Go Fly a Kite--KiteAlong!!

We are having a new knitalong on the Bits and Bobs 2 group. Since April is National Kite Month, we are doing kites! A KiteAlong! This is a great project for using up bits of yarn. We have members who are gonna use baby yarn, worsted weight, sport yarn, dishcloth cotton...almost anything will work! A complete kite takes 11-12 yards of yarn, but you can use more than one color per kite, so smaller amounts of yarn work! You all are welcome to join us at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitsandBobs2-SpecialProjects/

This pic is on my blocking board, as the outside weather is not cooperating for an 'artistic' picture. Anyway, you get the idea!

Please spread the word. Our FishAlong was great, and the KiteAlong is just as much fun!

Cathy B

Carolina Crossroads Finished!!

I finished this in January of 2008. I set it out to be quilted by a longarmer in an allover clamshell pattern. I really love this! Now the problem will be to keep it here when the kids come to visit!

Carolina Crossroads

Started a mystery quilt, Carolina Crossroads, by Bonnie Hunter. The site with the instructions is at:
http://quiltville.com/carolinacrossroadsmystery.shtml

The yahoo group is at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quiltvillechat/

I am still cutting strips to make my Rail Fence portions. It is gonna be a scrap quilt, with tan for the neutral and black for the accent. I had to buy the black (3 yds.), and I bought the tan because it was on sale for $2 a yd! It is a nice tea-dye look tan. I got 10 yds, because I never seem to have enough neutrals.

I will be posting pics as I go along, but it isn't very exciting at the moment. I will also be posting pics of other projects, as I am no longer making the drive to Duluth for work!!! Yay!! It took a friend of mine 2 hrs to get home on Tuesday because of the snow, instead of her usual 20 minutes.

Well, fiber fiends, I am back to the cutting board.

Cathy B

Starting a new job

Well, tomorrow I start my new temporary job. It is office work, which I have done before. But working at the family business has its perks. I sleep in if I have been up late. I can start my work (computer stuff) in my jammies before I go out to the shop. And I don't have to drive in the snow.

The new job will be 8 to 5 office attire. Better make sure I've got the clothes ready. And that I get to bed on time. I feel like a kid starting at a new school!!!

I'd rather stay home and knit. But I will survive. Probably even like it.

Later!

Time Goes So Quickly!!!

I can't believe it's been almost 3 months since I posted. Ill health has taken a big chunk of my summer. And we are 'restructuring' our business (amazing how much time making puppets can take!!) I have a store on etsy.com (threadbenders.etsy.com), and am in awe of how much time it takes to promote stuff. How can I be MAKING things to sell if I spend all my time promoting my stuff? What a quandary. If you get a chance to look at my store, let me know what you think. I am still wanting to 'fill' it, but am just so busy!!

As if that isn't enough, I had told a friend last spring that I would fill in for one of her co-workers this fall when she goes in to have her baby. Fall is here!!! And they are taking the baby early, so I start work on Thursday.

Anyway, I will be needing my fiber stuff to keep me sane over the next 2 months. And my fiber groups!!

Here is the pic of the dishcloth cotton Fishies Afghan I made. It has been done for more than a month, but.....I really have no excuse for not posting the pic! lol

The Fish-Along is still going on at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BitsandBobs2-SpecialProjects/

Come see us. It is a great project for using up your little bits of yarn.

Cathy B

Blue Jeans and Flannel Shirts quiltalong

Hi all! As if I didn't have enough to do, we are starting a quiltalong on Monday July 16th for the quilt pictured here. It is called Blue Jeans and Flannel Shirts, and you can make it out of those materials. But you can also see the table runner I made out of cottons! Love this pattern. The quiltalong is on the Bits and Bobs group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bitsandbobs

The pattern is available for free at this link:
http://www.puppetsandprops.com/BlueJeans.html

If you would like the 32-page pattern booklet with full-size photos and expanded coverage and ideas, it is $6.95 including shipping in the continental US, actual postage added for international orders. Contact me at: cathy@threadbenders.com.

Take care!

Cathy

Stuff besides Fishies!

Yes, I am a Fish-Along-er. But I do other stuff too. Here is a picture of a quilt I did for a friend of my daughter. I have never met the girl, but she just had her first baby, a girl, and she and her husband don't have mothers. No grandma's!!! So I had to make her a grandma quilt. It is called Cobblestones, and I really like the low contrast colors. They are the colors she has chosen for the baby, so I actually had to buy fabric instead of working my stash. But I do like it. Do you?

Cathy