Category Archive: Life

2016
01/11

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Knitting
Life
quilts

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I’m testing a quilt that will be published in April. It has a lot of applique and I’m learning to use my Scan N Cut with this. But last night I ran out of this backing which is tacky on both sides and makes my life easier, so went over to my favorite store. Guess what? It was 30% off and I had a gift card as well. I love deals like this!

I spent some time on these and am down to the toes, so hoping I can finish this week. This week and next also have a lot of appointments filling the days.

2016
01/10

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Knitting
Life
quilts

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Time for scraps and discarding

Time to use scraps again. However do they multiply so rapidly. There are probably enough scraps to make 20 lap quilts, so this is my start. I still need another 4-6 rows, but I ran out of energy. I’m just hoping these stay on the board until I get back to sewing them together.

The other part of the day, I spent cleaning this area. If it doesn’t all fit, then it is time to toss. So some magazines and some yarn is moving out in addition to all the items that were moved to the area they belonged and the papers, catalogues, etc that I tossed. Mother’s old sewing cabinet holds my spinning items and the two baskets on the right of the bookcase hold sock and other yarn that I plan to use in the near future.

2016
01/07

Category:
food
Life
quilts

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I thought it might be interesting to actually track what we purchase each week this year and if it isn’t where we want it, then we can modify our purchasing habits next year. I’m not sure if I should include eating out or not. Maybe and then I’ll also know how much we splurge.

This was Tuesday’s purchase since our Vitamix is not back from being repaired. $5.00

Wednesday is senior day at the local grocery store, giving us 7% off the bill, so I obliged them. Cauliflower was on sale – oh happy day! I purchased 4 heads, plus the other groceries here. $105.64

Today is Azure co-op day. $76.26. The 2 gallons of honey I so much need did not come in on this order. But there is more red cabbage, some turmeric and sunchokes that I will plant and some sweet potatoes. Oh, and yes, frozen pizzas for when I just can’t cook.

We did eat out once this week at our favorite Mexican place “Rio Blanco” $26.00

Week 1: 26.00 eating out and 186.90 groceries. That seems high to me, but let’s see happens the rest of the month.

CRASH: DH decided to go to the store before bed – do I need to count his treats as well. I suppose I should, but that added another 42.51, which would bring the total to $229.41 plus eating out

I did get some bread baked this morning which is half gone already. And I’ve been working on a quilt that I’m testing but can’t show until they publish it in July.

2016
01/06

Category:
Knitting
Life

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This is the picture wash cloth that I did by doing a few rows each evening. I wasn’t sure what to expect as this was the first time I’ve done this. Next time, maybe I should use a slightly heavier yarn to see the picture better.

Today was spent at the gym, grocery store and going back to the eye doctor. Only this time, it was DH’s turn. After you get those drops in your eyes, it takes a long time to see clearly again and we just prefer to take a designated driver. Therefore, one visit takes both of us.

Because January is turning out to be “medical” month, I’m not getting much done on the quilt scene. I did work on the heel of the socks again today, but not enough to show you.

On what project are you working? I really love hearing from you and the comment section is easy to use.

2016
01/05

Category:
farming
Life

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Goodbye Roo and the ophthalmologist

Isn’t he just beautiful. My 2 year old bantam rooster went to live with some folks who had 9 hens and no roo. I shall miss him, but DH is insisting we don’t need a bunch of chicks who will grow up to be more hens and roosters. I guess he’s right, but I shall miss this quiet little gem who spent nights at the front door. And that is another reason he has changed homes. He had a small harem that would not stay in the field with the other chickens. They wanted to stay up at the house with him. The mess was a bit much.

It’s been a tough animal time. Before surgery, I had to sell the 3 alpacas and 6 sheep to get the numbers down to where my non-farming DH was willing to take on those chores. As soon as I am back to normal, that will change. I have sheep lined up, but am not sure if I will get more alpacas, simply because I’ve had a difficult time finding someone to shear them.

The Dr. visit this morning simply confirmed what my mind knew, but was trying to deny and that is this year will be the year I will most likely need cataract surgery. The end of this month will be the visit to the surgeon. I’ve known for 3-4 years that I was borderline, but hoped the improved diet would change that for the better. It hasn’t so far.

2016
01/04

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Life
quilts

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Tumbling blocks and weekly organization

I worked on these tumbling blocks today. It is small – only 27″ square. Since I wanted to quilt straight lines, I could do it sitting at my domestic machine. When I started it I wanted to do something in black and white. The quilting is red, but can’t be seen unless up close and not at all on the photo. I still have some hand work to do on it, so maybe I can get a better photo.

Prairie Moon is doing an organizing challenge this year, with which I’m going to try to keep up. We get a week to accomplish each task.

