Project 49 Top of BSB quilt done

Now that I had finished all the individual blocks, it was time to sew them all up. The quilt is huge. Somehow as all the different blocks were made seaparately I did not realize how big the quilt would be.

The next step will be the sandwiching and the free motion quilting. This will have to wait until January, no idea how I can quilt this on my small sewing machine. It is seriously time to consider a long-arm machine. Or find someone who has a professional quilting machine. Have started asking around, no luck yet.

Finishing the top of the Bella Skill Builder quilt was part of my One Monthly Goal for November with Patty from Elm Street Quilts.

Project 48 Autumn socks

Knitting socks is becoming an addiction. They are the best projects on the go. Sometimes one sock will take weeks and then I go off on a knitting frenzie and knit sock number two. Or as was the case withe autumn socks, number two was progressing real slow. Until I bought Christmas yarn - the second sock was finished in no-time.

Project 47 Halloween capes

Halloween is here and the kids want to dress up. First at the "summer camp" they had to come dressed up. Slava wanted a Star Wars cape and Alexei a Vampire cape.
One of the best investments was my lock-machine. It makes finishing costumes really easy. Don't they look cute with their masks and capes.

Project 46 Sweater for Alexei

Last year I started knitting a sweater for Alexei. And then winter made way for spring and the sweater was not done. It became one of these lying-around projects. So as part of my 52 projects challenge, I had to include finishing these WIPs. All it took was a few weeks of vigorous knitting, puzzling on how to attach the sleeves to the body of the sweater and then knit the yolk. The first attempt at the yolk was horrible, so frogged it all and started all over. Second time around it worked. The sweater is now finished and Alexei is happy and warm.

21 October 2017

OMG November BSB quilt assembly

So now after all these months of making a set of blocks of the BSB QAL, I find myself with this pile of blocks in all kind of different sizes and colours. There is one colour I would have never chosen myself; however as it was part of the package I used it.

Now that they are all finished the next step is to lay them out and start sewing. My OMG for the month of November, hosted by Elm Street Quilts, is therefore to sew these all up and make the boards.