Posted on 07/05/2022 7:07:33 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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How pretty! Love, love, LOVE that shade of blue! :)
It’s not! I count fabric and books in there, too! Oh, and garden plants! And kitchen gadgetry! And dogs! ;)
I’ve heard of those ‘Knitting Spy Ladies’ before. Thanks for the reminder/share! :)
I’m sending Clint to my daughters! They’ll love it, it’s perfect!!!
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Love, love, LOVE that shade of blue! :)
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The yarn is Hobby Lobby ‘I Love This Yarn’ & the color is called 96/Stonewash.
The PT tech, when I asked her favorite color (for a pair of fingerless mitts), said blue & more specifically ‘Carolina’ blue (UNC’s color although she is not a fan). I had “Carolina blue” on my phone & was comparing it to 3 shades of blue that were in the ball park & ‘Stonewash’ was the closest match. It really is a pretty shade of blue - I think she’ll like the mitts.
https://i.postimg.cc/k45LnMqC/7636-F4-FE-BB14-4-DBD-88-A8-EBCE20482549.jpg
Test to see if I’m doing this right! A quilt a made a couple of yrs ago
I finished bootie #2 last night (well, early this morning at 1:15 am!) so now I am “playing”. With one pair of booties available for the shower gift, I’ll mess around today (raining outside - no garden work), but then I need to get busy finishing the hairpin lace/crochet scarf - the deadline will be here before I know it!
Here is the link for a whole bunch of booties:
25 Quick and Cute Knit Baby Booties Patterns
https://lovelifeyarn.com/knit-baby-booties/
The booties are numbered, so here are my comments:
#2 - the booties I made
#7 - ‘basic booties’ - I found some baby yarn & I am going to try these next. You can use Judy’s Magic Cast On to avoid seaming the sole, which I will do. Checking the pattern, this looks a lot like the bootie I made already, but with a ribbed cuff. The baby yarn I found is a lighter weight (light 3) & in shades of blue with white.
#11 - these are the booties that initially caught my eye & I would LOVE to make them. I can do cables. Two things: need a light fingering weight yarn which I do not have & it’s worked flat. I think I saw where someone worked them in the round - I’ll have to look into possibly converting the pattern after I finish the ‘fair’ scarf.
#18 - I LOVE these booties. Original pattern is in Russian, but there is an English translation. Knit flat & require seaming; however, they might be worth it with the complex design.
#19 - very simple looking booties, knit in the round after the sole - I downloaded the pattern for future consideration.
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BTW, if you know this already, that’s GREAT - if you do not, it’s a fantastic way to save patterns that are on a website (no download available).
Pull up ‘Print Friendly’: https://www.printfriendly.com/
Put web link into the form & let Print Friendly do its thing - you can then delete anything you do not want (multiple pics or any writing that is not the pattern - I delete anything I don’t want to print & waste ink).
Once you get it as you like it, Print Friendly will convert it to a PDF that you can save. I cannot tell you how many patterns I’ve saved that were on a website & I’ve used Print Friendly to make them into a PDF. I had to do this for #18 above - deleted all the Russian instructions/writing & kept the English version.
Note: rarely, a website just won’t load into Print Friendly - I’ve had that happen mostly on non-pattern articles that I wanted to print off a website for my folks. Most websites with patterns load just fine.
Beautiful quilt!
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“The yarn is Hobby Lobby ‘I Love This Yarn’ & the color is called 96/Stonewash.”
No wonder. I’ve used that yarn & color in projects, myself!
This is painted on composite aluminum fencing - primed first, then used outdoor paint. What a job - it's beautiful!
I LOVE that!
Mick (Foster Son) is painting the two sides of the barn (it’s white) that face the driveway and the house. I am in the market for a ‘Barn Quilt’ for the peak which you see when you drive into our house yard, so this is perfect inspiration! :)
Beautiful work! (I see Q posted it for all of us.) Nicely done!
You can paint your own (in your ‘spare’ time LOL)! Some beautiful examples/inspiration at the link.
How to Create a Barn Quilt
https://quiltingdigest.com/create-a-barn-quilt-for-your-garden-shed/
Seriously, I know you could do this - that way you have your own design/colors, right size, etc.
A friend’s Mother passed away a few years back. She was an avid quilter. Everyone attending brought the quilt she had made for them, and they draped them across the backs of the pews in church and one draped her coffin instead of flowers.
It was a stunning tribute to Kay’s Life; there were DOZENS of quilts!
*Blurry Screen Alert*
Thanks for posting the Patriotic Quilts. See? Plenty of PATRIOTS left in this country! :)
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