It's time for me to share last month's progress on my PHD. February had a lot of highs and lows personally, but I had a pretty good needlework month, finishing two projects and making good progress on three more.
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I finished knitting a throw blanket, #25 on my list.
I finished knitting a selvedge rug, #2 on my list. Sorry for all the dull pictures. We've been having a lot of rain and gloom.
I made progress on the history center quilt top, #3 on my list, pressing the washed wide backing and getting it quilted. I was originally planning to create a Frankenbatting for this quilt, but while working on a client's quilt, I realized that the wadded up end of the roll of Hobbs batting had the exact amount of batting I needed. So I used the excessively wrinkled up piece in this quilt. I am planning to donate this quilt to the guild's community quilts program, so I will machine bind it soon.
I also made a lot of progress on my late guild mate's Cupcake Crossing quilt, AKA Nancy's Bonnie and Camille quilt, #8 on my list. I finished piecing the quilt top during February, made a Frankenbatting, pieced the backing, and got it quilted. I am currently hand-stitching the binding and I expect to have it finished tonight, or maybe tomorrow. March is shaping up to have lots of finishes.
I have also made some progress on my Linda J. Hahn class quilt from last March, #23 on the list. I have started piecing the units for the four star blocks. Those are the blue and white bits near the pattern.
I have not worked on anything else on my list.
Maybe most notable is that I haven't started anything new yet. That's about to change since I'm taking some classes at IHQS this week. Also, once I finish binding Nancy's quilt, I will start a small knitting project. I'm finding knitting to be fairly relaxing for me of late. I'm still pretty much a beginner. The last time I knitted anything with any shaping was about 15 or 16 years ago when my sister's kids (and mine) were little. I made a ton of hats, a few blankets, and a few shaped toys. I just remembered that I also knitted some Ugg-style booties for my niece. Those were funny. I wonder if my sister ever put them on her?
I'm still working my way through my quilting queue, though at a slower clip than usual. Here's one from Shirley, quilted with Honeybee.
And Jeri's quilts are all bound now. That took me forever.
That leaves us with the unfortunate situation of having two roosters and only one hen. I think our plan is to get several Orpingtons from my husband's co-worker. She will hatch them for us and if we end up with roosters or something doesn't work out, she will take them back. She said they are pretty docile and usually at the bottom of the pecking order, so hopefully they will integrate well with the existing flock. They will for sure be bigger than them.
Meanwhile, we attended a live "taping" of NPR's Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me last week. It was really fun. I hadn't smiled and laughed that much in at least a year. I may never view hummus the same ever again. 😳😂 I'm pretty sure that bit probably didn't make it into the final recording. The three of us also enjoyed walking across campus from the parking deck to the auditorium and back. It's such a gorgeous campus.
My husband celebrated his birthday over the weekend and we went and had lunch with our daughter.
We had a guild meeting last night with Heather Kojan as the speaker. I'll be taking classes with her and Sue Cortese this week at IHQS. In addition to the quilt show events (my son is volunteering as well), and getting the Prius back together so we can pass it to its new owner, we will also attend an art show where my son has a photo on display. He got his Invisalign this week too. It's been so busy lately. Probably distractions are good for me.
Oh, we've still been hearing lots of woodcock calls and my husband said he startled a whole bunch of them in our yard when he left for work yesterday.
And my back is feeling better (at least for today).
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