Whittling away at my UFOs

A couple of weeks ago I did a little bit of reorganizing in my play room.  I do more than sew in my space, so I think it is more appropriately called a play room.  It actually has always been a playroom.  It used to be our children's playroom.  I just reclaimed the space to be my playroom.  Regardless of what I call this wonderful space, it really was a mess.  I had all of my "in progress" projects very neatly stored in plastic boxes and they were stacked in various places around my cutting table.  I've always been an "it's all about the process" person.  What I hadn't fully realized was how many different "processes" I had going.  Not to mention the pile of things I can hardly wait to start on waiting in the wings.  And that doesn't even include my weaving and knitting processes (giggle).

I sucessfully freed up a couple of shelves in the one small closet that is in my playroom.  This is the new home of my project boxes.  I've given myself permission to be able to work on something new as long as I am diligently working on a box from my closet.  And so far, I am sticking to my new plan.  My new plan has been in place for two whole weeks.  I think my major downfall is that there are way too many really cool sew alongs going on in the quniverse.  So hard not to say "count me in"!  The other thing is that my day job sort of gets in the way of my playtime (giggle).

I'm whittling away at my Kathy Schmitz calendar quilts.  I completed August over a year ago.  And now I have October.....

And November......

I skipped September because September is just about over.  I'll surely have it done by next September (one can only hope anyway).

Until we meet again......

Paula

UFO is done , done, done.....sort of

I just love when this happens.....

The empty box means it is now a quilt top.  Hooray...I plan on doing some big stitch hand quilting on this one.....It's one of Norma Whaley's wonderful designs....

Slow stitching Sunday

I love hand stitchin' bindings.   I know that is the least favorite thing for many.  I think it appeals to me because I can be lost in my thoughts or lost in a great audio book or singing along with some great tunes while spending some time with needle and thread.  The best part though is it means I actually finally finished something.  Which is quite a feat for this queen of Works in Progress.  So my Slow stitching Sunday was spent sewing the binding on this Happy Engagement quilt that I made for our beautiful daughter and her charming sweetie.  It's hard to get a picture in this household without one of the furry kids poppin' into the screen (giggle).  Hope you're enjoying your Sunday.  And if you liked to see who else is Slow Stitching today.....Hop on over

Happy little wallhangings

I am just thrilled with how these little wallhangings came out.  They make me smile.  Isn't that the point of a hobby....to bring happiness to your little world?

The top one is a pattern by Threads that Bind and the bottom one is from Norma Whaley (Timeless Traditions).  I have quite a few of Norma's patterns.  Which one shall I do next? Hmmmmm...Hope you get to take a little time for yourself today to do what makes you smile.

Until we meet again,

Paula

April OMG is done just in the nick of time

Well I'm a little closer to getting on track with my Gardens of the King SAL.  I just LOVE Missie Carpenter's starch EPP method.  I have adapted her method to some of my other projects with great success.  It makes blocks with very complicated piecing go together in a snap 👍🏻.

Here are the blocks I had hoped to complete for my April OMG.

I just love the Cherrywood hand dyes that I am using for this quilt.  Your needle glides thru them like a knife to butter and the colors are just superb!

I'm happy to link up to the April OMG and can hardly wait to see how well everyone did to achieve their goals!  Now to mull over what to do for May.  Hmmmm.....

April One Month Goal

I'm taking a quick break from packing for our weekend getaway to Orlando to pick out my one month goal for April.  I'm behind in my progress of this lovely quilt......

So I have decided to focus on this one for April.  Here are the blocks that I have so far....I'm using Cherrywood hand dyes as well as some Ricky Tims' hand dyes too.

My goal is to complete 2 more blocks this month.   Look here for what others have for goals for April.  Good Luck everyone!  Now back to packing....we are off to Universal Studios to go to Harry Potter.  I can hardly wait 😃

Woolie Blocks 3 & 4

I'm having such a grand time with Dawn's sweet little Woolie Blocks.  Here are my Blocks 3 & 4.

I wasn't happy with the pink that I chose in my first block, so I reworked that one.  And I used a peachier pink.  Here are all 4 together.