Marbling Mania!

Well, as I knew would happen, the Okey Doaky quilt top was finished by Sunday night. This was even with the help of my orange kitten who pounced and attacked the pattern, quilt and sewing machine with great glee! When he tired out, he found a nice soft place on the sewing machine table and slept. It is clear he doesn't want me out of his sight, just in case I may put down another can of food for him.

Then of course I did marble what was left of treated fabric and socks -- not much but I did treat another five yards of fabric today so tomorrow.....

I am relatively happy with these socks. Think they look better in person. The color is relatively evenly distributed. It is hard to coordinate my two hands moving in opposite directions across the tray getting these socks covered. Doing one at a time just doesn't work!

These were definitely Easter egg colors today!!

An Okey Doaky Class!

Well, Saturday was spent in a paper piecing class with Carol Doak who is without a doubt the final word on paper piecing!! She has taught for many, many years and is a wealth of knowledge and techniques and approaches paper piecing like an industrial engineer! She can tell you how minutes you save by doing each individual step in a certain way and get perfect results besides! This is the wall hanging we were striving for.

Anyway, I took the class just for fun and to see if there were any cool tips she had and yes, there were! Of course, I didn't follow directions and Carol undid my mistake (which was a big one which I compounded). She was very patient and spent time with everyone in the class which is a big plus in my book!

I also chose to make up my own variation of her pattern which seemed to puzzle her but I like it! The piece is based on patterns from her last book called "Simply Sensational Nine Patch Stars" and is a very clever approach. Mine is the block above. I left out the diagonal stripes on the outside and used the same background in the stars as the border fabric.

Below I have the different versions done in the class. As usual, overachiever that I am, I am halfway done the rest of the blocks that make up the wall hanging!! The rest will get done this afternoon so the top should be done by tomorrow -- you can get a lot done when there is no husband around for awhile!