It's WIP Wednesday! Time for me to get out all my projects, realize that there's way too many of them, only photograph a few, then go procrastinate and work on none of them! I'm only half joking since I don't actually pull them all out. I probably couldn't fit everything into one picture.
But anyway.... I am actually working on the #Catventquiltalong. I love that it just takes about 15 minutes to finish a cat. I've gotten one of every rainbow color done, the whole Roy G. Biv is there, so now I just have to fill in spots with more hues.
I'm finally digging into that stack of rayon that my mother picked out. She asked for a couple copies of her favorite dress for Christmas, and naturally I said yes, even though I'd never worked with the fabric before. After completing a dress for myself to practice, drafting a pattern, making the first dress and having my mom try it on, I'm ready to just bust out the rest of these dresses.
And I've finished the sleeves to this little commissioned sweater and I'm on to the body. I got this far before deciding to check my gauge, and I'm concerned. The gauge is correct, but I'm trying to replicate a sweater that I've already made, and that sweater's gauge is too big. I'm taking a break from the knitting until I can try it on the little girl that it's for, but I have a feeling that it's going to be ripped and more stitches added to the front and back. Still better than finding out when I got all the way up to the armpits!
Linking up with Lee for WIP Wednesday!
Those kitty blocks looks so cute! I've been seeing them pop up all over, can't wait to see how everyone's quilts come together :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Renee, they're really fun to do. And since I'm using scraps from friends and the internet, it's kind of exciting to pull together fabrics and match colors. (I'm totally a quilt nerd!)
DeleteLove the kitty in the background of that knit-WIP photo! You can do it re: the rayon dresses. I would pick four days, bite the bullet, bribe myself with a bottle of wine (split up over the days maybe) and JUST DO IT. (And then they will be done and you can have fun.)
ReplyDeleteThe first dress was a full day of work, but that included drafting pattern and figuring out how to layer ruffles, dress, lining and then do it all with a French seam. Now they should all go much faster. I'm hoping two days as long as someone else is minding my children.
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