Thank you for your compliments on husband's Morris. It is now packed up high on the cabinet and hopefully he won't forget about it come this winter. I had wanted to reply to your comments and blog earlier but work calls. Knitting has been going rather slowly but on weekends, my heart really turns to quilting. There's so many I wanted to do but so little time. For the past 2 Sundays, I stayed at home and sewed while husband brought our 2 girls out to play. Today, Sunday, I decided to get out of the house. I think I've quilted out, enough for now. Why, I finished the white/yellow coin quilt, the brown/yellow blanket, the pink baby quilt. And these.
A Flock of Triangles quilt top for my brother's baby son who just turn one. I've always wanted to make a quilt out of the Indonesia batik fabrics I have in stash. They are so part of my Asian tropical roots.
Yai Ann's modern batik quilt gave me ideas how to apply them into something contemporary. I decide to use the Flock of Triangles pattern from the Denyse Schmidt book (now also available online here). As this is the first time I'm working with triangles, I've made a smaller version.
I really like this outcome. This colour combination of charcoal and pumpkin is inspired by what I saw from one of the design blogs. And grey is as good as white which is used frequently by other quilters for this pattern.
I've got leftover triangles from the Charcoal and Pumpkin Flock of Triangles quilt. As I needed more practice with sewing triangles, I cut them smaller and assembled this mini quilt. It measures 15"x13.5". I'm very happy with it, mistakes and all! Now I feel more confident to embark on a pinwheel quilt next, after a good rest and finishing this up quilt properly.
Here's the inspiration for this quilt which I see in Sarah's Flickr user profile photo all the time. I realized how similar it is to Sarah's after I finished it. It must have stayed in my subconsciousness. Thanks for the inspiration.
I used plain linen for the quilt back, debated whether to use a contrasting thread but decided against it as there's something wrong with the tension of my machine.
Photos of the other finished quilts and blankets will come. My husband thinks that he could take better ones than me (especially for the bigger stacked coin quilts. So let's wait and see. Have a great week, everyone!
In the heat of summer, my husband finally receives his chunky cardigan. He has been asking me for it every other day. The yarn is a tweedy cashmere blend from China. The pattern is Morris from Rowan 34 and also available free on the Rowan website but beware some symbols for the cables are missing.
It all began when I was knitting Linden using the light grey yarn bought years ago for my husband. He didn't like it then but called it sour grapes, he kept asking me to knit him a sweater when he saw me using the yarn. At that time, I was in a rather advance stage with my own sweater. So new grey yarn has to be bought and by accident, the tweedy batch arrived instead of the plain grey ones. All the better as the tweedy-ness does give character to the cables.
And I do enjoy knitting cables but not sewing the parts together. The chunky cables got done quickly but the finishing got stalled for over a month. I decided to complete it and move on to summer projects.
The pattern calls for 7 buttons. I found mine in the neighbour lys. The saleslady just couldn't find the 7th despite searching high and low and she even had to cut the 6th fron the sample board.
All's well that ends well. The fit is good (I made the first men's size). Husband is happy with it and he even volunteered to show the back!
