September Furtling

Autumn has arrived and October is here.

The picture above is of a toadstool embroidery from last autumn's Craftpod box which I've used as this month's monthly marker.  

Not much done and a lot of works in progress in September as the chance to socialise and enjoy the last gasp of summer, which turned suddenly autumnal and colder in the past few days.  Groups have started meeting up again and making the most of getting out and about while we can.

During last month I actually went to the theatre! Last year in May a group of us were due to go to The Lighthouse in Poole to see Pam Ayres, which of course was postponed and took place at the beginning of September.  She was very entertaining speaking about her trips, tours and family with her verses too and a refreshing change to go for an evening out with friends.

Right, now onto the makes in progress, so not many finishes here (boooo).

I have made progress on the kaleidoscope blocks, which have gone from 5 to 8 and now the difficult decision of how to arrange the blocks, or make into a 9 patch with a small square of the original pink fabric.  I've got quite a bit of this pink, with the square holes cut out, but not a lot of the black, so another fabric may have to be worked into this.

I sometimes make quilts for our local Project Linus group and quite often the ladies make up fabric packs to sew together.  Because they haven't been able to fundraise there hasn't been any fleece backing to go with the quilt tops, so I've been buying fleece from Fabric Land to go with them.  I've finished one quilt and just finishing off the other one.

Quite interesting fabrics for the large squares and the four patches.  The tops didn't take long to sew up, nice and simple.  

The West Country Embroidery group had an in-house workshop for the first time this year.  It was Italian corded quilting. Here's my sample worked on dyed blue fabric.  Not sure at this stage if it will be incorporated in anything.

As for the knitting and crochet I am working on two projects at the nearly finished stage. One is another bobble cardigan, like the one in last month's Furtle that I made for Cecily, here. This time a larger size for Flo, as she started pre-school and will need layers of clothing. I like this pattern although the knitting is tight when joining the sleeves to the body until a few rows are worked for the yoke.

This is knitted in Stylecraft Special DK in Sage with Cornish Blue bobbles.  The rows with bobbles on the yoke will be in the blue plus a couple of other colours from stash.  The Cornish Blue will make a second cardigan. 

I am almost finished my Summerdown top, which I've knitted in King Cole Bamboo Cotton DK in Denim.  I've just got to seam the underarms and knit the rib cuff on the sleeves.  I enjoyed the pattern but not the yarn.  It's drapey, but it also splits and slips off the needles easily.  I'm hoping it might wash and block well.  The pattern is by The Woolly Badger . 

September also saw the release of the latest crochet blanket pattern by Lucy of Attic 24 and I succumbed. An order put into Wool Warehouse on the day of release, it arrived in the post the next day!  Its the Yuletide blanket, in warm, festive colours. 

And this is how far I've got, row 19 of 78 rows (plus there will be 7 rows of border.

It hasn't got a home yet, as I like the blankets to have a home to go to, otherwise ours would be taken over by crochet blankets.  I enjoyed Lucy's posts about the progress and the colour choices in the design of this blanket.  As it grows it will be lovely and warm to work on in the evenings.

I've recently taken up paper crafting and making Artist Trading Cards as part of an online swap.  The latest was memories and I made this.  I had a small piece of the flowery paper and added a few elements of a die cut decoupage set on top.  The butterfly was supposed to be on top of the lily but it looked better being on the bottom corner.

In that swap I was send this by Pam 

It was appropriate that the post mark on the envelope said "Send a Card, Deliver a Smile for Thinking of You Week.  20th - 26th September 2021.

So that was September.  I'm linking with Archie the Wonder Dog with Mini Archie's Furtle Around the Blogosphere