Big progress

I got to work as soon as I got home from work. I am now halfway done with hand stitching the binding on the music quilt. Yeah! The size of the quilt is approximately 75 x 90. I have been careful not to post any pictures of the fabric that I used for the back. I want that to be a surprise and see what your reaction is once I show it (cross your fingers!) tomorrow.

At lunch I knitted again and I now have 3 more inches done. So now it is 43" long.

We got a bit of snow last night so I was out shoveling the driveway before I left for work. There was an early morning visitor, a cat, who left their paw prints in the snow.

A bit more done

I was lacking much motivation to get anything done last evening. I have to put so much cream around my eyes it makes it hard to see when the cream ends up migrating into my eyes. Then of course it makes it so much harder to get anything done when it is so hard to focus. With this cold the skin around my eyes is extremely dry and just peels like a sunburn. Weird. I still have congestion in my head and ears after 2 1/2 weeks. I know it could be worse, but it sure is getting old.

I did get the miter corners for the binding sewn, the quilt trimmed, and the binding pressed back from the quilt. Sewing on black didn't make it any easier to see what I was doing!

I did get a few rows on the scarf at lunch and after work. The safety pin shows where I started for the day just so I can see how much I got done. The scarf is now 40" long. With it being 9 degrees out this morning, I sure could use this now!

Plugging away

I managed to get the binding sewn on to the music quilt. Tonight I will miter the corners and trim the excess batting and backing.

For the scarf, I got another 3.5" knitted. It is now about 37" long. The pattern says to keep knitting until it is 70" long so I am just past the half way point.

Quilting done, scarf is progressing, and the passing of the Thin White Duke

I forgot my phone this morning so I will edit this post and add pictures after lunch. I did get the music quilt all machine quilted and the binding cut, but I needed to do some dishes, cooking, and laundry so the binding will have to wait until tonight.

I knitted on my scarf while watching things on TV I wanted to hear and when taking a break from quilting. The scarf is not almost 33" long!

Today I saw that David Bowie, The Thin White Duke passed away. What is the world coming too? Lemmy, Scott, and now David? David to me was always fearless. R.I.P. David Bowie.

Quilting, knitting, walking Oh My!

I finally felt good enough to resume walking after work and getting my steps in. The three mile round trip to the library put me at just shy of 5 miles for the day. I was a bit tuckered out though. My brother stopped over to borrow my Multi Master. He is remodeling his late MIL house. A Multi Master is some of the best money I ever spent and I am happy to let my brother borrow it. Mine is a different model, but you get the idea. As well as cutting, you can sand with it.

After he left I finally got to work. I got one more block of the quilt quilted. So now I have 17 out of 30 blocks quilted.

I then knitted a few more rows on my scarf. Between what I did at lunch and before bed, it is now 16 1/2" long. At this rate I am wondering if I will get it done before winter is over! LOL!

Just in cast you are wondering about the pattern for the scarf it is just seed stitch worked with three different colors of yarn. You don't have to cut the yarn, just carry it up being careful not to pull it tight. The directions from Purl Soho called for 41 stitches, but I made mine 35 stitches since I have a short neck. The pattern also called for size 7 needles, but I am using size 6 as I knit loose.

Have a great weekend!

Progess on both fronts

My scarf has grown. It is now almost 14" long now.

I was not feeling very good last night (this is day 12 of battling this cold), but I managed to scrape up enough energy to wind bobbins and quilt one of the five red blocks.

Music quilt and scarf

I made some progress on the music quilt over the new year. Of course not as much progress as I wanted since Saturday I had company (it was a wonderful surprise!) and my cold was wearing me out. I did hit it hard on Sunday though. Right now I have it half quilted. I decided to use my go to free motion quilt design as I need to get this quilt done by the 15th. I laid it out on my table to get this shot. All the blocks that are mostly white are done. I will do the red blocks next.

I did go out on New Year's Day to Michael's to get some yarn. I need to knit myself a scarf.

I started knitting and this is what I had done Monday night.

I got 8 more rows done at lunchtime and I watched a movie last night while I knitted so here is what it looks like now.

I could sure use this now since the cold weather showed up!