...my 9th quilt for
Lutheran World Relief...I don't think you can tell it from this photo...but one of the little print squares is turned the wrong way...I don't know how that happened...rushing and not being careful I guess...of course i could take it apart and fix it...
...and the only thing that I didn't check off of my weekend list is the A-Line Jacket back...it's miles of Stockinette Stitch...and I think it might have been a bit over-ambitious to think that I could get it all done in a weekend...
...I do love the little seed stitch border...the Seed Stitch was the first pattern stitch that I learned when I was a very little knitter and I'm still quite fond of it...
...my 9th quilt for Lutheran World Relief...I don't think you can tell it from this photo...but one of the little print squares is turned the wrong way...I don't know how that happened...rushing and not being careful I guess...of course i could take it apart and fix it... 
...and the only thing that I didn't check off of my weekend list is the A-Line Jacket back...it's miles of Stockinette Stitch...and I think it might have been a bit over-ambitious to think that I could get it all done in a weekend... 
...I do love the little seed stitch border...the Seed Stitch was the first pattern stitch that I learned when I was a very little knitter and I'm still quite fond of it...
Wow, sounds like you were very productive, even if you didn't get through it all!
ReplyDeleteI have absolutely no idea what you are talking about-what block?! I think it looks lovely. Your quilt reminds me of cranberries and Cape Cod. Your knitting is awesome-so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYou were a proper busy bee! I hope you had some R&R time.
ReplyDeleteThe quilt is very pretty. x
I can not see anything wrong with your quilt; I think it's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI am in love with the jacket you are knitting and I can't wait to see it finished. Do you mind sharing where you found the pattern?
Warmly,
Tracey
i agree, i would have let the quilt slide....glad you're so productive. have a glass of tea - i'm brewing a nice earl grey right now!
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I like it! Sort of like the NAvajo belief that you shouldn't make something perfect as you are human and you really can't be perfect...
ReplyDeleteFrom a book forward:
Oh by the way...I love seed stitch too!
Here's the book forward...sorry you couldn't see it above!
ReplyDelete"...one phrase in particular jumped out at me: “the spirit line.” Here is how contributor Harry Walters uses it: “To make something that is perfect means there is no more room for improvement. . . . If a weaver weaves a perfect rug, . . . she makes a little mistake on purpose—an imperfection. Often we see a little line, which the Navajo call a spirit line, that extends to the edge of a rug through the border. This line is added by the weaver so the rug will not be perfect.” This wonderful attitude toward human acts of creation, so antithetical to typical Western notions, is not only characteristic of, but crucial to, the way Native people think about what we call “art.” As beautiful and masterful as are the Navajo textiles you will see and read about in Woven by the Grandmothers, it is not so much the works themselves that are significant, but rather the process that led to their creation. In the Native universe, the object has always been a secondary consideration to the primacy of the ritual process itself."
When we saw the dreadful aftermath in Japan I wondered if any of your hygiene packs were there, along with your quilts to keep the survivors warm during the bitter weather that followed the disaster.
ReplyDeleteI can't tell the block is turned. :) Lovely stuff as usual.
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