Stars and Camouflage Quilt

He said the front of the quilt could be anything but he wanted the back to be digital army camouflage. Because I couldn't decide what to do for the front, this grandchild has been waiting a year for his camouflage quilt.
I have a box of pieced red, white and blue 10.5" star blocks. So I pulled and sewed together 48 of them for the quilt top.
It looks good all quilted with horizontal wavy lines. The binding is dark red. After a round in the washer and dryer, it finished a little over 80" x 60".
I'll be making more red, white and blue stars for future star quilts. I still want to make one for his father. Hopefully with no camo.

Tori and Hannah Knit

Tori and Hannah learned to Cast On, Knit Stitch, and Cast Off. Hannah started a dish cloth and Tori started a second small knitted square. They left for home this afternoon with bamboo knitting needles and yarn. Hannah was also able to make a couple Valentine hot pads/mug rugs. It was a fun weekend :)

2013 Rainbow Scrap Challenge, February, Purple, Week 2

It's been another fun week playing with purple scraps. Pictured are four 8.5" pieced blocks, a covered note pad, ten tumblers, and several 2.5" squares.
Also in the picture is my latest knitting adventure, a dish cloth. I'll try it out this weekend :)
To see what others made with their purple scraps this week, go here Saturday morning.

Bee In My Bonnet Row Along, Row 11, Spools

Fourteen little spools only 3.5" tall unfinished. I am enjoying this Row Along : )

Last Knitting Class

Sadly my forth and last knitting class was this morning. I've had a great time learning to knit. Today we learned and practiced cable front and cable back stitches. Last week we practiced rice stitches. We learned how to increase stitches, decrease stitches and made eyelets. Unfortunately on the drive home, I forgot how to make eyelets! I found some YouTube video clips of people demonstrating how to make dish cloths with eyelets and made a miniature dish cloth. Success!
There were four of us in the class. A good size. Our teacher was wonderful! We learned to knit some basic stitches and how to read very easy patterns. She encouraged us to start with some small projects like dish cloths.
I bought some cotton yarn and can't wait to make some dish cloths. Yah  : D

2013 Rainbow Scrap Challenge, February, Purple, Week 1

I love purple and have a lot of purple crumbs, skinny strips and scraps. I pieced four 8.5" purple blocks to add to my 8.5" block collection. And I cut ten 5" tumblers and several 2.5" squares for my collections of those. The two purple pot holders were made from crumbs and skinny strings scraps. The back of one is an orphan block. This made a small dent in my purple scrap box.
To see what others have made with their purple scraps, go here Saturday morning.

Knitting Classes and a Dish Cloth

Purple yarn projects are stitches learned in the first three knitting classes. Love the bamboo needles. Adding, decreasing and eyelets were taught in the last class on Monday morning and I'm very fuzzy on those. Made a couple small pink squares for practice.
Instead of practicing the new Monday morning stitches, which I can't remember anyway, I just had to MAKE something. So I pulled out some old cotton pink variegated yard and some number 8 metal knitting needles and knitted a simple dish cloth. Note the triangles in the design. I planned ahead to make that happen. NOT! Ha Ha.
I'm putting that little pink dish cloth to work today on some dishes.
See me smile : )