take us our to the ball game....

Connor and I went to a Red Sox Game - -it was a lot of fun and the SOX won...

T-Shirt Quilt Disney Style

My Disney T-Shirt Quilt in progress...its off to the quilter already, it was started at a class at the Country Heart Quilter Shop in Plymouth NH. I had a great time making it and am going to make a second one. I have some t-shirts from Disneyworld Christmas parties that I have attended.

Trio gone Bad...when life gives you lemons...

Well, I had such good sucess with the first trip around the world, I decided to make a second one as a birthday gift for my bother. Well, the prep work was fine, making the strip sets was good. Then, it came time to put it together... Well I guess my brain took a vacation yesterday, and I ended up with sonething that is not a "Trip around the World", but a quilt top that looks like its going in a single direction, not around the world. It needs one more strip (its not symetrical yet, and borders so that it will be big enough for his bed. He has a queen platform bed so the borders don't need to be huge, it does not need to hang to the floor. I have to find a few more quarter yards of the fabrics to be able to make the last strip or i will have to piece a few blocks to get what I need to get it done. Once that is done I can start thinking about the back and quilting. I will be sending it out. There is no way I am going to quilt this myself. To big and not enough time to get it done.

Trip Around New Hampshire 2009 Shop Hop Results

I have completed the top for my Trip Around New Hampshire 2009 quilt. This picture does not have the borders on it, but imagine a 2" black inner border and a 5" outer border done in the "Blue Paisley" fabric "Penelope by Alice Kennedy" is the actual fabric line. I did this quilt using the Trip Around the World instructions from Quiltville.com.

These are great free instructions that took me through making my first "TRIP". I have a second one planned already - it will be called "Stan's Trip through the Orient" using the Legacy Studio "Oriental" line is shades of gray, black, red and white. Once I get it done (the top anyway) I will post a picture.

a window on maine

this quilt is made to showcase an image i took a few years ago during a late spring/early summer (last week of may) trip to the Acadia national park area in Maine. we stayed at a wonderful cottage on Elsworth lake with a juvenile bald eagle sitting in the tree in the side yard. the place was a wonderful spot to vacation, just far enough from bar harbor to be peaceful. its a wonderful memory. i will bring this to my office to add a window in the place.

Its been a while...

And this is what I have been working on. I designed this quilt for my nephew Justin for a graduation gift. He is off to college in September to Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. Justin is a "Ralph Lauren" kind of guy, and does not like a lot of fussy patterns in fabric choices, so I decided to go with solids. His highschool colors are blue and white and blue just screamed out for some yellow. So I went to Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor (how convenient is it that its just down the road from my summer place) and bought two packages of quarter yard blue solids. I think the name was "Blue Moon". And I designed the quilt using EQ5. Its a simple rail fence block that I manipulated to make the more graphic design. I am using "black" to separate the blocks, and will be adding borders. Check back and see where it goes.

What I did with my Saturday

Wayside Quilters Guild, Sudbury, Massachusetts "9-patch Outreach" Quilt. I put this quilt top together on Saturday at our quilt guild annual "Outreach Day". What we do is get together as a guild and sew, and sew and eat and sew. This quilt is a combination of hand-pieced 9-patch blocks that guild members made at the January meeting as the "activity" of the month. I took them home, pressed them and brought them to the outreach day, found the pretty rusty red print in a pile of fabrics to use for these quilts and pieced the quilt. Its a small lap size quilt, less than 40" by about 50" or so. What do you all think.

On the knitting front, I have continued working on the Peacock Rainbow Yoke Sweater - I have completed the ribbing at the bottom and have started the sockinette stitch. I am thinking of adding a few narrow stripes near the bottom, but I am not sure yet. It would make the plain knitting a bit more exciting...

Socks in California and Sweater stared in Massachusetts

The Monkeys arrived in California, and Pam promises a picture soon....the most important part is that they FIT...

On another front, I have started a new sweater - maybe this one will actually get finished someday. Its the Rainbow Yoke Sweater from the latest Knitscene Magazine. I have substituted Naturespun Worsted in "Ash" for the Ella Rae Classic that was called for, same gauge, better price/value yarn I think, and I like Brown Sheep Yarn, its Made in the USA and I got each 245 yard skein for $7.00. The Noro Kureyon was a bit pricier, at between 8.20 and 9.00 per 110 yard ball. But the Japanese Colorways are just wonderful, and the subs that I could have used just don't compare in my mind. I am going to keep track of the sweater on Ravelry, my username is "knittingauntie" if you want to see the progress.

Since I am back on a knitting kick, last weekend I was able to get a reservation for the Hampton Inn in Freeport Maine for the NETA SPA weekend. Thats the last weekend in February. Its turned into a tradition the last 5 years to go to Maine for SPA. It used to be held on the 3rd weekend in February (and a bit closer to my birthday) but the last weekend is easier for a lot of people.

Back to the Monkey Socks, Pam promises me a picture of the socks in California, and I am sure she will come through alot sooner than I did with the socks.