April OMG

My goal for this  month, is not a big one!!  I have been on  Spring Break for the last week, and out of town.  We have also sold our cabin and are in the process of packing it and moving everything out of it.  All of that means that there  won't be a lot of time for sewing this month.  My goal for this month is three sets of Christmas pillowcases that I have had cut and and folded up for the last two years.  It is one of those projects you think won't take long but gets put aside and never finished.  Hopefully I can get them sewn up before the end of the month.

March Finish

I  didn't think that I would be able to finish this panel this month, but I just finished it last night.  Now all of the stitchery panels are complete.  Putting it together will be  a project for another month. 

Spring Retreat

Last weekend was the first Anytime Stitching Sewing retreat of the year.  Leisa and Nancy do a great job organizing this twice a year.  It was a great time.  Got to spend time with  friends that I don't see very often (since I still work) and met some new ones.  There are some extremely talented ladies in our group.  Here a just a few of the great quilts people were working on.

Lynn's colorful quilt.

Marti's Civil War Chronicles.

Candy's squares

Quilt make for Charlie Elliot Center

Becky's Cats

Matri's Jen Kingwell

Jane's Shashiko stitchery  quilt.

March OMG

 My mom taught me how to embroidery when I was about 8 or 9.  I remember begging her to teach me and she finally gave in.  It is the one needlecraft that I always return to.  I might knit, crochet, do applique, but I always come back to embroidery.  This pattern is Twas the Night Before Christmas from Crabapple Hill.  I started it several years ago, and for some reason got to the last panel and just put it aside.  Finishing this panel is my goal for the month of March. 

I hope to get the pinwheel blocks completed this month also, but that would be a bonus.

February OMG finished

 I decided to do  my Monthly Goals in baby steps, my goal for February was to put the border on this table  topper that has been in the UFO stack so long I don't even remember starting it.  I had put off putting the outside border on because it was scalloped and it was appliqued on.  After getting it out and starting it, I realized it wasn't that hard to do  just time consuming in getting the  border curved and pinned just right to the background border. 

The border is on now and it will be off to my friend Leisa to be quilted, the binding will be a goal for another month. 

82 in February

 I like Spring, but not in February.  It was 82 today and has been in the upper 70's for the  last two weeks.  My jonquils, and crocus are blooming their little heads off.  All of the trees are budding out.  Winter is not over, Atlanta always cold weather in March, but this year could be different.  What's the weather like where you are?

February OMG

I found the One Monthly Goad over at Elm Street Quilts, and decided this was what I needed to finish up some of my small UFO's.  Today I decided to look through my two boxes of smaller UFO's to see what I wanted to finish this month.  I knew it the minute I saw it, this table topper has been a UFO for so long I don't even remember when I started it.  All it needs is the border, but the border is a scalloped one that has to be appliqued onto the background border.  It probably won't take long, the prep work will take longer than the actual work.

Table topper from Mrs. Rosie's Schnibbles

I am using the blue snowflake fabric for the border background and the white will be the scalloped border.  I should be able to finish this by the end of the month.