Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
15 Minute Challenge - Guilty
It's another swim practice Tuesday, so I have less than 15 minutes to get this post together. Have I considered writing a post the night before? Yes, I have but Monday evening stuff seems to take over and before I know it, it's time for bed.
On the sewing front, I had an excellent week. Which should be expected as I was on vacation all week.
Not a lot of sewing, but I did get a lot of hand work done. I washed the fabric for Celtic Solstice last night so I can start cutting. But that won't happen tonight because Drama Teen has a swim meet.
It's a new month, which means a new fostering creativity discussion topic. It's a topic that most of us are familiar with, feeling or not feeling guilty as the case may be when we do or don't find time for our creativity fix. Not sure where this topic is going to take us, but we'll look at it all month. It's a good topic to lead into the new year as most of us will start thinking about next year's goals before too much longer.
Well that's all I have time for this morning. Link up below and share how your holiday week went.
On the sewing front, I had an excellent week. Which should be expected as I was on vacation all week.
Not a lot of sewing, but I did get a lot of hand work done. I washed the fabric for Celtic Solstice last night so I can start cutting. But that won't happen tonight because Drama Teen has a swim meet.
It's a new month, which means a new fostering creativity discussion topic. It's a topic that most of us are familiar with, feeling or not feeling guilty as the case may be when we do or don't find time for our creativity fix. Not sure where this topic is going to take us, but we'll look at it all month. It's a good topic to lead into the new year as most of us will start thinking about next year's goals before too much longer.
Well that's all I have time for this morning. Link up below and share how your holiday week went.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Design Wall Monday - December 2nd
I'm not really ready for Monday. I was off all last week, so that makes it hard to get back into the groove this morning. Even more so because this work week is packed full with end of the year stuff.
Even though I was off, we spent a lot of the week visiting family. That means not a lot got done in the sewing room. I did manage to finish the first block for the Starburst Quilt along.
Neutral Gems has been progressing a few blocks at a time. More than half the blocks are finished now.
I didn't get as far on Back to Square One as I had hoped. Only two of the star blocks for the last pieced border are completed.
Bonnie Hunter's new mystery started up on Friday. I've got the fabric now, but it still needs to be washed before I can start cutting. Hopefully that will happen sometime this week.
That's it for what's up on my design wall this week. For more pretties, check out the links over at Patchwork Times.
Even though I was off, we spent a lot of the week visiting family. That means not a lot got done in the sewing room. I did manage to finish the first block for the Starburst Quilt along.
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| Starburst pattern by Alison of Little Bunny Quilts (links to pattern found here) |
Neutral Gems has been progressing a few blocks at a time. More than half the blocks are finished now.
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| Neutral Gems Pattern is "Gems" by Donna Lynn Thomas found in the book Patchwork Palette |
I didn't get as far on Back to Square One as I had hoped. Only two of the star blocks for the last pieced border are completed.
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| Back to Square One by Judy Laquidara (pattern available here) |
Bonnie Hunter's new mystery started up on Friday. I've got the fabric now, but it still needs to be washed before I can start cutting. Hopefully that will happen sometime this week.
That's it for what's up on my design wall this week. For more pretties, check out the links over at Patchwork Times.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Slow Stitching Sunday - December 1st
It's been almost 6 months since I've linked up with Kathy's Slow Stitching Sunday. I've not finished any bindings since June and I only do my embroidery work when I can't get to the sewing machine. With all the family activities going on for Thanksgiving, getting to the sewing room is difficult, but I can sit with my embroidery and visit with everyone without being considered rude. We did a lot of visiting this week, so I made a lot of progress on my Butterfly Medallion piece.
When I pulled this out on Thanksgiving Day, only the left two wings were done, I'm almost done with both wings on the right after 3 days of pretty intense visiting. This is a large panel, so if I want to get it made into a quilt, the pace needs to increase. Maybe if it resided in a little basket next to the recliner, progress would proceed a little quicker.
