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October 2024 Handwork

Completed Projects: 

Groovy Gert

for Homeless Blanket Project

Finished afghan:  

129 sts. per row/ 53 stripes in length

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Marigold Blanket with Larksfoot Crochet Stitch

 Marigold Blanket - I Like Crochet

Looks like a great pattern to try for my next Homeless Blanket!

I've saved the printed pattern on my home computer under "Patterns."

September 2024 Handwork

Completed Projects:

Exuberant Ellsworth Afghan

for Homeless Blanket Project

Finished afghan:  124 sts. in each row and 54 sets of tc/sc in length

On-going projects:

 Indigo Hexie Flower Quilt

39 appliqued onto indigo (that's +16)

3 pinned on, ready to applique

10 flowers ready for pinning

42 other hexies complete & ready to form into flowers

total flowers: 52 (up 15)     total hexies: 406 (up 107)

Grey Hexie Quilt

23 rows (x28) all sewn together = 644 hexies

1 row ready to add = 28 hexies

25 triples,  18 doubles,  86 single hexies waiting

841 HEXIES TOTAL (that's up 75 hexies)

Finnicky Freddy

Homeless Blanket #32

two row pattern - one row of triple crochet, next row of single crochet

pre-wound yarn of 2 short bursts of color, then longer burst of mediium sage

166 sts. per row

30 (set of 2: tc & sc) rows

August 2024 Handwork - Finished

New-this-month projects:

Indigo Hexie Flower Quilt

23 appliqued onto indigo

4 pinned on, ready to applique

10 flowers ready for pinning

42 hexies complete

(total flowers:  37, total hexies: 299)

Ongoing projects:

Cotton Dishcloths

knit 6 fairly good-sized dishcloths in Calfifornia, need to sew in ends.

Grey Hexie Quilt

20 rows (x28) all sewn together = 560

1 row ready to add = 28

36 triples, 19 doubles, 32 single hexies waiting

766 hexies total

Completed Projects:  

None in August, but plenty of headway on hexie projects!

Easiest Simple Fabric Bookmarks

Thanks Jona Giammalva!

You have three "unfinished" edges....but who cares?

All you need is two pieces of fabric 9" x 1.5"

Iron-on thin stabilizer (Pellon 72 is suggested)

10" of a thin ribbon.

eyelet, if desired, but don't need

Complete directions are on her website here.

One Charm Pack Table Runner by Sew the Distance

 She uses a fun trick to sew this together, and teaches a simple way to separate the darks, lights, and mediums.

Her YouTube tutorial is here.

Crumb Blocks/Strips Into Crumb Quilts

Agilejack's Fresh Start Quilt

Complete directions for blocks (shown below).

NOT HARD AT ALL!!!

Another idea:

Nine patch crumb blocks with unifying center and border!

Another nine-patch, also on the YouTube video below.

Here's a 9-minute YouTube video from MerryMabelMarket that is no-nonsense, quick, and fun to watch.  She's making 6 1/2 inch color-block squares: 

Eleven Scrap Quilts Using 2 1/2 Inch Strips of Any Length - from The Quilted Forest

The Quilted Forest is a quilt shop in Iowa.  It's my favorite online quilting channel.

 First in a series of 11, The Quilted Forest (Iowa) shows how to make this simple (oh,so easy!) quilt:  I think its a variation of the Rail Fence?

YouTube video of instructions

The second was pretty cool, too!  And super easy.

YouTube video of instructions

The third quilt was a version of the Rail Fence Quilt.  It wasn't quite a simple because you have to really pay attention to colors, making sure the two main colors are REALLY different.

You Tube video of instructions.

Her fourth in the series was the standard jelly roll race quilt.  She used homespuns and flannels for both of these.  For the first she sewed the original strip together end to end, and for the second she sewed the strips together diagonally.  She had a huge amount of strips for the first quilt - it ended up being 120 inches long - so she cut off some of the bottom rows to add to each side to make it wider.  I love the black strip she added.  Brilliant quilt!

YouTube video of instructions.

Strip Quilt Number 5 is using a Moda pattern called Half Step.  On the first she used a jelly roll, on the second she used scraps.   She chose pastels and divided them into like colors.

You Tube instruction video.

The sixth strip quilt is made from a Moda  pattern called Smoothie Time.

She made two - one from her leftover Halloween strips, and one from her leftover Christmas strips.

She made the Christmas one bigger than the Halloween, and added a black border so that it didn't appear too "busy."  I like it.

Unfortunately, there never seems to be a photo of the whole quilt.  Oh well.....

YouTube instruction video.

Her seventh quilt was from her Block of the Month series, December 2022.  It makes a 16-inch block, and uses all scrappy fabrics.  She had so many squares finished that she made this one a REVERSABLE quilt!

