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... and it was my very much anticipated and awaited flannel I bought online. And it's brilliant. I was so worried that the online colours would not be true to life, but I'm not disappointed. Although just quietly I think the yellow kind of speckled one is not the shade I ordered, I like it just the same. The speckles tie the teal in a bit better.
Do you think these colours will be suitable for a boy? I hope so. I find it so hard to visualise these great clumps of material into the little rectangles and triangles and wedges that will end up being the design.
Although the instructions on the class list was to wash and tumble dry the material before class. I washed the reds separately tonight, in case they ran. They didn't bleed, but boy did they fray!
So my first class for this quilt is Sunday. I will post pictures so you can see the work in progress.
Until then ... keep quilting!
A short while between drinks here. But I have been busy. Nursing a quite sick hubby who was struck down by the flu. He doesn’t “do” sick well, actually he hardly ever gets sick, so it really hit him hard. But he's on the mend now.
Anyway, have a quilting class for my next project coming up at the start of June. A lovely flannel quilt – first time I’ve sewn flannels and first time I’ve sewn triangles and diagonals. This quilt is for SS1 (step son 1) for his 18th birthday. Okay so he’s only not long turned 16, but I hate to make just for the sake of making. I really wanted to do this class and I have a reason for it.
So I got the class list. Yep, no probs, thought it would be easy to get the 6 colours of flannels I needed. NOT SO! I have scoured the shops in this neck of Victoria. Sure there’s flannels, only small arrays in most shops, and then to get colours suitable for a boy without it being too bland. I’ve found that out of the very limited shelves of flannels, that the majority are florals or far too girly.
So I’ve turned to online and these are the colours I’m about to purchase from a very fine online quilting store Honeysuckle Cottage, which I’ve used bef
ore. I only hope the pictures are true to the real colour. This is what I came up with for my selection (bearing in mind I’ve ascertained his favourite colour is red, so that will feature). Cross fingers I’m not disappointed when I get my parcel in the mail.
SD2 (step daughter 2) is staying with us this weekend and she has just bowled me right over. She's asked me to teach her how to knit!!!!!!!! Be still my heart.
She's just like me when I first started. I swear the needles are about to snap in half she is knitting that tight but what a great moment. We've been sitting on the comfy couch, fire is blazing because it's a cold night, 'Flashdance' is on the telly, and we're knitting together. The look of concentration she has for those darn stitches is just priceless! There's a few holes, but she's determined and proud and she wants to do it all her self.
And then of course I melted when she said (she's decided she's making a sweatband of all things) - "when anyone asks me where I got this I'm going to tell them my step mother taught me to knit it". OH MY GOD !!!!! I'm in love with her right now. (That could change by tomorrow, she's a teenager you know, hahahahahaha).
Well here's something you might find fascinating ...
Did you know that at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 this morning, the time and date was - 01:02:03 04/05/06.
Okay so it won't be if you're American cause you say the day and month round the other way, but there you go. A bit of trivia for you.
Well as the weather gets colder, and today was my first day back at work after a glorious month off, and the fire is pumping, I'm turning to knitting (about time I talked about knitting in this blog I guess). I can't bring myself at the moment to doing anything huge or involved, but I've been making baby hats as gifts for some friends and then a couple besides. I guess it's brain dead knitting to a lot of the Knitsters out there, but with the gorgeous yarns out at the moment you really only need to plain knitting to make something very ordinary look out of the ordinary.
So here's one of my very simple baby hats I've been making.
