AJ's Antics

I have finally cracked 4 digits...I haven't done them for a while ...other things got in the way...but while watching football this arvo and nursing my sore arm from knitting (you use your hands in a different way and now I have muscle soreness!!)...it was back to the hexagons...I've used some of the EB squares that just didn't look right in the quilt so never fear girls the fabric was still put to good use!!

So much fun to make....I ended up with 16 9-patches, in a 4 x 4 layout...so a square quilt it will be...measuring 34 inches square .... now for some borders....I'm thinking a triple border like the picture...with each border getting wider....but which order....I'm liking the order I have here....orange yellow pink...and then a name on the pink border....hummm.....off to the fabric shop i go again!! (Yeah!!) And course the customary nap test...it was only on the floor are a few minutes....

It has taken a few winters but I have finally finished and I am very pleased with it!! As soon as it was off the needles I started another one for a friend in blues and greens this time! It is nothing fancy cause I don't know how to do anything but straight knit stitch so it is only very basic! I used the "Get Creavite" 'Let's start knitting' scarf pattern and "Patons" Feathers Yarn Joy I have some questions for you....can I just cut off the extra bits where I joined the new ball of wool? or do I need to weave them in somehow? and can i just cut off the end and start?? Hope that makes sense....so gald I have a knitting guru to ask!!

I fondly remember this t-shirt my dad is wearing...I don't remember what is says...but I remember him wearing it a lot when we were kids... Trent's 1st Birthday....July 1980 ....the same shirt more than three years later and with two more kids.... Christmas 1983 I decided to put these in too...Mum made a lot of our cloths when we were little and I think she made the one I'm wearing Check out the patchwork in the background!!

I loved that book as a kid....and now I have one!!

Got the last of my fabric swaps yesterady....from The Humming Cat ..didn't have time to post due to a late Netball game!! so here is the last instalment and now the machine can really get some action!!

This block is very simple to make and very effective!! Essentially it is a 9-patch block chopped up and put back together!! There are lots of different ways to arrange them depending on the material you use....These photos show material from an EB Quilters Swap. 3 1/2 " squares - I've chosen 3 colours for this quilt - pink, orange and yellow - cut as many as you'll need to make a quilt the size you want Lay them out into your 9-patch block - because mine will be random this step isn't necessary but it can give you light/med/dark fabric placings Join the squares together into sets of 3 - I have 1 of each of my 3 colours in each row Chain Piecing the squares makes tit quicker and saves thread - simply leave the foot down and feed the next set of squares into the machine Once you've joined 3 sets of 3 together you have a flat 9-patch block - now it is time to make them disappear!! LOL (Some people choose to trim the blocks at this stage - I don't - I find they wor...