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!

On Hold at TPPL

 

All as of 8/27/2024

Atkins - Don't Let the Devil Ride   #6 on 3   (2)

Center - The Rom-Commers    #44 on 10    (4.4)

Hazelwood - Not In Love   #20 on 15    (1.3)

Johnson - Death at Morning House    #24 on 5    (4.5)

King - 11/22/63    #16 on 5     (3.2)

Mandanna - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches    #59 on 6    (9.8)

Mayne - Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder   #14 on 2    (7)

Miller - Norma Dean's Little Library of Banned Books   #2 on 5   (2.5)

Moore - The God of the Woods   #118 on 20     (5..9)

Picoult - By Any Other Name    #131 on 15     (8.5)

Poston - The Dead Romantics   #21 on 3    (7)

Robotham - Storm Child   #2 on 2    (1)

Sullivan - The Cliffs    #46 on 8    (5.7)

Next to get to me should be:

     Robotham, Hazelwood, Atkins, Miller, King

Indigo Hexie Flower Quilt

 Once I got to Dede's and we went into Bay Quilts I got a brainstorm about how I want to finish my appliqued grandmother's flower garden quilt!  This is what they had displayed:

I instantly fell in love.

And I even want to slow stitch it!

So I started collecting indigo-colored quarter yard strips for my backgrounds.  Dede had six or seven scraps, and I purchased a handful more while I was in California, because OF COURSE we went to a quilt shop or two!

  I'll start with an 8-inch square, then cut it down to 7.5 or maybe even 7 inches unfinished after I've appliqued on my single-row hexie flower.

As of today, I've got 18 finished!

The new Ott Light I bought REALLY helps.  Appliqueing with thread as the same color of the flower worked best. It's so much fun and going really fast.

EE - Exuberant Ellsworth Afghan

This afghan, triple crocheted (with single crocheted rows between each triple) was used with the huge skein of dark charcoal that Heather got me at Christmas.  However, I also used in in another afghan, so I didn't have enough.  I tried finding more on the internet, but that color (sumac) is no longer being made and is out or stock everywhere.  Luckily, on a whim, I went into Marden's in August (8 month later!) and they had ONE skein left.  Can you believe that?  Meant to be or what?

I used bigger small balls of leftover yarn than for the green magic loop blanket.  This works up fast and fun, and I love the magic loop - so NO weaving in ends.  Hope the knots don't come out!