Last month saw the rediscovery of a crochet project that has been lingering for more than a year. Crochet Now magazine ran a Crochet A Long (CAL) called Vintage Sweethearts which was designed by Sandra Paul of Cherry Heart blog. Rather than have the yarn in a net bag I took the decision to work on this and with the longer evenings I have been steadily making crochet blocks of which the one above is in part 7 (I got up to part 6 before abandoning the project). I have since just finished the blocks in part 8 and made a start on part 9. As yet I haven't blocked the crochet blocks and sewn together, that's yet to come. I have seen a tutorial on YouTube by Helen of Crystals & Crochet about blocking acrylic yarn which has been useful and will at some stage get on with the blocking before sewing up. Much better to be a blanket than a pile of yarn sitting in a net bag!
So, part 8 is on the left and part 9 is on the right.
Back in September I went to a retreat in Shropshire (which I didn't blog about) and in a lucky dip bag amongst other things I had a fat quarter of a lovely fabric called Boho Forest with squirrels, bears and owls. Too nice to tuck away in stash so I made a folio with it.
The instructions came from Aneela Hoey's book of Stitched Sewing Organizers, which has been a useful resource for me this year. I used fabrics from my stash, picking out the colours of the Boho fabric = mainly the taupes, yellows and duck egg blues and appliquéd the bears on the remaining piece of the fat quarter. It will hold the book along with pattern pieces in one place. I have a couple of dressmaking books with patterns that have to be traced so there will probably be folios made for them too. I used basal interlining for the cover, which although soft made it heavy so next time I will probably make a quilted cover instead.
A few months a go I signed up to make blocks on a monthly basis for a Siblings Together quilt bee and the requirement was to make blocks of warm colours.
They've now been sent off to the Quilt Bee Mama - a collection of those should make a lovely bright quilt.
It wasn't that long since I went to a quilt show, but I went one in Basingstoke run by North Hampshire Quilters and also took the opportunity to visit my brother-in-law's just a short hop up the motorway after. They are a large group and their quilt styles are varied - from traditional to modern to contemporary. A small but enjoyable show
Next Monday will be my first visit to West Country Embroiders Poole branch, making Dorset buttons. I saw their exhibition back in September and made enquiries about joining, so see how that goes.
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