Friday, February 28, 2014

2014 NewFO Challenge for February


This has been a pretty productive month for me!  My guild has a UFO Challenge going on this year.  We signed up to finish 6 of our UFOs - one every two months.  We numbered our six, and then every other month they choose a number at random & that's the one we're supposed to finish.  These were mine:


My friend Brad brought these 2 tea towels home from the U.K. and asked if I could make him a pillow with them...about 2 years ago!  My original plan was to sew them together & make one pillow, but they weren't the same size.  So I set them aside...and they were lost for a while...then found & lost & found again!  Then, instead of just adding borders onto the smaller one, I decided to go ahead and make 2 pillow covers out of them.  They ended up being almost king-sized bed pillows.  The top one I made the insert for it & it took my whole bag of fluffy stuffing.  For the other one, I took pity on myself & bought a nice, plump, queen-size bed pillow.

Next is this cunning hat I made for my pal Bill's significant birthday.  I couldn't find a pattern that I liked, so I just made it up as I went along.  Unlike the actual Cunning/Jayne hat, no stripes on this one, but I did use 2 yarns at once so it will be nice & toasty for him to wear in the desert while camping & using his new metal detector.

It looks beige to me on my laptop, but it's actually blue & blue-gray yarns.  

You might remember last month, I started a small quilt for Rilo the blanket hog, and then thought I might crochet a bed for her too.  Well, I did it!  When I get the binding on the quilt, I'll send this up along with it.  At first I was going to make something along the lines of a miniature dog or cat bed, with a dip in the front.  But then I googled to find out what size a hedgehog might like & discovered that they like to have a "hiding spot".  And, voila!

I hope Rilo likes it!

I also made a few more happy bowls, but these have lids.  They keep changing as I go along.


This one is fairly small - maybe 2 1/2" X 4".
Then I tried a new technique for starting the sides & I think I like it better.  They seem to sit a bit flatter.


 So that's what I've been up to.

Oh!  I did get a new-to-me painting!
This was painted by my sister, probably in the early 1960s.
My cousins found it while cleaning their late SIL's house & thought I would like to have it.

They were right!

And Barbara at Cat Patches & I both thought that this would make a fun quilt too - so this is a possible future NewFO!!!

Check out more great NewFOs at Cat Patches!

sue

10 comments:

  1. Great New FOs for February! I totally agree - that painting is just asking to be made into a quilt - go for it!

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  2. Hi!!!! You have been very busy!!!! Great creations!!!! That painting is wonderful!!!! I love cat art!!!!! Would be a great quilt!!!! Thank You

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  3. Love those towels - what a treat to play with those. And the cat art - whoot!

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  4. The tea towels are fantastic! You do great work, I love all your projects. What a fun painting that you will surely cherish!

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  5. Fun pillows! Love your bowls, very bold and bright.

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  6. I love your new FOs! And, I most definitely agree with you and Barbara. Your sister's painting would make a wonderful quilt. Beautiful.

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  7. I love those bowls and I'm sure Rilo will love the new hidey space. I agree with you both, the picture will make a wonderful quilt.

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  8. OMG!!! you have a hedgehog???? I want one!!! Love that cat painting,

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