First Jungle Magnolia Fabric Pack Received

 Hi all -

Spring continues to move in here. We had a cold, snowy week last week although we didn't get much snow on the ground. I'll continue to hope for more! This week promises to be warm and sunny. I will certainly enjoy it!

We got our first fabric pack for the Jungle Magnolia BOM designed by Judy Niemeyer.

Jungle Magnolia - Month 1 Fabric

The pack included all of the fabric for this month along with another little Judy Niemeyer pattern that we can use for learning the technique. I'm a jump in kinda gal so I put the little pattern aside and did the set up cutting for our BOM.

Jungle Magnolia - Fabric Prep

There is a video class that goes along with the BOM and we haven't gotten the first sewing video yet so I stopped here for now. The beginning of this BOM has been a bit frustrating. The first fabric pack was sent out a week late because some of the fabric was late getting to the shop. This I completely understand. When they announced that the fabric would be a bit late, they also said that the video would also be late. But since then, there has been no communication about when the video will become available. We were also supposed to have our first Q&A zoom session last Saturday according to the initial schedule, without a time specified. But that was presumably delayed also (although they never said that) and, again, there has been no word about when it will happen. So it's really hard to plan! I also noticed when I was doing the initial cutting that there was an error in the instructions included with the fabric. I posted a question about that on the BOM forum asking the store to verify that it was a mistake and that my fix was correct, but they have never responded to that. I'm getting afraid that this BOM is a bit too much for the shop, but I'm going to try to be patient. Hopefully they'll get it together for the rest of the project! I'll probably go ahead and start working on the sewing using the pattern instructions since I want to get moving on this.

I also continue to make progress on. my Peach Sorbet Throw designed by Janine Myska.

Peach Sorbet Throw

I'm making good progress on this project! It's a nice, mindless project to do while watching TV in the evening.

This weekend I decided to finish up a couple of projects that have been languishing. The first was my Verba Top designed by Victoria Chaplina. For this top, I just needed to pick up stitches around the neckline and the armholes and finish them off with an I-cord bind off. 

Verba Top

I was dreading doing this part because I'm not good at picking up stitches yet and this yarn is really hard to manipulate. The yarn is actually made of paper, cotton and silk. It has no stretch and does not slide smoothly against itself. The yarn is also flat with a thin string wound around it. Very weird! Bit I did it! I look forward to wearing this this summer! The yarn should make it really cool and it's very light. I think it'll be wonderfully soft after it's washed, but I'll wait on the washing until I wear it a couple of times, just in case....

Finally, I picked up my Festival of Stitches shawl designed by Lisa Hannes. I had finished the knitting on this shawl and just needed to sew in the ends, block it and add a tassel. I had set it aside and completely forgotten about it. I found it again this weekend while looking through projects and was able to finish it up.

Festival of Stitches

This is my first tassel and I'll have to see how I like it. If it gets in the way I'll just remove it, but I do think it's kind of fun.

Nancy