Sewing Obsessed!

I don't know about you, but I sure would love to know where the last 365 days went?  I mean really, I remember LAST Christmas so well, and here it is another Christmas gone?  Oh to be a kid again! To have the time we thought we then and use it now...wouldn't that be a treat? As promised, here are few pictures of the gifts and good deeds given out and mostly done in November & December this year! Bag I delivered Gifts in Bag for a very dear friend Inside the bag For grandson For another good friend   My good deed for 2010 another good deed For my sister Made bags to bust my Christmas stash! For my niece UFO for a good Friend Gift bags for quilting friends gifts PJ's for Cohan Bags for quilting friends Landon's sleep pants For my other two sisters Snowflakes for family & friends.  Did stars too! Socks for nieces & nephews.  Total of 7 pair knit in Dec. For Brooke's Babi...

Well.... it's here!  Christmas Eve and all it's wonderous glory.  I'm sitting here waiting for Santa to arrive, but then I realize I must go to sleep or he will not visit our home... so on that note -  I wish that the reason for the season, warms your heart and gives you all great peace. From our home to yours ... MERRY CHRISTMAS

Yes, you can hear that on a regular basis now.  And for me this year it sounds like music to my ears!   I am almost done making all the gifts, so of course it would be music to my ears.  If all goes according to schedule (remember IF !) I will be sitting down and enjoying the last week (or earlier) of Christmas watching the Christmas specials and maybe even getting some visiting in!  That is providing the ones I plan to visit are actually in the same boat as me and are home! LOL    Presents are almost all wrapped; tree is up; house is almost all decorated (just a few things to put out yet)  knitting is almost all done (probably early next week) and the sewing is coming to a close too!   One 2 more gifts to turn out and both are pretty easy so maybe one full day sewing at the most and I'm all done.   Never have I been so ready for Christmas and the feeling is just so da...

Goodness gracious the time is going to really fly now!  There are only 29 days to Christmas...are you pulling your hair out yet?   I am happy to say that my shopping is done !  Well all except the big "kids" stocking stuffers, but give me an hour and I will have them done!  Woo Hooo!  Although I am now busy knitting up 4 - 5 items and have 3 left to sew up. Two are ready to sew up and won't take but a couple of hours. The third?  Well, that one is still in the thinking stage, but it is almost all "thought" out.  One evening to sew it up and voila! and  Hello, Santa ! Just have to double check my list! I made up seven gifts this week, and sorry I cannot show you what they are until after Christmas.  Some are small, but made with tonnes of love and one was a biggie! Baking you say? Well I don't do much of that anymore as the kids are not around as much with all the visiting they end up having to do with their extended families and ...

Hah! By the title of this post you might think that I was heading off to somewhere far, far away and warmer!   NOT!   It is more about the reason for the season that is coming upon us! By the time you read this, there will be LESS THAN 40 days to Christmas,  my most favorite time of the year, other than my birthday! J   It is the time of the year that I (me - Santa!) give presents (small as some of them may be) to those who are in my family, those who are like family to me and to my closest of friends.  It is the time of the year where I feel I don't "need" to give a gift to someone, but rather because I really want to. Just because I give a gift doesn't mean I want a gift in return or that the recipient feels they "have" to return the gesture - I have to remind those in my family of that each year, don't I? J   My saying is "It is the time of the year that I give freely and with out complaint, so just say thank you!" The s...

Have you ever wondered how many of this or that you may have?   Well, remember the count I did with the scissors?  No way in my wildest dreams did I think I had that many pairs of scissors!  By the way, I did find the ones I was missing LOL    See the UFO's hiding???  Pat Sloan, a very wonderful pattern designer, is hosting  "12 UFO Buster Tips" and the first thing to do was to count how many UFO's you had.  I decided that I would "count" something once again, it can't be all that bad, right?  Thank goodness I can count that high!  I knew I had UFO's - UnFinished prOjects - I wasn't denying it - really I wasn't.  When my sewing room was remodeled a couple of years ago I had packed UFO's in totes and labeled them, so I knew where they were.  Well part of this process is being honest with yourself, right?  How I wish I had stopped counting after the first tote....

"Is it hard to do a signature quilt?"  That was the question I was asked in September by a gal who was looking for ideas for a fundraiser for a girl in our community.  I was at work when she asked this question and of course the brain kicked into overdrive right away!   It is easy to "think" of a signature quilt (okay for me it is LOL) and but this was 18 days before the date needed!  So I asked what size and how many signatures was she looking for and would they mind a scrappy quilt.  When the answers came back later the same day, I said I would take it on.  Now of those 18 days I was going to be away for 9 or 10 of them, at work for 5 of them so that left either 3 or 4 days to whip up a quilt.  Hmmmm, I can do it ... can't I?  Sure I can!   So, that same nite I designed a layout for the quilt and worked up a border that could be used for an overflow of signatures if needed....

