Well it's been almost a year since I posted, will try to do better this year.  I've tried to upload photos but they disappeared so will try again.  Been busy since the first of the year.  Embroidered a plain sweat shirt, two dish towels, one dish rag, one hot pad, one pin cushion, 4 valentine gift bags. A small lap quilt for my brother-in-law to use in his wheel chair.   I'll try to upload photos again and see if yahoo/google  will play nice.

I'm working on a project with an on line quilt group with a Celtic Thunder theme to each block.  The first block was one with a kitty playing with a Celtic knot.  I cheated and just cut out the knot, think it will look OK.  The Feb. block is supposed to depict Coming Home and I had a cool  piece of fabric with sail boats, flags and lighthouses.  Couldn't use the light houses but I did use the sail boats and flag strips.  Might be able to use the lighthouses in another block.

Didn't get much sewing done today, George was home and he kept finding things for me to do.  Like order his license plate sticker, find out why we don't have a tax report we need for 2012 taxes, grocery shopping, pay bills and make a pie.  Hope he finds something to do tomorrow besides things for me to do.

All in all a good day even if I didn't get to sew very much, got a lot of piddly stuff done.

I delivered the Asian quilt to Gail yesterday afternoon and am a wee bit sad that it's done.  It was a fun quilt to work on and one I really liked when it was done. 

Going to start  a new project, well not exactly new, it's a UFO that needs some tweaking.  I got all the pieced blocks sewn together and don't care for the way they look.  Very busy fabric and blocks so I'm going to try and tone it down a bit with plain brown sqs. with appliqued flowers from the original fabric leftovers.  Hope it looks better.

Been having fun with my Go Cutter and have made some hot pads and matching dish towels.  Will put away for quick gifts when needed. 

That's it for today, keeping busy awaiting the BIG snow that's coming in tonight.  Would have been nicer if we had gotten all this snow around Christmas instead of Spring.  Oh well it is what it is.

At long last here are the pictures of the finished Asian quilt project that is going to Gail Melish, a good friend, long time neighbor and a generous, loving person.  This has been a true labor of love.

I had to take a picture of my little Christmas tree and candles that are sitting on the pretty mini table runner from my gmttwss.  It looks so cheerful.  I'm a happy recipient.....for those of you that don't know what gmtt....means it's the acronym for "get me through the winter secret sis".

I decided if I posted these photos of my creative world that has turned into a small replica of a landfill  I would be so embarrassed that I would clean it up and out.  I can't work in chaos so I will spend the day de-cluttering this room so I can mess it up all over again.

 

Here are the 4 table runners left after Kathy and Robin picked there's out.  I tried to do a close up to show the decorative stitch but it doesn't show too well.  I decided not to do the yoyo flowers, didn't look right to me.