Sunday Stash Report, Week 12

Wow.  Such a great week for new incoming stash.

I have no words to explain my complete and utter disregard for the stash report.

My only defense is that {they} are making too much cute fabric…which forces me to buy it all.

 

It’s probably a good thing I’m not an attorney.

 

In this week:

2 charm packs of Sunkissed won in a giveaway

2 yards of assorted Central Park and Sunkissed yardage

2 jelly rolls (Hullabaloo & Sherbet Pips) purchased {here}

Out this week:

0.5 yards for Block 10 of the BOM

Making my totals:

Used this Week:        0.50 yards
Used year to Date:    14.00 yards
Added this Week:      9.75 yards 
Added Year to Date:  30.94 yards
Net Used for 2011:    -16.94 yards

I get by with a little help from my friends

Blogland is so amazing.  I have met some of the coolest, nicest, most wonderful people because of either my blog or their blog.  Love it.

This week, I received two charm packs from a giveaway.  TWO CHARM PACKS.  Awesome.  Vicky from LA Quilter gave away 6 charm packs of Sunkissed {2 packs to three different winners} and I was one of the three!

Yesterday I worked on a quilt from a pattern that I received as a lovely and very unexpected gift from another friend in blogland.  Cindy from Hyacinth Quilts is an amazingly talented quilter and designer, and MAN is she prolific!  I’m always in awe of what she accomplishes!  In November, she posted a picture of a finish of her Root Beer Float pattern using Christmas fabrics.  I commented that I loved her finish…and she mailed me the pattern!  Amazing!

This is my version of Root Beer Float…well my test block anyway!  I’m using Red Rose Farm by Elizabeth Scott.

I will say…I was a bit nervous to begin this quilt…because there is a lot of cutting and TRIANGLES!  But, having completed one block…It’s SO EASY!  I have never had flying geese turn out so lovely, that’s for sure!

So, thank you so much ladies for your amazing generosity!  Today I’ll be testing out some more blocks and dreaming of what to do with those charm packs!

even closer

I’m even closer to the finish of the BOM.  I still love every minute.

Over the next week or so…you’ll be seeing some new projects on this blog.  Some quilty…some stitchy…and some home dec related.  But, hopefully, you’ll find at least one thing that interests you and keeps you coming back. 

And on that note:  just want to give a big virtual hug and big thank you to all of my followers and commenters out there.  In this world of blogs with hundreds and thousands of followers…it’s crazy how going from 137 to 138 followers can make your day…but it can.  I love hearing your feedback on what I’m working on…and love visiting your sites too.  So, from this amateur blogger to all of you out there…whoever and whatever you are…thank you.

Sunday Stash Report, Week 11

I’ve missed a few weeks, but I’ll catch up everything here.  It won’t be hard…

In over the last three weeks:

I won one of the 2.5” Buttercup charm packs from the Moda Pillow giveaway on Fig Tree Quilts site, so that’s about 0.19 yards in.

I got my Fig Tree Club kit in, for another 4.5 yards in.

Lastly I got my Block 10 for the FQS BOM…approx 0.5 yards in.

So my grand totals are now:

Used this Week:        0 yards
Used year to Date:    13.50 yards
Added this Week:      5.19 yards 
Added Year to Date:  21.19 yards
Net Used for 2011:    –7.69 yards

Phew!  I need to get working this week!

Snow Garden Finished

Last night I was able to put the last few stitches into Snow Garden.

My anniversary is in January, so I used this first block as the Brown Family block.  I put my husband’s initials on the left, the year we got married, and then the first letter for my name and the two boys.  I had to stitch the year over one because my spacing was SOOOO tight there!

As much as I complained about this block at the beginning…I am very happy with how it turned out.

I think that this tree is my favorite part!!!

I had started the border for block two already, so I’ll leave you with a shot of everything as it stands tonight.

I know what I’ll be working on this weekend.  What are you sewing/stitching?

My first crochet project

Since I own up to being a knitter and crochetter {is that how you spell it?} in my blog profile, it’s probably about time that I finished a project and showed it to you, huh?!

This project is not only my first finished CROCHET project, but it’s also my first project using REAL yarn from a yarn store.  And I will say…I’m definitely sold on the superior-ness of that yarn store yarn.  FABULOUS.

Hat stats:

Pattern is the Inauguration Hat found on www.ravelry.com.  You do have to be a member, but it’s free and a completely amazing wealth of knowledge.  I stitched this pretty much exactly as the design called for, with the exception of increasing to 7 dc in between posts.  The pattern suggested only up to 5 or 6, but I thought it seemed too small to fit my head.  In actuality it turned out a bit big, and I had to dc down to 6 to get the length in the hat.  So pretty much that means that the designer knew exactly what they were talking about and I should have listened…but you know…me and my big head…{btw…that just completely exhausted my knowledge of crochet…in that one single description of this hat and how I made it}

Yarn is a red wool bought at a fancy yarn store in Sugar Land, Texas.

No I didn’t save the type or color or do anything smart like that.  I didn’t really think that far in advance.  I’m actually fairly certain that I threw my bubblegum away in the label that came with this yarn.

For the sake of posterity…I feel compelled to express a few things at this point:

1.  I hate taking pictures of myself.  Particularly at the end of a day when I have no makeup on.

2.  The bow on the brim of the hat really doesn’t seem that big in person…but then again…I’m not looking at myself when I wear it.

3.  It takes an embarrassingly huge number of really bad self portraits to come up with 1 mediocre one of a completed red wool inauguration hat.  All I want to know is…where am I SUPPOSED to look when taking a self portrait in a mirror?

And in the spirit of this post…I will leave you with a few of the outtakes…photos that didn’t quite make the cut for the “official” inauguration hat picture.

Happy stitching/crocheting/knitting everyone

Ohhhhhh so close to a finish

I haven’t posted in over a week.  I even missed my regular Sunday Stash and Monday Design Wall posts.  Yikes.

Today I’m showing you a progress picture of my Snow Garden stitching.  It’s oohhhhhh so close to being done…and next time you see it…it will be!

{oh, I couldn’t decide which of these pictures I liked better…so I’m including them both}

I need to finish up that peacock and then finish the personalization and it will be done!  I think that this will be the first cross-stitch finish that I’ll have to add to the list since 2009!

Sad news today.  Lisa of The Primitive Needle passed away today.  Definitely a loss to the stitching community.  Click {here} for her blog and {here} for her website.  I know that these days most of my readers are quilters and may not know of Lisa or her designs, but she was an extremely talented woman, and obviously loved by her family.  My prayers go to her husband and children during what must be an amazingly difficult time.