That's it for slow stitching this week. The binding is made for Mon Ami, it just needs to be attached to the front and then I can spend some time slow stitching it to the back. Hopefully that will happen this week and I'll be linking up with Slow Stitching Sunday again next week.
When I pulled this out on Thanksgiving Day, only the left two wings were done, I'm almost done with both wings on the right after 3 days of pretty intense visiting. This is a large panel, so if I want to get it made into a quilt, the pace needs to increase. Maybe if it resided in a little basket next to the recliner, progress would proceed a little quicker.
That's it for slow stitching this week. The binding is made for Mon Ami, it just needs to be attached to the front and then I can spend some time slow stitching it to the back. Hopefully that will happen this week and I'll be linking up with Slow Stitching Sunday again next week.
Stash Report - Week 48 of 2013
We've spent the holiday week having fun with My Guy's family. It's been a nice visit. By this afternoon, it will be back to just us three till Christmas and we do it all again.
We spent Saturday taking part in "Small Business Saturday" shopping. Quilt shops are small businesses, so that was definitely one stop on our excursion yesterday. I've been wanting to do one of Bonnie Hunter's mysteries since I've been blogging, but have just never had the time. This is the year I'm finally going to sew along. However, I don't have a lot of scraps at home to pull from, so I needed fabric. I had already decided not to use Bonnie's color scheme, but wasn't sure of what I really wanted to do. After a bit of thought, the middle color scheme materialized on my note pad.
After wandering around the quilt shop (without my family, they were off checking out new music), I came up with the second pass color scheme based on the fabrics in shop. About that time, my family came hunting for me. Both My Guy and Drama Teen were absolutely aghast at the pile of bolts in my arms. Drama Teen politely asked who the quilt was for and after hearing that I had no one in mind, she said she didn't want to inherit a quilt made from those fabrics. I just happened to be standing next to a row of brown bolts from which My Guy pulled out a nice deep brown and asked me to start over with that color as one of the focus colors. After some additional back and forth, here's what finally ended up going to the cutting table.
I had intended to go scrappy, but neither of them are fond of the scrappy look, so I'll be using just these 5 fabrics for Bonnie's mystery.
That was a very long preamble into my stash report, which as you might guess doesn't look very good this week.
Used last week: 0.65 yards
Added last week: 13 yards
Used for 2013: 64.48 yards
Added for 2013: 268.83 yards
Net stashed for 2013: 204.35 yards
Definitely not the direction I wanted to go in terms of adding to the stash. But these 5 fabrics will go right back out. On a bright note, I've used more fabric than ever before and to be honest this isn't my worst year in terms of adding to the stash. I still have one month to redeem myself somewhat. Or I can decide to indulge this year and just start over again for the new year.
Check out more stash reports over at Patchwork Times.
We spent Saturday taking part in "Small Business Saturday" shopping. Quilt shops are small businesses, so that was definitely one stop on our excursion yesterday. I've been wanting to do one of Bonnie Hunter's mysteries since I've been blogging, but have just never had the time. This is the year I'm finally going to sew along. However, I don't have a lot of scraps at home to pull from, so I needed fabric. I had already decided not to use Bonnie's color scheme, but wasn't sure of what I really wanted to do. After a bit of thought, the middle color scheme materialized on my note pad.
I had intended to go scrappy, but neither of them are fond of the scrappy look, so I'll be using just these 5 fabrics for Bonnie's mystery.
That was a very long preamble into my stash report, which as you might guess doesn't look very good this week.
Used last week: 0.65 yards
Added last week: 13 yards
Used for 2013: 64.48 yards
Added for 2013: 268.83 yards
Net stashed for 2013: 204.35 yards
Definitely not the direction I wanted to go in terms of adding to the stash. But these 5 fabrics will go right back out. On a bright note, I've used more fabric than ever before and to be honest this isn't my worst year in terms of adding to the stash. I still have one month to redeem myself somewhat. Or I can decide to indulge this year and just start over again for the new year.
Check out more stash reports over at Patchwork Times.
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