It was nice to ease back into work with a day at the office yesterday followed by a late shift today. That means of course that I have time to play this morning, though after the few days I just had I also need to spend a lot of time with the rowing machine!
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So whats in store? A colleague of mine was having a turf out and thought I might like some of her knitting failures. There were one or two items which went straight into the charity shop, complete with needles, pattern the lot! Others no longer had a pattern and, well I just unravelled them and put the yarn into the charity bag. There is still a bag full to sort out, I'll do that another day.
This one caught my eye though. I'll make this one up, I happen to know of a young man who just might like this, his mum will too!
The pattern was in the bag along with the Merino, and yesterday I popped up to the crafty shop in my lunch hour and grabbed that ball of Funky Fur for a collar.
That ball there, bottom right hand side!*
I've also pulled one of the BOM projects back out. I choose Christmas Wishes because, well just because.
I plan today to make up all the published blocks, then I can stitch then at my leisure. I'll need to dig out some green Christmas fabric though. I'm sure I have some.
I plan today to make up all the published blocks, then I can stitch then at my leisure. I'll need to dig out some green Christmas fabric though. I'm sure I have some.*
Thanks to Chookyblue and her post asking if we use a quarter inch foot, I finally got around to buying one, I've been eyeballing my seams up to now! So I'll have a play with that while I put my blocks together this morning. Do you have a quarter inch foot? Do you use it?
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I'm blogging my way through valuable sewing time, besides the washing machine has finished, til next time......
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Gratitude's
1) Time to play.
2) Generous friends.
3) Time spent with Hunney.
5 comments:
The little jacket should be a quick and fun project.
Yes, I have a quarter inch foot and use it all the time (well, whenever I'm doing a quarter inch seam, anyway). I did find it wasn't exactly a quarter inch, so just fiddled with the needle position until the setting was perfect. I wouldn't be without it.
That's a lovely little jacket
Yes, I use a quarter inch foot, that way my seams are the same size on all blocks, or at least very close.
Hi Loulee, it's a small world! One of my friends is doing that BOM! She is really enjoying it too. If you want to see her progress, she is here:
http://stitchtodayresttomorrow.blogspot.com/
HI Loulee,
I love my quarter inch foot- I use it all the time when I am piecing- it just makes it so much easier to be accurate( or close to it).
I am sure you will love it too.
Happy weekend!
Anna
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