Tuesday, July 20, 2010
What Happens When My ADD Rears Its Head
I have made so little progress on stitching. I don't know what it is - summer? And I notice a lot of my blogging buddies are experiencing the same thing. I know that I have a hard time sitting down at night. But I got a little more done on my A&E sampler:
Not much since the last picture. It's been too hot to sit under the Ott light even after the A/C was fixed. I even started a new stitching project although there's not much to show - a non A&E!! Hopefully, I'll have a progress picture next time. All I have now is a lot of green!!
All this weekend, I had a song going through my head - Let's Go Crazy by Prince. Not my most favorite songs by him, but I couldn't get it out of my head. My intentions were to get into my craft room and clean out the closet for my sister's arrival so that we could put the shelving in. Well, one thing led to another - resulting in a huge mess. I know, my blog started off as a stitching blog, but bear with me - you just gotta go with the flow, right?
All the Farmer's Wife blocks done for the month. The pink and green one at the bottom was the one I had to recut and piece over. Now I'm caught up and awaiting next months!!
Next part done on the red, black and white quilt!!!
Two more Civil War blocks. Although the one on the left seems to have a serious problem that I didn't notice until I went to iron it out. I know what I did and have since ripped it out to resew, along with those blocks from my last post - UGH, I hate ripping things out.
Now this is where the ADD comes in. Those pictures above were done here and there during the week when I could catch an hour or so. Then I thought it was time to get into the closet and clean it out for the anticipated shelving, but what resides in the closet? Well, pizza boxes with quilts in some form of cutting, or finishing - along with a multitude of other things that catch my attention. I've posted a picture of the infamous pizza boxes before. They're just the right size for holding my projects. Anyway, I start peeking into the pizza boxes (even though they're all labeled) and I come across projects all cut out and ready to sew. I have a tendency to go through marathon cutting sessions so that I can sew to my hearts content when I have the time. Now my mind is much more into sewing than clearing out the closet, so ADD kicks in and this results:
Four blocks from a quilt called As Time Goes By. Aren't the colors wonderful? Do you see why I just had to sew and not clean??? They were all cut out - calling my name!
And if that wasn't enough, more ADD kicked in and I decided to now start on something else. I posted these blocks a while ago:
At the time I posted them, I had good intentions of moving right along with the quilt. But I think that was when I painted the room and packed everything up. Well, I couldn't find the blocks after. Not anywhere. Well, they made an appearance in the closet cleaning (in an unmarked box), so I started on the next section:
Nothing much to see here except 12 blocks in progress with the next row pinned on and ready to sew! The quilt will look like this when it's finished although that will be awhile seeing as I have some kind of problem sticking to just one quilt at a time. But variety is the spice of life, isn't it?
All this quilting craziness resulted in this mess - it looks like a bomb hit this chair:
Now surely you can see the garbage bag to the left side - I honestly was trying to clean - honest! LOL Well, it has been cleaned, but that's what everything ended up looking like when I was finished for the day.
And then to add to the craziness I had to purchase these - like I don't have enough going on, right? I couldn't resist - I saw them on Amazon and had to have them. Just love Amazon for those great prices:
I just love working on the Farmer's Wife quilt so much that I want more!!! I think I have to be totally certifiable with the Nearly Insane quilt though. I've seen it done in red and white fabrics. Stunning. I'd post a picture, but hate to snatch a picture from someone's blog that I don't know. Just let me say, that my heart did a thunk when I saw it. So in addition to starting on Dear Jane here in the near future, I'd say I'm set. Or perhaps crazy! Crazy is good, don't you think?
Well, that's been my week. I'm off now to string lights into a huge (stage sized) piece of fabric to replicate a night sky for my DD's play. I can't believe the performances are next week. This summer certainly is flying by. The next couple weeks are going to be crazy ones with my sister coming in and a small vacation, but hopefully I'll find time to keep up with blogs and maybe some stitching and quilting too.
Thanks again to everyone that entered my giveaway and to all the new followers - I was overwhelmed how many new ones I saw. I'll be tracking down your blogs soon and I hope that you'll stop and say hello every once in a while. I love reading your comments! Have a great week!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Stashing and Framing (But Barely Any Stitching)
I actually tried to get myself to stitch something else the other night. I pulled out a cute Halloween piece by Mary Garry, found some fabric and the threads and thought that it would only take me a night or two to stitch. Did I? Of course, not! I started to pull the threads out and that danged bird above started screeching at me! Dang! Ann is relentless, let me tell ya! Although, quite truthfully, I think it's me. I really want to see her done and hanging near And They Sinned. I started her December 31st 2005. I'd really like to (if I'm not lucky enough beforehand) to put the last stitches in before December 31st 2009.
Well, that's it for me. Thank you everyone for the wishes about my cold/flu thing. I'm feeling much, much better now. My SIL said that it had to have been Swine because the regular flu hasn't even hit the State yet. I'm still coughing and sniffling, but that's nothing compared to what it was. All I know is that it was miserable. But thanks so much for the wishes and for your comments. I love every one of them.
Have a great weekend and make a lot of X's.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
A Finish,Some Stash and I Should be Shot!


