Skip to main content

What's Up 02.22.16

Boy what a difference a day makes. This past week morning temperatures in the 60s daytime 70. When going out this morning and it's like barely 40, sunny and hardly any wind. So nice for a walk.



I have to say the only thing up on my design wall this morning is maybe the back to the "Disappearing Hourglass 2" top. Haven't decided if I want to take the time to piece it together or just save them for scrap. I'm all for just saving them for scrap I'm not one that really likes to piece backs together. I've done it, but I have so much fabric that I can just go ahead and just take what I have to use it for backing.
Other than that what I did this weekend with mainly just prep work on some projects I have started already.




 I put the printed Transfer Eeze of the cross stitch border for the Scandinavian Christmas on the last block of this wall hanging.



I find it so much easier instead of tracing to just go ahead and print on Transfer Eeze. 



I've started prepping some more I spy fabric to make those Quilty 365 circles. And I plan on working on some more this afternoon when I get back from Tulsa. I need to get some more feasible lightweight interfacing for my circles so I can get some more completed. Before you know it the end of the month will be here and it'll be time to post what we've done for the month in our circles. I didn't get around to doing last month it just got away for me somehow.



I also did some quilting over the weekend on my Rocky Road quilt.  



I had the template for the center of the block but I looked all over and could not find it anywhere. So I guess I'm just going to have to make a new one. That's what happens when you take so much time away from a project. I seem to move or lose material, patterns or in like this case a stencil. 
I didn't get a chance to post yesterday so I wanted to share what I had been working on over the weekend besides prep work. Like I said I did some quilting, 



I also worked on snowman blocks I'm embroidery, 



and some crocheting.
One of my goals is to use some of the scap yarn I have to make items for donating to the church.

Linking up to 
love laugh quilt

what a hoot quilts

super mom no cape

cooking up quilts

patchwork times

Labels:

Comments

  1. Melody A.February 22, 2016 at 11:24 PM

    I like the backing that you have pieced on your design wall, it looks very nice but you are right, it is easier to get a piece of fabric that is big enough in the first place. Your I spy circles are going to be wonderful.

    ReplyDelete
  2. CathyFebruary 23, 2016 at 11:22 AM

    I love the embroidery work on the snowman!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Amy at love made my homeFebruary 23, 2016 at 2:24 PM

    Gosh I don't know how you get so much done! It is all, of course!, beautiful! xx

    ReplyDelete
  4. LynetteMarch 1, 2016 at 7:53 PM

    Love that piecing for the back (totally get you, though). Did you end up sewing it together, or going with a one-piece? Wow - that transfer ease is definitely the way to go for cross-stitch in particular. I could never trace all the x's well enough to look super nice. :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Welcome friends to share a thought, I enjoy reading them and will try my best to reply back by email most of the time. But if you do not hear back it's because you are a no-reply blogger.

Popular posts from this blog

How to Make a Portable Design Wall

I had wanted to get a portable design wall to take to retreats but did not want to pay the price. Looked at various pins on pinterest and took ideas from more than one to come up with my verison. It worked out great and only cost a fraction of the price. The PVC pipes, joints and 2 yards of felt cost under $22.00 My design wall is 4' x 4' which stands approximately 5 1/5' tall. For this size need 2 - 10ft length of 3/4" PVC pipe for the frame and 4ft of 1" PVC pipe for the feet Cut the 3/4" PVC into 4 - 4' section                                                                                       2 - 1' section              Cut the 1"  PVC into 4 - 1' section        ...
13 comments
Read more

Yarn Along 2/20/13 Spoon Pin Doily

It's snowing here and I know some of you are tired of snow but here we will take the moisture any way we can get it. Plus it just gives me a reason to stay in and work on some of my projects. In this picture I'm not sure if you can make it out but in the background there are some wild turkeys that hang around the house sometime, just  chilling This project I'm working on is Spool Pin Doilies.   I had never heard of them before until Bonnie Hunter had mentioned it on her blog . She a had a viewer send her one for her sewing machine along with a pattern. I did not like the pattern but loved the idea so I decided to make up my own version. I wanted a more simple, smaller and fuller doily. So I tried different thread sizes to get one that I like. (From left to right) I tried sock yarn, which I'll redo because I think I like that look. Heavy weight crochet thread, nope too big Bamboo yarn, I like it. Looks good on my Kenmore. Pearl c...
7 comments
Read more

Blog Hop Party Giveaway

I am taking part in the holiday Blog Hop Party. I and many, many other cool quilty blogs are joined in on this. So take a moment to check them out and see all kinds of neat things. Besides being interesting each one of us has something to give away and mine is this book "Christmas with Possibilities"   So to win this book all you need to do is to tell what your favorite Christmas song is as a comment. And if you are a follower leave a second comment. I will pick a winner on the 17th I know, you are thinking why another give away in two days, well this one I had signed up to do before I knew I would reach my goal of 50 followers and 10,000 page view yesterday. I sort of feel like Santa and you know what, I like it. So if you want another chance at winning a small wallhanging I'm offered as a giveaway, check out yesterday (Dec8th) post for details Thank you for coming by and I hope you would take a minute to see what I have been ...
180 comments
Read more