and Sue's quilt - design

Vivien's baby quilt - think about

Grace's baby quilt - think about

I hope I get to the think about's. This list does not include what was in the bin. They will have to be on the way back burner.

More with Clara - and a New Sweater

This sweater is one I have knitted before and liked it so much I had to do it again.  The last one was a cotton. This is done in a washable wool.  Clara is showing it off for us.

 Normally I wouldn't like knits that show the wrong side out - or it looks that way anyways.  But it's the way to make the cables stand out.

 I love the bonnet because it is a bonnet, not a hat. Baby girls should wear bonnets.

 She rolled over for me so that you could see the back of the sweater

Here is my ravelry link.