A few odds and ends.......

Projects are all over the board lately.

These socks got completed #1 because I put my back out and couldn't stand at the long arm like I had planned, #2 with the thought that I wouldn't be wearing them until next Fall/Winter (but the weatherman just predicted 3-5" of snow the day after I completed these and it's still April) #3 one sock was done and all I had to do was one more.

This may not be a project that I have completed yet, but I was gifted "silk hankies" several years ago.  (These are layers upon layers of silk that needed to be "pulled" into a workable yarn.  Well, I never thought I would do this myself after watching a YouTube video, so I found someone who would spin it for me. 

First she dyed some wool in royal blue so that she could spin the silk with the wool.

Here's a picture of the yarn she dyed.  

Then this is a close up of the silk added to it.

Here is the final skein.  

It didn't make up a lot, so she is going to dye some more wool for me and then I will make something with both the wool/silk mix and wool.  She still has it and I am anxious to get my hands on it. 

There's, also, been some work on the Hunter's Star quilt.  I have 480 hst that needed pressing and trimming.

They are now pressed.

To trim 480  at once seemed a bit daunting, so I am trimming a few at a time.  

I now have two blocks completed. Here is one.

I now have the pixelated heart loaded on the long arm.  I wanted to get this one done before the next guild meeting.  Thank goodness it is a small one.  It will be a charity quilt  for a local hospital.

It is quilted with the pantograph called "Cupid". 

Now it is bound and ready to go.

This project will be reported to a group on Instagram called "One Thing challenge" where we announced on Monday which project we wanted to have completed by the end of the week.  I just made it under the wire for this one......quilted and bound  

See, I said my projects were all over the board.