More tie-dyed towels!

I made these towels for my kid (they/them). They just bought a house. And they needed towels.

I asked them what colors they wanted, and they said "rainbow."

I'm not sure if my technique has improved much over the years. Tie-dyeing bath towels is difficult. Compare with my posts from 2013 and 2011. Looking back, I think I did better in 2011. I wasn't working, so I had more time. That was such a creative year for me.

Irregular zig-zag quilt

This top was quilted on the longarm quilting machine at the Framingham Makerspace. It's 90" x 108". It's not even trimmed yet. I just finished quilting it last night and had to get home for dinner. But I'm really proud of it! It's a replica of a quilt from the book "Cultural Fusion Quilts" by Sujata Shah. Edited on July 21st to say: the binding is finished, and it's on my bed!

Red Reversed Squares

 

I finished this today - except for the label of course. The Framingham Makerspace, of which I am a member, built a fiber arts lab with a longarm quilting machine. This is the second quilt I quilted on it. I started it quite a while ago, about 30 years ago.

Here's a link to a blog post from 2011. (link) That's when I cut apart the big top and added a border, and sent it off to donate to Bastrop relief. Then in 2016 I took the rows that I cut off of the original top, added some blocks and reformed it to look like this. You can read about it at the end of the 2016 wrap-up here.

Now in 2022 it's finished. It's small, good for a kid. I'll put it in the grandkid pile for now, until I have some grandkids.

Year of 22 Projects - Project #2, knitted socks

 

I thought I had my fill of knitting socks. Actually I have had my fill of knitting socks. But I fell in love with this sock yarn, and I bought it. There was nothing else to do but knit a pair of socks. I finished the pair on the way home from a vacation in Puerto Rico on March 12th. Yarn by Karen Adams, sold at Tierra Wools, Chama, New Mexico.

Year of 22 projects - Project #1

I wanted last year to be another quiltwrapup year, a year in which I "wrap up" one unfinished quilt a month. That didn't work out too well. I finished two quilts, which is great, and I made some progress on a few more, but I didn't come close to finishing one quilt a month. So of course this year I'm going to be even more ambitious and finish 22 projects. They don't all have to be quilt projects, and I'll include projects that I abandon forever. Abandoning projects is very unusual for me, so that's a legitimate rule. So here is project #1. It's pretty awesome, and we've been sleeping under it all winter long. Soon it will be time to put it away. It's a crocheted granny square afghan using acrylic yarn, joined with the continuous flat braid chain by Cypress Textiles. I started it in 2021 even though I had vowed not to start another afghan until I found a job. I had an interview with Amazon in October and I didn't make the cut, so I drowned my sorrows in yarn. To add insult to injury, I set a goal of creating and joining ten squares a week. This made the process stressful. But my bedroom looks like a beautiful storybook now, so it was all for the best.

Color Cube (rotate me!)

First Quilt of the Year

 

Here we go! I wanted this to be a special quiltwrapup year like 2011 and 2016. Maybe it still will be. But January, February, March and April quilts are still in progress. This is the May quilt. I haven't chosen a June quilt yet, and it's already June 22! But this one is finished. It's a queen-sized quilt for my kid Carter, for the future when she has a bigger bed.