March's Furtling

March started busy and ended up a bit blurgh as I can't seem to settle to anything. Doing a bit of this and that to keep my mind off things as much as I can.

In my last post there was a trip to Kent, which is here and a start of a new pair of socks, which is still first sock in progress - half way down the foot.  My standard go to pattern is Hermione's Everyday Sock by Erica Leuder although I may not necessary use the stitch pattern, but I like the Eye of Partridge heel turn on this.  I decided to do a rib pattern so its a skinnier sock than usual.  I used Crafternoon Treats yarn in Pistachio and my seemingly endless ball of West Yorkshire Spinners turquoise yarn for the cuff, heel and maybe toes (when I get there).

My cardigan, which I hoped to have finished has stalled as I try picking up the stitches for the front and keep getting the stitch count wrong, so that's pushed aside for the moment.

For sewing I made a Project Linus Quilt from a fabric pack I picked up to make a Disappearing Nine Patch quilt.  I bought the fleece just before the lockdown and it was end of a bolt too, so that was lucky.  This must be aimed at an older child as this was the biggest PL quilt I've sewn at 54" square.  Not sure when our local PL co-ordinators are going to get it, but it's packed in a bag ready.

I've made good progress on my mini quilt as there are now 7 half squares around the edge (though there are 6 in the photo below. Just the eighth to do now and a decision about how I 'square off' the quilt to to make into a mini quilt.  I had thought of not making it a quilt at all but to put into a square picture frame - any ideas??

One afternoon I got fed up with my knitting needles being in a utensil pot so I made a cover for it with strips of fabric from my scraps.  Fits like a glove and brightens up the yarn corner, see the before and after pics.

Another couple of small items I've made have been a small pouch from some hexies, so good to make something use out of them.  More about that here along with a fabric twine bowl that was also made this month.

I've been enjoying some embroidery recently, as I learnt about stump work, not as tricky as I thought, and made this little scissor case with seahorse at West Country Embroiderers.  I got in the groove and got the seahorse finished and scissor case done the next day!  One less UFO.  Perhaps small projects are the way to go at the moment.

Another bit of embroidery I've got into is #sew4thesoulhannemade which is a good pick up/put down project to do when I feel like it.  It is a long strip of wadding (I used a trimmed off piece from some quilting) and added fabrics pieces and stitches.

Some of the sewing last week was also taken up with plane spotting.  Apparently as main airports are closing Bournemouth Airport has become one of the local airports to park the planes that won't be going anywhere for a while.   Views from the sewing room window.

And below is a Jumbo Jet - I remember seeing those flying out from Heathrow Airport and looking as though they hung in the air back in the seventies.  They still look too heavy to go in the air, all these years later!  But I think there won't be any more planes coming in to land now, the skies are all quiet.

 So that was my March Furtle.  Joining in with Mini Archie's Furtle Around the Blogosphere.