Fabric organization

Well, I've been attempting to organize my fabric and craft supplies in between sewing projects. At the moment this is what my Batik box looks like at the moment. Yikes! Time to turn my addiction into something beautiful!

Sick Sunday...

Well it was another MQG Sunday! I missed most of the meeting due to running late and still not understanding driving in the greater Baltimore area. Anyway I made a heart block for our little exchange and finished the boarder for our round robin. I love how it turned out. To preserve the element of surprise I am unable to post a picture. However here is my heart block. I modified a pattern I'm using for January's strip club quilt.

Playoff weekend

This is the first weekend I've had completely off in longer than I care to imagine. What do I do but bite off a few too many BIG projects and expect to get them all done. (Luckily my weekends are 4 days, not 2.) Yesterday I cleaned out my hall closet. In said closet there are two HUGE Rubbermaid boxes full of unfinished projects. This box was packed before I left my apartment in Wisconsin JUNE 2009!!! Needless to say there are some things that will be tossed/donated. There were 3-4 cut but not sewn scrub tops, a partially completed Halloween costume, 2 cut out dresses, and 3-4 started quilts. I tackled the easiest thing on the list while watching football yesterday - Scrub tops. Only the one I chose to complete I couldn't find the pocket pieces anywhere!!! So today during my cleaning/organizing adventures I will be attempting to locate the fabric I made it with and pray there is enough left over for pockets! Enough of a break. Must clean more before today's games start. They are the important ones. I want to watch the Ravens loose and the Packers win! GO PACK GO!

Progress... I think!?!

Well... I finished the cookbook and forgot to take pictures. It's in a box, in my trunk, waiting a trip to the post office. I can't believe how behind I am this year and how quickly I became unambitious. This living far away from family has allowed me to become more of a slacker than I already was! I had way too many things that I wanted to get done for the holidays and now I'm down to what HAS to get done.  That includes these stupid baseball shirts my extremely PICKY 16 yr old brother wants. (Can you see why they aren't done yet?!?) And something for my Grandma... I love her dearly and I want it to be perfect thus making it difficult for me to get off my ass and make a decision. Goal for today to atleast finish something and get the two boxes in my trunk on their way to their destination. Cross your fingers for me!

What a Sunday!

I haven't had a day like this in forever. I didn't work... I just did things that I enjoyed and it was WONDERFUL! I woke up rather early worked on my my center block for the round robin quilt we're doing with the modern quilt guild I'm a part of. I might actually make a whole quilt like this because I loved how it turned out. I can't wait to see the finished product. Too bad it'll be 6 months before that happens. Patience is a virtue I'm attempting to possess... haha!



I also worked on my one word challenge quilt. I drew up my own paper pieced pattern and finished two letters before I had to head to my meeting. I'll work on it this week and post pics when I finally finish. Now to go finish the cookbook I'm making for my sister. 21's hitting her. She wants to be a little domestic, lets hope that replaces some of the drama queen. Anyhow, I'm happy/proud of her and will support this in any way I can. :)

EUREKA!

Well, I'm FINALLY getting the hang of things... I figured out how to change my background... GO ME! lol Today is the day that my swaps get finished and I put my Christmas tree up! Here's to motivation. Will post pics if I actually get it done!

The Newby...

I decided it was time to join the world of blogging. I know I may be a bit crazy to think I have time to fit all this in, but of women twice my age are/can do this why the heck can't I? Bare with me as I attempt to get this all figured out. (It may take me awhile.) Anyway... enough with the blogging world, I have to get a few things accomplished today. I bit off a little bit more than I could chew with some swaps. I think I'm done hosting for awhile. It was quite disappointing this last round.