MSNP Syndrome has kicked in with a vengeance

this weekend.

It made me start not 1 but 3 new projects!

The first one is a quilt I will donate to a local scouting performing group.

So far I have put together 8 blocks - I need 125 to make the quilt.

The next one was a house quilt I found on the web.  I figured I could make a smaller version of this......

... starting with this little block...

It's from the blog - building houses from scraps - a dutch blog but has English translations too.  The owner of the blog has lots of pics of quilts people made during 2012 as they made 1 house per day for the quilts.  They are all amazing.  There's even one from a lady in Australia.

Mine measures 4.5 inches unfinished, is rather wonky - hand pieced.  I may try doing it by machine.  I think the door is too high and that it would look better with 1 larger window rather than 2.  I also need to mix up the fabrics a bit more.

It only needs 143 friends and just possibly a larger embroidered friend too.  I have figured out that if I use 8 different colours I need 18 in each colour way.  I will have black sashing and red cornerstones like the one above.  The black will be the only fabric I buy - the rest will come from the stash.

And then there's these guys.....

They belong to a Dear Jane type of quilt - 198 blocks in total both pieced and appliqued.  Also a stash buster...

Am I crazy?

At least the last 2 projects are things that I can work on as the mood takes me.  They are all only small blocks so shouldn't take too long to make. 

My Convergence Quilt

I have just finished the top for my first ever Ricky Timms Convergence Quilt and I'm not sure I like it.  It's probably the fabric choices that have me unsold.

So 2 days ago I took 4 fabrics.....

cut them up according to the plan and sewed them together.....

then cut some more and sewed some more.........

Didn't take too long to do.  At this point it looks ok.  Then this afternoon I added the borders and got this.......

I made a mistake with the first bit of border sewing and couldn't use those bits of fabric.  So I had to improvise to get it looking how I wanted it to look.  A bit more judicious piecing and I end up with a quilt about 45" square (not really square, but you get the idea).

Maybe the borders are too wide?  But if I cut them narrower it won't be a usable quilt - more of a table topper/hanging.

I wonder if I could cut the borders narrower and then add another narrow navy border and then put the off cuts back on.  Anyone got any thoughts?

Busy Knitting

Over that past few weeks I have been busy knitting beanies.  10 of them in fact.  They are all destined for the Alice Springs Beanie Festival.  Hopefully they will sell.


First there was a pink multi acrylic knitted in a brick pattern.....

And then a blue multi knitted with some fluffy acrylic....

I used the blue multi again and added in some other blues getting paler each time and ended in white.  It's rather long for a beanie....

And then there was the grey/cream/silver yarn I had.....

All of these were from yarn I already had in my stash.  Most of my stash is single balls, so making a beanie makes good use of them.  I did make another similar to the one above, but I haven't taken it's photo.

Then there was this one.  It's really soft and folds up quite small.  I have since added  a knitted flower to one side tot his one.

What do you think of this one?  I call it Yup Yup....

These next 2 were made with the only ball of yarn I purchased.  It's a wool/nylon mix, quite soft but no the easiest to knit with.  The yarn kept on splitting....

And then there was the one that took me 3 nights to make!!  Again acrylic from the stash - who buys fluoro orange yarn??

Me apparently....

 

 

I finally got around to putting together the Cali Mum's Mystery Quilt too.  Not too sure on the second border though.

 

Oh and I also made up April's Small Quilt Talk challenge quilt.  I have now quilted it and just have to put the binding on.

 

Can I just say I hate prairie points laid like this.  They don't want to sit flat especially in the corners.