Ongoing craft projects:
Knitting:
The Bloomfield throw from Mags' Kandis "Quinte Scrapbook". This is a huge shawl type thing using 20 different coordinating colors (well, it seems like 20 different colors). This is my first-ever Intarsia project, and I would have to really really want a particular item to do intarsia again. Bleah.
A pair of socks, made of Regia Jacquard Provence (see it's color 5270 for appearence. I love this yarn. I have like five or six pairs of socks' worth of the different patterns. It feels nice on the feet, and is cool to watch work up. It makes a good "traveling and waiting" project.
Another pair of socks, from Nancy Bush's Folk Socks (the best best best book on knitting socks there is). I'm doing a pair of lace socks that she calls "Latvian style"
A pair of elaborate colorwork socks that I had tucked away and found again after unpacking from my move.
Crochet:
A hat, made of Lion Brand Woolspun. It's on their website Lion Brand Yarns , called simply "Winter Hat". Not very far on this one.
Quilting:
A big quilt in the frame, the Spools pattern, made of all different colors of reproduction Depression-era pastel prints.
A quilt top, marked, done in the RJR Folk Art prints (these are the strongly colored prints that I associate with the fabric available in the 1970s for quilting - it was one of the last old lines to hang on through the 1950s and 1960s slump in quiltmaking. My mom had some of those fabrics. The colors make me think of being a little kid again and they make me happy.)
A quilt top, nearly done, in French Country fabrics
A quilt top, done but unmarked, in a blue Asian-inspired fabric, with cream and a blue batik print. This one I am going to use Sashiko-style quilt patterns on.
It sounds like I value my craft more than my work. Not true, but it's easier to describe an object (like a quilt) than a process (like teaching)
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