Lavender socks

My lavender socks are finished. Started knitting last year October .... or maybe even earlier. The first sock was finished rather quickly, the second sock took its time. So many other projects to finish were competing. Also wasn't sure if I could take all needles through airport security.

The future pair of socks ended up on my FAL Q4 2018 list, and as I had not finished them, they were included on my FAL 2019 Q1 list. I used West Yorkshire Spinners yarn, colour scheme "forget me not" from the Signature 4 Ply floral collection together with violet.

I have enough left to make a second pair of socks ....

Linking up with FAL 2019 Q1, project 3 of my list, 2 out of 5 done.

Nautical quilt top

Slava wanted a quilt in blue. I had ordered the cutest blue fabric from Higgs & Higgs and we choose the design from the The Cake Mix Quilt book from Fat Quarter Shop.

I started by cutting the 10 inch blocks as I did not have the recipe cards and figured I would wing it. If my blocks would be an inch smaller or larger it would not matter as they would all be the same design. In the end my half square triangles were exactly the size they had to be and my blocks were 16.5 inches as required. Once all the squares were cut, the hst sewn, assembling all blocks went pretty fast. I laid out the hst's in layers, ensuring the order was the same for all little blocks and sew 6 blocks in an afternoon. A few days later sew 6 more blocks. They were pretty big so I decide to make four blocks less and only 12 in total.

Once all 12 blocks were done the puzzling started. I had three designs and each design was in two colours, either the background was white and the sea animals were in blue, or the background was in blue and the sea animals in white. I alternated the blue and white background blocks and loved the way it was coming together.

For the sashing I deviated from the original pattern as the idea was that the half square triangles would float. If I would make the sashing in white, the quilt would be toooooo white. I used dark blue, almost the same as the blue in the blocks for the sashing and the border and loved the result.

I managed to sew all together just before I left for Ethiopia for work. Next step, buy blue fabric for the backing and binding, order the batting on-line and next month finish the quilt. Most likely he will not use the quilt this winter, unless we have a few cold nights in April.

Linking up with Patty's One Monthly Goal for February over at Elm Street Quilts. I enjoy participating and being inspired.

OMG February A quilt for my youngest

My youngest needs his own quilt. I had made one for my eldest, one for my daughter and so far my youngest did not want one. He just wanted to use my Mexican blanket. I did buy some fabric of course, in blue colours with sea animals. Shall I make you one? No. OK. And then this fall, I put my batik BSB quilt one evening on his bed as he was cold. Couldn't find the Mexican blanket. And he loved the light weight of the quilt. Shall I make you one? With the blue fabric? Yes, please.

He choose the Marzipan quilt from the book The Cake Mix Quilt book designed by Sew Emma at the @fatquartershop.

As the book does not come with the pattern measurements, the idea is that one buys the recipe cards separately, at first I was not sure how to move forward. I read again, and thought, oh well, lets just start. So I cut a bunch of 10" squares.

My One Monthly Goal for February is to make the top of the quilt, i.e. cutting the fabric, sewing the blocks and and assembly all of it. This is organized by Patty over at Elm Street Quilts and thanks to this, I actually end up quilting something every month and making progress.

Not sure how far I will get as I will travel the second half of February. And this quilt will be machine quilted so cannot bring it along. Am thinking I should start the hand pieced QAL, as it would be a perfect airplane project.