A 17 Year UFO - Finally Finished!

I’ve been poking away at tidying and organizing my office/craft room. Today I found a knitting project I abandoned in 2009. I had bought the yarn in Muncie, Indiana in 2007. I vividly remember that day.**

I had one sock finished in January of 2009 and most of the second sock done. I got all that information from my Ravelry page. But I do remember Danner’s, where I bought the yarn. It was basically a book and gift store that sold yarn. I just tried to do an Internet search and it appears that it is no longer open.

What attracted me to the yarn was its colourway. Opal Rainforest in the Raupe (caterpillar in German) colourway. (I used to raise monarch butterflies)

The pattern is Leyburn by MintyFresh. 

I only had about an inch of the foot and the toe to finish. 

This afternoon I cut and sewed a couple more checkerboard things from charm packs. This is Honey Bees and Flowers Please by Riley Blake. For one of these you need 8 dark 5” charms and 8 light 5”charms which are cut into 2 1/2” quarters. Then laid out checkerboard style on light interfacing that has been gridded with 2 1/2” squares.

I sew the vertical columns first then press in one direction. When I sew the horizontal ones, I open out the seams to reduce bulk at the intersections. Using a seam ripper with the ball part inside the fold made this a much easier task than trying tu use scissors.

I had ironed the squares of this Morris Manor line onto the interfacing and sewed the seams today.

The next step will be to quilt diagonally through the light squares through batting. Maybe tomorrow.

** That time in Muncie was the first September of my retirement from teaching. We were having lunch at Subway. I took a look at my watch and noted it was 12:20. I almost wept with joy I was so happy - had I still been teaching I would have just finished lunch or hall duty. I was so happy I was retired I wept with joy. It was a very joyful moment.