Wednesday, July 27, 2011

WiP Wednesday

Last week I said I was going to finish my Christmas project, well that was not in the cards, however, I am still happy with what I accomplish.   I got most of the blocks finish as you can see and now I'm hoping to get the rest of the blocks sewn this weekend and hopefully finish putting the top together.  I will post next week on my progress:





 I' m a newbie when it comes to knitting.  I started knitting just this year,  a co worker of mine volunteer to teach me.  I went and got my yarn and my first pair of needles and the rest is history. 
Julie, my co worker was making a chain scarf for herself .  I asked her if it would be hard to teach me, and she said it is actually a great project for beginners.   I just loved the way mine chain scarf turned out so  I decided to make one for each of my sisters as a Christmas present.. 



Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Esther's WIP Wednesday

Wow, it's been several weeks since I posted anything.  I've been busy, I started working in Manhattan and my commute time is 2 hour in the morning and 2 hours in the afternoon.  It doesn't give me much time for anything else.  But I found time to finish the top from my Postage Stamp Quilt. here is a picture. Tell me what you think.

Also, several weeks ago I signed up on Rachel Griffins blog p.s. i quilt for a quilt along called Synchronized squares..  Rachel, is a quilt designer and author of sever quilting books.  Rachel was doing a quilt along from one of her quilt pattern she design.  I thought it was a wonderful idea and I wanted to join in.  I felt this was going to be easy because the pattern she picked was very simple.  So, I order the fabric Cake Layers which are already cut to the dimension that the quilt requires, easy enough.  The fabric I order from the Moda shop and I ordered a Christmas fabric. I thought perfect gives me a jump on a Christmas quilt. I don't have many Christmas quilts.
Unfortunately, the quilt along ended on June 30th here we are now July 20th and I just started putting the square together. Hopefully this weekend I can take a couple of hours to my self and sit behind by sewing machine and sew away.  I tell you, if it wasn't for WIP half of my project would never ever get done, so thank you Esther.
I will try to post my progress next week:

here is a picture of the squares from the quilt along: