I Must Conquer....

I've always admired nicely knit items. I learned very basic knitting 

as a young girl and didn't remember much of it. 

For my birthday, a few years ago, my mom retaught me to knit.

When she wasn't near by and I needed help, I turned to the internet.  

There is so much great knitting info available!  

I'm still learning, but I fell in LOVE with knitting!  

I 'm giving socks a try. 

Well, I've started them about seven times, 

even changed yarn for a mental fresh start. 

These are now looking pretty good. 

I've gotten past the gusset, the heel turn, the heel and .......really? 

One sock is looking a bit large. 

Seems I have too many stitched on the needle after the heel. 

Oh No!  Upon checking the other sock I have too few?  

UGH!  

How did that happen?!  

I WILL succeed, I WILL conquer these socks! 

I guess I'll start over, but meanwhile, I'll go back to some quilting for awhile. 

Here are a few Bee blocks

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Uptown Girl

I'm finally sharing my very last finish of 2012.

A while back I bought a little pattern by Make It Perfect. 

The pattern is for the Little Uptown Girl jacket. 

It's so cute, I couldn't resist.

I went looking for fabric to make it with and ended up with this small, 

super soft corduroy and a pink lining.

The jacket went together very easily and was quick. 

The only problem I had was the button hole. 

My machine just doesn't do them well and protests every time.

 I think it turned out even more adorable than I thought it would. 

I found a little cutie to model it for me.
She's nineteen months old and I went with size two for the pattern.
Its lined with iron on fleece.
I love how the fleece gave it just the right
amount of body and thickness without being bulky. 

Since I joined up with A Lovely Year Of Finishes to tame my works in progress (WIP) this year, I've been working hard on my butterfly blocks for do. Good Stitches. I've been making some good progress, but we'll see if I make my goal.

Meanwhile, I did manage to finish a few bee blocks



These are the final blocks for Bee a {Modern} Swapper, as January completes our bee.
The tutorial for these can be found here.



These two are for do. Good Stitches, our January block.
They are called Starburst Cross block and the tutorial can be found here.

I'm also trying make a final decision on my
Doll Quilt Swap 13 mini for my partner.
I only have three weeks before mailing.
Yikes!

Happy Stitching : )

Busy Bees

There is a little lull in my Quilt Bees, 

so I thought I would share some Bee blocks

This is the second block for Sew Fresh Fabrics boy charity quilt.

The first block was the "Who's Drivin?" blocks that I blogged previously.

Sew Fresh sent me a bag of scraps to use for the charity blocks.  

Not knowing what would arrive in the box made the blocks more fun.

Next was the Mod Mosaic Scrap Bee Swap

I've never done anything like these and although I love the finished blocks, 

I didn't enjoy putting all the white between the scraps. Very stressful for me!

And since this was a swap, I sent five and received these five in return.

Aren't they pretty? Each one is from a different person. 

Now, what to do with just five blocks?

Next was the spider web blocks for Simple Modern Quilt Bee 2

Now these I had a tiny bit of trouble with. The first block came out a smidge

under the 12.5 inch size it was supposed to be. So after some thought

I left block #2 untrimmed until the very end.

It worked perfectly.  I love it untrimmed. Very cool!

And here they are both together, side by side,
all trimmed as they should be. 

So beautiful! I'm sure Beth's quilt will be a beauty! 

  And last, I have just finished these two star blocks also for
Simple Modern Scrap Bee 2

The assignment was to make two star blocks,
different sizes, different stars.

One is 8.5 inches (supposed to be 8, but it's not) and the other 12 inches.

Here they are side by side. 

Well, that's it for now.   May is an extremely busy month already, 

 and more bee's should be coming in soon.