Sep. 29th, 2006

celticdragonfly: (Firefly -River - I'll knit)
I am now 51.6% done with the shawl. I just finished row 127, it's now 586 stitches per row, and the whole thing so far has been 42,240 stitches.

socks

Sep. 29th, 2006 04:00 pm
celticdragonfly: (Socks)
Just for the record - it's 37 pairs of socks, not 36. I realized yesterday I'd forgotten to count the blue spiral rib socks I did during the Austin trip down to see the Yarn Harlot.
celticdragonfly: (Image out of my head)
I just came back downstairs after another session of working with the future-quilting-fabric, former-outfits.

Feeling the wear in the fabric, and thinking of what that one lady was insisting at the quilt show - yes, quilts made from these old calico outfits WILL wear out faster than brand new bought fabric. But then, since it's my first quilting, and sure to have lots of errors, I think that should be considered a feature, not a bug.

I think I'm getting faster at it all. Still slow. Cutting it all up, trimming it, ironing it. I kept reminding myself as cheerfully as I could that hey, I don't have to prewash this fabric! Having recently watched Animal House at a movie night, I started to feel like Brother Bluto trying to cheer up Flounder about his brother's wrecked car by bashing beercans with his head, and not doing much to help.

Then I started to think about what D-Day would do for a quilt... eeek.

Well, soon I should be actually cutting patches - which means I need to finally make up my mind on which size - and starting to piece. I did watch a Jinny Beyer video on patchwork. A lot of the start of it was "long involved tricks for quilters who are too scared to do the math", which did not feel relevant, but I did learn some useful things.

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