One project kind of took over the rest of Camp Wanna Sew.  It has been in my UFO pile for many, many years.  But it is huge!   93" x 111".  The picture you see is how it is still  and will be until the next camp in April 2011.  I will then add alot of the leaves that are appliqued on top with a vine.  I think putting them all on when the quilt is at it's largest will definitely be a huge hinderance in getting it done, so I decided to leave it in two pieces and do as much as I can while it is not put together therefore leaving only a minimal number of leaves to be put down when it is the whole size!  YIKES!!  The part that makes the "star" was made a long time ago.  I still really like the colors, so for that I am most thankful!   Speaking of thankful.... here is another tablerunner I started putting together.  Joined At The Hip pattern called "Always Give Thanks".  Isn't it cute?  O...

Hard to believe that I have been to Camp Wanna Sew and back already, and I haven't even told you about it!   The drive in was just beautiful!  I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the ladies (45 of them!!) and catching up with some of them from last camp.  Some ladies I see between camps, and others I only see them at camp.  It is wonderful to see what they have been doing since the last we all met.  Amazing what kind of work we all can do!  Of course it takes about 3 days for me to catch up on  my sleep when I get home, as I do take advantage of the sewing time I have there; sewing until the wee hours of the morning.   Now the meals!  Oh my, oh my... not only can we all sew, but we can all cook too!   I really tried to behave...honest I did!  Alas, I guess I will be giving the treadmill  an extra stroll or two for the next couple of weeks .   What a combination sewing and quilting make!  I made ca...

WOW!  October is here and I didn't tell you about my sewing weekend, well two weekends actually ....sheesh!  Hubby had a fishing weekend, early September, so I planned to sew my heart out.  Well, okay, not really.  Seems I still had some kind of "cold" lurking, trying to make its way out, but I'm fought it and won that time!! Saturday (Sept 9th) brought this cute little number to an end.  I started her last year after I had made a very good friend one for her birthday.  And of course never got back to it, so I got her ready for this year!  And this baby is all quilted too!  Then I cut out a table runner for thanksgiving.  No, I didn't get this one last year, but I did get it after Christmas thinking I would have had it long finished by now.  But you all know how life gets in the way of things.  Now I know I did some other projects...but I will have to go back in time to figure what those were ...hm...

Well life sure has a way of getting in the way now, doesn't it?   It has been a few weeks since my last post and I have been quite busy.  School is back in so that means I have started sitting the grands while mommy goes to work on a part-time basis.  And yes, that does cut into my creatitivy in the sewing room, but I have been busy!!  Wallhanging made from a panel Center squares from same panel These have yet to be quilted, but that won't take me very long to do on the sewing machine! Right now I am working on a wall hanging for my entrance and one for my living room as well.  The entrance one I hope to have done sometime early October.  The other won't be done until late December or early January.  That totally depends on how my Christmas list is coming along.  And no, I haven't started sewing from my list yet.  But soon!! Entrance Wallhanging Bags for  Sharon & her sister Karen Made two bags like this for a fr...

And the rains have started and I think has forgotten how to stop?  But we desperately need some rain before the snow comes...water levels are down way too low!   I feel for those people who have wells.   Do hope we have more sunshine in store with rain at nite, that would be the perfect scenario.  Can you believe that August is almost over??  Why is it every time a new month starts, the end is so soon after that?   I think we are having the days inbetween stolen from us...  don't you?? I have been sewing but not sure that I'm actually making any headway!  Have some (5) display projects for a local quilting shop that are almost all done, all except the quilting that is .....yeaaaaa!  Hopefully this week I will be able to get a few of them quilted.  Hope I can remember to post pictures of them when they are all done.  I am trying so hard to keep a record of the projects that I am doing to make a slide show,...

When recently asked "how many pairs of scissors you own?", I decided to really take a closer look at that.  Well I could remember for the most part where most were located and can you believe that after   finding  collecting 43 pairs of them, I know of 4 pairs that are NOT in this picture.  Yes, I swear all of these belong to me and no one else and for the most part I think I use about 3/4's of them.  AND can you believe that when I go and shop for look at notions, that scissors are one of the things I look lust over??  Like who really needs this many!  Now to put them back in their perspective workstations.  I do not like having to look for a pair of scissors when I need them... hmmm... can you tell??  LOL   Think I should try for an even 50... what do you think ???    43 pairs of scissors .. with 4 pairs missing in action!! I have been sewing but not with great gusto, but...

Can you believe that it is August already???  Did you know that we are in the eighth month of what was, rather what I thought was, the beginning of a new year?   I wish I would have kept track of all the projects that I started and finished so far this year.  Not to mention all the UFO's that I finished up too!  I know I did quite a few of those...but there are quiet a few more left here to do, I'm sad to say.   A few of those UFO's are going to be "recycled" into another project, as I have found that a few of them are like "what the heck was I thinking!!" projects LOL  You just cannot finish something you have no liking for anymore, so I will use the fabric to make something else scrappy. As I look back on some of the projects that are in the UFO boxes, I see a change of colors I onced used from yellow, burgandy & blues in fairly bright shades, to deep gold, rustic reds and dark dusty blues.  I went throu...