March is National Crafts Month - What Are You Working On?

I've been wanting to do a whole cloth quilt for a long time, but have been very scared of the marking of the design. So I decided to what I call modern wholecloth where it is one large piece of fabric on the front and the back. I got 2 pieces of 108 wide material and batting and sandwiched them.

First step: I drew random 6 1/2 inch squares in a not straight diagonal. I quilted those and then did a parallel inside box. Second step: In those boxes, I quilted yellow/gold fun flowers.

I am deciding the steps as I go along and it is working because I am using my sitdown Handiquilter -- not sure this could be done on a long arm without rolling a lot back and forth! It's nice to be able to turn the quilt whatever way I want to go and to move in any direction.

I am currently on the Third step: a Feathered path between the blocks...all blocks will be connected by curvy lines/feathers, but randomly almost like stepping stones on a stone path. The middle of the feathers are pearl paths. I am loving the way this is looking. (see attached picture).


I am thinking of my Fourth step: I am considering a few random modern curvy dragon/butterflies on what is now the "stones" possibly in another color -- light blues?..... And was thinking of mctavishing with possibly some circles and swirls a little more dense than the feathering. I thought about cross hatching to bring in some more straight lines, but worry about keeping them straight over the whole quilt (which is going to end up queen-sized I hope).

I don't know if you can see but both the boxes and feather paths are done in a gray color called "stone" and the flowers are deep yellow gold.

I have about 1/3 of the feather paths to complete and then onward..I might change my mind before I start the next step though!

It won't let me post the pic from Photobucket....sad....

I recently finished up this afghan - it was a Mystery Crochet-a-Long - I didn't know what it would look like until the end (you get a new clue each week to crochet for 10 weeks). I really, really, really dislike it - ugh. It is not the size they initially said it would be and is only 30 x 36 - about the size of a baby blanket but doesn't look like a baby blanket - I don't know what to do with it. I think I will give it to the local pet shelter.  This is the 2nd Mystery CAL I did and I didn't like either one of the finished blankets - no more mystery projects for me.

After I finished that, I decided to finish up another work-in-progress that I had started at the end of last year.  It is a gift for my niece.  I sketched it on graph paper first.

Then I cross-stitched it.  It looks like her family - complete with kitty cat - I was real happy with how it came out.  She lives in New Zealand and I am going to mail it off to her tomorrow.

                            Sketch                                      Finish Cross-Stitch

I'm currently working on a baby afghan - another WIP that I started at the end of last year.  I'm on round 22 and there are 30 rounds so I'm getting there (sorry - not the best photo)

I'm still in my "slump", I guess. Made a pair of boot cuffs on my way to an out of town meeting last weekend. I actually loved them and got several compliments on them.

While there I wanted to make a C2C blanket for some dear friends.  Meeting was juuuust about over & I was frantically finishing up.  Got to the last corner, tied off, picked it up and realized I had missed half a return row about 10 or so from the end, so it looked like a trapezoid.  Pulled it out and got it right, but ran out of yarn with about 3 rows left.  It's still sitting where it was when I chucked it in disgust as soon as we got home.

I really wanted to make these for my sister's wedding but yea....