Kathy has taken up knitting to fill the vacant hours of her life. (With a husband and two teenage sons, how much idle time does she have?) She's taken a class at Cottage Knits to learn how to knit socks. While at Shipshewana, she was working on the ribbing and here's a completed sock.
Beautiful colors in the sock and I'm sure the pair will be wonderfully warm when she gets the second one completed!
Kathy then went on to show us the quilts she had completed. For many of them, she had the blocks already completed and just needed to put them together. She's also getting adventurous and is quilting the smaller quilts, doing a lovely job. She even used a decorative stitch to do the diagonal quilting on the blue and white quilt (if my memory is right). We oohed and aahed over the the quilt with the bold colors and black and white mixed in - you can see a touch of the black and white border peeking up on the left hand side of the couch. Notice, too, the wonderful baby sweater. While not technically a quilting UFO, we counted it as a completed project. It is gorgeous. 
I showed my quilts next - having completed the quilting on the quilt I made while in Cambria this year. But...I'm saving the picture for later as it has some Christmas and housewarming presents in the picture as well.
Deb finished out the show with her quilts. The Irish Chain is for son John as he heads to college. The stunning quilt in purples with lime green accents was a kit from Shiisa earlier this year. If she lets me quilt it, it may get "lost" in my house! I should have taken a close up picture of the orange and blue quilt. The borders are lots of eyeballs - silly goblin eyes, funny monster eyes - just lots of fun. And we're waiting for completion of the plaid quilt in white, pinks and greens. This was fabric purchased at Calico Point during our Shipshewana foray and she has one block completed thus far.
Kathy completed the most projects - no contest with a total of 9 completed projects. We're talking about setting another date a few months in the future to measure our progress at that point. Any bets on who has the most done next time?
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