A September Furtle

 I don’t know where the time goes and just like that we’re three quarters of the way through the year.  September seems like a sort of a new beginning, even though my work life never involved term times. The youngest grandchild has started school and one of the older ones has started college and it’s good to see them move on.

Anyway, this is about Furtling.   I’m pleased to say I have a finish *ta-da*.

The cross stitch crocus bowl. A long standing project that hibernated for years, that I wrote about last month but I’ve yet to get mount board and a frame to put it in (I guess that’ll be next month’s Furtle!).

And another finish- a pair of fingerless gloves.  The pattern is a favourite of mine, by Snapper Knits and is  called Fingerless or Not. The yarn is Zig Zag but I can’t find the yarn online so I think it’s a discontinued one.

I’ve started a new knitted project, which is a cardigan for my daughter.  I found today though I’ve been knitting on the wrong size circular needle, 3.75 instead of 4mm, so there will be some un-knitting 😕.  I’m using pink yarn that I used for Flo’s cardigan and Stylecraft pattern which I’ve used before. So I’ll just have to bite the bullet and redo the part that used the smaller needle.

Another project I started this month is making a pair of crochet socks.  So I’m on the first sock, which is crocheted from the toe up and turned the heel (took several attempts but got there) and finished the leg apart from doing the ribbing and that’s where I’m stuck.  I may do the second sock and get to the same point after which I will have to have the ribbing mastered. I’m using the remains of some West Yorkshire Spinner yarn from stash.  The pattern is from Inside Crochet magazine.  Ooh, just noticed that my knitting and crochet projects are very pink this month.

I haven’t done much sewing this month, other than the finish above. But I have been. Hand sewing some hexagons.  I have been taking part in #100hexagons100days2023 on Instagram (I’m @suewilduk), but I still have a lot of hexagons from when I took part back in 2019 that have been sitting in a fabric bowl.  So I’ve taken the decision to join them together and I think so far I have 11 flowers. Below is just a few of them.  Not sure what they will become yet.

Talking of the 100 hexagons, here are the last few weeks

Week 5 - Rainbow - I think this one is self explanatory. I placed them on a white with rainbow coloured background 

Week 6- Pawsome. Well I ran out of animal with paws so there were a couple with claws 

Week 7 - Love.  I thought I was going off-topic for this one with selecting some favourite fabrics, but the range of fabrics were by designer Beth Studley, and the selvedge of one of the fabrics was “love from Beth”. So it fitted the bill.

Week8 - I Spy. Apart from the little bit of Tula Pink in the pink purple fabric (which would have had a lot of hidden things) I couldn’t find much, but the foxes and the hidden text were good ones and I figured that the dinosaur bones would be hidden.

And lastly for this month is week 9 - Magic.  That wasn’t an easy topic, so I used some hexagons from a mini charm pack called Saturday to show from these little squares, they became hexagons, then joined together to eventually become part of a quilt. I think that’s magic.

The ATC theme this month was Autumn, so I made a fabric one to illustrate Pumpkins, which are now quite visible in the fields. I padded out the orange pumpkin with a small piece of felt. I machine appliquéd the pumpkins and free machined the details and the word.  I meant to make another but didn’t get around to it.

I had some autumn leaves in return.

I’ve also been to a Kaffe Fassett exhibition in Bath earlier this week and the post about that is here.

So that’s my Furtle for this month. Looking forward to October and a bit of sorting out and de-stashing.  See how that goes. 

Meanwhile joining in with Mini Archie’s Furtle Around the Blogosphere.