Kim and I had a great week at the river with Anne and Weesie. We all made a lot of progress on our projects and I think we wore Weesie out. Anne said she slept the whole day after I left. One of the projects that I worked on was this crochet cape. I finished it Sunday while I was watching football and I started another one. From The Heart put out a call for wheelchair capes. I had one already finished, this one is the second and I'll try to get one more finished before I deliver in a couple of weeks. This cape works up really quick. This is a "pattern" that I made from combining some other patterns and the directions are here. The yarn is Lion Brand Mandala Ombre and I think it makes a pretty cape. I accomplished all of the stitching on the postcards that I could while at the river and I did some of the finishing this weekend. I had to stitch the berries at home because I didn't take any red metallic threads with me. The color I used here is kind of a copper color. I wish I had used a more textured background with these but it's too late for that! This is the stitching that I got done on the other two designs. The trees will get some crystal but I'll add those after I stitch the edges. I got the birds outlined and the ribbon added. Yesterday my birds got painted eyes and what a difference that makes! Now I'm ready to fuse the backs and serge the edges. The end is in sight! I also brought home a little toy to play with for the next few months. Anne bought this Sashiko machine secondhand in the Spring. She will be out of town for a few months so she let me bring it home to play with until she returns. It's a really interesting machine. There's no top thread, only a bobbin. It may look like a sewing machine but it doesn't work like one at all. This is what the stitching looks like. You can adjust the size of the stitches and spaces separately. I'm not allowing myself to play with it until the Christmas postcards are all in the mail.
This week I will get the cards finished and I want to get 4 veterans quilts quilted. Our inspiration this week is Marquette Ore Dock by Toni Bergeon. Her art quilt is currently in an exhibit at the Wisconsin Quilt Museum in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. She used the Blue Sky and Trumpet Vine Gradients in her quilt.
For sharing, Toni received a 20% coupon for the shop that's good for 3 months! If you have made anything with my hand dyed fabric I hope you will consider sharing it in the Customer Gallery. The only rule is that projects have to be complete. It doesn't have to be made totally from hand dyed fabric, just include a recognizable amount. As I write this post I'm still at the river with my friends and I just wanted to share the spectacular sunset from last night. We are having a lovely time. I even got the rest of my postcards stitched! When I get home I still have a little work to do on each design but it won't take too long to finish them and I should be able to get them in the mail by December 10th. That's my first goal of December. The postcards were my main project for November As I look back over November I'm really happy with everything I got accomplished, starting with these 2 quilts that I quilted. One is a raffle quilt for my quilt club and the other is a quilt for a friend. On top of those, there were 6 veterans quilts. One of them is one of my quilts so, hopefully, that will be a finish for December. I even had 2 weeks of vacation during the month and used a good bit of that time to crochet some hats and finish off a scrappy donation blanket. I finished 8 hats and the 1 blanket.
Here are my YTD stats: Quilts - 2 Other major projects - Veterans quilts made - 12 Donation lap quilts - 12 Veterans quilts quilted - 33 Fabric Postcards - 20 Pet Beds - 7 Quilted for others - 6 Crochet blankets - 9 Crochet shawls - 1 Crochet/loom knit hats and scarves - 39 Doll outfits - 2 Placemats and Table Runners - 25 Dyed shirts and towels - 7 Pillows - Other Donated items - 74 Bags and totes - Garments (sewn and cochet) - 1 Balls of yarn used - 57 Other items - 5 My goals for December are: - make placemats for my brother - placemats for my nephew - make 80 Christmas postcards - this is the most important goal - work on the blue quilt - quilt 6 veterans quilt - quilt a quilt for Kim - start quilting the Red Sunset quilt - dye beach towels for Christmas gifts - make some pet beds for donation to get rid of a bunch of batting scraps - make some birthday cards |
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I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here. Categories
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