quilt's almost done! and knitting!

[elizabeth_mn]

I finally started doing the quilting on the koi quilt yesterday.  I went against everyone's good advice and used the border I had originally planned.  This was for a couple reasons: 1.) I'm poor and lazy and didn't want to get any more new fabric for this project, 2.) my husband said he liked the border, and 3.) I decided I liked it that way, too! Sorry, all.

I'm using the free-motion quilting foot with the feed teeth dropped.  I quilted the water with wavy lines and made concentric echo lines on the rocks, and followed the wavy lines for the weeds.  I decided to leave the fish plain, with just a line of quilting around the edge.  I thought about doing scales, but I think they are too small to do a whole lot of detail, and a little bit of detail would make them look more cartoonish.  I wanted them to look a bit more abstract.  I'm going to quilt the border with wide, random stippling.  I think I only have about 3 hours of work left on it, so I hope I finish it today! 

I've been so eager to work on my knitting the past few weeks.  Right now I'm a few rows past the halfway point of my hat.  The weather is turning wonderfully lovely and cold here and it will be so nice to have something to wear on my cold ears when winter comes.

I took this a couple weeks ago, I've done about twice this amount now.  I don't have time right now to take a current photo, but I wanted to show my pretty yarns and how the blue looks knitted up:

 

Yay!