300!!!

Just what I needed. Another hobby. I went home yesterday with the intention of spending a couple of hours knitting before scarfing leftovers and rushing back to the lab for rounds. But there was a package on my step when I got there. It was a whole bunch of quilt patterns and fabric from my mom. One of the girls from the lab is having a baby in early April, and we’ve decided to make a collaborative baby quilt, with each person making one square. When we met to make our plans, people were talking about puffy paint, and I almost barfed, so there’s no telling how this thing is going to turn out. Of course I’m WAY above puffy paint. I haven’t quilted in years, but I managed a couple of small projects when I was a kid. And obviously my square has to be the best, so I called Mom. She suggested paper piecing because you don’t have to line things up too carefully, but you still get nice crisp angles. So instead of knitting, I spent the evening choosing my patterns and fabrics from Mom’s stash. I’ll be doing a square with a humming bird in one corner looking down at a flower in the opposite corner. All I need now is a background fabric and a little time with a sewing machine. I’m shopping tonight and sewing on Saturday, so with any luck I’ll have pictures of the finished thing on Monday. And if not, I’ll have a completely bitter story about how I’m not as smart as a quilt square. Sounds like fun right?

In knitting news, another cousin is getting married, so I’ve started another afghan. What was I thinking, right? I know. But it’s coming along well. Probably not well enough to deliver the gift at the wedding this summer, but she’ll get it when I’m good and done, and she’ll like it. I’ve fallen completely in love with the pattern (if I’m adding pictures on Monday anyway, I’ll include some of the afghan) and am now planning on making myself one out of my own hand dyed. I can’t decide whether I want the color to vary slowly from one end to the other or much more quickly from one square to the next, but either way it’s going to be a massive dying effort using a whole new technique that I can’t wait to try.

PS- As the title suggests, this is my 300th post. Woohoo, or whatever is appropriate for such an occasion.