Cold Monday Afternoon

Not alot to show, but I can show you this:
That's me in my snazzy new winter overalls, my Christmas gift from my always thoughtful spouse. I love them They are super comfy, they accentuate all my curves, that rusty orange color is Uber-Flattering, and with the right accessories you can wear them anywhere.

Since I cant seem to wrap my mind around sewing lately, I have some blogs you should check out and you can see the cool things that are being created "out there"!
First of all, check out the Love Quilt at Lazy Girl Quilting. I love it!

Then go check out the tiny stars at Brown Dirt Cottage. She's also working on some concentric circle HAND quilting on her chunky Churn dash.

Go see A Simple Girl...she's getting hooked on 9 patches...and we all love those things, don't we?

And lastly, if you want some free stitchery patterns, go see The Noble Wife.

Have fun, and don't stay on the computer too long. You've got some sewin' to do!

Creativity and Chaos

As I sit amidst this mess, I wonder if everyone else makes a mess like this while working on a project? I mean, I managed to do create this chaos in less than an hour.

The upside of this was I managed to finish another block of my applique. The pattern is How Does Your Garden Grow by Blackbird Designs, and it is a kit that I bought from Cottage Quilts some time ago........

Happy New Year!

I've been lax lately. My usual Post-Holiday-Funk.
I need to go backwards to be able to move forward, so we'll start with this one.
This is my boy on his 25th Birthday. We had plans to go to the Beefcarver......but when we got there...NO BEEF. They had actually run out! Ever heard of anything so crazy?
We weren't going to eat the meatloaf or the nasty scrod floating in wet-looking butter sauce, so we quickly came up with a Plan B and went up the road to Mr.B's....the food was ok,(but it wasn't roast beef and those awesome mash potatos we were looking forward to) and we made the best of the situation.

There is a pic of D heading back to NYC. We had her here for 9 days and they flew by. She was back in time for the ball drop........


And then yesterday I decided to make cinnamon rolls for New Years Day....and I couldn't resist taking photos, so here they are:

Blogger is misbehaving right now, so I'll have to edit this post later. In the meantime, I hope that your New Year is a Sweet One......

Rest In Peace, Margaret.

If any of you are Detroit Red Wings Fans, you may have at one time or another seen The Knitting Lady in the stands....at least that is what I always called her. Well, The Knitting Lady was named Margaret, and the television announcer just reported that Margaret passed away.
Seeing Margaret there, knitting away, always made me smile.
I'll miss her.

19 Degrees Fahrenheit

Baby! It's Cold Outside!

My girls are driving on snow and ice encrusted freeways to get to East Lansing, and I'm trying to keep myself occupied in an effort to keep my mind off all the terrible things that could happen between here and there. There are cars in the ditches and medians and the going is slow, but they are checking in from time to time to let us know that they are ok.

So.....I thought I'd work on something to keep my mind off all that.

I started off with my Christmas Presence charm squares. I turned a pack or two of them into 1/2 square triangles sometime last year and then put them away. Pulled those out and started playing around with them.....

And decided that I'm still not that fond of them and I'm going to put them away again.

Then I read an email from Nancy, and she mentioned looking forward to starting a new prorject and I thought that sounded like a great idea...until I pulled out a mound of future projects and found this one underneath them all:

And I decided that I would rather finish this one and send it off to the quilter before I start on anything else. I discovered that I have 5 blocks finished, with 4 in various stages of preparation. I'm pleased to say that I still like this one, and I'm looking forward to working on it again. All I need to do now is pack up all those other WIP's so that they don't distract me and get to work.

Hope you Michigan chicks are warm and safely ensconced in your sewing rooms....and for those of you in warmer climates....you should thank your lucky stars that you are not here!

It Just Keeps Comming!

We're getting quite a bit more than an inch an hour here. It took me 40 minutes to clear the driveway and by the time I got to the end of it there was more than an inch of new snow waiting for me at the top!
The predictions are for 6 to 10 inches before this is over. Thank goodness it's light and fluffy.

Oops! I Did It Again

You know, it wasn't all that long ago that The Spouse complimented me on the patience I was showing with my knitting. The compliment came after I knitted 2 right gloves from my nifty green wool from Skeins on Main....gloves that I started in August. When I discovered my error I was bummed, but I frogged that 2nd right and got to work on it again. Of course, other projects interrupted the finishing of that glove, but last night I sat down with the intention to finish it and post it on the blog this morning. Well, I didn't finish it last night, but when I got up this morning I picked it up and noticed something. I did it again. I knitted a 2nd right hand. Again. I shit you not.

So here is proof of my stupidity.