February 25, 2013

• John's quilt

  I finished John's quilt last week - I had pieced the quilt top and the quilt bottom, at my recent trip to the beach, then it was quilted by my friend who is a long-arm quilter.  Then I sewed on the binding.  This will be for John's big boy bed!  

                               

  Here is a better picture of the border -

                               

  And the back - the biggest part of the back is another piece of fabric from the "Riding the Rails" fabric line, then I used the left over fabric from the top to piece around it -

                               

  I made a label by cutting a piece of the train border, and writing on it, then I appliqued it to the finished quilt -

                               

  It's hard to see in the picture, but in the clouds, it says, "For John, From Grandma", then on the hilly part "February 2013", and then my name at the bottom by the train track.  Oh, well, trust me, it's there!

   

   

  On the needles:

                                

  This is the beginning of a scarf, which was really an Advent 2012 scarf that my friend Pam found on Ravelry.  We knew we couldn't do it in those weeks before Christmas, so we thought maybe we could do it in the 40 days of Lent!  Still hoping to get it done by Easter!  If you look closely, you can see where there are several patterns - you do one pattern each day, or, in my case, in several days!  How did anyone get this done during Advent when some of it takes so many hours?  You can see that I have been putting lifelines in all along; I haven't needed to use one yet, but I have done my share of TINKing - KNIT backwards!  I'll try to keep it updated!

                               

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