Summer crafting

My shawl. 

It has taken me a while to knit this shawl. It's the Patons Allan Gardens knit brioche shawl pattern. 

Knitted in Patons silk bamboo yarn, In colours blush and stone. Nice thing about brioche is that it makes the item reversible. 

Christmas cards for family and friends.

Made a couple more quilt tops. One is a top for my middle grandson and the other is just a baby quilt top made from left over fabric from the other quilt along with an additional fabric. Still had enough of a couple of the fabrics to make pillowcases to hold the quilt top and backing. Figure the pillowcases would also make it a good way to store them once completed and for gifting.

Here are the pillowcases.

 Close up of the baby quilt. Pattern idea came from accuquilt website. They    gave the measures of the quilt and the die needed to cut the squares. From there I sat down and figured out the length of stripes I would need instead of squares. The pattern on accuquilt is called GO! X marks the spot.

Here is a close up of the quilt top I made for my grandson with a picture of the full quilt below.                      Pattern is called Shallow Stars by Pine tree country quilts.

  The quilt you see hanging is called Northern lights and was in a quilt magazine a few years ago. Believe it was McCalls but not 100% sure.

May/June cards

First three pictures are of the card/inserts for the cards I sent to some ladies from my church. 

 

                                                              Mother’s Day card for MIL

                                                           June cards for the church ladies

Couple more Christmas presents (shawls) done

A slight variation of the Boneyard shawl by Stephen West pattern on Ravelry. His pattern calls for a knit row on wrong side every 12 rows. Instead I did it on the colour change rows. 

For each shawl I used one ball of Estelle magic shawl cotton.

First one is done in the Brambleberry colour way and will be for youngest DD.

Second one is done in Liquorice colour way for my oldest DD. 

 

Socks

The first pair showed finished knee high length. I wanted to get every colour/shade of colour in my socks.

Colour used is 04 Jumpsuit

This pair of socks were made during the yarnspirations knit along back in February of this year.                    Knitted in fairisle disco by paintbox

 

Cakewalk quilt top

Queen size quilt top 

109X120 in beige and browns

Pattern is called cakewalk

Designed by Genil Lehmann

Lehnann Quilts

 

April cards

The April shower cards are for a couple friends.

The picture stamp is from Your Next Stamp and coloured with pencil crayons.

Words were from a spring stamp set pkg from Michael’s.

Inside wording (quote) I found in a book written about the 1920’s.

                                                                  MIL birthday card

 

El’Ejin

Dragon El’Ejin is a tiny little dragon and a request from my DGD. She will receive this as a birthday gift this coming weekend.

The pattern is by Anastasia Kirs and can be found on Ravelry.

The pattern called for one strand of embroidery floss. Tried it but found as I tried to separate the strands they broke and it was so hard to work with. I pulled out pearl cotton 8 and used it. It did take some time to make it. I used French knots for the eyes as I didn’t have the tiny safety eyes called for.