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High Fiber—So Many Projects, So Little Time!

In spite of my injuries, I made it to Vintage Stitchers this week.

Julie picked me up. She brought several quilts she had finished for members of the group. This hibiscus quilt was a kit Ellen bought in Hawaii. It's all batiks. Julie did a great job quilting it!
Julie also finished quilting this French Braid Quilt for Ellen. She stitched in the ditch around the braid segments and open areas have star shapes in them.
 
Some not-very-exciting fabrics really came alive for Janet in this charity quilt. I wonder if she'll be able to give it away. It was clever of her to use black for the background! Julie did the quilting on this quilt, too.
In weaving news, I finished the second scarf. I used my rotary cutter to trim the fringe at 4".
If you're wondering why part of my rotary cutter looks melted, it got got too close to my craft iron, a relationship doomed to failure! Fortunately, it still works.
Here are the two scarves together:
They look more like autumn than spring, but we still have a lot of snow on the ground, so the warm colors are refreshing. I used Knit Picks Chroma in "New England" (no longer available) as my inspiration for the colors, sort of like a focus fabric in quilting. I had some leftover Knit Picks sock yarn (Essential and Stroll) in the same green (except solid) as is found in the Chroma and in a kettle-dyed gold and a tonal yellow that played nicely with the Chroma. To warp my loom, I used the Essential and Stroll yarns and another sock yarn with the exact same green left over from previous projects. I used up all the Chroma in the two scarves, and most of the gold. I still have quite a bit of the green and yellow tonal. It was so much fun to see how the colors changed as I was weaving, and then I would change the colors according to whim as well, mixing in the greens and yellows. 
After the second scarf was off the loom, there was still some warp left, so I continued to play at weaving. 
I'm not sure what this will be. Maybe a small table runner. It isn't long enough for a scarf.
You may have read about my little accident last week. I'm walking much better now. I had a bruise the size of Texas, placed just so the incision for my hip replacement 15 years ago divided it exactly in half. The first couple of days I slept a lot and read weaving, quilting and knitting magazines and books, only getting up and "walking" when I had to. Then as I felt better, I started weaving. Moving my left foot up and down on the treadle of my loom was good exercise for my left leg. Thursday I was able to get around well enough to go to Vintage Stitchers (with the ride from Julie), and Friday I managed the stairs and did some laundry. by Saturday, I was starting to feel better as the day went on instead of worse. I'm not yet back to normal, but getting close. I never needed the pain pills nor the muscle relaxant. I'm so grateful that nothing worse happened when I fell!
This week also saw some progress on DH's Christmas Waffle Cardigan:
Benjamin Levisay's (the Fiber Hooligan) first podcast with the interview with Debbie Macomber was great! Don't miss this week's interview with Rick Mondragon. You can listen/subscribe after 10:00 Central Daylight Time today (Monday).
In closing, I thought you would all enjoy seeing Miss Daphne getting the most out of the last of the Wisconsin snow:
What's on my needles: Christmas Waffle Cardigan, some progress made this week, and Dogwood Blossoms.
What's on my loom: Just playing with what's left of the warp. Maybe it will be a table runner or....
What's on my Featherweight: Still the Delectable Pathways blocks, amost done with the blocks. Still have most of the appliqué to do, but that's by hand.
What's on my wheel: Plying the "Pigeon." (Boy, does that sound funny!) I'm planning to spin another Full Circle Roving. But which color? Hmmm....
What's on my iPad: Still listening to the Weavecast podcast, catching up. There don't seem to be any new ones, so I'm not in a rush to hear them all. Finished The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jaimie Ford from Audible.com. Great listen!
Now I'm listening to His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. For something completely different.
What's in my wine glass: Concha y Toro Frontera Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot blend from Chile, vintage 2011. Yum! My wine steward really knows how to pick 'em!
Note: This blog post was produced entirely on the MacBook, using the iPad for photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for or cleaned.

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Comment by Peggy Stuart on March 19, 2013 at 11:45am

Thanks, Terry! (Grandkids always steal the show, don't they?)

Comment by Terry F on March 19, 2013 at 9:14am

Everything looks great, and I always enjoy seeing the grandkids!

Comment by Peggy Stuart on March 18, 2013 at 6:23pm

LOL! Carol Ann, can you find a charity you can donate to? I agree with you, both that they shouldn't be ugly and that you don't want the job, but Janet does her quilt giving privately. You could handle your own donations.

Comment by Carol Ann Hinton on March 18, 2013 at 4:05pm

Charity quilts are often made from less-than-stunning fabrics, but there is no reason they can't be set attractively, as your friend demonstrated!  I'm a little frustrated with my guild's Community Service group, who seem to have no design sense.  They also seem to be in a quantity trumps quality mode.  Fabric squares are just thrown together any which way.  Just because you are giving it away doesn't mean it has to be ugly!  (I'm smart enough to keep my mouth shut, however, since I really don't want to take over the job!)

Comment by Peggy Stuart on March 18, 2013 at 2:47pm

Cora, do you mean the one under DH's cardigan? It's only 6 or 7 years old. (Have to look at the label.) The ladies in my quilt guild had a square-in-a-square block exchange in homespun brights. I threw in some dark colors when I made my quilt so I could sleep at night.

Lana, I didn't think I would go there, either, and then DH bought me a loom! Tatting sounds like fun. One of my quilting friends is into tatting.

Mary, Miss Daphne is growing up so fast!

Comment by Mary, Tewksbury MA on March 18, 2013 at 12:40pm

Miss Daphne looks like she's having a great time in the snow. Very cute.

As always wonderful post, lots to see and admire.  

Comment by Sognstitcher Lana/MN on March 18, 2013 at 12:15pm

Peggy, it's good to hear you are on the mend and that things aren't worse.  Your scarves are beautiful.  Before long, all your leftover yarn will be used up.....then what? Oh, yeah, buy more! LOL  Your weavings are really pretty. I can admire, but I don't think I will ever go there. I did think about learning to spin, though. Or maybe tatting in honor of my grandmother.

Your friends do spectacular quilting, as well. Very productive ladies.

Comment by cora jo ciampi on March 18, 2013 at 12:15pm

really like the vintage quilt. You are a very busy lady!

Comment by Peggy Stuart on March 18, 2013 at 11:41am

Do you have a local quilt guild? 

Comment by Gayle/La. on March 18, 2013 at 11:01am

Peggy I am so glad that you had no other complications from your fall. Glad to see that you are on the mend and getting around better.  Daphne is so cute and getting so big. 

The quilts' colors are so beautiful and bright and I just love the braided quilt.   I wish there was a group somewhere close around me so that we could get together.

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