More socks, Christine's Kitchen Quilt and my second quilt

So finished these socks.  Not sure about the colorway.  Still love the 1 x 1 rib for the top.  It's so soft.

Finally finished the blocks for the Christine's Kitchen Quilt.  Not sure what I want to do with it now.  I'm not excited about doing the applique bits.  I saw someone on instagram who took the individual blocks and made place mats and table runners and stuff so I might do something like that.  I want to quilt these trying free-motion quilting for the first time but I need to get a darning foot and also a post to hold the bobbin on an old machine that I want to start using :)

So, I made another Swatch Quilt.  I wanted to use up more of my old stash so that's why this quilt is so ugly.  Not sure why I bought these two fabrics. I basted it on my Gran's huge table.  Lots of safety pins.

I still had problems with it bunching and moving around.  I got some pointers from my coworker today.  She said to baste on tables big enough to hold the entire quilt and use more pins.  Also she said to start sewing from the middle to the outside and stitch in the ditch first and then go back and add more stitching.  And also when I'm sewing the binding, use hair clips to hold it in place. 

I want to make another quilt this size and then two lap sized quilts. One for me at work and then one for my Gran.  So hopefully I'll start improving soon!

The back fabric isn't much better looking but I still might prefer it to the front LOL

Started another pair of vanilla socks. This colorway is also a bit odd. Cantaloupe and mint green? I don't know...

Here's some cute pics of the animals.  Ripley loves to get in my way LOL.

Here she is looking sweet which is rare.

Pokey at Gran's.  I opened his crate at 8 A.M. but he didn't budge LOL.

My mom took this pic while we were at a concert in Okemah at the start of Woodyfest.  I think it embarrasses her a bit when I always bring my knitting along LOL.

Socks and capri pants and others things.

So, I finished these socks.

And started working on some dishcloths which has been a nice change of pace.  I'm still trying to use up my stash instead of buying yarn and I have plenty of cotton yarn to draw from.

These round dish cloths were so fun. I used up all of my multicolored cotton yarn remnants making them.

I was inspired by Sonya Philip so I made some capri pants using McCall's 5862.  

I added 4 inches to the pattern width by slashing and spreading and they may be a bit big but I'm still pretty happy with them.  Especially the 2 black pair.  The are great for work.

I needed some more work tops so I took the two Star Wars dresses that I made from Simplicity 1630.

And cut them down to top length.  At first I was super annoyed because I thought I cut them too short but I'm wearing the Darth Vader top today and it works perfectly with my black capris and black cardigan.

I got bored with dishcloths so I started some more vanilla socks.  Not sure about this yarn colorway.

I'm hoping to make some more summer tops in the next few weeks. I bought some cool fabric on sale so I think I'll be cutting into it soon.  After that I want to start thinking about fall and winter stuff. My sewing goal is to have enough me made stuff to participate in #MeMadeMay in the spring :)