Lots of Twice As Nice Pouches

 Hi all -

I hope everyone is doing well. We're still in the middle of spring, with hot days intermixed with colder ones. We had some light snow last week. It was fun because I woke to bear tracks in the snow on my front porch. Looks like he was just walking by, taking no notice of the door and there was no damage to the car or shed so it was all good. I always wonder what goes on in the yard at night!

This week I mostly worked on the Twice As Nice Pouches designed by Aneela Hoey. I was able to finish five more pouches for my English Paper Piecing (EPP) group. This one is for a lady who loves bright colors:

Twice As Nice Pouch #1

This one is for a lady who is also a knitwear designer:

Twice As Nice Pouch #2

This one is for a lady who has a cat:

Twice As Nice Pouch #3

This one is for a lady who works at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum and loves quilt history. She works with a lot of reproduction fabrics. I've never seen her work with 30's reproductions, but that was all I had in my stash so I hope she likes it:

Twice As Nice Pouch #4

This one is for a lady who went birdwatching in the morning before our last meeting. The red fabric actually has faint chickens on it:

Twice As Nice Pouch #5

That's everyone that was at last month's meeting except for my close friend who got one of these bags from me for her birthday earlier this year and myself. I have fabric cut out for making one of these for me and I'm going to dig through my pattern stash to find a different bag to make for my friend. There are some other people in the group who often don't show up for the meetings. I'll probaby make a couple more of these bags, just in case, and then look at the email confirmations before the next meeting to see if I have enough. I don't mind having a few of these bags for myself and I could also give them to my sisters. And I have another close friend who has a birthday coming up next month so there might be one of these in her future, too.

I also made some progress on my La Passacaglia quilt designed by Willyne Hammerstein. I'm really getting excited about finishing this first bit rosette, but I still have a long way to go even with just this one:

La Passacaglia

This rosette still has another round of pentagons and then another round of stars before it is finished. But there are "only" three of the large rosettes in the quilt, then I can work on the smaller ones which will feel pretty speedy after these large ones!

Finally, I continue to make progress on my Peach Sorbet Throw designed by Janine Myska:

Peach Sorbet Throw

I was able to finish several repeats this week:

Peach Sorbet Throw - Weekly Progress

I just have a little over five more pattern repeats to go! (A repeat consists of one white stripe and one colored stripe, so four rows of crochet.) So, at this rate, I should have the body of the blanket finished either next week or the one following. Then we'll see how the border goes.

Nancy