Quick & Easy Baby Boots

 Hi all -

I hope everyone is doing well! It's crazy, but it's starting to feel like fall up here in the mountains. It's been getting down into the 50s at night. Haven't made it to the 30s yet, but it was just 40 degrees out when I got up one morning. The summer seemed long while we were in it, but now it seems like it went by in a wink!

My niece has her baby shower on Oct 11 so I realized that I need to get going on a gift! The quilt I'm making will be given. to them when I'm home at Christmas, so I need to come up with other gifts. I decided to start with a pair of knitted booties. The Quick & Easy Baby Boots designed by Teodora Agboola are a simple free pattern in Ravelry and I had to suggested yarn in my stash so I decided to try those.

Quick & Easy Baby Boots

These are easy to make because they are knit flat and then seamed along the back and the sole. They look okay, but not great. I have a couple of other baby patterns that I've found and I've ordered some yarn for those, so hopefully the yarn will come in time for the shower. If not, I've also picked up a book to include in the gift.

This was also the week my English Paper Piecing (EPP) group met. We had a lot of fun chatting and I was able to get a bunch of small triangles basted for my La Passacaglia quilt designed by Willyne Hammerstein.

La Passacaglia

I still have a few more to go and then I'll be ready to start adding them to the rosette.

I was also able to make a little progress on some of my other projects. I was able to add a couple of rows to my Scarfscape scarf designed by Laura Nelkin.

Scarfscape

Scarfscape - Close-Up

I do love how the color transition looks in the bias stitching of the main body! And it's fun to see how the lace border is coming along.

I also made some progress on my Kalme Throw designed by DeBrosse. 

Kalme Throw

It's not exciting to look at, but this is a great project to work on when I'm paying attention to something else. It's the same stitch over and over again so no counting or changes to worry about!

I also made a small amount of progress on my Daisy Flower embroidery.

Daisy Flower

It's hard to see the markings on the black fabric so I can only work on this project when the lighting is good. I don't really like how the butterfly turned out, but it won't be so noticeable when the rest of the embroidery is finished.

Well, that's it for this week.

Nancy