We've been home a few weekends in a row lately and it's done wonders for my crafting! I feel like I'm getting back in the groove after a long summer of creating very little craft wise. Up first, my second National Park hat - Glacier. Isn't it so pretty? I really like this one!
I also logged a few plane rides over the last two months (work has been wild) and you know what's a great thing to do while you are sitting on a plane? Knitting. What's not so great? Colorwork knitting which means you are holding a handful of different colors of yarn (and, in one case, I dropped a ball and it rolled, all the way down the aisle, to the way back of the plane and every person in every row behind me had to then roll up my yarn a little bit and hand it forward - it was quite the entertainment!).
This second hat was for Denali and proved much more difficult than the other's I've knit. I pulled it back three times until I got the green floats right. I'm glad I did, but this one cost me much longer than needed to get it knit up.
Next up, I finally got the binding on three similar quilts I shared earlier this year. There are three total quilts here, two in the exact same color way - just different backing, binding and quilting patterns. One of the pastel rainbow ones is already headed out to Baby Ivy - Sam and Juan's new baby that was born a few months ago. I missed getting it done before she arrived, but having it in the end is all that matters.
Oh, and, I started a new cowl pattern too. It's knit out of the finest yarn I've ever worked with and on the smallest needles I've ever used. These are a size one. The smallest I'd knit with before this is a size 3, for a lap blanket and let me just tell you, that that puppy took FOREVER to knit because of the small needle size. I expect this cowl to be slow going, but isn't that yard beautiful? It has the most beautiful deep gemstone color and maybe my favorite part is the little flecks of blue and dark purple throughout. I think this is going to be really beautiful when it's finished.
This third quilt is the same pattern but a much more vivid. I don't know who this quilt is going to just yet, but I think it could be used for an adult or a baby. I like having a finished quilt or two on hand for gifting when I don't have a 6 month turn around time. I've so enjoyed making this pattern that I've made a total of 4 of these at this point and I might keep making more. They come together pretty quickly, especially when you can find a pre-cut jelly roll in a fabric you like.
The backing on this one is my favorite of all three. The colors in in complement the front and I just love all the bright pink.
I'm reluctant to hit post on my "Fall craft" post in mid-October, there's still a lot of Fall left in the year, but, with 6 total projects in this post, and that teeny tiny cowl on my needles, this might in fact be all the things I finish this fall.
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