Another new start

I laid down The Caretaker to do this piece. The little boy took a turn for the worse and isn't doing well so we were asked to do these pieces as soon as we could. The theme of his quilt is Baseball. It has the logos of the different Baseball Teams. Not being a Baseball fan I have a very good reason for choose Kansas City Royals.....I like their colors!

I have had to restrict my stitching time. I sort of developed Tendernitis and it is painful! I finally got a brace today but still.... I actually was told by the Dr. to not stitch for 3 to 5 days. Do you think I did that! Of course not! I did stop after a couple hours a day because of the pain though. Then Sat I did something to back of my left leg and was barely walking yesterday. Today is better but I am wearing my ankle brace because of my ankle hurting for arthritis. So I was whining a lot yesterday.

Sat. we had a Women's Breakfast at church. The men do so much the women were getting jealous so decided to do a few things together. We had quite a few considering it was planned at the lasst minute.

I hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend. Until next time Happy Sstitching!

A Week's Progress

Stitching on this has been very slow. Page 16 was so detailed I swear it too 100 of the 400 hours plus I worked on it. But I finally finished it over the weekend so now I have 7 of 25 pages completed, the 8th page is just shy of half done. It's an easier page. Has a lot of confetti stitching but not as much as page 16 did. The elk is more noticeable now but he's still got a long ways to go.

I have had to slow down on stitching as I have tendernitis in my left wrist. I was told not to stitch for 5 days but can't do that. I do plan to buy a brack for it tomorrow I hope.

Does anyone have plans for the long weekend? I really don't at this point. I'm going to a ladies breakfast on Saturday but that's about it.

Well....I hope all you have a Happy and safe weekened. Until next time happy Stitching!

Back to The Caretaker

Thank you for all your comments to That Clown Face. I really appreciated them.

I said I was going back to The Caretaker. I started this piece in fall of 2007 and told my brother at that time he would have it sometime between 2012 and 2020. And to be honest I think I was right. This is progress after 410 hours of stitching and I have almost 7 pages completely done on it. By the way each page is going to count as a project because of it's detail. Actually I could count it as 2 projects towards the 25 challenge. So far I haven't been tempted to buy any patterns, my will power is strong!

Well....until next time Happy Stitching!

Happy Dance That Clown is finished!!!!

I am so happy to have this piece done! After 160 and quite a bit of improvising (I'm not saying where as it didn't change the look) I am Shouting! Did you hear me shout about 8:00 this morning? It will be mailed out to Love Quilts later this week. It is going to an Any Child Circus Theme Quilt. It was due May 1 but it will still be okay as the child hasn't been named yet.

Now I am going back to The Caretaker. Remember that piece? It's my ongoing UFO for my brother. I told him he would get it sometime between 2012 and 2020. Hopefully closer to 2012!

Well-until next time Happy Stitching!

Progress on the Clown Face

I've made some progress this past week on The Clown Face. Hopefully it will be done by middle of next week. Notice I keep pushing back the finish date. I am so glad all that white is almost done.

I have gone to 3 different dinners this past week. Adding to the calories you know!May seems to be that time of year. One was a Missions dinner, the other was Volunteer Appreciation with Love Inc. (Food Pantry) and the other was Leaders Night Out. (Adventure Club Leaders). They were all good, lots of food! Later this month we have a Potluck with our SS Class.

Today is so nice and pretty out. I want to walk my brothers dog but they weren't home when I called. Maybe will later. Tomorrow is suppose to be much colder.
Oh well....

Well, until next time Happy Stitching!

Addie, Chelsea and That Clown Piece

I have to start my blog this time with Addie saying Hello to everyone. It's hard to get a picture of her smiling and in this one she is. She just turned 1 this past week and you'll see a birthday picture of her later on this blog.
Here is progress on my clown piece. This is progress after 144 hours of stitching. I really hope to get this piece done this week. It's cute but It's a lot more work than I thought it would be and I'm getting anxious to have it done.
Here is baby Chelsea. She is 3 months old now and growing. She was sick for several weeks with a bad cold and infection. She is finally over it and gives her parents lots of smiles. I wish we lived closer to her!

Addie had her first birthday this past week. I couldn't resist grabbing this picture of her. She's looking at her hands like "How did they get so messy." I love this picture of her.

Patriotic Heart & Ribbon is finished

I finished this a couple of hours ago. It really was a fun stitch.

I finally got a new keyboard. One where everything works on it and is easy to use. Seems great. My last one some of the capitals wouldn't work unless I had caps lock on.

Tonight is the last night of Adventure Club for the year so it's Carnival night. A fun night for the kids. I will miss them through the summer though this year went much to fast. I really enjoyed the 4th graders we had this year. Hmmmm maybe next year I'll try to work with 5th graders. We'll see.

My sister is coming into to town today and leaving tomorrow. Because fo the Carnival tonight and Food Pantry tomorrow I won't get to see her much this time. We might go out for lunch or breakfast.

Well, I guess I'll go back to stitching the clown although I really want to start Addie's Birth Sampler. She is going to be a year old Friday. I can't believe it.
Until next time Happy Stitching!

