NYE Mystery and a Christmas Project!

Good Morning!

I am participating in the NYE Mystery over at the Quilt Talk Yahoo group -- I have done this mystery since 2004 - with only 1 year skipped because we were out of town. These are the fabrics I have selected this year. I love them!! I just got the groovy flower and yellow fabric yesterday and I had the pink and green in my stash! I am excited to see how it will turn out.

And here are all my pieces cut - did not take too long - about an hour and a half and I ready! It starts at 7 AM tomorow, so I will be setting the alarm so I am ready to go. Dear Hubby makes snacks through out the day so it is a nice day and then we go out to dinner around 7 when the mystery is complete and then come back home. I even bring my machine down to the dining room so I am not sewing alone.

Yesterday - since my room is sew sew clean -- and I have put projects in a basket that need just a few things done and they will be complete -- well this is what I worked on yesterday morning I made 14 candle mats -- some were partially sewn -- I have the backs cut - today I will quilt them and sew the binding on and then I can just hand sew the binding as I watch tv at night with Dear Hubby -- This will go in my craft show tubs, I made a few of them this year and they sold real quick so I hope they go in 2012 as well. At least I am seeing some progress!
Well I think I am headed back up to my sewing room and start quilting these little guys up -- did I mention I made 14 yesterday!!!

Happy Stitches
Dorothy

Ready, Set, Sew in a Clean Room!!!

Hello!

WOW! I think I cleaned this room in record time this year - I started on Monday, worked part of yesterday and then most of today and I am happy to report it is CLEAN!! And I am doing a happy dance!!

I love it when it is clean and tidy, now I can sew, I have a pile of projects in a basket in front of my bookcases and that is what I am going to work on starting tonight. I really want to get that pile complete, and it is all simple things, odd blocks I am making into candle mats, a few stitchery pieces need to made into pillows and some candle mats for Christmas- all the parts are cut they just need to be assembled and quilted -- most of the items will go into my craft show tote for next years shows. Can't wait to get a little bit ahead.

Here is my room as you look into it from the door. Gosh clean counters :)

Here is my ironing area - I also recovered the ironing board, it has needed to be recovered for probably a year I had an old towel on it over the last covering, and you know what - it only took about a 1/2 hour to recover it. So happy to have a clean place to iron. The flannel blocks are for a rag quilt for our king size bed, they are all sewn into 2's and some into 4's -- need to get this done this year!



Here is my cutting area -- Gosh this had so much stuff on it - It was Crazy!!! Glad to be able to cut and measure on the ENTIRE table not just 14 inches of the table!!!



And this is where I do all the sewing -- look nice clean counter and all dusted and ready to go!


I did vacuum - but our real vacuum is on the fritz, part is ordered but we are still waiting for it, so I used Dear Hubby's Shop Vac and it did ok, but I really can't wait for the vacuum to get better so I can give it a deep vacuuming, but for now I am thrilled it is DONE!!

Well Happy Stitches....
Dorothy

WHAT A MESS!!!

Hello!

I hope you had a great Christmas - we had a fantastic day at Dear Hubby's familys celebration!

Lots of laughs and lots of eating...what fun!

So today I said I need to tidy up my sewing room and then I went in there and started going thru a box and and said WHAT A MESS!!!

So here is the before picture.....



I sure hope in day or so it looks better, and if you don't hear from me in a day or so.....you might want to search the piles of fabric for me!!

Happy Stitches
Dorothy

Merry Christmas!

I hope you have a great day! We are going to Dear Hubby's sisters house for the family get together about 2 hours away.

Enjoy your day

Merry Christmas!

Dorothy

Package mailed!

Good morning!

Yesterday I went to the PO with 6 packages to mail to all parts of the country and was nicely surprised when the lady told me all would arrive on 12/22! AWESOME! I can check that off the list, now today I need to mail the Christmas cards and then back some more cookies for Christmas and just finish up a few quick gifts and I will be done!

Why is it -- when you think your done, one or two more things pop in your head and you say well I can get that done by Christmas?!!?

Happy Stitches
Dorothy

Cookies and a UFO Complete

Hello!

Did you have a productive Sunday? I sure did, I got 7 dozen cut out cookies done and 6 dozen decorated, I have a dozen of Snowman to do but I ran out of white frosting and I have been to the grocery store in town twice today, so I will wait til tomorrow to get them complete. But I have all my boxes packed for shipping so I can get all my cookies mailed tomorrow! It will be a good feeling when I leave the PO tomorrow.



Check out my Red, White and Blue candy canes....you guessed it those will be going to my Godson who is a new Marine I sure hope he likes them!



Then you saw on Friday night I got my snwoman top down, well between Saturday afternoon and today, I got it quilted up!!!! And during the Survivor finale I got it bound! YEAH! Another UFO done! Still have way too many but at least I have 1 more done for this year.

Well off to bed so I can get an early start tomorrow.
Happy Stitches!
Dorothy

Friday Night Sew Results!!

Good Morning!

How did your Friday night sew in go? Mine was fantastic -- I stayed up and sewed til 1 this morning! I finished my candle mat I started last weekend!

