I spent the whole summer playing the I COULD..I SHOULD game. Have you ever played? It's where you spend your day at the computer looking at all the cool stuff everyone else is doing and thinking---I could do something...I should do something...I would do something..only I didn't. I just spent my summer enjoying everyone else's creativity.
But there is something about this time of year that energizes me with new creativity. I seem to make more resolutions this time of year. Maybe it's because school is starting a new year. It's also my birthday and that is the beginning of a new year for me. Anyway, I decided to get doing.
I started on a quilt from a tutorial I found here from The Missouri Quilt Company, one of the places I spent many, many days playing the afore mentioned game.
I used a jelly roll from Riley Blake's Sweet Nothings line and a Moda Basic White jelly roll.
I've got the blocks all sewn into rows and now I'm working on sewing the rows together. Matching those points is not easy for me but I'm using it as a learning process.
Thank-you to all the wonderful bloggers I follow for your inspiration.
Okay--it's not really a "game" but very interesting.
My friend Sheri over at Sheri Howard Designs posted this and I asked her if I could repost it here. Hope you find it as fascinating as I do.
Take the last two digits of the year you were born and the age you will be this year and the result will add up to 111 for everyone!!!!
This is the year of MONEY.
Also, this year, October will have 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays & 5 Saturdays. This happens only once every 823 years.
These particular years are known as Moneybag years.
I just love stuff like this!! Hope there will be a Moneybag for me this year.
Lately, as I've been out touring in Blogland, I have visited several blogs that feature hand embroidery. It brought back memories of my "hand embroidery days" way back when. I remembered how much I loved the feel of the needle in my hand and the peacefulness I felt as I stitched designs with thread and floss.
I checked out some books from the library and just knew I was going to have to do some embroidery.
You can find these book at Amazon as well. I may have to buy them for my collection.
I love to stop by and visit with Carina at Carina's Craftblog, where I always find beautiful embroidery and lots of inspiration. When she mentioned a stichalong over at feeling stitchy , I thought I'd drop by and see what it was all about. And that's when I decided to join in.
a hoop, a needle and a sweet crocheted egg to use as a pin cushion.
some leftover cotton craft thread from a long ago project.
I have lots of scraps left over from projects--so I though this brown piece might go well with the thread colors that I had.
I spent the afternoon on Sunday, sitting in my rocking chair in my craft room with the windows open, listening to the birds singing, and embroidered.
It was a wonderful, peaceful way to spend an afternoon.
I'm thinking of making this into a pillow.
Thank-you to all my new "hand-embroidery" friends, for re-introducing me to this wonderful past-time. I will be spending many more peaceful afternoons in my rocking chair--stitching away.
It's 80 degrees and I'm headed east.
It's a Sea Grape bush/tree.
That doesn't help you say.
Wait--What's that in the background?
I feel so blessed that this is what I get to see every day.
Mr. Procrastinator has overstayed his visit here. Actually I think he has decided to live here permanently.
He is not a good house guest at all.
There's piles of piles in the guest room. There are half finished projects in the craft room.There is dirty laundry overflowing the hampers. And if Mr. Procrastinator stays any longer, his friend, Ms. Anxiety will come to visit.
So today, I have informed him, in no uncertain terms, to be on his way. No lingering goodbyes. No sad stories. I have things to do.
I have items to photograph and list for my Etsy shops.
I have a garden that needs tending.
I have housework and laundry that needs to be done.
please don't stop by again.
"Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. "
I'm a wife, a mother and a Nana. I have been happily married to my high school sweetheart since we were both 18. We bought our little beach house in 1979 and oh the stories it could tell. I'm newly retired and ready to start working on all the projects I've been planning for years.