A Finished Project - well my bit

Here is my completed quilted square for the charity quilt. Thank you to J. for doing the dull bits like cutting out and pinning and all the help and teaching - I would not have known where to start - nothing like doing the hexagons of my youth. My 'homework' was handed in last week so my bit is complete but the hard work starts for the lady putting them all together I guess. Not sure if I will be doing any more - well certainly not for some time, until I have completed some of my other projects.

Quilting Challenge

The lady who owns the shop where we have our needlework group twice per month is organizing the making of a quilt to be raffled for charity. She has asked people to make up a quilting square and these will then be joined together to make a quilt.

As it is for a good cause I naturally volunteered even though it seemed a far cry from the patchwork hexagons I did many years ago. So at the last get together I choose my (simple) square and fabric. My friend J. offered to help me with it. Here is the pattern, instructions and fabric before I set off this afternoon to J's to make my square.

Back later with the completed square.

Shopping!!

Here is one of the purchases from the Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate last November. Still got to learn to crochet well enough to do it justice though :-(
Also made another purchase but I don't seem to have a photograph of it - probably because it had to be posted on to me.
Seem to be showing more posts of items purchased than actual projects in progress or completed - so off to continue knitting so that I can have something completed soon.

2015 Resolution Update

Well it is that time of year to check how I got on with last year's resolutions:-

 

 1.To complete a project each month.

 Well I made a good start but then fell by the wayside. I completed:-

1. Jan - the house for Age UK;
2. Feb - Advent socks and mitts;
3. Mar - Slippers;
4. June - Vintage 'Scarf;'
5. Dec - Christmas Bauble.

2. To learn to crochet

 I did make a start on crochet and managed to do 3 rather dodgy squares.

 

3. To be able to crochet well enough to use the beautiful wool for that which it is intended.

Nothing done on this resolution as my progress with crochet is nowhere near good enough to make a good job with the beautiful wool :-(

Back later this week with this year's resolutions! :-)

Finished Christmas Project - well half

This project has been on the go for some years now and actually it was not that difficult - the tricky bit was getting the hole through the centre. It is one a two bauble kit I bought some years ago when I first went to a needlework show at the Harrogate Showground.  Well I finished this on New Year's Eve - what you do obviously when you get to a certain age and don't go to parties anymore!

The other one it says is easier as the fabric is thinner, well thinner than the velvet, but the section are curved so I need to sit down and read the instructions of how to get the shape correct - I am hoping this is actually scarier than doing the craft itself.

Remember This

Time to finish some projects. Started the sleeve of the jumper after some confusion over the needles. The pattern says to do it on 3.5mm whereas the back and front are on 4mm. For starters we don't have 3.5mm. Anyway going with the same as the back so that it doesn't look different.
It has been unpicked several times already to try and sort the pattern and the increases :-(So must get back to it so it looks like I have made some progress this weekend.

Yet More Purchases

Here is one of my purchases from the Bakewell Wool Gathering last weekend. For beginner to intermediate crochet skills - I think the lady was too kind - I can't imagine that I am anywhere near intermediate, but we'll see.
So far I have resisted the temptation to start them as I am going to practice first.The picture is a bit small but it is Owl Bunting - quite cute. The plan is to hang them underneath my map of 100 Aker Wood - yes really.
It seems ages ago since I finished a project so I'll keep this post short so that I can continue with a project - the other purchase from last week which I did not resist from starting.