Patriotic Ribbon and Heart

Well.....I started another piece. I'm not forgetting the clown piece, it's 2/3 way done. But, this piece is also due May 1 and I couldn't see being late for two pieces. This is my progress after 12 hours of stitching on it. It's gong quite well and I love stitching on it.

It is such a beautiful day outside. I think our cold weather is gone for the season. It's 40's today but might reach 50 and over the weekend 70's! Wow! Hopefully spring is here to stay. I love spring season but I don't like my allergies acting up! Oh well....can't have everything!

Well, I need to run up to the store to get some ice cream topping for tonight. It's the last two weeks of Adventure Club for the season so tonight the kids get ice cream and next week is the Carnival which the love! Until next time Happy Stitching!

Back to the Clown

This is progress after 100 hours of stitching on the Clown Face. It's coming alive finally. It is a fun stitch and hopefully will be done by end of the month.

We are enjoying some nice spring like weather. It's suppose to get to mid 60's here. Then drop for a few days next week. It's still not bad though compared to a month ago 50 is great.

Well, there really isn't much to say since my last post so until next time Happy Stitching!

A Very Quick Finish

This was done in about 4 hours time and about 5 hours of pouting time! I started it at 6 am today. Was absolutely positive I had it centered right for once. Got it almost all done and discovered I used the wrong fold as the center. (The material and pattern had been sent to me as they wanted it all to be unified. I was so upset when I discovered what happened I did a lot of pouting after that as frogging was not an option nor could I redo it on different material. So I finished it off hoping they will be cutting the material down a little, they can cut at the top. I hope it will be okay. This is for a special quilt for Breanna that we are doing at CSA (a group within Love Quilts).

I just got back from walking Autumn. She gets so excited, she watches for me to come then when she sees me from her deck she gets all excited goes into the apartment and greets me at the door. After about 10 minutes she has calmed down enough to take her for her walk. It was a perfect day for a walk not too warm and not to cold.

Well, I'll go back to that clown piece tomorrow. Until next time Happy Stitching!

Chelsea's first Easter

I haad to grab this picture of Chelsea, I love it. The bunny is bigger than what she is. Actually Elaina said it was bigger then her and Josh put together. One huge bunny.

I need to get motivated to do some housework. Then I'll stitch on that clown that is taking me forever to do. Hopefully I'll make the May 1 due date but at this point I doubt it.

Until next time....Happy Stitching!

Big Bear Band is Finished

Happy Easter to everyone. I know it's a day early but I wanted to say it now since I was posting anyway. Hope you all enjoy the time with your families. I'm going to my parents house tomorrow. Which reminds me I better get the green bean caserole started.
I finished this not too long ago and it's hot off the iron now. It's such a cute piece but took forever for me to do and am happy to have it done. Now I'll work ong the clown piece for a couple of days before starting another project which will be a quick heart piece for love quilts.
Today is so beautiful outside. I took my brother's dog, Autumn out for her walk and she just enjoyed it so much. This is a perfect time of year for our walks not too hot and not too cold

Update on Big Bear Band

I picked this back up last week and probably will be done with it tomorrow or Friday for sure. It's a cute piece but been a hard one for me to get into I don't know why. But I will finish it off now.
I think Spring is finally coming to stay. I think winter had it's last Horrah for this year anyway. We lucked out of the snow storms and just got a little snow but it was cold. Now each day is suppose to warm up. I know this is short but not much is happening to write about right now. Untill next time....Happy Stitching!

Trip to MO

It's been over a week since I have blog. I just have been super busy. I haven't even stitched too much.
On Friday my parents, brother, & sister-in-law and I went to MO to see another brother and sister-in-law and their family. It was a nice time but great to be home and I can't wait to sleep in my own bed tonight.
Friday we got there and Kenn and Denise had a grilled chicken dinner for us. It was soooooo good.

Saturday we went to where my brother works and saw 4 of the Clydesdayle Horses, they are beautiful! A couple of them were out of the stable and romping around a little in a confined area. They gave us some entertainment! Then we saw some of the sites like the St. Louis Arch etc. I didn't get pictures of the arch this time as I had before. Saw the Cardinal Stadium. They were getting ready for todays Opening Ceremonies. Then we went back and stayed at the house. Caleb came over for awhile.

Then on Sunday we went to Caleb's house. It's a fixer which he is slowly but surely working on but a nice house. It will be really nice when done. Then all of us went to Josh and Elaina's and saw the biggest reason we went to MO. Chelsea Rose. She is now 2 months old and is a beautiful baby! Right now she seems to look like Josh.
I will post progress on stitching tomorrow or Wed. But right now I just wanted to post some pictures of Chelsea.

What a Week!

At least at the Food Pantry. We've been busy. I was there a little while this afternoon for 3 more ladies. Usually we are not open on Friday. We've had a lot of people come in but that's what it's for. I just hope our food holds out. Fortunately since we work under Love In The Name Of Christ Organization we get free food from them. Came in handy this past week and now we need more.

