still working away

I've been working away on the homespun wrap and on quilting the quilt for Donna... the problem is that my hand still hurts. Its been hard and frustrating ...while I don't have to the wear the brace and the hope is that the pain will be completely gone with in about 3 weeks now... I have a hard time believing that when it hurts like it does now. But I'm still working away and hopefully soon I will have more pictures of completed projects.

picture time!

The first is the abc blanket...each block is a food or cooking related item that starts with a letter of the alphabet. The backing is flannel with gum ball machines. I think I will probably save this for when my friend Steph has a baby. Steph was a food service/hospitality management major in college =)

then its Aunty Kyra's snoopy table square and then the grinch table square for Mrs. Murray

got some more done!

I finished the bindings on an abc quilt and the snoopy square. I know I have some more table runners I'd like to still do for my mom but for the most part I'm officially closing the doors on Christmas 2008 gifts- just have to do the thank you notes.
WOOOHOOO! Pictures soon I promise.

I think soon I'm going to need to just break down and buy a bunch of warm and natural to get a bunch more done as well.

At this rate- if it keeps going- I'll be making a HUGE dent in the list of UFOs

Finally finished it

I finally got the grinch table square done! YEAH!
So now back to finish the bindings on an abc quilt and the snoopy table square. Pictures soon!

I get to add another 3/4 yards of fabric to the stash total

I'm bad!

yup but not really bad (do you see my rationalizing here?!) ... I was at Joann's killing time basically and while there I bought 1 1/2 of fabric and a magazine. Now in my defense is the following:
1. I had been looking for this type of print for a Christmas 2009 gift for a friend with no luck before Monday (could order it on line but then I'd have shipping too)
2. I only bought what I would need to make the gift
3. I used my discount card on both and the magazine was already on sale a bit
4. I paid for it with my gift certificate I got for Christmas!


So I still think I did ok and am not that bad. Do I have to count it on the cost of my hobby though?

I have still been knitting away on my wrap. And I'm hoping to stay home tommorrow and get some house work and sewing done.

Ok I'm off to bed.

Made a huge step in progress yesturday

Somehow I made a HUGE leap in progress... we got all the trees down and the stuff is boxed and put away. I now have both tablerunners quilted and waiting for binding, an abc quilt top is also just waiting on binding too. I finished the back piece for the shawl and started quilting (my mom decided she wants more "fancy" echo quilting on the one for Donna) but that's when the wrist started to kill me so I had to stop.


The roads seem to be getting a bit better so I'm hoping to go out and do something becuase we are all getting a bit on each others nerves. So soon hopefully I will be able to post some pictures. And add to totals and move things around a bit

the mini me's were home today

seems the cold (and don't get me wrong its flippin' cold!!!) closed the school today. Granted they needed some extra down time but still... I got some stuff done. We got some cleaning done but I also got the snoopy table runner for Aunty Kyra pieced and layered today. So now I have a small pile of 2 tablerunners and 2 baby quilted pinned and ready to quilt. I also got some knitting on my wrap done. So keeping up with the progress.....



Oh by the way the santa bottle bags that I made last year for teacher and guy gifts were a HUGE hit!! I put the 2 liter of pop in there with 2 packages of microwave popcorn and a gift tag and everyone loved them! YEAH! And I don't think they cost me $5 total for each one and I think that's pretty darn good overall!

got some sewing done today

I'm so excited and happy and I also pieced together the grinch tablesquare and its pinned. WOOHOOO The table runner used about 1 yard of various stash fabrics. This is a belated Christmas gift for a friend. I have one more belated gift to piece together and then quilt. When they are done I will add the fabric used to the count I've got going.
Oh I've still been knitting away on the wrap.
Its progress!! YEAH

another one done!

YEAH I finished this...this was part of my mom's christmas presents but with everything that happened well I didn't get it done till last night.

so what is everyone else working on?

I got my machine back and now its sewing away! I in fact have to just do the hand part of the binding on one of the tablerunners for my mom. THis is exciting so it can move off my UFO list. When its done I will post a picture..so stay tune in the next day or two...

Its done

I can move the donna dewberry quilt from UFO to completed now! YEAH!!!

also get to raise the amount of stash fabric used! And I layered and pinned 2 more quilt tops this afternoon.

I should be able to pick up my baby (aka my sewing machine) tommorrow. YEAH!!!

I'm working away

So I got another recieving blanket made for my mom's coworkers grandson. And also sewed 14 girl scout junior badges/patches sewn down.

So that adds another 2 1/2 yards to the stashbusting total so that's great.

I'm hoping to now get the rest of the binding done and also pin a quilt top that will be for the same coworkers grandson.

I also was able to give 3 quilts away to a family in need. This helps make my heart a bit happier inthat I can help. So the slashed hearts quilt and 2 abc quilts I finished last year are now with new people being loved. =)

YEAH!

Ok so I was watching trash tv last night (it was really bad as I was watching "Rock of Love Bus" with Brett Micheals.... I am beginning to wonder if that man is a little more than stupid but I digress.) And I got the binding 1/2 hand stitched on for the Donna Dewberry UFO! WOOHOOO maybe tonight I will get it finished and moved to the new list. And then I'll show you all a picture of it.

So far I'm doing good ...

I'm working away on things...trying not to get discouraged by the list of projects and such. Considering most of what is on the completed list was also on the UFO list last year I'm thinking I have a good shot at getting lots of things done again this year.

Today I went with the wonder twins to Joann's ... I finally broke down and got myself some new pins. I am tired of bent ones in my pin cushion. Spent a whoppin' $1.93 when all was said and done with my teacher card and sale. So that's good.

Ok off to try to get more work done. I got the machine part of the binding done on the one quilt top so maybe I'll work on that or I'll keep knitting away..just depends. What I really need/want is a nap! =)

Happy 2009 everyone!

I decided to spend some time today sewing and working on projects. So far its 1:22pm here and I realized I am out of the brown thread I need that matches the brownie sash/vests...so maybe later I will venture out to get that. But in the mean time I made the recieving blankets for Donna (my mom's coworker who's son and new wife are expecting a little boy)... That used up 5 yards of flannel out of my stacks of fabric! WOOOHOOOO