Back In The Sewing Room!

I managed to find my way back into the sewing room this week!  I pulled out a charm pack and a few yards of gray solid and got started on a simple modern baby quilt.  It really felt good to sit down at the machine and work on something that didn't require a whole lot of thought.  I think it's the perfect project to help me get my quilting mojo back!

A Fall Finish

Here's my Magz Bias Scarf all finished just in time for fall weather!  Now that it has been blocked, the edges lay nice and flat and you can really see the lace pattern...blocking really did make the difference with this one!

Silent Sunday

Airing of the Quilts - Tunkhannock, PA

To Block Or Not To Block?

To block or not to block?  That is the question!  A lot of the items that I knit don't require blocking, but the edges rolled inward on this scarf so badly that it really had to be blocked.  Blocking isn't nearly as scary as it sounds.  Simply wet the item, gently squeeze out the excess water, and then lay it flat to dry adding pins where necessary to help it hold its shape.  Seriously...that's it!  The hardest part of blocking is waiting for your newly finished hand-knit to dry!

You can find a great tutorial on blocking at The Purl Bee.

Another Scarf

It definitely seems like I have been on a knitting jag lately.  I guess I started knitting more while my machine was in the shop and I just haven't stopped!  This is a free pattern from Ravelry, Magz Bias Scarf.  It's an easy bias lace pattern, just a simple pattern row followed by a purl row.  Perfect for TV knitting! 

Eat More Cake!

Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.

Silent Sunday

Airing of the Quilts - Tunkhannock, PA

Airing Of The Quilts

See that forecast for Saturday?!  It's going to be perfect weather for the Airing of the Quilts in Tunkhannock, PA!  Tomorrow morning I'm going to load up the car with a couple of my quilty friends and we're going to take in the all of the sights that we can handle...endless mountains, fall leaves, and quilts, quilts and more QUILTS!  It promises to be a great day! 

Mismatched

With four older sisters our littlest miss doesn't have any shortage of hand-knit-hand-me-downs, but I thought she should still have a few things of her very own.  These socks are knit with self-striping yarn and because her older sisters love mismatched socks, I purposely started the second sock with a different start point in the yarn pattern, so the stripes wouldn't match.  Little Miss won't know the difference, but her older sisters will get a kick out of the fact that her socks don't match!