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Monday, 1. May 2006
Wonderfully vintage
knitting_keeps_me_sane, 20:17h
I presented Wumses sweaters in a previous post, and now I would like to show this little treasure he gave to me a few months ago.
There are three of these, with a fourth all ready to be sewn together. They are Hand Sewn! It impressed the heck out of me, even though I teoretically knew that all the "original" blankets were hand sewn, I didnt really appreciate this fact.
I like to call the colour sceme "80's Pink*... Very girly, so I will be offsetting it with some black and grey :P
I took some nice close-ups of the fabrics - I like them a lot.
I know for sure that they are pre-89, and have kind of worked out how they might have been planned to be put together because the quilter had even made the strips to go between the squares - 1.20 x 1.70, or thereabouts - a smallish, girly quilt. I briefly considered doing it that way until I discovered that there was no more left of one of the fabrics.
My mother, who is very much into quilting, and I made a kind-of plan today for these squares, since Wumse didnt want me to piece it together and give it back to him.
The plan (at the moment) is to sew the last square together and arrange them in a 2 by 8 grid, alternating a plain square with a patterned one, seperating in the middle with a wide-ish stripe with wolves on it :-) The large plain squares should have a quilt motif on them then, which would be echoed in a way smaller scale in the middle of the patterned squares.
Since I am so into horses at the moment, I considered quilting a horse, a helmet, a horseshoe etc. :-)
I do know that "Stuff Is Taking Over My Blog", but hey... I never claimed that I was following any kind of clear agenda!
Just to show that I can still knit:
The Stupid Shawl, now with larger and improved chart making life easier for me, but still hard to knit. Grows just beautifully though, and if I finish the second motif tonight happiness will abound. (There are 4 motifs total).
There are three of these, with a fourth all ready to be sewn together. They are Hand Sewn! It impressed the heck out of me, even though I teoretically knew that all the "original" blankets were hand sewn, I didnt really appreciate this fact.
I like to call the colour sceme "80's Pink*... Very girly, so I will be offsetting it with some black and grey :P
I took some nice close-ups of the fabrics - I like them a lot.
I know for sure that they are pre-89, and have kind of worked out how they might have been planned to be put together because the quilter had even made the strips to go between the squares - 1.20 x 1.70, or thereabouts - a smallish, girly quilt. I briefly considered doing it that way until I discovered that there was no more left of one of the fabrics.
My mother, who is very much into quilting, and I made a kind-of plan today for these squares, since Wumse didnt want me to piece it together and give it back to him.
The plan (at the moment) is to sew the last square together and arrange them in a 2 by 8 grid, alternating a plain square with a patterned one, seperating in the middle with a wide-ish stripe with wolves on it :-) The large plain squares should have a quilt motif on them then, which would be echoed in a way smaller scale in the middle of the patterned squares.
Since I am so into horses at the moment, I considered quilting a horse, a helmet, a horseshoe etc. :-)
I do know that "Stuff Is Taking Over My Blog", but hey... I never claimed that I was following any kind of clear agenda!
Just to show that I can still knit:
The Stupid Shawl, now with larger and improved chart making life easier for me, but still hard to knit. Grows just beautifully though, and if I finish the second motif tonight happiness will abound. (There are 4 motifs total).
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