Projects of The Past...

This post is dedicated to both completed and incompleted projects alike. Just a few pics of some of the things I've worked on in the past...and...present?

This is my very first attempt at cross-stitching ever. My friend got me started on it on a blustery winter day, then I took it to work on when I visited my parents that weekend, got stuck, and my Dad, for some reason, was able to figure it all out and got me back on track hahaha. So when I finished this, I gave it to him.

I chose and stitched this pattern specifically for a friend I was visiting this past summer. She loves cats and sewing, so this seemed perfect. I loved the simplicity of the black and white and the craziness of the border. This is probably my favourite cross-stitch project so far.

This is a wall-hanging quilt that I worked on from September-December 2009. It was mostly just for fun, to practice sewing and use of scraps of fabric that my friend had laying around. I like some parts of it, and don't like other parts. It still needs binding sewn on. My next quilt will be a full-size one, and a more traditional pattern.

This is the first quilt I made, this past July. I did it one day, with a lot of help from my friend Rose. Before that day I had never touched a sewing machine, and had no clue about cutting fabric, seam allowances, bias, batting, binding, etc. Turned out pretty well!

This is an afghan, 1/3 of the way completed. It remains, 3 years later, 1/3 of the way completed. It was part-way finished when I had to abandon knitting. I've knit 3 other afghans of the same pattern, but differing colours before this one.

This was completed in April 2009. I was really pleased with the outcome, as my first "big" cross-stitch project. I gave it to my Grandpa, and visit it quite frequently :-)