It’s the busy time of the year!

This time of year is very busy for me…especially with the job I have of delivering packages! I have to really work at not being in the ‘bah hum bug’ kind of mood for the month of December. I work long days in the cold and it’s very stressful. I’m sure I won’t be getting much done in the way of stitching for the next 30 days or so. I need to stop and think about the reason we celebrate Christmas….Jesus Christ was born!

We put the tree up last weekend because we were baby sitting our grandson and we thought that might be something to entertain him. I started putting the ornaments up and he got tired of that in a hurry, I haven’t done another thing to it since then. Hopefully this weekend I’ll get it done.

The many projects I’ve been working on these past few weeks……

This hexie round is made of 1/2” hexies….you can tell by the pins hanging this one up, that the hexies are very small.

I only have to sew on four more hexie flowers and I’ll be ready to start adding my borders and applique. It’s much larger than this pictures shows. These are 1” hexies.

 

And my 8th BOM in my Primitive Garden wool quilt….this one isn’t done yet, but doesn’t have too much further to go.

This is the new BOM I’m starting this month. It’s made using all solid fabrics…very simple blocks and some applique in the borders….not horribly expensive either. The first BOM came with a plastic tub to store everything in as you go….I thought this was a great idea…Way to go Regina and Jamie from ‘Stitch up a Storm’…..

My latest purchases…..I love Kim Diehl books….love the way she designs. Got everything for 25% off, so I couldn’t resist.

My friend Kelly Kreft from Colorado sent me these fruit fabrics…we are both collecting to make a ‘jar’ quilt….so we’ve been sharing our ‘fruit’ finds….Thanks Kelly! 

Have a wonderful Christmas Season…and please remember why we celebrate…

Happy quilting, Kris

Happy Halloween

We hardly had any trick or treaters last night, I think we live too far north and only have about 15 houses in our neighborhood. I guess Norris Ave. was extremely busy with kids last night….especially because of the nice weather. My 22 month old  grandson Walker did stop and we got a picture of him in his golfing outfit.

I’ve been kind of naughty about blogging lately. I guess it’s because I’ve been working on the same projects and I’m getting a lot done, you just don’t see it so much. So it’s kind of hard to take a picture of the same thing from a week ago, and it’s just a little bigger! Kind of boring….

Here is my finished Christmas Table Topper…. it’s 42x42….it was supposed to be a tree skirt, but I just couldn’t cut a hole in the middle of it!

I’ve been mostly working on my mom’s civil war chronicles quilt and my grandmother’s flower garden quilt.

This 1” hexie quilt is now 65x82…so it’s really growing…I think I’m only going to add one more row in both directions and then I’ll add the white border…approximately 6”wide. Then comes the applique….I think I’ll love this one when it’s done. I only wish I was a hand quilter, since it’s all hand sewn, I hate to machine quilt it. I guess we’ll see when the time comes.

Happy quilting!  Kris