Yellow cloud

My latest shawl is finished! It looks like a yellow cloud. Soft, fluffy, just gorgeous! Name: No Woman No Cry. It weighs 114 grams, is knitted from 1771 yards of ColourMart extra fine merino and it's a full circle, with a diameter of 160 centimeters.

And as you know I keep knitting, so a new design is on the needles already. This time a design by Stephen West, Exploration Station. Buying the yarn was great fun. I went to Deventer last weekend to visit a quilt show and I knew there was a lovely wool shop in Deventer. 

So my first steps were ahead this wool shop. And the owner wore a lovely shawl, so a few minutes later I found myself back at the counter, picking some lovely yarns to knit this shawl. 

This afternoon I had a good start.

After buying the yarn I went to the quilt show and it was great. Several Dear Jane Quilts were exposed in the synagogue.

There also was a show and tell of antique quilts. The owner, a very nice person whom I happen to know for a few years now, collects and repaires those quilts and tells about it in a lovely way.

The luxury of this week ...

Maybe some of you know I have a job as a schoollibrarian. That means I have multiple (and long) vacations during the year. So I had the luxury of another week to fill with whatever I liked to do.
As I have a deadline for finishing my quilt (next year LOL) I did some quilting. Suppose I quilt a block every month, then my goal is realistic. The first block is finished, the second is half way done.

As we went to Berlin, I had to catch up with my borders, Randje per Week. I managed to do so, so I am on schedule again. I added a close-up, is is becoming quite a long piece of stitched borders!

Ans, as promised last week, a picture of my new started KAL, Montego. Mine is listening to the name No Woman, No Cry. Clue one is done by now.