Here we are to 2014.
I have goals for my sewing and crafts.
I'm still in the process of organizing my projects, but I am getting closer to being done with that.
I plan to do some sort of sewing each and every day, even if it's just for a few minutes.
Since my crafts involve selling them online, I really need to step up my game. Not only in getting things done, but also promoting myself as well.
Here is what I've been up to this past week.
I have the binding on the Penny Patch quilt from the QAL (that was supposed to be done by Dec. 20) and I'm ready to start handing sewing it down.
At my last stitch group I got all of my applique bunny blocks squared up. I still do have 5 of the 20 of them to finish embroidering around.
Everyone is asking me if I will have the blanket done by Easter---I don't honestly know!
I am getting closer to getting this toothbrush rug done. It's an experiment one to find out how large a rug comes out when I have cut up an entire full size sheet set. I actually love how it's all the same color.
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Here we are with Christmas day only 2 weeks away! I have so many projects that I yet need to get sewn up for gifts!
On the Penny Patch quilt for the QAL, I do have it sandwiched and pinned. Now I need to see if I can figure out how to do the dogwood quilting. I sure like that that looks.
This is not a current picture but I am still working on knitting scarves for Christmas gifts. Since taking this picture a couple of days ago I have finished the one with the skein on yarn laying there and started on the other one with the teal yarn.
Yesterday was the monthly sewing day at church. This is the progress on the quilt that I am currently working on. I am actually going to finish this one all by myself because I am doing it in quilt as you go. I hope to have it finished by the end of next month's sewing day.
I was able to get some work done on making my yo-yo's while my youngest daughter was at the doctor and while we visited my middle daughter this past week. Unfortunately I left my yo-yo box at my middle daughter's house. I don't think I would have taken another picture though as I am still just making them with the fabric in my box and then will start putting the table runner together.
I didn't get any applique bunnies done this past few weeks at home, but I do have stitch group this afternoon. I had hoped to have them done and to get to spend this afternoon squaring up the blocks. Such is life though! I will applique on them today and then next Wednesday and hopefully then next month to start squaring them up.
This past week I did a review lens on on Squidoo for a book called Crafty Creatures. You can click to check it out if you would like. It will open in a new window: Fill Your Home With These Crafty Creatures. I will be making the cat's bed, along with the cat, that I show at the bottom of my lens for my 2 yr old granddaughter. She's going to love it! I hope to make lots of of the projects in the book as well.
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Christmas is getting closer. Here is my progress on the knitted scarves. I am not sure how many I am making.....6 or 7 I think.
Some time ago I started working on making yo-yo's. I keep this box in the car and work on them here and there. I have been taking them in to my quilt guild meeting and working on them there for the past 3 months. I am wanting to make a table runner for our coffee table. I did start on it but decided I wanted to make the yo-yo's that I could out of the fabric I had put in the box first. You can see that I have a lot in the bag ready.
I see that some sell the yo-yo's by themselves on etsy. I'm thinking I might try that too at some point.
The top should be done for the Penny Patch QAL but I didn't work on it for a week once Thanksgiving hit. I have my top half way to being completed.
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I did less sewing this past week than the week before, but still a lot more than I had been doing.
I'm happy with progress that I am making in all ways.
Each month I attend 2 stitch groups. One is the second Wednesday of the month and is with a few of my quilt guild members. It's from 1-3 pm.
The second one is the 3rd Wednesday of the month at the quilt shop from 1-4, but most of us do leave by 3.
For months now I have only worked on my applique bunnies at my stitch groups.
I have completed 12 of my 20 bunnies as shown in the photo. After I work today I am going to bring my box in the house and work on them in the evenings.
I worked a bit more on my remaining 12 log cabin blocks to finish my wall hanging top. I had hoped to have it done by the 25th for show and share at quilt guild but I would really need to get on it to make that goal. I am including the 4 blocks that I had together and showed last week along with my progress on the other 12.
Last but not least I have the Penny Patch QAL that I am working on. I am still a bit behind, but not too bad. Click the button below my picture to see what it's all about if you would like. Last week there was a linky included for us to show our progress.
I laid out my blocks. Oh how I wish I had a design wall! I messed with it over and over and finally gave up. This is what I ended up with and then piled them by rows and numbered each pile. Since taking this picture I did put row 12 together.
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I have been busy in my craft room this week with lots of sewing. I would bet I've not done as much sewing as I've done in the past 6 days as I've done in the last 6 months total!
First off, as I went through some of the blogs shared in the linky's I ran across a QAL.
It's a Penny Patch quilt a long. I decided, hey, I can do this! You can find all the information at: http://www.stitchedincolor.com/2013/10/penny-patch-beginners-quilt-along.html
I am not caught up, but happy with my progress. I have my 12 blocks completed that include my "pop" color of yellow.
I also have all of my 2 inch squares ready to be sewn for the rest of the penny patch blocks.
At the monthly sit n' sew evening at the quilt shop I have spent the last 4 months sewing together these rectangle pieces into blocks. I finally finished what was in the box. I ended up with 130 blocks. They are all squared up now and ready to be sewn into something. I am thinking a couple of lap quilts.
I am still working on the log cabin blocks as well. I do have 4 done and put together. Only 12 more to go to finish the top of my wall hanging.
I have still been working on the same quilt tops now at the monthly sewing club at church. I did finish the first top. Actually these blocks were to be all one top. We give these quilts to the Domestic Violence Center and we decided to make these into 2 quilts instead of 1 huge one.
This is what was to be the center of the quilt and now it's own top:
These smaller blocks were to go all around the outside, but I am now making them into their own quilt top. I am going to use the quilt as you go method.
Last but not least for this week is the toothbrush rug that I am working on.
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