Getting shit done
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janestarzI have done some work on my quilt. *gasp*
It's been forever since I posted about it, but actually during our holiday in April I took the shoebox with all the brown flowers along to Bergen and I spent hours handsewing on it. Until I ran out of the solid drab brown that borders all the happy flowers.
Since my fabric shears are at the atelier, I took the shoebox along to work last week and I spent some of my dull moments tracing the pattern onto the brown fabric and cutting strips of it. Today I finally finished: I've now cut up all the uni coloured fabric, and since it's been a few years since I started this thing (January 2013) I highly doubt I can get more.
Which is fine, because honestly, this is one of those projects I'll do in the hospital when I'm dying of old age.
Current size of finished bit, new cardboard to trace and strips of the brown fabric.
So this is all I can do at the moment. There's knitting projects to be done, crochet projects to be attempted and then, maybe after all of that, I might pick this up again.
I haven't the foggiest idea whether I'll have enough of the drab brown to border all of the flowers I made. I actually have a few fabrics with hexagons traced on it I can still cut out and make flowers from. But we'll see. One day I'll cut the strips into hexagons and wrap half-inch hexagons of cardboard in them. Then I'll slowly attach flowers to the main body, wrapping them in brown uni cotton as I go along. Maybe it'll be a lap-quilt at some point. But this is not at the top of my list.
Actually, I've also just finished the final bind-off on my sweater. Now to weave in all the ends and to block.
It's been forever since I posted about it, but actually during our holiday in April I took the shoebox with all the brown flowers along to Bergen and I spent hours handsewing on it. Until I ran out of the solid drab brown that borders all the happy flowers.
Since my fabric shears are at the atelier, I took the shoebox along to work last week and I spent some of my dull moments tracing the pattern onto the brown fabric and cutting strips of it. Today I finally finished: I've now cut up all the uni coloured fabric, and since it's been a few years since I started this thing (January 2013) I highly doubt I can get more.
Which is fine, because honestly, this is one of those projects I'll do in the hospital when I'm dying of old age.
Current size of finished bit, new cardboard to trace and strips of the brown fabric.
So this is all I can do at the moment. There's knitting projects to be done, crochet projects to be attempted and then, maybe after all of that, I might pick this up again.
I haven't the foggiest idea whether I'll have enough of the drab brown to border all of the flowers I made. I actually have a few fabrics with hexagons traced on it I can still cut out and make flowers from. But we'll see. One day I'll cut the strips into hexagons and wrap half-inch hexagons of cardboard in them. Then I'll slowly attach flowers to the main body, wrapping them in brown uni cotton as I go along. Maybe it'll be a lap-quilt at some point. But this is not at the top of my list.
Actually, I've also just finished the final bind-off on my sweater. Now to weave in all the ends and to block.
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Date: 2017-09-06 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-06 06:42 am (UTC)It will be perfect for larp, whichever size it turns out to be when it's done.
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Date: 2017-09-08 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-08 06:45 pm (UTC)I'm going to just keep the box and pick it up when I get tired of knitting. I need to wrap a lot of background brown up before I can attach any more flowers at this point.