Over the past few months, I’ve shared glimpses of a quilting project I’d been working on, but never quite showed what exactly I was making.   Now that the recipient has the object in question, I can show you! 

It’s a baby quilt I improvised using a package of jelly roll strips that I bought in Petaluma a few years ago.

The backing is a cute yellow flower/white background  fabric that a friend gave me as a souvenir from Japan. I pieced jelly roll strips for the binding because I didn’t have a coordinating fabric in my stash and wanted to make the strips go as far as possible! #stashbust 

The funny thing about this is that when I bought the fabric, all I could see was a deer fabric through the cellophane window of the package. I thought it was full of cute woodland prints. When I opened it, I found out that they were cows, not deer, and the rest were mostly dairy-related fabrics. So I thought it was perfect for my new niece who was recently born to my brother and sister-in-law in Wisconsin.  ❤️️❤️️❤️️

Mickey Bear happened!
I’m using up every last bit of random small balls of yarn on these guys, and it’s been good.  

Tonight at knit night I finally got the courage to frog back the terrible mistakes on my Ishbel shawl.

I think I’m on the right track now, thank goodness. I’ve made this shawl before, so it shouldn’t be this hard. I blame fatigue.

And just like that, here’s another bear FO!  This is K-9, another bear named for a Dr. Who character.

He was finished a few days ago, but I was busy, or sick….

I feel much better now, thank goodness, and I’m nearly done with yet another bear. I’m on a roll, because they’re instantly gratifying, and the stash busting feels great.

Although I am knitting almost every day, I haven’t had much to show for it lately, for a few reasons. 

1) most of my projects are biggish one that are moving slowly.

2) I’ve been very distracted by the news and the book series I’m into; Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

3) I’m becoming a bilingual elementary school teacher. This one is taking lots of time and energy, as you can imagine. I have several tests to take, webinars, job fairs, interviews, paperwork, etc. I’ll start training at the end of next month, start teaching in the fall with an internship credential, and earn a Bilingual Multi-Subject Elementary School teaching credential at the end of the 2017-2018 school year. 

I’m trying not to stress out about all the things I have to do, so here’s a bear I just finished to distract myself:

This is Jackie Tyler, named for Rose Tyler’s mother. 

And a peek at a still-secret sewing project that only needs an hour or so before  completion! 

I should be able to send it to its new owner on Monday morning. Yay!

On Thursday night I finished my Textured Shawl (recipe by Orlane), and blocked it. It’s squishy and warm!

I managed to delete the photo, but here’s the link to my Instagram post about it.

I now have a sock going on, and as I’m only doing one at a time, it seems to be coming along quickly!