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Winter weather

Knit & Crochet

Winter arrived early this year and my knitting lagged behind. I was able to get these items sent along to Calgary with their Hallowe’en package. I’m not certain who will wear what, or maybe they will mix them all up between them.

oct-25-1The green scarf used the left-over yarn from the sweater I made for Taylor. The pattern shows up better in the photo than it does in real life; I guess it needs some distance.

The blue toque is one of three sizes I made. The first one I made was too small and will be passed to the Salvation Army for their Christmas packages. After making one that I thought was the right size I made a third one; Pat says it looks good on me but I’m not so sure. If we don’t get some sunny and cool days between now and December I’ll pass it along to the Salvation Army as well.

The headband was an experiment that may or may not have worked out. I wasn’t sure what length to make it; it might be too large and will fall right off their heads. It seems a bit wide as well but it is knit using a seed stitch so easily altered.

 

 

 

UPDATE – November 9, 2016

mitts1-1The toque was a little small for Gavin so I’ve sent him the one I made for me; I don’t really need it in our weather.

Madison got the headband; I’ll make another a little smaller Emma.

Emma took the scarf and it fit just fine!

 

An almost free day

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

We had a full house for our concert last night. We try to limit our numbers to 30 but one or two regulars were added to the list at the last minute. When we set up our chairs we were at 32 so still not too bad. As the time for the show got near we had to add a couple more chairs which seemed odd but we assumed we had miscounted when we set them up. It wasn’t until Pat and our performers were sorting out the money that we realized there were two people who had paid but hadn’t been added to the list. It was only by good luck we realized this as one of the unaccounted-for guests knew the performers’ mother. When they were trying to find her name I remembered that I had sold them their tickets at the Mary Flower concert and Pat had neglected to add their names to the list. Mystery solved and it was an exceptionally full house. We’re already at 26 people for our November concert; it is nice when these things just sell themselves.

Our performers generally leave on the noon ferry but the girls wanted to spend a bit of time in Courtenay on the way to their next show so they caught the 8:00 AM ferry. It was an early morning for all of us, but it did give us the whole day for ourselves. I’m filling my extra time by getting my office work done (I had to prepare for a Board meeting tonight anyway, as well as get the Guild blog written), getting several loads of laundry and dishes done, and I’ll go out for my flu shot this afternoon. I’m gradually getting everything sorted for our Houston trip – shopping list, vendor list, travel insurance and reservation list.

We’re off to a movie tonight after our Board meeting; we’re both tired but, as Pat says, it’s a good excuse to keep the meeting short (meeting at 5:30 and movie at 7:00).

And with any spare time I have I’m going to get back to some cross stitching.

What a difference

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Friday, October 28, 2016

It feels like I’ve been backstitching on this project for weeks, and I still have weeks left to do before it is finished.

before
Before
after
After

If it didn’t make such a dramatic difference I’d be tempted to skip it.

Placemats

Quilting

I spent a couple of weeks with Christy and Rick at the end of July. Except for Christy, no one in the family were using a quilted placemat. I’m always on the lookout for something to make for someone so I told Dylan and Taylor I would make them something.

Placemat_Taylor

 

placemat-backs-2One of the regular quilters at the Tuesday sewing bee brought in a bin of fabric scraps that she didn’t want. We were like a bunch of vultures picking out fabrics we liked and wanted to bring home.

Although Taylor’s interest may have switched from soccer to gymnastics, the centre fabric and the borders were entirely free-to-me. As backing I used a fabric that I had previously used on a set of curtains for Taylor.

placemat_dylanI had a scrap of construction-type fabric so I used what I had as the centre for Dylan’s placemat. I can still hear him calling out “Mighty Machine” whenever we passed anything remotely looking like a construction zone.

placemat-backs-1I made a lot of math errors in this small project but I eventually got it close to a regulation-size placemat. As backing I used fabric with sporting equipment pictured on it – and Dylan has tried most of them.