The list

 

Last week I started a list of all the things I wanted to do today because hubby is away for the day.  My scatter brain likes to have several things going at once and it always involves a mess that extends beyond the sewing room.  Sometimes it nice to get away from that mess.  Then the list became the I need to get all this done before the kids come this weekend list and became a little overwhelming.  Start small just to get something crossed off the list.  Like put away my winter boots.  Done! Make that phone call to change the day done! Bring the ball winder upstairs and wind a ball of yarn, done! Hang quilts. Break the hook off the stick on hanger.  Take off all the hooks and pound nails in the wall.  I broke a hook last time I changed quilts too.  Fold the quilts and put them on the shelf. Refold all the quilts so I can get more on each shelf, cover with a tea towel so they don't fade, add that to the list. Done!  Take some pictures, write a couple blogposts and schedule. Done.  That makes 5 dones and one check for partially done!

That little hammer was my grandmas. I put the teaspoon beside it so you can see how small it is.  It doesn't pull my pants off when I crawl up a ladder.  Grandma had it with a small piece of partical board that was soft and crumbly that I could hammer little wooden pieces to. The wood pieces were varying sizes of  triangles, squares, long rectangles, short rectangles and circles so I could make a picture.

happy memories.  --Ann--  back to the list.

yellow cardigan

 The yellow cardigan I finished late spring or early summer last year. The yarn is denim revive by Rowan, the pattern is Fine Sand by Heidi Kirrmaier.  I have knit this pattern a couple times and just love the way it fits and how easy it is to knit.  I knit it longer so it is more like a jacket or a coat than a sweater but great to wear with skinny leg jeans.  Looking for the next big project.  --Ann--

And done

 Finished I just need to trim some yarns and give it a spa day. I’m sure there will be a few more chilly days to wear it before summer —Ann—

March to March knitting madness

 

Thirteen months of knitting and probably about 6 miles of yarn.  There are 1760 yards in a miles I definitely used that much yarn in the sweater for hubby and the yellow sweater.  Most long sleeve pullovers for me have 1300-1600 yards of yarn.  Thats a lot of yarn!! It was time well spent in front of the television I don’t often just sit in front of the tv my hands need to be doing something.  Top sweater is so close to done. Red linen is a t shirt style sweater, yellow cotton cardigan, orange sweater, yarn gift from son and daughter-in-law, cream knit twice because first time it looked frumpy. I don’t like to look and feel frumpy. Bright blue is Kenzie yarn same yarn and  pattern as top sweater but a different cable. Bottom sweater is pullover reknit for hubby from a cardigan I knit a couple years ago. I must have been hard up for yarn when I decided to rip that sweater.  --Ann--

A basting day

 

I had a quilt basting day over the weekend.  I pin I don't really baste because it is easier to take pins out as I machine quilt than to untangle the foot from the basting threads.  This sky scape is the backing for the splat quilt DD picked it out and it was not what I was expecting when I unfurled it.  A New York City skyscape with sky.  And the piece of fabric was so big I had no place to spread it out for a picture without a lot of work, so you will just have to take my word for it until it is machine quilted.  I crawled underneath because I had to get a good look at it and then my mind wandered to when I was a little kid making forts out of quilts and blankets and chairs and tables and my kids making forts then I thought about how someday my twin granddaughters will have fun playing under the quilt frame as I am basting them and then making a complicated fort with dozens of quilts and the quilt frame and chairs and moving the table and..............--Ann--

Snow day Sew day

 

It’s not an oficial snow day because school is in session here. But we do have snow and a good excuse not to go anywhere like that is a choice these days. It is a good day to sew.  The piano key borders are complete. One of the borders got turned around on the trip from the design wall to the table because I would have noticed the arrow pointing in. Fortunately it points where the yellow triangles are, start at the arrow and follow the yellow brick/ triangle road across the quilt. That zig zaggy line was planned.  Studying the stash for what I should make next. Happy stitching --Ann--

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

 

May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, 

Enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to keep you happy, 

Enough failure to keep you humble, enough success to keep you eager, 

Enough friends to give you comfort, enough faith and courage to banish sadness, 

Enough wealth to meet your needs and one thing more; 

Enough determination to make each day a more wonderful day than the one before.

an Irish Blessing

Happy Saint Patrick's Day --Ann--