The other half of 16

I know you have to be beyond bored with all this, but we're almost there!  In this post we'll have a peek back at the last half of 2016.

In July I finished working on a knitted baby blanket...

The pattern was a free one from Bernat and can be found HERE.  

Also in July I played with making a fun little Tilda doll, as you can see here...

The pattern came from one of the books written by Tone Finnanger.

The Autumn issue of the 'Crazy Quilt Quarterly' magazine showed my crazy quilted family tree...

If you would like to see further information about this piece, 

you can have a look at my post HERE.  

In August the weather was very hot and I was contemplating the difference between a bear and BEING bare.  Since this isn't an X-rated blog, I thought the furry sort would be the better thing to share...

The pattern is from Vogue #7534 and was a gift for our #2 grandson

In November, I completed working on a quiet book, also for him...

If you would like to read (and see more pages) about this,

check out the label 'Quiet Book' in my sidebar.

Also in November I put the finishing touches on this crazy quilted Santa wall hanging which appeared in the Winter issue of the 'Crazy Quilt Quarterly' magazine....

In December Grandma's knitting needles were busy creating this sweater for our #1 grandson...

The pattern is from a Beehive booklet called 'Knit Menagerie"

- My friend Renee from the blog 'Handstitched Treasure' has created a very extensive tutorial for making wonderful crazy quilted postcards.  Her final post is HERE (and if you scroll down you will find links to the rest of the parts of the tutorial).  

- Have a look at the collection of quilts made by THIS artist.

- There are lots (LOTS!) of free quilt patterns available HERE.  

- Most of you know I used to love working with recycled denim, so of course THIS would catch my eye!

- For those of you (not me...cough...cough) who have an over-abundance of buttons in your stash, perhaps THIS might intrigue you?

- THIS is part one of a series for making a gorgeous quilt using recycled linens.   There's a link at the bottom of her post to part two (and so on).  

- I stumbled across THIS most interesting post with a novel approach to creating buttonholes in knitting.  It looks somewhat confusing as you read through but I suspect taking it step by step will make it clear.  It certainly makes a really neat-looking buttonhole!

Another anonymous quote today..."Note to self: I don't have to take this day all at once but rather one step, one breath and one moment at a time.  I am only one person.  Things will get done when they get done"