Just in time to use all those 60% off Joanne's coupons I've saved up. DH is going to divorce me for sure with this framing. He looked at me with raised eyebrows when he saw last month's framing expenditure. All I can say is - HE'LL GET OVER IT!!! LOL

Here he is, but don't tell. He doesn't want me putting pictures of him on my blog. He thinks it's lame. He's reading a long note that my DH and I wrote to him about how proud we were of him. I think he thought that this note was lame too - you know how kids are at that age. But we are very proud of him - he's a hardworking kid, gets great grades, volunteers and mentors. We spent the day at Race Rochester - an indoor race car place - it was hotter than the dickens in those helmets, but he had a great time. Then his favorite dinner and cake and he was all set. What did he ask for? Well, an IPod Touch, of course. His older one broke and he was using mine. I'm glad to have mine back now - especially because of some of the songs he downloaded on it - I like rock and roll, but.............



An American Sampler published in 1993. So now I'm happy as a clam. But it's going to be hard to decide which one to stitch first.


I've been watching the progress of Margaret and Tanya working on Rebecca Robinson and just had to have it. The Flame Stitch sampler is one that I've had my eye on for a while because of the bright colors in it. These purchases were partly because I wanted to start working on Suzanne Lane 1776.


Just because these represent two of my three favorite things. Plus I like having some small projects.

The Riddle - I have seen this popping up on blogs and love the colors in it, so had to have this one.
Then Sailor Collar by Shepherd's Bush. Now there is a reason I got this one (well, I talked myself into having a reason to buy this). I wish that I could be SAL stitching Sail Away with all the other girls, but I already did it. When I saw this on the wall of my LNS, I decided this could be my piece. I won't post on their blog, but I'll have a nautical theme thing going too. (Note: I am an honorary member of the Sail Away SAL - thanks Glenna!). But there was another reason. Last Spring, our Sampler Guild had an auction and I bought the companion piece, Cranberry Pinafore, for $10.00. Now I can have both of them stitched and hang them together. I think that's a good reason for buying this, don't you? Of course, you do! LOL
Then I get an email this week from Colonial Crafts posting their latest things. I'm surprised the subject line in the email wasn't, "Dear Sucker - Do We Have Some Things For You".
I love these fabrics. Now I haven't quilted much in a while, but the line of this fabric just jumped out at me. If I remember right it's called the Williamsburg Sampler line. I'm going to get a couple more pieces of it. I'm not into collecting whole lines necessarily when I do a quilt, but I thought these two pieces from the line would be great for backing pillows, pinkeeps, etc. Love it!!!
I think that I have done enough damage this week. What I want to do now is come up with a 25 project list. My friend Di and I were talking about this and the fact that we have WIPs all over the place and just keep adding. It's time for action. So the two of us are going to put together a list of 25 projects that we want to do and get them done. I'm doing it because I have so many WIPs going (some from 20 years ago that I still love), that it's becoming lunacy. So my project for this week is digging everything out and making a list and figuring out the rules. Maybe if I publicly embarrass myself before all of you, I'll get some of this stuff done (like all three of the HoHRH pieces).
Well, that's about it for now. I should get some cleaning done even though it is so hot. Maybe I'll just go play with stash! LOL Oh, one more thing. I don't know about anyone else, but I've had a horrible time with Blogger this week. I would try to make a comment on someone's blog and I would get error messages. It would clear up for awhile and then start again. Then it threw some of the blogs I really like to follow down to the bottom and wasn't bringing them up when new posts were made. So, if I haven't made a comment, I'm definitely not ignoring you! I obviously don't need to be enabled anymore (at least for a month) by all your wonderful stitching, but I love reading and seeing everyone's projects. Have a wonderful week!!! And thanks again for all your comments.
Monday, May 4, 2009
And All I Wanted Was A Flippin' Thread