I also finished my Santa Wallhanging, this is a gift and I have 1 more to make this weekend so I can mail them on Monday.



Then I went thru my UFO's and I thought I would like to get these snowman blocks sewed up -- so I layed them out and sewed them and got the border on also. This weekend I will quilt and bind it and another UFO will bite the dust! And I will have a happy throw for the sofa! Buttons is very excited about the quilt top -- she really enjoyed being on it this morning while I was trying to snap a photo.

Also during the day I worked on a king size flannel rag quilt for our bed. I have 157 blocks all sewed up and sewed into pairs, I now need to lay t his out on the bed and then complete sewing it up. Then rag it, that will take some time! This is another UFO that I want to get done before the end of the year.

We are pretty much ready for Christmas - I have a few gifts to complete and cookies to bake next week, but I would say we are within a day from being done, so happy about that, it gives me extra time to sew. That is an advantage to being off during the holidays you can accomplish alot.

Well I am off to get inspired at my BOM this morning and have a Christmas breakfast with the quilting buddies!

Happy Stitches!
Dorothy

2nd Friday Night Sew In this month!!

Hello

Well it is Friday night sew in again! Thank goodness I have my BOM tomorrow and I need to get it done!!
So I am off to the sewing room and I will return to my Blog early tomorrow morning with photos!!
Happy Stitches
Dorothy

New House Block of the Day!!

Hello

I was just surfing around and found a new house block that is going to measure only 3 inches and the blog is going to a have new house on it each day!! Check it out

http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.com/

I will get the button on my blog in the next day or so.

Happy Stitches
Dorothy

Friday Night Sew In -- My resluts

Happy Saturday!

Did you get a chance to work on your crafting at the Friday night sew in? I did, well I spent most of Friday working on projects and cleaning up my Creation Station.

Here are 6 wool felt pincushions I finished up -- they had been in pieces for over a year so I am so happy to have them finished! And I think they would make nice gifts for some of my quilting buddies. I did them all by hand and I sewed my machine little muslin sacks for the inside - that I filled with sand.

Then I had gotten my order from Primitive Gatherings in the mail yesterday and this little candle mat pattern was in my order so I got everything fused and all my threads ready I just need to sit and stitch, probably will work on this a bit tonight when I watch TV with Dear Hubby.

And of course it would not be right not to have a treat for Friday Night Sew In -- so I made a Carrot Cake and frosted it and then of course with Christmas right around the corner, a few sprinkles justed added Festive to the title!! Here is my Festive Carrot Cake!!


Back to cleaning and sewing

Happy Stitches
Dorothy

Friday Night Sew In

Good morning!

What a week! I have been sick all week and finally feel a little better today, thank goodness because it is Friday Night Sew In!

I have a million things to do, just cleaned off my cutting table this morning, so I need to see what I am going to work on?

What are you working on?

Happy Stitches!
Dorothy

Craft Walk this weekend!

Good Morning!

Lots been going on around here! First off Dear Hubby had hernia surgery the day after Thanksgiving, we were up at 4 AM and got back home around 5 PM -- he did very well and yesterday we went to the Dr for his check up and he can go back to doing pretty much everything so he is feeling much better.

We did not get to shop at all on Black Friday, but with the sales starting Thanksgiving night that has kinda changed our attitude about it, we used to like getting up early and get some bargains, but we are not as thrilled with staying up all night to get bargains.
Dear hubby was feeling alright Saturday morning, so I was able to sneak over to JoAnns for a bit of shopping that day, and I wanted to get some fleece to work on these scarfs I had seen on a blog, I will get the link up a bit later for these, they are quick and easy. I have made these blue, some black and white and red with Christmas fabrics. A great way to use up your scraps. I have these at the Craft Walk this weekend.

I have been sewing up a storm this past week or so getting ready for the Craft Walk - this is the 10th year I have participated in this and it is always a good time and I make a little money too.
The whole town has craft shows at various houses and churches and folks come from all over to check out what is going on. And tonight is our BIG night in town, we have our tree lighting and of course our Festival of Lights parade, and it lasts about 7 minutes! Small town charm, gotta love it.

Here is another new item I am making -- a few friends are expecting boys next year and I saw this is a high price baby shop a few towns over, very simple to make one a onesie.


I have also been trying to use up what I have in my sewing room, I had 2 of these cutter quilts and I had seen this idea so I decided to make some and they have been selling very well on my Etsy shop - I had the old rusty bed springs from my moms attic, we dismantled an old bed that was up there, and of course when I told Dear Hubby I NEEDED those springs he was not that thrilled but he did take the bed frame apart and I have a box of these old springs, so he is THRILLED that I am actually using them of course he mumbled something like, Oh FINALLY you are using those!! Men they just don't get it.




You can use these on top of a tree of just put them on a shelf -- kinda cute and fun to make.

This morning when I opened the door for the dogs to go out -- we have a little dusting of SNOW! Perfect for our towns Christmas celebration today and tonight!

Well that is most of what I have been up too, I hope you are doing some fun stuff this time of year too!

Happy Stitches!
Dorothy