My first completed square — it’s better looking from far away. I’m a fan of my little snowman and my snowflake (in the corners) though. And yes, the little tree next to the house is crooked. It must be from all the high winds they get there.
I spent the day working on the Tree Quilt with my mom. We’ve been working on it since January (each on our own quilt) and I realized I should have taken pictures before now as it was in progress, but better late than never.
The quilt has a block for each month — each a different tree at different points through the seasons. The middle is an even bigger jacked-up tree that can’t make up its mind what season it is. It’s supposed to represent winter, spring, summer and fall, but I refuse to put winter on my big tree cause I think it makes it look 1/2 dead.
Here’s a photo of one of the blocks: October (not mine)
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The corners are pieced crazy quilt triangles and the center is applique. Essentially I’m doing the entire thing by hand, except some of the applique is fused and then I stitched it down with my machine. Most of it I’m embroidering by hand though.
(and the crazy quilting is all by hand!)
Since I’m too tired from all the quilting I did today, photos will have to wait until tomorrow, or perhaps the next day, since tomorrow my sister is coming over to visit. At least if I post this with the promise of pictures to come, they will one day appear.
Once again, not mine:
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that since I just ran 7 miles on Sunday, that the idea of going for a quick 30 minute run today would be easy, wouldn’t you? So why do I feel like staying home, taking a bath and eating chocolate instead? (that would be eating *more* chocolate, since I’ve already had 3 pieces today. Mmm, See’s dark chocolate almond brittle. How I love thee.)
I already have the clothes on. I just have to get moving. I hate the first 10 minutes. Ugh. It’s horrible. And it’s cold outside. Waah, waah.
ETA: I know I’m supposed to come back raving about how glad I am that I went out and ran and how it felt good once I got started, but it didn’t and I’m not. It felt like my first time out — my legs weren’t sore at all, the just felt heavy and sluggish. Well, at least that’s over. I’m off to bake molasses cookies now!
My most recent knitting project — a warm-up for fall. I had a request for a fruit hat and while I was waiting for the yarn to come in I found some scraps and invented this adorable acorn cap using KnitPicks Swish superwash wool.
CO 64 (72 for the larger cap) stitches. Join and knit in the round for 4-5 inches. Switch to contrasting color, and knit one round. Purl one round.
Texture stitch for acorn top:
Row 1: *K into the front, back, front of 1 stitch (inc of 3), K3tog through the back loop (stitch number stays constant at 64). Continue to end of round.
Row 2: Purl all stitches
Row 3: *K 3tog through the back loop, K into front, back and front of one stitch. Continue to the end of the round.
Row 4: Purl all stitches
Row 5: same as row 1
begin decreases for crown of cap:
Row 6: Purl 6, purl 2tog. Continue to the end of the round.
Row 7: same as row 3
Row 8: purl 4, purl 2tog to the end of the round
Row 9 and following: alternate texture pattern with purl rows, each time decreasing on the purl rows, p2, p2tog, then p2tog for the entire round.
drop texture stitch and stitch the remaining rounds in purl stitch only. Decrease until you have approx 6 stitches. Continue to purl until acorn stem is desired length. Draw yarn through remaining stitches and finish.
A kid with natural athletic ability and a killer instinct.
