Time and Season

I finally got Moria Blackburn's 'Time and Season' completed this week.  This  round robin is over 2 years old!

 I belong to the Friends In Thread stitching group, the most reliable round robin group I've ever stitched with. Our group has been doing round robins and exchanges for about six and a half years now.  I consider these ladies my friends even though I've only met a few in person.  Many thanks to Kathy (Canada); Dane, Gaby, Gaby's mom (all Germany), Jodi (Wisconsin), Cheryl (Iowa) and Nancy (California) for all their work on my round robin.

Look at the back:

These ladies are as careful with each other's pieces as the are with their own.  I don't have to worry about any stray threads showing through the front when this is framed.  A couple of close ups of the stitching I did to finish it up:

Backstitching on the grapevine.

                                                                  Flower vine on bottom row.

Everyone who stitched on this RR, put her initials in the bottom border.  I am so happy to have this done!

And if you aren't sick of hat pictures by now, here's another chemo cap.  I love the colors in this one.  This is a super simple pattern, all stockinette stitch.

Stash Report and 3-D fabric

I bought 6 yards of fabric this week to use as backing for my BIL's quilt.  I usually buy backings after making the quilt, but couldn't pass this one up. The selvage says "Coming At You 3D S#J8610 by Hoffman California Internation Fabrics".

My BIL is a believer in aliens, or at least he says he is!  The cool thing about this fabric is that it comes with 3-D glasses, and when you wear them, the space ships and planets appear to be floating.

                                                                                                                    

Stash Report:
Used this week: 0 yards
Used year to date: 0 yards
Added this week: 6 yards
Added year to date: 5 yards
Net used for 2012: +11 yards

I took 3 quilts to the long arm quilter this week (http://www.virginialongarm.com/).  I am hoping that my yards used will soon be in the negative.

I finished 3 hats this week.

The blue and brown ones are for my sister.  The gray one is going to be too small for her, so I'm planning to donate it to  www.Knots-of-Love.org.

Chemo Caps Complete

I finished knitting two hats for my sister this week.  I haven't knitted much in the past 5 years, and I was really happy with the way they turned out.  I went on Ravelry to get free patterns for the hats.  They have lots of free patterns:hats, scarves, sweaters, toys, even  bras!  My old computer was so slow, I never did much looking around the site, but I can understand now how people can spend hours on it.

Let's see if I can figure out how to post a picture.  Looking at pictures is what I like best about blogs.