Originally planned as a get-a-way stitch weekend with my friend Sarah, we both got busy and never got around to booking anything. Turned out just fine however, we spent Saturday together, mostly stitching and got to meet up with some of our other stitching friends for a few hours as well. Stitching progress on Celtic …
I’ve started the first of 3 halloween costumes (last week actually, just little by little in the evenings). So I got the top cut out and started putting it together last night. I hit a spot in the directions where I was COMPLETELY lost and couldn’t figure out what they were trying to do – …
Seems I dropped off the blogosphere after our closet finished huh? Well let me fill you in… The last weekend of our vacation we went back to NY for my nephew’s welcome baby bbq. Then Irene decided she was attending and we had to cancel so we drove home Saturday night. That meant Sunday was …
Yesterday since the cousins were over we spent the day hanging out with them. We baked (fresh blueberry muffins!) and ate (said muffins for sure) and shopped! The halloween costume breakdown is this: Georgia – a witch (Simplicity 2834) Chloe – a vampiress (McCalls 6097) Maia – Rapunzel (Simplicity 2065) Looking forward to this year, …
I’ve been continuing to work on Celtic Banner when I have free time and it’s coming right along! I had to take a picture before I scrolled so I could complete the compass. This is my progress as of Sunday night. My goal is to finish the compass before putting this piece down and getting …
Yesterday I worked from home because I had a cold, in the evening ryan had ZBA so I pulled out my herb quilt which just needed borders and got that finished up. Borders are my least favorite part of quilting so it’s nice to have it done enough to plan out the quilting part now. …
Finally a picture of what Sarah and I worked on Saturday. We are both stitching Celtic Banner, using a green color scheme but she’s using pinks for contrast and I’m using just purples, not being a pink fan myself. Celtic Banner Recap We started stitching Celtic Banner in August of 2006 on a long weekend …
Yesterday I took a half day off of work and went down to visit my sister and nephew. He’s just over 2 months old and he’s such a cutie. He’s tiny but he’s very alert and was looking around at everything all day yesterday. It was a great time to visit because he decided to …
The borders are on, time to embroider before it can be quilted. Embroidery means I can watch tv too, hmmm, what to watch!
On Monday I flew out to CA for work, I almost missed my flight, waking up at 5am instead of 3:30 as planned but somehow made my 5:45 flight thanks to being packed the night before and Ryan driving me to the airport. I had planned on working on the flight but couldn’t VPN the …