I finished two projects this past weekend. The first is a sweater for our youngest granddaughter, Nora. The pattern is by Marlaine DesChamps, it is called Kiddie Cables. It was an easy to follow pattern and I am pleased with the way the sweater turned out.
About six months ago I took our daughter Emily to a quilt shop in Rome City, Indiana, Caroline's Cottage Cottons. Emily selected a quilt pattern called Sunny Days by Darlene Zimmerman. Caroline's had a very nice selection of 1930's reproduction prints for us to choose from. The blocks were easy to piece, the challenging part was the final layout, it took a lot of rearranging to make sure that I did not have like fabric against like fabric. I machine quilted using the free motion setting on my Janome Horizon sewing machine, I did a very small meander pattern. I will not do such a small meander pattern again, it was very time consuming, and I feel the quilt is a bit "over quilted". Otherwise I am very pleased with how the quilt turned out. I am now working on a quilt for our granddaughter Aubrey and knitting another Kiddie Cable sweater in dark blue in a larger size, it will go to either grandson Ralph, or Harrison, it depends who it fits best.
