End of October 👻

 No ghostly goings on here, just quietly going about things and crafting.

I’ve spent the past few days making squares which will become zippy pouches.  Mainly sew and flip strips  onto wadding and fabric background square bases. It’s using up scraps of strippy pieces and making a bit more room in my scrap box.  

I’ve even used some scrap pieces of wadding to make large pieces of ‘Franken-wadding’ below you can see how many pieces in one square. I just overlap slightly and zigzag on the widest stitch to join together.  It’s good enough for small projects and uses up waste wadding pieces. My friend has kindly given me some zips to help get the pouches done.

This month I finished of a Project Linus quilt with a sea theme 

And finished the quilt top of another quilt. That’ll probably be layered and quilted this weekend. This is another boys quilt, this time with sports gear.

The Project Linus group supply the kits to make the quilts which are ready to sew so returning the completed quilt back next month.

There has been some knitting done as my granddaughter requested some mittens because she lost her gloves. This is a Sirdar pattern from the book of accessories featuring gloves and socks.

I’ve also been knitting a pair of socks taking part in Sockoween and found that some yarn I bought at Yarndale back in 2022 had autumnal colours and I matched that with a mini skein I bought as part of a set at the same festival this year. The first sock is below and with the second sock I’ve just got past the heel and picked up the stitches for the instep decreases after working the heel.  The pattern used are the Incantation socks by Kay Jones of The Bakery Bears here

I’ve also been working on the Yorkshire Blanket CAL. I started this late on and the CAL is approaching the end with the joining the blocks together with contrasting yarn. I’m probably not going to finish this before Christmas, but that’s ok. We’ve got plenty of crochet blankets, but this pattern is more about the learning of new techniques to me rather than a race to get a blanket done. I’ve made 9 blocks of the 12 different designs so far. There are meant to be 2 of each block, so there’s 15 blocks to do, which may take me to the end of year (at least).

In my previous post I did some paper crafting, and there’s more detail here

I hope for November to get some finishes.  The socks, the pouches, and the Linus quilt top at least. Looking forward to next month.