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Kitty is sitting on its green cushion but I haven't finished its tail yet. I'm close.
I finished the third block of the needlepoint project and started the fourth.
I was worried about running out of certain colors and was very happy when this order turned out to work perfectly with the old vintage yarn in the kit.
Dear Jane didn't see any action this week because of all the quilting drama going on in the sewing room with the Zig Zag quilt but I did finish another block on the Patchwork quilt and will start this one this week. Five more to go. As long as I don't run out of Datelines, I don't care how long it takes to finish. On most days, it's the best part of my day.
My plan for surviving the remainder of these horribly hot muggy, buggy days is to get ready for fall. I see two cabled hats and two pairs of socks in fall colors coming my way-with project bags to match.
I had a lot of decisions to make this week. I needed to start thinking about backing for the Zig Zag quilt. I hate thinking about backing. Even a small quilt like this one takes a lot of fabric and fabric isn't cheap anymore.
The designer's quilt calls for giant orange rick rack. I wanted to skip that so I bought some orange yardage to add a skinny border before I add the last yellow floral panels.
The binding material that was included with the kit is gold so I went with a yellow backing. It all arrived within days of ordering so I'll be at work today assembling all this. I doubt I'll get to putting together the sandwich mainly because The Mister still has a puzzle on the big dining room table that I need to lay it all out on. He's almost done but I'm really not in a hurry. That's always my least favorite part of the process.
August was a big month for birthdays when we had a house full of kids. This was from 1987. We have two birthdays on the 8th and one on the 9th. Look at all those cakes.
First up was Middle Son. The Little Girl in the first photo is The Mister's oldest from his first marriage. They share the same day.
This is Daughter on her first birthday. Her big day is tomorrow. All of my kids are floating around in their mid or late 40's now. Ouf.
You can tell how much I really got into these things back then. I miss all those kids. I miss all that cake.
Unlike the men's Tour that starts at dawn, the women's Tour doesn't start until 9:45 every morning. It's been nice being able to get the chores done before I sit down in front of the wheel and watch. This week I got the purple finished so my pastel minis are done. I have no idea what to do with them at the moment but I'm sure something will come to me.
The remainder of the fiber I was spinning on the drop spindles during the men's Tour is now on the wheel. I gave up using the spindles because the fiber was very snarly. It wasn't drafting very well and I was over fighting with it.
The shorter broadcast of the ladies event doesn't give me much time so I spend most of it knitting with handspun instead of making more. That's the second Wonky Thermal Mitt being worked on and another pi shawl made from some Polwarth I spun in 2015. I had dyed it myself and called it Unicorn Barf. It's certainly an eye full but it's been fun to work with.
I know it was just a few days ago when I said I was going to weave this towel no matter what but I should have known better. Look at this mess.
Once again I am re-threading all those heddles in hopes of getting it right this time.
I had started weaving my last try when I noticed THREE issues that had to be dealt with but this time I think I finally figured out what I've been doing wrong. These are heddles. They are on four metal bars. They are all squished together in one corner and what I've been doing is mixing up the second and third bar. It's easy to do especially in dim light. Now I'm making visual confirmation of which bar the heddle came from before I move on to the next.
Only other weavers will understand this but I had already removed the lease sticks meaning it's a free for all in the back. I have to pick up one color at a time, put it in the order the way it comes off the back beam and then clip it with this Ikea bag clip to hold all the strands in place while I run around to the front and thread it. Whew. It's slow. It's fiddly but so far I'm not minding. It's too hot to be doing anything else and all that bending over and running around has got to be good exercise.
The Uneek socks are finished. The colors are gorgeous but the yarn itself is weirdly plied. It reminds me of string in that it has a core rather than a true twist. These won't be going in the gift box. These pretties are all mine, mine, mine in spite of having so many socks I can't fit anymore in the drawer.
Chestnut's body is almost finished. I won't worry about the 3 needle bind off or the arm steeks until I get the sleeves done. I've started the August panel on the Doodle Cowl. Both of these projects are a nasty lap full of wool on a hot day so I'm not spending much time with either of them at the moment.
I am enjoying picking up the Stroll Pi Shawl. It's been getting me through some tense TV time. House of Dragons...I'm looking at you.
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