We are on another road trip, this time from Seattle to Denver. We'll stay a week in Denver then return home. On the trip over, I knitted up a storm. I finished two bags, a pair of socks, and nearly finished a Christmas theme doll I call Elfie. All she needs is a skirt and she is also complete.
While I am here, I am working on the quilt. I just couldn't decide how to cut the rainbow pieces, and I finally decided that I couldn't tell how it would look until I did it. So, I DID IT. I cut the pieces and laid them out on a table. It is going to be okay, maybe even fine.
I realize that my goals are often much to grandiose. But sometimes, I do achieve them. My goal for this week is to get all the rainbow sewed together, then to add the "city" and sky pieces needed to complete the center of the top.
That seems pretty ambitious, but I might be able to so it.
Carry on!!!
Monday, November 15, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Update Slogging on
So remember my goal was to get the rainbow quilt top finished. So I have the fabric all cut even, (note to self, check to see what last blog says), and in one place. And this whole week, I have done . . . . . . NOTHING on it.
Nick mentioned that I was using the entire top of the stereo cabinet for my handspun yarn display and he didn't have any room for his "stuff". So Thursday, I got up with great intentions of working on the quilt-top, but first cleared off all the yarn from the top of the cabinet and from the back of the sofa.
I have had it in mind for several weeks, even a note on my fiber notebook, to check through the handspun to make sure it is all recorded properly, both in the fiber book and in my Ravelry stash.
Before I got started with that check though, I took some cotton yarn, and crocheted a bowl, kind of open. Remember Macrame! Not quite that, but close. I made it the size of the popcorn bowl that I usually use for storing the handspun, and even blocked it over the bowl. I washed it and soaked it in starch. I used the 50-50 formula, half starch and half water, and later realized I should have used all starch. Then I stretched it out over the bowl to dry. My plan is to make two of these bowls (same size??, graduated??) and use a fabric bowl (which I also starched) and create a hanging basket trio, one on top of the other, to hold my fiber. The basket I crocheted is very open. The sides are like a market basket, just chains attached about every four or five stitches, so the handspun will show through the holes. It is really cute. Only took three or four hours, another hour or so to muck about with the starching and the fabric bowl, and it was midafternoon. Too late for a walk and I still wanted to sort through the handspun and compare it to the Ravelry stash and the fiber notebook.
That was finished up in plenty of time to watch Jeopardy. Nick made dinner (if you can call heating up a frozen concoction "making" dinner, but it was good, and the kind I like that he is not so fond of - spinach, need I say more.)
Today, Friday, is my day to go to the kids, but since they are in school til 2:30 I don't have to leave until noon or one pm. So I cleaned up the kitchen, made Welch Cakes, cleaned up some more, unloaded clean dished from the dishwasher, put dirty ones in. I also washed my over 400 yards of three ply yarn I finished Thursday, and a medium single I really like and think I will keep as a single. I restarched the crocheted bowl to see if I could make it even stiffer. I do want it to stand up by itself, although now I am considering using a wire coat hanger to make a collar for it to hand from. I'm not sure now. By the time I got all this done, I barely had time to shower and leave for the kids. I did take the time to swing by the library on my way, but arrived at 2:15, so pretty close to time to walk over to school to get Smiley.
I describe this to show that I am doing a lot of stuff, but just not the thing I tell myself is high on the critical list. I mean, I want to keep the kitchen clean. I really wanted to finish the two yarns. Having an attractive and useful place to store the yarn is a very good thing. Keeping Ravelry stash and my fiber notebook accurate and up-to-date are critical to being organized about my fiber and stash.
Or, are these just excuses to avoid working on the rainbow, which I am desparately afraid I won't like once it is done. I wish I knew.
Nick mentioned that I was using the entire top of the stereo cabinet for my handspun yarn display and he didn't have any room for his "stuff". So Thursday, I got up with great intentions of working on the quilt-top, but first cleared off all the yarn from the top of the cabinet and from the back of the sofa.
I have had it in mind for several weeks, even a note on my fiber notebook, to check through the handspun to make sure it is all recorded properly, both in the fiber book and in my Ravelry stash.
Before I got started with that check though, I took some cotton yarn, and crocheted a bowl, kind of open. Remember Macrame! Not quite that, but close. I made it the size of the popcorn bowl that I usually use for storing the handspun, and even blocked it over the bowl. I washed it and soaked it in starch. I used the 50-50 formula, half starch and half water, and later realized I should have used all starch. Then I stretched it out over the bowl to dry. My plan is to make two of these bowls (same size??, graduated??) and use a fabric bowl (which I also starched) and create a hanging basket trio, one on top of the other, to hold my fiber. The basket I crocheted is very open. The sides are like a market basket, just chains attached about every four or five stitches, so the handspun will show through the holes. It is really cute. Only took three or four hours, another hour or so to muck about with the starching and the fabric bowl, and it was midafternoon. Too late for a walk and I still wanted to sort through the handspun and compare it to the Ravelry stash and the fiber notebook.
That was finished up in plenty of time to watch Jeopardy. Nick made dinner (if you can call heating up a frozen concoction "making" dinner, but it was good, and the kind I like that he is not so fond of - spinach, need I say more.)
Today, Friday, is my day to go to the kids, but since they are in school til 2:30 I don't have to leave until noon or one pm. So I cleaned up the kitchen, made Welch Cakes, cleaned up some more, unloaded clean dished from the dishwasher, put dirty ones in. I also washed my over 400 yards of three ply yarn I finished Thursday, and a medium single I really like and think I will keep as a single. I restarched the crocheted bowl to see if I could make it even stiffer. I do want it to stand up by itself, although now I am considering using a wire coat hanger to make a collar for it to hand from. I'm not sure now. By the time I got all this done, I barely had time to shower and leave for the kids. I did take the time to swing by the library on my way, but arrived at 2:15, so pretty close to time to walk over to school to get Smiley.
I describe this to show that I am doing a lot of stuff, but just not the thing I tell myself is high on the critical list. I mean, I want to keep the kitchen clean. I really wanted to finish the two yarns. Having an attractive and useful place to store the yarn is a very good thing. Keeping Ravelry stash and my fiber notebook accurate and up-to-date are critical to being organized about my fiber and stash.
Or, are these just excuses to avoid working on the rainbow, which I am desparately afraid I won't like once it is done. I wish I knew.
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