Sunday, December 13, 2020

I was enjoying working on a new hat pattern the last few evenings but I worried that I didn’t have enough yarn. Sure enough I was seeing the end of the spool and I still had at least half an inch to knit plus the decreases for the crown.

My first thought was to take it apart and find a new pattern but I thought I would start the decreases early and see how it worked out. I did that last night and if I keep it a bit shorter than the pattern says I will have enough to finish the hat.

But as I finished it off I noticed a couple of problems with the decrease. I’m not sure if it was the pattern or if I made a mistake. Tonight I will try to reverse knit back to the error and see if I can pick it up again. If not, I’ll take it all out and start over, knowing that I have enough yarn to make a slightly smaller version.

I spent the morning in my sewing room. I decided that rather than just clean up I would do some rearranging. It is pretty much done now, except for one corner, and I like the way it looks. I haven’t tried it out to see how it works when I’m actually sewing something but I’ll get to that tomorrow.

I’m going to relax with some cross stitching for the rest of the afternoon.

Saturday, December 12, 2020

I didn’t have much planned for the day and, in my mind, I even thought i would finished off the border on my pinwheel quilt.

I made an Alias Grace block this morning. It was one that I had to design on my own based on the picture in the book. It worked out well and the three blocks I have finished are now up on the design wall (the door across the hall from my sewing room). There were a lot of half-square triangles involved in the block and I sewed some pinwheels together as a leader and ender project.

After lunch I moved on to the November block for the Guild. It too involved some half-square triangles and I was almost finished the stitching using the magic eight method when I realized I had the right side of one fabric against the wrong side of the other fabric. I have reverse stitched that and got it right this time. The last seams of the pinwheels were my leaders and enders and they are done now.

I’ll go back to working on the November block but if I make one more mistake I’m going to quit for the day.