And here's the reverse:

YouTube instructional video here.

The eighth quilt is made from a pattern called "Let's Dance" and she made a baby quilt using pastel colors.  It's a HST quilt.

Here's the.YouTube instructional video.

The ninth quilt is a little more work, lots of small pieces with sashing that has cornerstones.  It's really pretty, though!  The pattern is called "Quadrangle

Here's the instructional video with all sorts of hints.

Quilt 10 is a pattern called "Spiny Peaks," and is quite striking, especially done in two very different colors like the black and bright pink.  I think the pattern calls for one of the colors to be white, but I love the idea of using scraps.

Here's the YouTube videoYouTube video showing how it goes together.

Number 11 is called "Type It."  Put together in an interesting way, without a lot of fussy measuring to get the lighter color in the middle to have an interesting "path."

YouTube instruction video.

A Great Idea

I have a whole bucket full of batik hexies that I sewed together in a four-patch years ago without a clue about how I would eventually sew them all together.

Well, I saw this on someone's blog and I sat up straighter.....

Interesting ideas are forming in my tangled brain.......

Arkansas Crossroads Quilt

Let's Make One!

 Super Simple, and so cool looking!

4-patches, 16-patches, and some snowballs make this terrific quilt.  It can be made with any size square...the one I watched used 1 1/2 inch squares of scraps with a 2 1/2 inch light single-fabric to make the X.  

You can make any size square and and size quilt using her measurements.  

Wonderful YouTube video here.  Her website with written directions is here.

DD - Dazzling David - A Lost and Found Afghan

 

Finished 4/23/2024

Here's the second afghan I found that was almost finished!

I like the pattern I created, too:

     Cast on perhaps 160 sc

     Row 1:  1 Triple Crochet in each, ch 1 turn

     Row 2:  1 Single Crochet in each.   About 8 from the end, add in new color yarn to finish row.  This won't really show when the afghan is finished.  End with chain 3.

     Row 3: (Color # 2) 1 tc in each

     Row 4:   1 sc in each

          Do this twice, ending as above

     Row 7-8-9-10-11-12 (new color)  repeat above for a total of three rows triple crochet, then start again.

Cacophonic Christine Afghan

 Yes, Cacophonic is really a word, coming from my FAVORITE word:  CACOPHONY!

While I was making 10-round squares for Razzle Dazzle, I kept on making enough for a second afghan.  This is it!

10-found squares with no unifying border color.

Will probably have no outer border, either.

Bubbly Beatrice Afghan

 

8 rows base

Row 9:  SUMAC (Dk. Charcoal) Lion Brand Pound of Love

Row 10:  ???

Just started crocheting 8-rounds of yarn to finish up some small skeins, can do this so mindlessly!

Artsy Ann Afghan

Finished 4/2/2024

OMG, I've actually hit double letters!

Trying to update and complete projects, I discovered a number of afghans I started a year or two ago...almost finished them, then put them aside.

Two were of this triple crochet variety.

Triple crocheted rows with a row of single crochet between them, in sereis of 1 - 2 - 3 triple crochets.

The edges were really straight.

When I changed colors, I did it at the end of a single crochet row - added on new color for 2 stitches, then dropped old color to end.  Blended in really well and didn't even show.

Y - The Yellowstone Afghan

7 "original type" granny rows (every row a different color)

8th row is SOFT TAUPE

X is for Xander - The Xander Afghan

Named this after one of my sweet little boys in Kindergarten.

12 rows of different solid & verigated yarns

Will probably put on a 13th row of a unifying color

Started in early March, 2024

The Zephyr Afghan

I actually started this afghan before any of the other Homeless Projects afghans!

Zephyr connotes a sense of calm, peacefulness, like a gentle west wind

Two strands of yarn, changing one of the colores every 6 or 8 rows.

LOTS of tying in the ends!

Afghan #23 - The Wilhelm

Lots of solids and ends

8 rounds, will have 9th round of a unifying color

Started with yarn donation from Brianna

Let's Finish These Projects!

Hoping to finish at least FOUR by the end of April, 2024!

There are 8 here, at least two more ...

Progress 4/3/2024

V - Vivian

W - Wihelm

Need 9th round of unifying color

X - Xander

12 rounds

Need 13th row of unifying color...

L - London

K - Kandinsky

8 rounds, last two being Michael's "Putty"

Y - Yellowstone

J - Joshee

Finally Finished, yee-ha!!!

Z - Zephyr

FINISHED 4/2/24

Double knit

Tie in the ends.....FINALLY!!

TWO triple crochet afghans, started a couple of years ago and almost finished when I re-discovered them on April 2nd, 2024!  Let's get 'em done!

1st one finished 4/2/24 and in the PILE!