scattered...

just like these photos. 

Thought I should pop in and document what's going on in the sewing room.

Lots.

Too much.

This is the back of Swirled Christmas Trees 

all leftover stash pieces.

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The start of a long project I fear.  

Meghan loved the purple yo-yo quilt I quilted for a customer.

She wanted one. I said 'oh we could do it together if you like--I'll show you, it's more of a craft thing than a quilt thing....'

I bought the yo-yo maker.  I made one.  

Meghan came down a few days later while I was working on something else and started fiddling with the yo-yo's  (be still my heart).  I tried to ignore her--ie: not pounce and scare her away ya know.

Finally, she asked how this works.  I calmly got up and went through the steps, trying to keep ALL signs of over EXCITEMENT out of my voice.

I showed her how to line up the front and back. I picked up the already threaded needle and said 'and then you just sew through the holes' like this.

She blanched (not an exaggerated word for effect)

Her: WHAT? you have to sew this?  YOU TRICKED me!!

(yep, she actually said 'you tricked me')

Me, laughing:  What are you talking about this is how you make them?

Her:  I didn't know we had to SEW them!

Me: well, yah, that's how you make them, how did you think it worked?

Her:  I thought you just popped them in and out of this thing and it was done somehow.

Oh my shattered dreams.......

This picture shows the first Three yo-yo's.

409 (yes, four hundred and nine) are all that is needed.

sigh......

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My guild's Christmas BOM blocks.  I will be taking out the applique globe one and just making the pieced ones.  (they give us both pieced and applique patterns every month) I thought it was required that we make both. I was going to give up the project.

  It's not required.  

So I'm not.

I love it when I get all rebel-y.

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Thread catchers.  I started making these while I was pulling stash for the back of the Christmas swirls quilt (see above).  I had some nice pieces and had been thinking of making some of these for either the guild's silent auction at the end of the year and/or the guild's show gift boutique.  I ran out of the strapping to finish them. Hubby is going to bring some home next time he gets a delivery.  I use the stuff that they put around boxes.  It's perfect and free. And another example of how/why things don't get finished around here.

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Christmas Swirls quilted with swirls

am I an original or what????  

:)

I do love this and have the binding made-same aged muslin as the background.

I'm thinking of sewing it on and then taking it to retreat so I can hand sew it to the back when I get tired of piecing.  

Right!  Like that's going to happen-stop piecing to hand sew binding....

I probably won't work on it but I might and I do so like dragging everything with me when I go on retreat so take it I will.

Unless, of course, I finish it before retreat.

buwhahhahahahaaha.

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 My design wall.

starting at the left.  

My urban candy blocks:  no work on them for weeks.  I have all the pieces cut and they will be going on retreat with me.

The lime green and blue * asterisk* block-ain't it cute.  I saw it in a book I was looking through at JoAnn's last week and just wanted to see if I could make one when I got home...uh-huh so now what to do.

The 2 blocks with blue background are another block I saw in a book and thought would be cool to use for the strings I have.  It looks like the bottom left of the first block has a chunk cut out, but that is a little note with how I made it pinned to it so I don't forget.  Four blocks sewn together forms an "X".
These are going on retreat with me too.

Dresdens: The fifth and final row with sashing sewn on is last, if I ever get off this computer and get dressed I'd like to take the 10 minutes to sew it on to the bottom of the quilt, for pity's sake why do I put this kind of easy thing off.

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My sewing table-and hence this posts' title 

SCATTERED

holy mackerel!

and yes that is a Christmas wreath above the fire place.
It's seen better days and I had it sitting by the door to get rid of it (before Christmas) and then I didn't so I stuck it up there on an empty nail and forgot about it
until now.
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fun times, fun times.

Life is good.

January 8th

My house is almost un-decorated but that is another story.

At the beginning of 2012, I thought I had made  a very do-able goal list.  But as the year wound down I could not finish (quilt) the 3 tops that I have had on the list for the last two years now.  I'm bummed about this but hey that's how it goes!  

They are:

Chloe

Aster Manor
I can not find a picture of the completed top--yikes!

Jonquil & Stars

They are all big quilts full/queen size and I have the backing and batting ready too.

Chloe was loaded on Saturday.

I was back and forth over how to quilt it-always a dilemma! The thoughts of custom quilting it just makes me tired.  Of course I really wanted to do feathers on it but was thinking it was too busy.  Then I was making my bed later, um I still have my Christmas quilt on it.

I did all over feathers on it and it's a darn busy quilt and I love it.  Love the texture, love the feathers.  Decision made!

So now I just need to get started on the quilting.

My goal list is much smaller this year.

4 tops need quilted. The 3 above and Modern Misfits too.

I have 5 WIPS:

2 embroidery pieces – finish as pillows, frame etc.

Swirled Christmas tree wall quilt (applique)

Bunny Hill Designs BOM “Dresden Plate”

New York Beauty

Curve it Up Quilt Along (Blog) BoM

I did get my Christmas Swirls top fused.

I may save this for the quilt guild retreat. It might be a good little project to take along in case I get tired of one of the other things I'm working on.

For "NEW" projects this year I just have 

"use my Quick Curve Ruler." 

I've started making Urban Candy already. 

I have 10 blocks made.  It calls for 90.  

Making these modern quilt patterns is so far out of my norm and curves so out of my comfort zone that I shake my head over this change in me. A few years ago I would never have thought I would ever make a quilt like these.

So I start this year hopeful that I will finally finish up my UFO's and WIP.  I didn't even mention the 70+ block a day blocks that are still aging to perfection in a box under my cutting table (oh yes! I know exactly where they are) don't want to overwhelm myself. *wink*

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In other aspects of my life I need to

- get back into a routine; this creature of habit needs it ....badly. 

-continue my walking and good eating; got away from me a bit this holiday season

but I'm back in the saddle again.

-s.l.o.w. down  

I'm a fast person, I do everything fast. Not as warp speed fast as when I was younger but still pretty fast. I move fast, I talk fast, I eat fast, I get ticked off fast (but I also get over it fast)

 :)  

I'm starting to get a little tired.  

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fun times, fun times.

Life is good.