Thanksgiving Weekend

I certainly hope everyone had a wonderful and enjoyable Thansgiving. I hope you all were able to spend it with family and friends like I did. A huge feast and wonderful family and their families made for a blessed day.
And the days that followed, I hope you were able to be off of work as I was to enjoy a very long weekend.

Now, I am not the type of person to do the black friday thing. In my younger days I was out there shopping with all the other maniacs, but not anymore.

I had a more productive weekend.............
I got the sawtooth borders done for my thimbelberries quilt. You can only make out the bottome border on this picture, actually I only attached the top and bottom borders because the side borders need to have corner blocks attached to them. And I won't get those directions till december when the 12th month BOM is handed out.


This is a wool wall hanging I have started. All pieces cut out and fused to wool backing. Now comes the relaxing part of embroidering. No hurry, nothing special planned for this piece.


This lap quilt was an easy pieced project. It starts out with a panel and then multiple borders. So quick and easy to put together. Now all it needs is a backing and the binding. But for now, it really adds something to my livingroom on this quilt rack.

And now, as evening nears, and tomorrow morning it's back to the office, I am sitting here thinking...................man oh man am I tired!!!!!!!

Hard to concentrate

Well I got the snowman table runner done.
And just in time to, because my oldest daughter has fallen in love with it from early on in the production stage. She has a spot picked out for it in her dinning room already.
How funny.

This weekend was a hard one to concentrate. Or maybe just hard to keep my attention long enough on one project.
I did have my share of running and errands to do this weekend, and ofcourse there was the sleeping in part that I loved.
But sewing, well I couldn't keep myself focus on one thing.
I did get the flannel outdoors man quilt all done complete with hand binding work. And I got all materials cut out for the BOM for November for my quilt club. This month's BOM is four sawtooth strips that make up a border. Thank goodness for the thangles, because these small 2"triangle squares would be very difficult for me. I am just terriable with triangles.
I need to make 196 squares to be sewed together and border a 4 1/2 inch strip. I have some squares done but lots more to go.
And then I quickly put a christmas lap quilt together for an adopted elderly lady for christmas. It was very quick and easy, it's made with a panel and three borders. Very cute. All I need now to do is attatch the binding.

I just seemed to go back and forth to different projects, first the 2 1/2 inch triangles, then back to the christmas quilt, then fiinish the binding work on the outdoors man quilt, then press some squares, back to the triangles. Just back and forth.
So I quit for the day. Nothing is keeping my attention other than the couch, which by the way has my knitting sitting on it. Oops, first I need to take the binding off this mini snowman quilt, it looks terriable.......See what I mean

Too much to do!

Why we do this? We start many projects and then try to get them all done at once.
Ok, so maybe it's just me that does it. Here is what I have been busy doing since my last blog.

This is the BOM for November Thimbleberries quilt. Actually it is a border made up of 96 triangle blocks that make a sawtooth border. Doesn't that sound like fun!
I invested in a package of Thangles to help me out with this 2 inch triangle square. And that blue piece in the upper left corner of the picture is my fat quarter for the month that needs to be turned into a block by the next quilt club meeting in December.

And then I have finally gotten around to cutting and sewing my yellow brick road quilt that I have been saving black and white material for the past two years. Here is a container filled with all the blocks, just waiting to be sewed together into the quilt. I even got the binding done for this project already. I know it is going to need a border once it is sewed together, but since I don't know where this quilt is going, I can take my time with it.

And then grandma drops whatever she is doing when the grandchildren need something. Here are four pairs of polar fleece pj bottoms for the kiddo's. These are a snap to make so I really didn't have to stop everything...........
And I am happy to help out keeping them warm this winter.

And this is a wool table runner that I have been sitting in the evening doing the hand work on. I need to get the backing on and it should be done. I just love these three guys. I think I will have to make another one, such a cute project and very relaxing to do.

And ofcourse the deer flannel quilt is still sitting around waiting for the handwork on the binding to be done. Got to finish that.

I have been setting my alarm for an hour earlier each morning before I start getting ready for work. I am using this time to catch up on some of these projects. And a couple of these are christmas gifts. So I am hopeful to finish these soon, cause there is more waiting in the wings.