“it’s time for our first task of 2016 — are you ready? We’re going to: Deal with paper clutter”

If you double click on the red, you can read about it and join us.

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2016
01/03

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Knitting
Life
quilts

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This morning we received a light dusting of snow. What a great excuse to sit and look out the window and knit.

I worked on these socks off and on throughout the day (it is rain now) and have progressed up to the heel, which makes me happy.

I am following Judy’s yardage stash reduction reports again this year. My net usage last year was 241.22 yards. This year the goal is 300 yards. But I promise not to punish myself if I don’t reach it. One must reach high to gain ground. The expectations for finishes in January are low since I only count yardage once the quilt is complete. At the top of this page, you will find a button to get to the page where the yardage use is recorded. In that way, you don’t have to read it if it is boring to you. This is only Jan 3 and I have neither bought or used fabric up to now.

I’d love to hear what some of the your goals are. Mine are high, because I do have a lot of yardage and my children are threatening if there is a lot left when I go, that they will just bring in a dumpster. But many of you do not have as much as resides here, so your goals will be much more modest. Please comment and let us know what they are

2016
01/01

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Life
quilts

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“A Knitter’s Gifts” by Denise at “Just Quiltin” has been resurrected. I had planned to put fancy borders on it, but it is large enough without all the extra work. It’s wanting to get done so it can cuddle instead of being in a pile.

Today I did some finishing work and put small borders on it and now it will have to wait until I can stand on my leg long enough to get it quilted. This should get done about the end of this month. The surgery and having to use a walker is hampering me a wee bit.

Some of the day was also spent looking at different projects for this year – as if I don’t have enough. One of the things I want to do is go through books I have and make quilts out of them. I will start with this book which is a Fons and Porter book sometime this month.

This is the one I did 13 years ago from this book. I made it in flannel and loved it so much I made it twice – both gifts.

“UpWords with Max Lucado”

I absolutely love these weekly messages. and today’s message needs to be shared as it is a perfect message for this new year. We all get bogged down thinking less of ourselves than God does.

“Unnoticed? Neglected? Ignored? Not even close—to how God sees you! If you’re feeling unnoticed and under-appreciated, take a look at how God sees you as recorded in 1 Peter 2:9: “You are a chosen people, royal priests, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession.” Or how about this description from Isaiah 61:10: “He has covered me with clothes of salvation and wrapped me with a coat of goodness, like a bridegroom dressed for his wedding, like a bride dressed in jewels.”

When your self-esteem sags—remember what you’re worth! Remember that you were bought with a price, not with something that ruins like gold or silver, but with the precious blood of Christ, the pure and perfect lamb. Remember that! Meditate on it! Focus on it! Allow God’s love to change the way you look at—you!”

Again, may you be blessed a wonderful 2016

2015
12/31

Category:
Knitting
Life

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It’s been a good year here, with many things accomplished You have spurred me on, especially on those days, I wasn’t really wanting to do anything. THANK YOU! I hope that in some way this blog has been a blessing to you. I’m always open to what you would like to see or about which you’d like to learn. It has been a year filled with quilts and some knitting. I’d like to expand in other directions this year as well as continue. And I would love it if you would like to join in. As well, your comments are blog life blood.

Meanwhile, I’ve started a knitting project this afternoon. It is very simple. It uses #2 needles with 64 stitches. After the k2,p2 ribbing is done, I’m just continuing but every third row is a K2 tog, yarn over, p2. Simple, but I wanted these to be just a bit different from the plain ones. I get bored doing the plain ones, but sometimes, don’t know what to do with self striping yarn.

For those of you still looking for a good devotional. We listened to the Daily Audio Bible (DAB) on our phones or computer each day. It is incredible what you hear when you listen to someone else reading through the Bible. Though I’ve read and studied the Bible, there were still parts that I didn’t hear the first time, or had forgotten. We are repeating the program again this year.

2015
12/30

Category:
charity
crochet
Knitting
Life
quilts
Schedules
Sewing

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2016 Goals revisited

Quilting ufos to be completed and what needs to be done The goal is to finish one per month

Circus due 1/15 appliques cut n sewn, assembling, quilting
tumbling blocks – blue quilting
baby block – black quilting
turtles quilting
heirloom quilting
fishing due 8/1 appliques cut and sewn assembling,s quilting
storm at sea quilting
tell it to the stars borders. quilting
mittens 1 block, borders, quilting
BH king size quilt skirting, quilting
sunbonnets quilting
sunbonnets 2 assembling, quilting

