I'm Back

I'm Back!!!
And getting ready for another stretch of work nights, so I thought I should post for this week.
First off, let me thank everyone who left such kind comments about this blog. It always makes one feel so good when people say such nice things! BTW, Susan the butterfly pattern is at www.stitchingcards.com/section.php?xSec=5
I feel that I was rather lazy this week, but I guess I did a few things. I have several WIPS that I hope to post pictures of next week. I am working on Cobi's block for the "On Wings of Beauty" RR and I have Lori's block waiting in the wings. Both of them came at once, so Angela and I are trading off on doing the stitching.

Works completed this week:
Yes, more paper piecing, I am doing some brown and blue ones to make pillows for my daughter Amala.
These are blocks from patterns by Carol Doak. I love her patterns. In fact I used her fish and boat pattern for Julie's block in the CYOT RR.
This one is called the Night and Day Star Flower:
This one is called the North Dakota Star:
And this one is called Y2K: (don't look at how awful the middle seams line up, a perfect excuse to crazy quilt)
Another finished project is my first bag. I loved this tote bag pattern. The pattern is Butterick B5006. I plan to make one of those roll -up purse organizers for the inside of this bag. I found a free pattern on the internet for one.Here is a sample of an Assisi pattern that I did. I got the pattern from a cross stitch magazine. I have about a gazillion years worth of cross stitch magazines here in the house.
Close up of the same piece:
Garden update:
Here at 7,000 feet we are way behind most of the country when it comes to gardening. Our season starts late and ends soon. We are lucky if we get 100 days of gardening weather. When the garden looks more up I will take you there.
I have a collection of sedums, this one is Autumn Joy:
The gooseberries are growing now, and the birds sure are glad.
Lastly, the Veronica is up and blooming:
We have a new puppy at our house:
TTFN! See you next week.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Its off to work I go

Have to work for the next 4 nights so I thought I would catch you up on what I have been doing.
I finished the block I was working on for Angela's quilt. Here is the latest pic:
Close up of a butterfly seam treatment:

Besides Angela and I, our house has another who sews, my DH does cross stitch. Here are pictures of 2 angels he did for me! They are "Angel of Love" and "Ice Angel" by Marilyn Levitt-Imblum. He is a very talented man.
More of "The Sampler"
By machine:
Antique hankie:Obviously I have a feather thing happening here:

By hand:

Flowers:


My button cluster:Buttons, beads, flowers and ?feathers:

TAST stitching:SRE:More TAST stitching:Lastly, bet you wish you had some ice cream!

Good News!

In the mail I received my baggies from the baggie exchange round robin. I received such beautiful things! Thank you Lori, Janie, Kathy and Hideko, I LOVE EVERYTHING!!!




Just got off a couple days of work. So its time to update.
As I mentioned in my previous post I have been doing a lot of paper piecing, and much to my amazement, I like it.

Some of these will go on my daughter Angela's quilt, while the rest ?????? But they are fun to make, so I imagine that I will have lots of them around.
Angela and I are sewing partners this year. We are each working on a crazy quilt, hers is a pink and green theme, with butterflies and roses, while mine is mostly blues with everything. See the aforementioned, "The Sampler".
We are also doing some machine sewing, Angela has made her very first garment ever, and she amazed herself, as she never thought that she would be able to sew.

The block I am working on this week is for Angela's quilt:
Garden Update:
Blooming this week are honeysuckle, lilacs, daisies, and bachelor buttons:



Lastly, I picture of my young pup:
TTFN!!!

Catch Up

Thought that I would catch up on pictures on more of my work.
This is the crazy quilt that I call "The Sampler" I have been working on this forever now and I do not know when it will be finished. I guess it will tell me when it's done. My daughter Angela and I hand sewed the whole thing (making every mistake there was to make I'm sure). Then I bought a Janome 9700 and did a lot of machine embroidery on it. I also use it to practice my TAST stitches. Some close ups of parts of "The Sampler"......
Done by Machine:



These done by hand:

I will post more of "The Sampler" later.
What I am working on currently:
This is a tote bag I am sewing
And here are some PJ's for my grandson
Because it seems his old PJ's are falling right off !!!!!
More later.........................................