The goal for my giant quilt to use up more of my stash, but I ended up buying all new fabric that was not the middle square and half-triangles. When I finished putting the blocks together, I sent it to my local quilter, Karen at www.ilongarmquilt.com in Bothell. She is wonderful and did these awesome ice cream cones for me.

I also kept busy by knitting myself a sweater, making custom pillows for vintage Japanese gongs, and resin clips.

Pickles walked into our lives in the summer of 2021 and we refuse to let her go.

Over a year since my last blog post. I've been busy with lots of projects.

As soon as I saw these mittens on Ravelry, I knew I had to make them. Unfortunately, the only way to get the pattern was to buy an issue of Make Magazine, which cost my cheap butt $35, but at least it came with a bunch of other cool projects to inspire. This has been a quick knit, although stitching all these flowers has been pretty time consuming.  I probably should have also followed the directions to use sport weight instead of worsted, but I really wanted to use this rich golden merino and added texture with mohair.

Here's a little updated on my terra planter. My orchids are blooming like crazy, but the maidenhair fern is starting to die a bit. I have to spritz the whole planter daily or else it'll dry out too much.

Last summer, I started a new hobby along with lots of other COVID-housebound folks. Aquariums! 

First, I got a DOOA neo glass air nano tank and outfitted it with a CO2 system. All the glass accessories look so cool in the tank. Later on, I got another DOOA short tank for shrimp and plants, but alas, the shrimp all died and it's now only devoted to plants and a terra planter. Since I'm a DOOA fan, I got their medium sized terra planter and wrapped it with sheet moss and added a mini orchid, maidenhair fern, and some other mounding fern. I spritz it daily to keep it moist. 

This quilt job was bananas!

A close family friend is having a baby! So I needed to make a quilt. Unfortunately, my sewing machine was being serviced when I heard this news, so I used this time to plant and cut out my triangles. I bought myself an Accuquilt Studio 2 a few years ago and it's so awesome for projects like this. Cutting this out took all of an hour. Somehow, it came out a lot smaller than I had designed, so I added a border and I think it's looks cute.

I saw this quilt on instagram and knew I had to make this. It combine the applique techniques of Carolyn Friedlander and the flower designs of Leah Duncan (long-time fan!) I'm going to make this Wildabon Quilt into a wall hanging for my office. I'm planning to get get some quilting thread and use metallic thread as well.

I bought some Nani Iro rayon fabric a few months ago for garment sewing. It's delicious! I found a pattern that I hope will look good. It's the Wilder Gown by indie pattern designer, Friday Pattern Co. I'm making the shirt version. I used my serger to start the shirt, but my sewing machine is getting service in the shop and should be back next week. Can't wait!