On the Needles Friday

While I may have waaaaaay too many quilt projects in progress, I am fairly restrained with my knitting.  I always like to have something to work on when in the car and maybe one project that isn't good to work on in the car.
I am try Toe Up, Two at a Time on Two Circular needles for the first time.  So far, I am enjoying it with no major mishaps.  I am using Sockmatician's recipe for the pattern.

And my "at home project when I need to concentrate" project is Brooking's  Pullover.

PhD Progress

For the past several years I have signed up for a few quilting and knitting destash challenges.  (I am very motivated to begin a new year with a well formulated plan.)  One of my favorite quilting blogs is Quilting Gail and she hosts a yearly PhD challenge.  I take pictures and identify what I want to finish and post about it.  So far so good--right!

I started to set up a calendar with weekly and monthly posts that I wanted to participate in.  That working calendar is no where to be found on my desk or in my files (maybe it was a dream).  What could my excuse be this year for not following through?  With the pandemic, time stood still and it has been only been a day or two instead of five months or whatever we are up to now.
Like everyone else, I have cleaned every closet, drawer and shelf at least twice.  I have inventoried every single skein of yarn and gathered all quilting projects in one place.  In a moment of pure embarrassment I found not 20 or 30 PhD's but 42 of them.  This is my mid-year re-commitment to GET IT DONE.
I do like using Gail's Tally Record to keep track.

But I will finally share a finish for July.

Turning Twenty blocks made into a lap quilt.

Quilting done on my embroidery machine with a design by Amelie Scott.

Now I only have 40 projects to GO.  Wish me luck.

A Quilting Finish

Fortunately I have been making the most of this quarantine time.  I had made twenty Turning Twenty Again blocks more than ten years ago.  There is no rational explanation why it was never finished.  But split the blocks up to make a couple of lap sized quilts.

Turning Twenty 2

Quilting for Turning Twenty 2

I am getting a head start on some charity quilts for next year.  The quilting was done with my embroidery machine and I used one of Amelie Scott's contiuous line quilting designs.

Another BOM

These are the blocks for the first months for Sisters BOM QAL from Abyquilts.

 

 

The palette is similar to the blocks I posted a few days ago.  I may do some mixing and matching and make lap quilts for charity.