Sewing Snowmen and snowflakes has been an all day project which obviously isn’t finished yet. The digitizing isn’t perfect . It’s a learning process. Even so, it is so very much better than if I had just done a machine zigzag around each of these pieces. It took a lot of time to cut around the fabrics before I could continue to sew. I need to get my Scan n Cut learned to make this faster. Now that I’ve taken a photo of this with the sashing, I think I may have to change that. It has the same aqua/turquoise, but just doesn’t seem right. I will decide later.
It will not get finished as I have other embroidery that must be done tomorrow. A neighbor is turning 90 in April and needs a lap quilt for in her wheel chair. So that is a priority tomorrow.
After trimming, I put the design back under the needle upside down. That’s a great reason to mark your item with a “L” and/or a “R” if there might be a question. Starting again, I marked the L and R, but forgot to put down the bottom layer. 
Here is the third mistake, which I was able to salvage and get right. No, I won’t be wasting the fabric in the first two mistakes. They will be turned into something else. And finally here is one finished flower.
The rest of the day went good, but I certainly feel like I spend hours learning – like Edison from mistakes. This has been a great quilt for learning.
The Swiss chard here is coming back and there are still a few onions. Today I eliminated all the weeds you see on this side. Since I didn’t get plants started, I’ll wait another week, then the store should have the organics in and I’ll just buy started plants this year.
Disagreement with God day started out with me being impatient with DH, because he wanted to go with me to the store and I had my agenda for the day and didn’t want to wait. However, I did rearrange the schedule and then kept asking him to hurry. I am way behind in the goals that I set for this month and I wanted to at least get one top quilted. I haven’t finished a single project this week. I also wanted to get some embroidery done for the birthday quilt. We got back from the store and one of the daughters called and wanted a homemade gift for a friend’s birthday Sunday. I don’t have the time to come up with something.
I knitted 2 inches of ribbing for these unknown socks and then decided the yarn is too heavy for the pattern I chose, so will look on Ravelry to find a different pattern. There are plenty of socks patterns that use a size 2 needle. See the shadows, even the weather person didn’t forecast sun for today, so it was a big, happy surprise.
The flower quilt flimsy is now done. The pattern called it “rose” but Sally said it looked like crocus and I agreed. I cleared off the ironing board and the cutting table to get the room that I needed to cut the boards. I have no idea why I made this queen size, but it is. I had no plan when I started, I just wanted to make the pretty flowers. And so piecing happens.
Once again, I am reminded of how frustrating and difficult learning a new skill is. I don’t wonder why children get tired and balk . I’m ready to throw up my hands and scream. Their whole early life seems to be learning new skills. I think I understand and have the concept learned, and then, I mess up. It is very frustrating and exhausting. And if I keep at it without taking a break, I start making all types of stupid mistakes. So tonight I have only my first attempts at digitizing applique to show you. I was going to do the owl quilt in the conventional way and got “smart” and decided it would look nicer if the applique was embroidered on. Yes, it does look much nicer, but the learning will make the quilt take me longer.
The rose flimsy is now in one piece, except for the borders. My ironing board is full of pieces and my cutting table is also full of pieces of another quilt, so this will have to wait for the borders and trimming until those pieces are together. Interestingly, the vote for which way they should go together was a tie. I asked DH, as a tie breaker, which way they should go and he wanted them standing up straight.
These 4 runner ducks came to live with us today. The colors are called buff and blue. They are absolutely beautiful and I love the way they run with their necks held high. They are still a bit scared and I forgot to take the camera at feeding time tonight.
Cleaning clothes closets can take up the major part of a day when you need to try them on and then even wash some of them. However, there are now two full garbage bags of clothes in my car to take to the thrift store. Some of them are new – never worn – but don’t fit any more. Most of the others are in very good condition and there are a couple pieces that will go to their rag bag section. Now my closet (and drawers) hold only the clothes I intend to wear this year. I have no clothes left to grow into (up or down). If I change sizes, there will be new clothes to wear and some of these to go. Now if it was that easy to take care of the other places in this house, but it isn’t. I often find something that I haven’t used for a year or two is exactly what I need today.