New quilts I want to make:

http://twosistersandaquilt.com/ These are snowman Block of month
http://www.seamstobesew.com/polls-fixed-and-new-previews-of-sue-and-sam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+seamstobesew%2FUceh+%28Seams+To+Be+Sew+News%29 another sunbonnet quilt Block of the month
2 “warm wishes” quilts for charity on line pattern
shop hop tote that I acquired the kit for in 2005
child’s teddy bear with piping pattern
“Frost’s alter ego”” pattern
“Gift wrap” pattern
“rob Peter to pay Paul’ GO cutter
“drunkards path” GO cutter
an owl quilt GO cutter
choose a book and make a quilt from it
“twinkle little tree” pattern

That should handle the quilting, I have spoken for the Cormo sheep, not sure yet how many, 6-10

For sewing the plan is 2 doll dresses per month, plus we need placemats for 10 months and I like a set of 4. My goal is to make them one month ahead of need. So I will start these in February I plan to make a couple “Bendy Bags” and “run around bags” as well as a bolts worth (about 130) of purple baby hats for the hospital. Then there is a request for the microwave bowl holder for gifts.

I am doing the yahoo groups knit along wash cloth which is monthly. They offer 2, but I’ll be happy to get one done each month. I also have enough yarn to do at least 10 pair of socks. If I can squeak them in here, I’d like to do a couple crocheted baby blankets as well.

So these are my 2016 craft goals. What are yours? I’d love to hear them.

Category Archive: Life

I spent some time on these and am down to the toes, so hoping I can finish this week. This week and next also have a lot of appointments filling the days.

Time to use scraps again. However do they multiply so rapidly. There are probably enough scraps to make 20 lap quilts, so this is my start. I still need another 4-6 rows, but I ran out of energy. I’m just hoping these stay on the board until I get back to sewing them together.

I thought it might be interesting to actually track what we purchase each week this year and if it isn’t where we want it, then we can modify our purchasing habits next year. I’m not sure if I should include eating out or not. Maybe and then I’ll also know how much we splurge.

This was Tuesday’s purchase since our Vitamix is not back from being repaired. $5.00

Wednesday is senior day at the local grocery store, giving us 7% off the bill, so I obliged them. Cauliflower was on sale – oh happy day! I purchased 4 heads, plus the other groceries here. $105.64

Today is Azure co-op day. $76.26. The 2 gallons of honey I so much need did not come in on this order. But there is more red cabbage, some turmeric and sunchokes that I will plant and some sweet potatoes. Oh, and yes, frozen pizzas for when I just can’t cook.

We did eat out once this week at our favorite Mexican place “Rio Blanco” $26.00

Week 1: 26.00 eating out and 186.90 groceries. That seems high to me, but let’s see happens the rest of the month.

CRASH: DH decided to go to the store before bed – do I need to count his treats as well. I suppose I should, but that added another 42.51, which would bring the total to $229.41 plus eating out

I did get some bread baked this morning which is half gone already. And I’ve been working on a quilt that I’m testing but can’t show until they publish it in July.

This is the picture wash cloth that I did by doing a few rows each evening. I wasn’t sure what to expect as this was the first time I’ve done this. Next time, maybe I should use a slightly heavier yarn to see the picture better.

Today was spent at the gym, grocery store and going back to the eye doctor. Only this time, it was DH’s turn. After you get those drops in your eyes, it takes a long time to see clearly again and we just prefer to take a designated driver. Therefore, one visit takes both of us.

Because January is turning out to be “medical” month, I’m not getting much done on the quilt scene. I did work on the heel of the socks again today, but not enough to show you.

On what project are you working? I really love hearing from you and the comment section is easy to use.

Prairie Moon is doing an organizing challenge this year, with which I’m going to try to keep up. We get a week to accomplish each task.

“it’s time for our first task of 2016 — are you ready? We’re going to: Deal with paper clutter”

If you double click on the red, you can read about it and join us.

This morning we received a light dusting of snow. What a great excuse to sit and look out the window and knit.

I worked on these socks off and on throughout the day (it is rain now) and have progressed up to the heel, which makes me happy.

“A Knitter’s Gifts” by Denise at “Just Quiltin” has been resurrected. I had planned to put fancy borders on it, but it is large enough without all the extra work. It’s wanting to get done so it can cuddle instead of being in a pile.

Today I did some finishing work and put small borders on it and now it will have to wait until I can stand on my leg long enough to get it quilted. This should get done about the end of this month. The surgery and having to use a walker is hampering me a wee bit.

Some of the day was also spent looking at different projects for this year – as if I don’t have enough. One of the things I want to do is go through books I have and make quilts out of them. I will start with this book which is a Fons and Porter book sometime this month.

This is the one I did 13 years ago from this book. I made it in flannel and loved it so much I made it twice – both gifts.

“UpWords with Max Lucado”

I absolutely love these weekly messages. and today’s message needs to be shared as it is a perfect message for this new year. We all get bogged down thinking less of ourselves than God does.

Again, may you be blessed a wonderful 2016

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