Knitted Sleeveless Sweater

Happy to find at last a pattern requiring only 5 wool balls, as I have several batches of 5 balls in my stash.

Pattern found here : Click. Susanne's blog is a Danish one, although the google translation is a mess and I could rely on the numbers and the pictures (thanks for those close pictures!) to progress with my knitting... I am quite anxious regarding the completed result... 😱😏😆

I use a FONTY yarn Urga 50% yak 50 % wool. Needles number 5.

During the last lockdown I had sewn several project bags like the one I am using presently. I had no pattern but found various pictures of such bags that are very practical with their several inside pockets and their perfect size. See the inside details here : Project bag.

Crochet Giant Granny Square Throw Progress

At the begining of this new lockdown I started searching my stash of yarns with the aim of creating a new multicolor giant granny square blanket.

I picked up all the colored yarns I found for needles or crochet number 4, keeping the brown, grey and beige for another project. 

Here I used the brand Fonty quality Ambiance 100 % superwash Woll superfine SW.

This is a very simple and pleasant project. It is never boring as you change colors. I love playing with varigated colors when I work on a project, that is quilting or knitting. 

Two Antique Quilts

Summer in France

Hi everyone! Back to Greece... and to my blog after a long summer in France. I am still busy there restoring my 19th century summer house bought five years ago. I love doing this job and especially  decorating, with the drawback that it keeps me temporarily away from quilting. 

I have sent most of my quilts, the antique ones and those done by me, from Greece to France, with the aim of a future exhibition, but not only : my house is going to be filled with quilts on beds, on couches, hanged on walls...

The above picture shows two antique quilts displayed on the sofa in the living room, bought by one of my sons on ebay in 2014. You can see several pictures of those quilts, with details HERE and HERE.

Liberty Four Patch Quilt in France

Last spring, moving to my summer house in France I could only carry with me two quilts :

my Antique Scrappy Stars quilt and my Liberty Four Patch quilt

I love the way they look in there antique home.

No quilting last summer, just a little knitting, and I must say I did not start quilting yet although too many ideas and new projects... but I will try to be reasonable and finish some UFOs : This is my autumn goal !

New Home for an Antique Quilt

My Scrappy Stars antique quilt travelled with me to France. I thought it would be of the best decorative effect in my old French house. I have displayed it in the garden on an antique bench to take pictures.

I came back to Greece a few days ago after a long time in France (two months and a half!). I thought I would escape from the excessive Greek summer heat, but I had an exceptionally hot summer in France, and coming back here I find an exceptional heat for September... not lucky! It is definitely not a temperature to start quilting...

Antique Doll Quilts

Hi Again! Further to the previous post, I have compiled a selection of 6 antique doll quilts this time.

You can find each of them through a Quilting Stories post:

1. Brown and Pink
2. Lone Star Antique Gold Rush Doll Quilt
3. Antique Doll quilt  
4. Nine Patch 2
5. Four Patch

Antique Quilts

Hi! This post contains 6 of my antique quilts that I have posted on Quilting Stories:

1. Scrappy Stars
2. Pink Water Mill
3. Log Cabin
4. Monkey Wrench Grey 
5. Eight Point Stars Red and White
6. Around the World Woolen Amish

Snow Storm in Athens - Greece

View from the lounge

Entrance

Back yard

Back yard

View from the kitchen

View from my bedroom

Here I am, back again to my blog that I somewhat neglected for a while, due to the visit of my sister and niece who came from Paris to see my newborn grandson. They remained in Athens for a week, we had a wonderful time, and they were lucky enough to have a good weather... until the snow started to fall yesterday. Today they fly back to France. 

As I said, we are having a second wave of cold, with today a storm of snow! It is very beautiful and looks like Siberia! In those circumstances, nothing better than a good fire, a good book and a knitting... not forgetting of cup of coffee! My blue jacket is progressing slowly but steadily...

Antique quilt pink

  

Last February I have shown you the antique quilt I received from USA. In the box, together with the Monkey Wrench grey quilt there was a second one : this pink quilt. It's a wonderful antique 1870s quilt, the pattern is Water Mill small scale and the size is for a queen size bed. I love everything in it, but especially this incredible green sashing. The brown backing is as well beautiful (you can see it in the fourth picture). This is such an inspiring quilt, as regards the pattern, and the combination of colors!

Knitting a Baby Blanket

Together with quilting, I enjoy a lot knitting. This was in fact my first craft ability : I learnt knitting at the age of four.
I had the example of my mother knitting all day long for my sister and me, and even for our dolls. She was doing wonderful creations. 

In the past I knitted for all the family, until my children became teenagers and decided that hand knitted pull-overs were not in fashion!

So now I take my grey yarn, my beautiful wooden needles and start a crib blanket for my grand-son to be born in December.

This blanket will have a Liberty fabric lining (you can see it in the first two pictures).

To put my work, I always search in my stash of hand made bags an assorted one. I had forgotten about this shopping bag I did some time ago, and I find it very cute (Echino fabric). 

The yarn is from Rowan, wool and cotton quality.

On the background of the knitting you can see the antique quilt shown here.