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Have you heard about Sky Scarves?
I know I might be a thousand years behind on this one, but the Boy's mum told me about a project she is starting - each day of 2013 she is recording the colour of the sky and will be knitting two lines of a scarf in that colour, with the aim being at the end of the year she has a scarf to remind her of the year - she has wool in white, two shades of grey and two shades of blue.
It sounds like such a great idea, but I can't knit for the life of me, so I thought I might give it a go, but making a quilt. I thought squares of these coloured fabrics might make a wonderful quilt - now all we have to do is figure out the logistics of making 365 squares fit into a quilt {see the problem with that one?} and we'll if I have the patience for it. I am a great fan of starting a project and letting it fall by the wayside!
Are there any quilter out there who'd like to offer me some advice?
Are there any quilter out there who'd like to offer me some advice?
But, if this plan fails, maybe I could try my hand at creating one of these stunning Sky Scarves;
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| By Mav, blogged about by Joanna Goddard |
Back in November I promised myself I would make a quilt in 2013 but have yet to buy the materials or decide on a pattern. Let me know how you get on, I need a kick up the rear to force me to start.
ReplyDeleteYou might be waiting a LONG time before I finish (although I am planning on doing a month's colours at a time) I'd say - just do it. This will be my first attempt at actually making one too!
DeleteI love this idea but I can't knit either or crochet and I have never tried making a quilt #craftingfail
ReplyDeleteGood luck! x
I've never tried a proper quilt before either - i am hoping doing it slowly will mean i a) don't mess up b) i actually read about what i am supposed to do!
DeleteYou could use like hexagons and just patchwork them together - which is pretty simple to do. Although you'd need a lot of them to make up a quilt.
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking that i might sew 12 squares on a months sky that I can then sew together into one big quilt later. If I do it in pieces, it might actually get done.
DeleteI love this idea. I made a goal of crocheting a blanket and after a frantic amount of granny-squaring and sewing together between Christmas and New Year, it's finally starting to take shape! A sky-quilt sounds like an awesome idea too!
ReplyDeleteI would love to be able to crochet properly - i can make a beanie and thats about it. Will you be sharing the quilt when you're done? x
DeleteThis is a great idea! I can't knit very well either so I don't know what has possessed me this year to learn crochet :/ The quilt idea is good, maybe make a mini one so you don't end up abandoning it?!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, if I were to knit a sky scarf using where I live as inspiration.... it would be grey.... all of it! Ha! ;) xx
I can crochet one thing - beanies & that's only because i was taught to do it by a bunch of pro snowboarders I lived with on my last season - apparently that's what all the cool boys did!
DeleteI'm thinking of doing the quilt month by month and then piecing them together at the end, then i have 12 small projects rather than one big one. I have a feeling in Sheffield there might be quite a lot of grey too!
I love the idea of knitting or sewing the sky!
ReplyDeleteYou should join me too - you can knit right? c'mon - get involved!
DeleteOh man that's an awesome idea!
ReplyDeleteYou should totally do a crochet one - and if you're worried about having missed the sky so far - it's been a mixture of grey, dark grey and white ;).
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