Crafters Monday October 9 through October 15

Hello Hope you are both having a good day. It's in the 60s and cloudy here today. My house is cold inside, but I'm trying to hold off on turning on the furnace since we're supposed to get some days in the 70s this week.

I cut the fabrics for the two monthly basket blocks this morning and those were a challenge. Lots of pieces that need to be cut diagonally and figuring out where I want to put the fabrics took some time. I hope to get them sewn together this week.

After that I started making some of the sashing for Pat Sloan's Autumn Wonders quilt along, so I can get ahead of things and not have to put the whole quilt top together in November.

I also ordered some fabric online that I was thinking might work for the second part of the Moda Blockheads quilt along that starts in January. Since I haven't been that happy with my fabrics I'm using now, I might change over.

I'm sorry those pictures I post don't show the true color of the fabrics. The florals are more pink not orange. The blue fabrics are dark and light blues with some tans. The ones that show best is the print, purple and sky blue fabrics.

I hope you get to do some crafting today too. Take care!

CJ- absolutely not your fault that the colors do not come through accurately! Some of it is internet, and the lighting can make colors look different. It’s just so neat that we can share our work in this format! From the looks of it, you did a lot of cutting yesterday Cutting, not necessarily my favorite part of the project. Do you mark or label pieces when you cut them in advance ? Hope it warms up enough for you so that you do not need your heat yet.. Who did you order fabric from? Just chatting….I know each of us has our favorite crafting outlets.

Ruth- looking forward to hearing from you when you can check in. Hope Dh and you slept well!!!

I have 2 cats. One who is gradually becoming more and more friendly, and I was shocked last nite to wake up and find her next to me. She is sweet- just very shy. My other cat, who frequently sits on the keyboard when I am typing, or my fabric when I want to cut it or even my sewing machine table when I am sewing….well he feels just fine and just wants a lot of attention. He is a very affectionate cat, also very emotionally savvy. I love them both for their different personalitie.

I got the border assembled and started on the corner blocks. I forgot that the directions are not the best and struggled to get the corner blocks assembled. So I put the project aside and will return later on. I do remember that I succeeded last time by following the schematic diagram of the corner blocks instead of the written directions. If I was smart I would write out my own directions, and keep them with the pattern for the next time.

Good afternoon everyone.

Ginny, your kitties remind me of a woman who has a crochet channel on youtube. She's called Sirin. Her kitties often jump onto the project she's working on and she stops for a couple minutes to give them some love. She also is a good videographer. Yes sometimes it's best to set things aside for awhile...put them in time out . The denim yarn is kind of heathery and it very nice when crocheted up. I really want to make myself a cardigan sweater and am thinking of using some of the remaining denim. That afghan is finished so I started the new one.

CJ, I'm glad you were able to find a fabric combo that works for that quilt. Yes weather is nice today. It's close to 80 but Thurs, of course when we have to go out, it's to be high of 41 with rain and snow. I'm glad you were able to get your shopping and errands done.

ok back to crocheting (I should be vacuuming but don't feel like it so I'll wait on that)

Hello - Hope you are doing well today and having good weather. It's in the low 70s here and sunny, so a nice day.

I'm glad I turned on the furnace, and took the chill out of the house. It helped me sleep better last night after being so cold the last few nights.

Ginny - I'm glad you were able to get some crafting done. The place I bought some fabric from is Jordan Fabrics.

Ruth - The denim color yard sounds really nice, I hope you get to make yourself a cardigan sweater with it.

This morning, I made my two version of Pat Sloan's weekly block pattern that came out today. My blocks are coming together pretty well. It's always hard to know how they'll look when they all go together.

I also cut fabrics for the three version of the weekly Moda Blockheads pattern that came out today too. So I have those three blocks to make, along with the two basket blocks that I cut fabrics for on Monday. I'll get working on those five blocks tomorrow.

Take care

Ginny, I crochet again rather than vacuuming. Sounds like you're making a lot of progress on your panel quilt

CJ, as usual you got a lot done today. 

This new afghan pattern I'm doing is a real yarn eater and also turns out that it's a time eater also. I made it pretty wide so each row takes time. It has row of cluster stitches with a row of crosses double crochets around the clusters.

It's cold here, rained most of the day and will be much colder tomorrow. I hope it doesn't rain or snow while we're out

See you tomorrow

CJ,what beautiful pictures. I have favorites but they are all wonderful and beautiful. I'm glad it was good weather there. Here it was cold and rained half the day and then it turned to snow.

We saw the eye doctor. I had told dh how thorough this doctor is and after seeing him dh agreed whole heartedly. He said, too, that he'd never had a doctor that thorough. The nice thing too is that this doctor doesn't hand you a new glasses prescriptions unless you really need it. Dh and I have both been to eye doctors that just automatically give you a new prescription even though they tell you that you're eyes haven't "changed much" It was snowing lightly mixes with rain when we went in and by the time we were done it was snowing fairly heavily and got even heavier. We had to stop at the grocery store to pick up prescriptions and it was filled with people that seemed to be stocking up because it was snowing.The snow stuck to the ground and trees.

Now we've been home for awhile, had something to eat and now I'll do some crocheting.