Not finished yet but almost.

When I got home from work on Thursday I found I had the house to myself, no family members and no dogs. This was a perfect time to sandwich the 'happy quilt' This is a large quilt so first I needed to join the backing fabric to make it big enough. Once that was done I found it would have been useful to have one person at home as my new pack of wadding was very large and it was a bit of a struggle on my own. However I eventually got it done.  I pin basted the quilt and folded it to be quilted later. Unusually I already know how I want to quilt it but I have some other things to do first. I haven't got a photo of the sandwiched quilt as I forgot. The backing is a pale yellow chosen as it was the right size, suitable colour and in my stash. As far as possible this year I'm using what I have rather than buying but I will probably buy a little fabric when I visit my favourite quilt shop later this month.

In the evening I did some knitting and finished the second sleeve of my cardigan. 

I stitched the fronts to the back at the shoulder seams and read the instructions for the front band. To knit it I needed a 100 cm circular needle. I don't generally knit on circular needles and so I'd bought this in May in preparation. I needed to pick up stitches around the front edge, 364 in total. I decided to leave this for Friday. I started picking up the stitches, having marked each side in sections. It didn't go well and in the end I pulled out what I'd done and put my knitting aside. Today, Saturday, I marked out the right and left fronts very carefully, dividing them into sections. In each section I would need to pick up 20 stitches. This took quite a lot of time but made it much easier and I finally got all the stitches on the needle(s) and I have now knitted a couple of rows of the border. It is knitted in rib so this is not something I will be doing while watching TV. Full concentration is required. The pattern requires 14 cm of border to be knitted and when finished it will fold back in half. There are no buttons and therefore no buttonholes. The cardigan is all the same colour but the light changed between the two photos.

This evening instead of Knitting I'll be working on my crocheted blanket. I've joined all the squares in one direction and tonight I'll start joining them in the opposite direction. This is something I can work on while watching TV or listening to an audio book or pod cast.  No fancy stitching required.

I'm linking this post with Finished or not finished Friday I wonder if I can get at least one of these to a finish for next week?

Take care

Lyndsey