Every Ending is a New Beginning

 

I finished a couple of projects this week, and I'm working towards another. 

First up is Lillian's hoodie. A nice fleecy hoody for snuggly soft warmth. It isn't my first time working with fleece, but it is the most complex fleecy make I've made. 

soft hoodie, snuggly hoodie

It wasn't a complex pattern, thankfully, and went together pretty easily. More trouble with my sewing machine, which doesn't like thick fabrics. But we managed. My serger also wanted to ruffle the fabric a bit, which means I should have tested it with the fabric left-overs (where the heck did we put those??), and adjusted the tension. But it wasn't too bad, anyway.

What? no pocket?

Lillian was very happy to take her hoodie home, turn up the air conditioning, and snuggle in.

Next, is that project challenge afghan, which I finished, then took off the border, and redid. I'm sooo much happier with the finish this time!!

Oh, yes!

What will happen to this afghan, you ask? I expect to donate it through Cruces Creatives and Charitable Crafting, very possibly to the Community of Hope/Jardin de los Ninos.

The final project I'm going to talk about ALSO will be donated there this month, if we can get it finished. A few of us in the Charitable Crafting group have been working on getting the beautiful, beautiful blocks sewn into rows, and then the rows sewn together. There's a decorative pillow, and a bag to hold the quilt as well. 

The most recent picture I have - beautiful blocks!

I'll try to take more pictures!

And of course, I can't forget the new beginnings part... Yep, some sewists started on blocks for the next Charitable Crafting quilt! So excited to see those beautiful blocks!  I'm working on setting up my next Vintage crafting project. Looks like crochet again, but a much smaller project. It is exciting to challenge myself and learn something! I'm also going to be working on another ripple afghan, but as a challenge bonus, not the challenge. Those bonus projects are going to be some of my favorites, I think. And I can see some happening for the next challenge Vintage crafting source.