Screen-Full Sunday

A few weeks ago at Purlygirls I was shocked, shocked, to discover that most people there had never heard of Rosalind Russell.

"Auntie Mame?"

Blank stares.

"She starred with Cary Grant in His Girl Friday."

Blank stares.

So tonight I had movie night. I invited over a group of knitters. Wes set up a projection screen and we watched His Girl Friday. I had to run out in the middle of it to take Wes to the emergency room. He got jabbed very hard in the eye by our younger son this afternoon in a coat-putting-on accident. It turns out he got a corneal abrasion. He has to wear an eye patch overnight. Arggh, mateys! He should be better tomorrow.

Anyway, the film was viewed and I don't know if anyone enjoyed it as much as I did (and always do) but I felt I did my part to spread the word on great classic films.

I also finished stitching down the binding on my coins quilt and threw it in the wash. It's drying right now.

I've been knitting steadily on my Tangled Yoke. I have the body and one sleeve done. I haven't been blogging it because stockinette in charcoal yarn makes for terrible photos and dull blogging.

Please Stop Raping My Childhood, Thanks Ever So Much

Uma Thurman has been cast as Nanny in a film version of Eloise in Paris. What. The. Fuck.

This woman...


...is going to play this woman.


Why? Why, why, why???

Change of Quilting Course

Over the weekend I started seriously considering making the Stacked Coins quilt from Last Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts. Then on Tuesday, coincidentally, I saw that the Doll Quilt Challenge for March/April is a Chinese Coins quilt. So Tuesday night, while listening to primary results, I pulled out all my fabric scraps. I took anything that was 4 inches or larger and put it in a bin. I rotary cut pieces freehand to 1-4" long, then I sorted the contents of the bin by color. I laid them out in a stack and started chain-piecing them into 2-piece units, then 4 and so on. I trimmed them to about 4" x 24".



On Wednesday, I took these strips to the fabric store to pick out something for the sashing. After looking around for a while I decided that I'd just use some muslin that I already had at home.



On Thursday, I pieced a backing from some of the Peas and Carrots fabric.



As soon as I had the top and backing ready I realized that what I really wanted to do was hand quilt this. It's kind of old-fashioned looking and I thought the hand quilting would really add something special. And I've never hand quilted and this little quilt would be a great practice piece. I went off to work. Then I found out the baby had arrived. No time for hand quilting this time. After spending quite a bit of time staring at this top I can't decide how to machine quilt it. I think it would look great with a meandering or stipple quilting but I don't think I have the skill for that. I'll probably end up just quilting grid lines on it.

Thursdays are for What the Hell is This?

It's fashion week.I'm not seeing many knits except for a few watered down versions of last year's insanity.




Come on, people. Can't you come up with anything better (or crazier) than that?

The lack of knitting is most likely due to the fact that the shows are all dripping in fur. Didn't we all collectively decide that fur was beyond disgusting a long time ago? Anyway, I didn't find any knits but I did find this.



What are we thinking here? Paisley? Sperm? Quotation marks?



I hadn't realized that crepe paper was also making a comeback.

And hey look! This one's knit.



And for those of you who are keeping track, this is the same designer that brought us last year's severed hand dress.

Stop!

Wes just showed me this very amusing flowchart. I found myself thinking, "Did MC Hammer have a Saturday morning cartoon or did I just imagine that?" Thank God for You tube.

LOL Wes

Wes made an LOL Cat that I love.

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Go vote for it!

Four Square Stacking Up

I was consumed by quilting this weekend. After spending most of the day on Saturday working on the two Harry Potter blocks and my final Quiltalong block I was looking for something else to work on. I bought a jelly roll of Blossom and some Anna Griffin fabric months ago to make the Four Square quilt from Cozy Quilt Designs. I cut all the pieces on Saturday night and started piecing. I stayed up insanely late then spent the night dreaming about sewing strips. I woke up and went straight back to my machine and sewed more strips. I had a little break in there to hang out with some Purlygirls for knitting and lunch. Then right back to the machine. I just have to sew on the last strip for the basic log cabins. Then sashing. Then borders. This project was made for chain-piecing. I put together a stack like this one and stitch until they're all done.

Big Winner

The Seattle Children's Film Festival ended tonight with an award ceremony. Wes's film won Best in the Northwest and the audience prize by a "landslide." Hooray for Cookies for Sale! It's heading to LA for the children's film festival then it will be in the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.

More Harry Potter Blocks

You can see all my completed blocks here.

Quick Quiltalong

All my blocks are done!



1. Quiltalong Week 9, 2. Quiltalong Week 12, 3. Quiltalong Week 11, 4. quiltalong10, 5. Quiltalong Week 8, 6. Quiltalong Week 7, 7. Quiltalong Week 6, 8. Quiltalong Week 5, 9. Quiltalong Week 4, 10. Quiltalong Week 3, 11. Quiltalong Week 2, 12. Quiltalong Week 1

That was so fast and easy. Now I need to figure out how to put them all together and how to quilt them.

Bayerische

Pattern: Bayerische by Eunny Jang
Yarn: Lorna's Lace Shepherd Sock in Pine
Needles: Addi Lace needles in US1
Notes: I didn't change a thing. They took a lot more time than your average pair of socks but I love them.

Quiltalong at Halfway

The colors are terrible. I can't seem to catch the sun when it's out.