Leaving on a train....

Did I mention that my friend Diane and I are going on a yarn crawl?

Well we are headed to Chicago tomorrow, by train.

6 hours of uninterrupted knitting there.

Two days of shopping and knitting.

10 yarn shops down Michigan Avenue (near as we can figure) and 4 outlying. We're going to keep going as long as the cash holds out.

A nice dinner or two and ...

than another 6 hours back.

Bliss!

:) K

YIPEEEEEE

I GOT THE NEW JOB!!!

OB FT midnights

(Insert Happy Dance here)

:) K

Quilt #3

This is the third quilt top that I finished during our fest --

Fabric is about 4 years in the stash --- My last year of nursing school (05) - I went on my first (and only so far) "shop hop". I had purchased this with the intention of appliqueing a tea set onto solid fabric and than surrounding that with squares.

Didn't happen.

So, I unearthed this, cut strips of differing sizes (cream with flowers) and same sized black and joined. I'm going to bind with pink I think -- also from the stash.

5.5 less yards :)

K

More photos...

This quilt (actually finished when Joy was here) was my biggest "get rid of stuff".

The "nine patch" blocks were a collection made from scraps through the past few years that were sitting in the laundry room. The butterflies were cut with the intention of making a "butterfly" quilt at some point and I unearthed them while cleaning (moving things around) the workroom. The beige was intended to be a "flip-flop" quilt... which I will never get to.

So I combined the three. This cut down the stash/intended projects/started projects by THREE, which was such a good feeling. The quilt even came out looking quite nice for something just pulled together.

:) K

So, I finally have pictures.... (#1)

This is a kit that I purchased about 3 yrs ago. The 24 square blocks are stacked and than cut, shuffled, sewed together and cut again *repeat*.

I had cut and sewn the squares probably a year ago (at least) and there they languished. After Christmas I decided to get it together so I could send it back with Joy for quilting.

1 down.... (I'm not even willing to count the number yet) ___ to go

Karrie

P.S. It is AMAZING what an above 30 degree day will do to one's soul. It is "Springlike" in very loose terms, but who cares :)