Knitting...?

No, just casting....

last night watching a YouTube tutorial.  

I'm left handed so it was a bit awkward at first.  

I cast on 40 stitches-TWICE.

Then I got sucked into the abyss "YouTube tutorial land" watching rug hooking demos...

I am making decent progress on the Skinny Santa.

 Although his being complete by end of January is if-y mainly because the month is going way too fast, and I don't seem to have any control over it.

Is anyone else dizzy?

Perhaps it's just me.

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Yesterday, I spent the day with several quilters from the guild I'm in at a sew-in for their community outreach. 

They had blocks already pieced from donated fabrics.  

I  put 2 lap size tops together and brought them home to quilt.  

It was a very good day.

I even made dinner.

Amazing.

DWMonday

The wall is the same as last week.  I was hoping to get at least one row on the OBW sewn together but it wasn't to be.

So here is a picture of my 2nd design wall.  It's the same as before Christmas except for the bottom left. The four patch rows I got together yesterday and the four flying geese blocks...

...I only need 104 more for my small treasures mini quilt. I snagged the picture from the All People Quilt web site. 

I'm not even going to comment on the rest of the second design wall who knows how long that stuff will be there.

I've already visited a few other design walls via Judy's.

The List

2012 QUILTING GOALS

NEEDS QUILTED (flimsy)

          Jonquils & Stars

          Henrietta Whiskers

          Aster Manor

          Chloe

WIP

          Strings & Stars (70x70) finished 1/6/12

          2^nd The Witch Is In door banner finished 1/13/12

          Finish Skinny Santa hooked rug

           2 embroidery pieces – finish as pillows, frame etc.

          Small treasures mini quilt (from AP&Q magazine) flimsy 1/24/12

       3rd One Block Wonder 

NEW

          New Purse w/Margo pattern-everything in a box ready to go

          Winter Wonderland kit-got this on the bus trip in 2009, needs to be made or it needs to go

          Applique Swirled Christmas tree wall quilt-online pattern bought in a moment of craziness in middle of this December 

             click on "Swirled" to see the kewl pattern

          Bunny Hill Designs BOM “Dresden Plate”

          Wool penny rug-have all the stuff just need to cut them out so I can stitch 'whenever' this should be AFTER I finish the Santa rug

*Use rest of 2010 block-a –day blocks*

First finish of' the new year

My first finish is my Strings & Stars quilt.  I finished the binding and washed & dried it on the 6th, took the picture outside!  

 

The temperature was in the 50's yesterday and suppose to be in the 40's all week.  I overheard a lady after church saying 'every week with out snow is one week closer to spring.' 

Strings & Stars is one of the 3 unfinished projects from one of my 2010 lists.  

The others are: 

 my 2nd "The Witch is In" door banner. 

I finished the blanket stitching on that yesterday

and  small treasures 

which is about 1/2 done. 

 I cut it out with the intention of it being a leader/ender project.  But I was so busy quilting in Nov/Dec. that sewing didn't really happen enough to get this one done.  

I know I could just keep on L/E it, but I want it done...must finish all on the list...must finish...which really isn't relevant since I've moved them to the 2012 list.

I have my 'Official 2012 Goals" done and will post it separately.  

I've made a tad bit more progress on the Santa rug.

 But forgot to take a picture. 

I do hope to get at least one row of the OBW sewn together so I can have a new picture for tomorrow's DWMonday.

I caved....

Bunny Hill Designs

I have Cathy to thank blame for posting about it on her blog.  

FIVE DAYS I made it FIVE whole days.

(without starting something new)

 I do believe that is a new personal record for me.

I'm feeling pretty good.

I may just join

I'm feeling kinda crazy. 

It could be the handful (7,8, 10...) Hershey Kisses I just ate.

oink-oink

I'm still thinking about the second one, the first is a done deal. 

I've printed out the directions.

Strings & Stars and other stuff

The front

(70 x 70)

The back

 I did "dwirling" on it. I did about half of it on New Year's day and then finished it today.  I used it as a break from all the culling, sorting, filing and shredding that somehow started this morning with me looking for one simple document and sort of snowballed into a massive file clean out which is a good thing but not what I had planned on.   

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I'm working on hooking the grey background on Skinny Santa. I set the timer for 20 minutes this morning.  

I still have hopes of finishing this in January but twenty minutes a day is not going to cut it.

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 We went up into the attic on Monday.

The stink bugs were every where. But they're hibernating or whatever it is they do so at least they weren't stinky! 

 I was concerned about all the children's books that I packed away and all my cross stitch pieces. 

Whatever possessed me to store them up there!?-who knows.

Oh wait!

 I live in a tiny house with no storage and I probably just lost my mind and did it 

and then something happened (life)

and I forgot I even did it.... 

..yep I think that was it, 

outa sight outa mind.

So I'm happy to report that although, we shouldn't have waited until a FREEZING, SNOWY day to do this (better than in the heat of summer, I know)

 the books were fine. 

not even the tip of the book hoarders iceberg-he he

2 books from MY childhood...oh the memories

My cross stitch pieces were fine too, I had wrapped them carefully-some are coming out of their frames-I framed them all myself so that's to be expected. The masking tape I used to hold them to the mats lost their stickiness-no biggie.

not even 1/2 of them

 Those four little dolls in embroidery hoops-the lace around them has yellowed. 

I completely forgot I had even made them.

dated 1990

I was ruthless in my culling of all the other boxs of treasures crap we brought down.  Amazing how ten years will change treasure to trash!  I carted all the good stuff I no longer need to hold onto down to the local St Vincent de Paul store.  Yeah.

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I've been very strong in not starting any new projects this year and we're already FOUR days into 2012.
Whew!
I know I'm a pillar of self control.


It's going to end soon...
I can feel it...

sigh.  

Design Wall Monday

My 3rd One Block Wonder quilt and my 1st UFO for 2012.  You can read more about it in this post if you're curious.

I've had a nice week between Christmas and New Year's, not a lot of sewing or quilting.  But the break has been good.  Paul goes back to work tomorrow and Meg back to school.  

I'm kinda looking forward to the 'ole routine again.  

In case your wondering we had a crazy, wild New Year's eve.  I was so out of control Annie and Otis had to physically restrain me.

(12:05 am 1/1/12  -5 more minutes and we'll all be asleep)

The temperature on New Year's Day was in the 50's here.  So we bundled up and went on a little "polar bear run" of our own!  A nice 40 minute ride. 

I'm going to link up to Judy's for the first design wall Monday of the new year!

fun times, fun times!

Life is Good.