Knit - Yes, I Have Finished A Knit Project!

Give myself a pat on the back. I finished another knit project. What is that three in the past year.lol This is the second scarf that I have knitted with the hand spun Apple Blossom fiber that I purchased from Wildcraft. I doubled stranded this with some hand spun whiter Merino. It's just a simple garter stitch pattern. It was quick and easy. That's all that I have of the Apple Blossom. I do still have the Coast colorway fiber that I purchased from Wildcraft and am anxious to spin this lovely fiber.

Looks like I've been tagged.Thank you, Jan for thinking of me. My friend Jan from Jan's Musings is the tagger. I'm supposed to list eight things about myself and then tag others. Lately when I get tagged I do the list and then I choose the required number of blogs to tag except I don't usually tag them. I list their sites so that you can visit and see their nice blogs.

1. I love Burt's Bees lip balm. Can't do without.

2. My favorite colors are blue, pink and yellow.

3. I despise hot and humid summers.

4. I love cold winters.

5. I'm attempting to learn how to quilt.

6. I love to spin fiber.

7. I love color.

8. I love to drink water.

Below are some new blogs that I have discovered. Some of them are absolutely enchanting.
Some are French and I don't speak French. Their pictures say it all. It's interesting to see how much we have in common even though we don't speak the same language.

I think this new interest in quilting has also brought an interest in the old and vintage.
1. Hatched and Patched


2. Les Creations de Marie - Marypatch

3. Vivian In Stitches


4. Loving Stitches By Carol Jean


5. Not Martha


6. Dirt Therapy



7. Patchnath

8. Bienvenue Chez Zaza

Please do stop by and visit these blogs. I don't think you will be disappointed.

This is some lovely floral fabric that jumped into my shopping bag the other day. Don't know what I will do with it. I just enjoy looking at the colors.

This is a foot stool that belonged to my great Aunt Carrie. I've had it in my "wool room" for some time. I decided that it had been too dreary for too long. I found this lovely dragonfly fabric on sale at Hobby Lobby. I thought it would look nice on the foot stool. There is enough left over that I can cover my sewing machine stool that also once belonged to my great Aunt Carrie. She had a since of humor and I think she would like this bold, bright fabric.

I've also been drum carding . I'm a bit behind in the Ditty Batt category in my Etsy shop and need to get busy carding. I love the way you can take several fibers and various colors, run them through the carder and end up with something entirely different. I chose a white BFL, purple Merino, pink Merino and some generic blue and pink streaked wool. I'm going to call the finished product Heathered Lavender.

Before.
After.

Yesterday I loaded up the car with the backing, cotton batting and quilt top that my Memaw made and headed to the church. This project is too large to spread out on my dinning room table and I wanted to pin baste the "sandwich" so that I could get started on the hand stitching of the quilt. The church has some large tables great for pin basting. I don't think that I would be doing this if the quilt top hadn't been started by Memaw. I truly loved her and miss her very much. That's why it's so important to me that I be the one that finishes the quilt. One thing I learned from spinning and knitting is that I like the process. The end result is important but it's the process that I really enjoy. I could be very content with just knitting and spinning all the time. It doesn't bother me if I make a mistake in my knitting and have to rip it out and start all over. I'm afraid that I don't feel that way about quilting. I love the end result but not the process of getting there. In time that may change. I love the beautiful colors of quilts and I greatly admire quilters. I have developed a great appreciation for the work they do on quilts. It is not easy. I wonder how on earth our ancestors quilted without all the fancy quilting gadgets that we have that help us to quilt.


Must smooth out those wrinkles.

Ready to pin.



Almost finished.
Whew ! Finished. A pin basted quilt and an achy breaky back to go with it. See what I mean about the large tables at the church. BTW, If any of quilters out there recognize this pattern please let me know the name. I haven't been able to find the pattern in any quilt books so far.

The Peace Of Wild Things

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.

I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting

with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the

world, and am free.

Wendell Berry

Enjoy life.