Rough draft

I spoke to Ash this morning about my quilt. I was quite shocked at the abrasive tones she used with me when I told her I wasn't done. She said things like, "I think you should finish it" and "You should get it done". ALRIGHT ALREADY!! So...
It's 1:26am August 29th, 2009...I think. I have completed piecing my quilt (I hope). I will be going to the shop tomorrow (I guess it would be today) and getting it quilted!! It only took about 50 swear words to get it done, but I got there...I also yelled at Mac for telling me to come to bed. I might have told him, "he wasn't the boss of me!" (it's been a favorite comeback of mine since childhood).
Let me know what you think...or not. I heart all of you even "Manny" and Jennifer.

The 25th

Morning all. I had to smile this morning as I passed Heather driving up the street, expansive yawn on her face. It's so hard to say goodnight when you are having such a good time. When we stood to leave, Mel informed us that she just needed to finish one last row. Every row is the last row, (last one, I swear) I myself have stayed in the car a few minutes after my family has vacated just to finish up. Exciting news: we are in the process (pro-cess, pronounced Canadian style of course) of integrating two new people to the group. Samantha and Jenny although I am still toying with the nicknames of man or tha, and of course ever lengthening Jenny to Jennifer. Why? Because I can.




There are many beautiful projects in the works. This is a dress and elephant that Heather knit for a niece - so cute!



And this is the sweater that Mel is knitting for Libby - the pic doesn't do the lace work justice.



This is Catherine's commendable effort to get into the Genius Book of World Records by "going green" and using up all leftover skeins everywhere and knitting, almost exclusively, the basketweave stitch.



The treat last night was peach cobbler. Which was consequently also breakfast this morning. That, and Cheddar Sunchips (don't judge me). And Lori, you made my day by loving it.





Jenny and Samantha, welcome to the group.

And Lin, as always, you are missed.

The quilt

Spokane has changed me. I am a quilter now, or should I say piecer? I bought my first pattern, read it, got overwhelmed, and quit. It's invigorating!! I feel like I've been doing this for years!!
Seriously though, I did buy fabric and a pattern from Top Stitch (only in Spokane, sorry) and took it all home for a private lesson from a lady that works at the Quilting Bee.
Three hours and no further education later I sat down by Noah and watched Finding Nemo for the third time that day. That was the day I quit. Then the next morning I got up, ate a lemon bar and felt like I could try it again (maybe it was the sugar so early, but I had confidence again).
I went to Top Stitch and got help reading the pattern (still can't do without someone else breaking it down for me). I got all my fabric cut out and went home. Here is some of the pattern. It is REALLY EASY. I will post the pattern if anyone wants. Miss you all and love you!!

Someday

Is it wrong to want a really expensive iron when you would just use it for sewing and blocking knit pieces? http://www.oliso.com/iron/ There. I think I would feel better if other people wanted it too. Ash

Revelation

I have come up with the best plan. The next time I start a project I am going to do my swatch in a whole new way. A little thing I now call "the right way". I am going all out. That's right, knitting a FIVE inch square, washing AND blocking it. I probably won't want to do the project after I'm done but if I did it would probably end up actually being the size I wanted it to be. - Ash

Babies and knitting

It is amazing what you can accomplish when you work with a deadline and the project is for a friend. That is one thing that stands out in my mind from when we made Libby's scarf. We were all so focused and excited to pick out the yarn and stitches, and when we met we had something to work on. I think Daniel looks so cute in his new outfit. Thank you again so much. Gid loves the elephant. Now I just need to finish Daniel's sweater and I will be able to justify more yarn purchases. Although I already have yarn for the next sweater I want to knit. Just trying to stay one step ahead of the game. -Ash