(As I said before: socks seem to go faster for me once I've completed the leg-part. I don't know if it's because I have comparatively short feet (I wear a size 38 metric shoe, which I've been told translates to a 7 1/2 in American sizing - yet I take an 8 1/2 in athletic shoes) and I make the leg-part longer than the foot, or if it's a purely psychological thing.)
I also want to start something new. I don't know what. I just want to start something new. (Probably what's better is to pull out one of the stalled projects - Kenobi, or Bloom, or the Samus cardigan - and start work on that again). I think it's because I'm getting to the point where I can see summer actually being over (even though it's supposed to be, I think, the hottest day of the year so far here). I'm already thinking toward the time when I can wear hats and scarves and sweaters (other than the little cotton cardigans that I use in the over-air-conditioned classrooms).
I also want to finish the current quilt top - I might even be able to do that this weekend. Still trying to figure out what to use for a backing - none of the pieces I found in my stash that would do, color-wise, are quite big enough. I even swung by JoAnn fabrics on my grocery trip yesterday afternoon but failed to find anything. (There is now a small quilt shop in my hometown; maybe I'll wind up going there).
I did, however, find a backing-fabric for the fall-foliage quilt I have not yet started:
I love those kind of large-format prints, but usually can't use them in the tops of quilts, because the pattern gets all cut up.
Oh, and here are the fabrics I'm using for the front of the quilt:
Most of those are from a Keepsake Quilting packet purchased 2 or so years ago. (I did substitute one fabric - that tan fabric on the left replaces a teal print that I thought really didn't go.)
I also have more of the leaf-print (the one with the black background) to be the outer border on the top.
1 comment:
i love that fabric! excellent choice!
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