After:

I absolutely love stitching this. Yes, it was some wonky quarter stitches and backstitching, but I am really enjoying this! I'll probably work on this for a few more days and then put some time into Cape Cod Girls.


After seeing that evil enabler (opps - did I let that fly out of my head), pardon me, Stitching Sister, Siobhan 's Stories to Live By - Eve, I knew that it would be an excellent addition to the A&E wall. But I couldn't stop there, I also got Jonah, because, well......you know.....it goes with the nautical bathroom theme!



This weekend I missed my monthly Guild meeting. Dang, and they had a lot of fun too as Terri mentioned in her blog. Check it out. They had a class project of a Mermaid pinkeep. Our Guild President designed it. It's so sweet! And then one of the women brought her almost completed Dutch Beast, oops, I mean Dutch Beauty. It is truly stunning! But it looks big enough to sleep under. Anyway, the meeting sounds like it was a lot of fun, but I had my reasons for not going. This weekend was the first of my daughter's recitals. She has three.


Such a sweetie! That make-up is a little bit over the top though with those cat eyes!

And in her ballet costume. She's been dancing with most of these girls since she was three years old. I remember her with a pull-up on under her tights just in case she got too excited dancing and had an accident! And by the way, for those few that haven't seen her in a while - she's 5"1" tall and her feet are as big as mine! Where did my baby go???
Well, if I haven't bored you enough, I'll probably bore you with this one. It's the continuing saga of my tooth and the cracked root. I finally had my periodontist appointment this week. Prognosis - remove the tooth, do a sinus lift due to bone deterioriation (okay what the heck is a sinus lift - I'd rather have a breast lift, butt lift or face lift - not something that no one is going to see). Then they will implant bone crystals. After a few months, they will put in the implant post so that the new (read: fake tooth) can be put on. Now the total cost of this (and you will understand why I went on the stash splurge now - there will be no money later)- are you sitting down????? $6,700!!!!! For one FREAKIN' Tooth - of which my dental insurance only covers $600. Also, not included in the cost of this is the actual fake tooth that goes on the implanted post! Oh, my aching mouth. Or it will be aching. I'm now on my third round of antibotics and the surgery won't be done until May 20th! Definitely not something I'm looking forward to.
Okay, I hope that I haven't bored you too much. Maybe I should learn to post more often. But I always think that I have nothing to say, and then suddenly it's like I can't stop! Like eating potato chips.
Anyway, hope that everyone has a great, stitchy week! It should be a fun one here - Tuesday DD and I are going to a sheep shearing at a local farm, and Friday I'm meeting up with Terri and a couple of her friends for Girl's Night Out in Holly (antique city). So have a great week and thank you for all your wonderful comments. I love hearing from you and visiting your blogs too!