(Aug 16)
My fall knitting is all about hats and the Sisterhood blanket. LOL! That's what Jamie and I are calling the pinwheel blanket we're co-knitting right now. I knit and finished a pinwheel blanket earlier this year and had so much fun doing it I convinced Jamie to repurpose some yarn she bought for a pattern she wasn't enjoying. She started it, I bought more to augment it and because I need exactly zero more blankets and just like to knit, she and I are combining forces to work on a Sisterhood (of the traveling) blanket project. Get it...like the books....
(Aug 17)
I knit these two hats for the girls in prep for the winter months. Plus they are perfect projects for traveling - and I've got a handful of trips this fall. Houston, Nashville and Portland, Maine so having projects that are small enough to fit in my travel bag is key!
(Aug 19)
(Aug 20)
I have no idea how many blocks we'll get out of the random assortment of yarn we're pooling together but I'm guessing we'll have enough to make two blankets in the end. It'll be fun to see how this scrap project comes together.
(Sept 13)
(Sept 26)
As school activities ramp up and the cooler weather comes in I start finding time to quilt and I am so excited to start this one. Its so wild but the colors are vibrant and fun and I can't wait to see how it comes together. This is the first of three kits I bought from a new company called Then Came June. I stumbled onto her account, maybe through Instagram, earlier this year and I couldn't help but snap up a few kits she had posted. I knew it would be awhile until I'd get to them, but I can't wait to see how they come out. I anticipate I'll become a repeat customer to this shop! I love everything she has posted and the explosion of color is exactly my favorite thing!
(Sept 27)
Quilting doesn't travel well so having two projects or more going at once is pretty common for me. Mom bought this kit from Susan Bates - it's the Shenandoah National Park hat and its fall colors are prefect for wearing right now! These hats knit up fast and I wanted to get it to Mom so she could wear it this fall.
(Sept 28)
This pattern specifically has a ton of different colors and a lot of color work, which is fun after working on the more simple pinwheel blanket I'm doing at the same time.
(Sept 30)
On a flight to Maine and I swapped back in the pinwheel squares because they are less fiddly and having just two colors of yarn is easier to travel with!
(Oct 1)
Back home again and finishing this up quick before Ryan and I head to Traverse City this weekend for our anniversary trip. Mom and Dad are watching the girls for us so I want to leave this for her as a thank you.
(Oct 2)
(Oct 4)
Gah! I am going to love this quilt so much! It's tricky - not for batch sewing. I've decided I have to work one block at a time, one step at a time. I had to unpick a lot of stitches in this block but now that I've got one done I think I've got the hang of it and they'll go quicker. There are 9 total blocks in this quilt and I can do a single block in a few hours of sewing. It's one of the more complicated quilts I've done between the sewing and the color work so I'm going to go slow and steady and I can't wait to see how it comes together.
The sisterhood blanket is coming along nicely!
(Oct 9)
Anniversary weekend knitting in Traverse City....
(Oct 14)
(Oct 27)
(Nov 1)
(Nov 8)
The black and white is the backing - this ones is ready to head to the quilter and I can not wait to gift this one. I won't send this off until early Feb probably, I'll pull together 2 or 3 more before then and send over a big batch of quilts for next year. I'm trying to build up enough that I can do some bulk gifting over the next couple of years. I want to give all the Murphy aunts and McGrath aunts quilts along with some of Mom and Dad's friends I grew up with but it seems like I can't give out one without having one for everyone so that's my current goal. It'll mean 8-12 quilts in total, an undertaking for sure!
(Nov 11)
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