piles of noro in limbo

While we wait for me to lay out my progress on quilting and take photos here are some lovely pics of my Noro pile.  I figure you can’t go wrong with pics of Noro yarn.  So pretty.  This is enough to finish my afghan.  I’ve completed two more blocks since my last post on the afghan.  So I’m officially done with 9 blocks.  That 8th block took forever to finish, mostly b/c I’d counted wrong and thought I was working on block 9 but really it was block 8.  So if felt like I was doing block 8 twice.

Last weeks quilting class went well and was lots of fun.  It was a really long day of quilting, and by the end of it we were tired and yet still enjoying our quilts.  I learned that sewing 3/4inch strips is difficult and frustrating.  I also learned that when I try to sew straight I don’t.  But it’s hard not to try to sew straight when I need to sew straight.  We completed about half of the bargello quilt in class and I worked on it a bit last week.  I have about 5 more strips to sew before the bargello part is done and I have to figure out borders etc.  I’ll take pics when I get that far.

Overall I liked the bargello effect.  Enough so that I’m thinking about making another bigger version in the future.  This is kinda a big deal since I don’t normally enoy working from a pattern.  But bargello is not something that I feel that I can just “wing it” although making it bigger will be a big tweak to the pattern.
In other news, it’s been a week since I worked on the playmat.  I did a bunch of work on it though so I’m making slow progress.  Would have gotten something done this weekend but I’ve had a cold.  It’s been a spring like winter.  It’s weird.  That’s about it.

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