Saturday, January 29, 2011

Breast Cancer Shawl

I made a breast cancer shawl/scarf for my aunt in Texas. It's a very loose yarn-over, knit 2 together pattern that should be perfect for down there. My sister is modeling it while stretching for a run.

Sold Some Quilts

I sold two quilts to a lady at work this past week. The far left is a baby blanket for her friend, who is pregnant, and the right one is a twin-size for her 9-year-old niece, whose birthday is coming up. The baby blanket I already had made up but I had to make the twin, which, unfortunately she didn't like the first one so I had to scramble to get a second one done, which is the one shown now. She liked the second one much better (thank goodness!!). It was fun but I definitely need a break from quilting because it was very, very stressful!!

Black History Month Poster

Here is my poster. I decided to make the Underground Railroad Quilt squares out of paper and, as you can see, did not take into consideration the seam allowance. So, I had to improvise with some of the squares and several are quite a bit smaller than that others. And they're not in order because they almost all didn't fit onto the poster! Oh, well! I think it still turned out nice. I also included a little excerpt with each square providing the square name, quilt number, and a small explanation of what it represented.