Hi all -
Well, we had our first snow last night. We got about 2". It felt weird to shovel the front porch again! I have an appointment to get my winter tires put on tomorrow so I'll be ready for whatever decides to come next! We always hope for a lot of snow up here to help stave off the fires!
My biggest accomplishment this week was finishing my Modern Flowers baby quilt. I finished the quilting, added the binding and washed the quilt to get out the markings I used for the quilting.
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| Modern Flowers |
(Looking at the picture now, I probably should have trimmed a little more off of the left side of the quilt to center the applique better, but oh well....) I added a few more quilting motifs. The motifs are harder to see because of how the unquilted areas puff up after washing.
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| Modern Flowers - Unnamed Quilting Motif |
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| Modern Flowers - Paisley Leaves Quilting |
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| Modern Flowers - Simple Curls Quilting |
Here's the back of the finished quilt:
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| Modern Flowers - Back |
It's good to have this finished even though I'll be holding onto it until Christmas when I can gift the quilt in person (the baby is due in November).
To fill out my gift for the baby shower which is this Saturday, I also crocheted a Hearts Summerhat designed by KreaSoul designs to include in her shower gift. I wasn't sure what the yarn for this hat should feel like so I decided to order the same yarn that was used by the designer. Unfortunately, this yarn is only sold by the company that makes it and that company is in Denmark so I had to pay a 30% tariff and, even though the package was shipped immediately and made it to the US in no time, it sat in customs in Louisville, KY for over two weeks so I had to crochet the hat as quickly as possible. Luckily it was a quick pattern! I received the yarn on Monday afternoon and was able to finish the hat in time to take the gift to FedEx on Wednesday morning.
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| Hearts Summerhat |
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| Hearts Summerhat |
The yarn is a softer green than it appears in the pictures. I actually ended up making the hat twice since my gauge was too big when using the suggested hook. So I had to pull out what I'd done and start over with a smaller hook. But I really like the size it ended up being! My sister let me know that the package arrived at her house over the weekend so it will actually be there for the shower! This is exciting for me since the gift I sent for my great niece who was born last year was sent USPS and after it arrived at the Kansas City distribution center the post office sent it back to the Denver distribution center who then sent it back to KC so the package arrived the day after the shower even though it was mailed in plenty of time. I really want to support our USPS, but I've had such bad luck with them that I really can't anymore. Sorry for the rant.....
Finally, I made some more progress on my Kalme Throw designed by DeBrosse.
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| Kalme Throw |
The progress is slow on this, but I love to see it grow! Grace wanted to get in the photo, too, but the clothes line was too tall for her!
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| Grace Trying to Photobomb |
It's hard to believe that she'll be three years old in a couple of weeks! Boy, does the time fly!!
Nancy
