Friday 27 April 2018

Plus size quilt top

Finally I have finished a new quilt top! I even managed to make a little dent in my recycled shirt stash with it. I used all kinds of  light greys and creams, and red plaids and one plain red, as this quilt is for the Finnish Red Cross. 


Getting that step out of the way, I can now concentrate on a baby quilt using these fabrics I have cherished for many years. It will be a boy quilt, with worms and bugs but also with some hearts or flower petals.


We have been travelling abroad too, and for the long waiting hours at airports I had of course a book but also a knitting. I knitted the striped chemo caps during the trip and the plain ones at home.



Two new baby hats have been finished too. There is a little yarn left from a 50 g ball in all my baby hat yarns, so I think there will be a pink-blue-and-white striped hat on the needles sooner or later.


The little misses Purple and Yellow spent a fine holiday in Lapland before Easter with their family, and the girls learned to ski, make snow castles, roll in the snow to refresh during a sauna bath, and to have Winter fun like native Finnish children. For this, the socks and mittens I knitted for them were naturally useful, and so they wanted to thank me with this:


100 % Irish wool to knit something for my own use! I think I need to dare take a step into the unknown and learn to knit some Celtic cables in a scarf or something like that.

Weather report: This morning we had -4C, today is sunny but not warm, on Wednesday we had rain for most of the day. The snowdrops and tiny yellow crocuses are the only flowers up in the garden. By the roadside we can see bright yellow coltsfoot dots where the sun has been shining.


3 comments:

  1. Ihana pluspeitto! Kauniit kankaat vauvanpeittoon. Suloisia neuleita:)

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  2. Ulla everything is beautiful. Your generosity to various charities is a wonderful example of time well spent from a generous heart. Sounds like you enjoyed your travels . Hooray

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  3. The Finnish cross quilt is such a striking quilt. Love the contrast. I love baby quilts. Those bugs in the jar are the cutest and the tree swing. It's going to be a very sweet quilt. I admire Celtic cables. You are so talented and seem to manage learning new techniques very well. May the warmth and flowers soon be part of your every day.

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