Anyway, on the brighter front I finished my pair of Jaywalker socks with the wonderful wool from Handgefaerbt.com. It is mentioned on few blogs that these socks are not elastic compare to ribbing and I can only agree! Still I like the pattern.
Last week some books arrived from Amazon:
The Virginia Quilt book is very nice, full of wonderful quilts (some with 23 stitches per inch quilting!) and interesting stories. I find only that some of the pictures are a bit small but then if each quilt had been one page, it would have been an very thick book!I have seen so many inspirational knits from the Fitted Knits on blogs that I had to have that book too and indeed there are two or three projects that I intend to make.
I was lucky too to get the Interweave Knits on Ebay as I wanted to make the Icarus shawl.
After the above-mentioned call I was so frustrated that I had to do some retail therapy and the Icarus shawl was just the right thing to calm me down. I bought some nice merino lace wool for very little (under 4 Euro, under 6$ for 150 g) and I started straight away. It is the first time that I am knitting lace and fortunately the beginning is easy.
A good exercice to calm down was iron-folding the prairie points for my Delectable mountains too! That´s boring and it takes very long. I hope I have enough now. As soon as my Bernina is back ( even better than new I hope) I will sew them to the border.I wish you a serene time without bad surprises!
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I´m so sorry about your sewing machine! I hope she will sew much better than ever before when she arrives back.
Do you know the book "Patchwork Socken"??? I´ve seen a lot of socks that I love - I CAN`T knitt sock´s you know! If I knitt socks, I always knitt one and forget the second :-))) ... for years!!!
But patchwork socks ... perhaps ... one day!?!?
Ooooh that is terrible! But it looks like you are putting your non-sewing time good use. Here's to a happy healty homecoming for your machine.
Oh my! The jaywalkers are absolutely brilliant. The colour you've chosen is perfect. Love love love them!
I so admire those socks, I need to take some knitting lessons so I can try them too. Sorry that your machine is broken, what a bummer!
What a pain in the bum about your sewing machine. That's a lot of fabric but at least it will be sewing a treat when you get it back.
Oh my - that surely is not fun news to receive. Hopefully the repair can be done quickly to help take a little of the sting away.
I've tagged you to share 7 random things about yourself. You are so kind to share your charming quilts, enquiring minds want to know!
http://koolqlt.blogspot.com/2008/02/7-random-things.html
PS, I love the socks!
I'm sorry to read about your sewing machine. But I can see your talents beside sewing now. The socks are beautiful.
I want to let you know I gave to you a blogger award. I really enjoy your blog.
Sorry to hear about your machine, Gwen - what a pain! Nice socks, though.
Oh, Gee... So Sorry to hear about your dear sewing machine.
But look at you, You aren't waste your time.*S*
Your knitting socks is adorable!
I am sorry about your broken sewing maschine and the high bill to repair it.
Today I gave you a blogger award for your blog because i love to visit it.
LG, Britta
Oh so sorry to hear about your machine. I had a new machine once that in the 8 months I owned it I only had it for about 1.5 months - the rest of the time it was in the shop getting fixed! Needless to say I got rid of it and demanded my $ back! Hope you figure something out! I'd be soo sad without my machine.
So sorry about your machine. hope it comes home soon. Love the socks!
Ooooh. Prairie points - a favourite of mine. Can't wait to see them on the quilt.
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