I had to go get groceries, and while I was out, I did some shopping for fabric, to add some additional variety for my pinks, blues, and greens. (Yes, I have hundreds of yards of fabric in my sewing room, but somehow I don't even enough of the colors that I need...) While I was picking things out, ... VIEW POST
Archives for 2014
Project 365 — 2014 Week 2
Another week, another batch of photos to share. Only one day on which I almost didn't get a picture, but I finally came up with an idea. All of my photos are on Flickr. It's kind of cool to see them in a mosaic, especially as more and more get added. This is not the first year I've tried to do a ... VIEW POST
Starting an unfinished object
On Wednesday, I posted a pile of fabric, as my "work in progress," and I've been messing around here and there since then, trying to decide what to do with all of it. The fact of the matter is that I'm running out of UFOs! Sort of. See, in my mind UFOs fall into different categories: Need the ... VIEW POST
Throwback Thursday
I was cleaning off my cutting table the other day so I could get something done when I found this photo of myself. Actually, I just lied: I wasn't cleaning, I was shifting piles. My piles have piles. If my cat isn't careful he's going to knock a pile over and get suffocated. Anyway, the ... VIEW POST
Work in Progress Wednesday, Week 1
Today is bonkers. We are back to school, finally, after 18 days off, and today feels like a Monday, but thank heavens it is actually Wednesday! This is the shawl that is currently getting my knitting attention, the pattern is called Faberge. I can't remember what the yarn is. Hedgehog fibers ... VIEW POST
Bonus winter vacation quilting
Variously subtitled: "Calling my mother's bluff" "7 3/4 isn't divisible by anything" "Why did I wait so long to quilt this" So, thanks to our deep freeze, we got another day off. We NEED to go to back to school, but I'm finding it harder and harder to WANT to go, especially since I'm ... VIEW POST