I did get quite a bit of progress on the Clown Face. He's about half way done now.

Tonight I'm going to a concert at a Coffee House our church Praise Team is putting on. I'm looking forward to it. They really are good.

Next weekend my brother and sister-in-law are taking our parents and me to MO. Our oldest brother lives down there with his family. We get to meet baby Chelsea for the first time. She'll be 2 months old next week.

Well....until next time Happy Stitching!

Finished

I finally have finished Faith. I'm not sure this is a really good picture of it. It was a fun piece to do but took a lot longer than I contemplated. It's my kind of piece though, small but detailed. Now to go back to the clown piece again.

The other day I read on someone's blog about Cyberstitchers. While the person had every right to be disappointed and to voice it I am disappointed by all the badmouthing the posters had. So I am going to say some good things about Cyberstitchers. For one thing it is free and they offer a whole lot at their site. They have received headaches from designers unhappy with something a person stitched or they got the name wrong etc. And have received criticism from other people who have rooms there. I'm not saying I agree with everything but the rules are there for a good reason and are not hard to follow. (Although I really don't see where this particular person broke any rules, she had a good room there and I will miss seeing her room as I enjoyed it. I will miss her there, and yes I do understand her side of the story too and her disappointment.) When I have had a problem with Anita she has responded very nicely and satisfactory. They have put a lot of time and work into the site for everyone to enjoy and it shows. So I don't feel she deserved to be badmouthed like she was from people who aren't even familiar with the site. After all the site is free she isn't charging anything, if we don't like it we can just delete our room and go on from there. Well I've had my say. Anyone who knows me knows I find good in everyone and do not tolerate bad mouthing too well. Enough said on that.

We are enjoying some spring like weather. The next week is suppose to be very springlike. I sure hope winter doesn't return as we are all going to be very upset! We are getting spoiled by the weather. I even walked my brother's dog, Autumn for an hour yesterday. It was so nice.

Well until next time Happgy Stitching. Thank you for reading my blog and I hope you will continue reading it.

Update on Faith and an Award

KathrynNZ gave me this award. Thank you so much Kathryn I appreciate it, it was so nice of you. I need to select 8 friends to give it too so I will do so at the bottom of this post.

I haven't been home much this past week. My sister came to town on Thurs. so was with her at our parents Thurs. & Fri. Then Sat. our mom and I went to my sister's house until yesterday. It really was a nice time. I sort of spoiled their dog rotten. I didn't get in much stitching or computer time but wasn't planning to. I did go to a LNS not too far from her house. It's funny the first time we went it seemed like it was so far, second time we knew right where we were going and didn't seem nearly as far seemed like a quick trip. Kay and mom went into a Used Book Store right by the Crss Stitch Shop. I did get a few things.

Then on way home we stopped off at my niece Heather's house. Kay babysits Addie every other Wed. so Tim and Wendy picked mom and I up there. Addie is now 10 months and is walking. She was so cute yesterday she knew she was center of attention. Heather taught Addie to say "ah oh....." Bryan taught Addie to say "ai ya yaya ai". She also can say her name and her dog's name but you have to know she is saying it and se your imagination but she gives it a good try. Not bad for being so young!


When I did stitch I stitched on the clown as it was easy to stitch on in the car and easy to lay down and pick up. ButI have gone back to the Faith piece and hope to finish it off Friday for sure if not tomorrow. I really like this piece a lot.



Here is the clown piece which really is an easy stitch. Just a lot of white in it but it's moving along.

Before I cloe here are the 8 I'll pass this award too. It was hard to pick as I enjoy all the blogs but these are the 8 I will choose just click on their names from my blog roll on side to see their blogs.

Mary Ann (Just Stitching)
Beth
Dawn (Tea Time)
Dawn (Golden Angel Stitches)
Barb (Barb's Stitches)
Deb (Deb S)
Lori (Loriray)
Cathy (Pumpkin Patch & Co)
Those are my 8. Until next time Happy Stitching!

Yet another new start

Does this look like a wedding piece though? I hope not, it is for a Friendship Quilt. It has some flowers and the word Faith and 2 more roses on it. I took it as a religious piece. It's so pretty. I love it. I needed a break from the clown.

Sat. my mom and I are going to my sister's house for about 3 days. We'll be back Tuesday early evening. She babysits baby Addie every other Wed. so we'll go to Heather's and my brother will pick us up from there. We get to see Addie again!

Well-until next time Happy Stitching!

Progress on clown

This is progress after 34 hours of stitching on it. It's starting to come to life now. I confess this is not a piece I would normally choose but for some reason it caught my eye. It is a lot of fun to stitch even if it has so much orange. A little later a lot of white comes in so that'll be interesting.

Things really have been quiet around here. Now that the weather is better for now I've been taking Autumn (my brother's dog) for walks a little more and she likes that. I finally am getting over the cold I had, the cough is much better now. I've been taking sinu tab and that is finally working better.

Well-I'm going to go read some blogs until next time Happy Stitching!

Another new start

I'm still working on the music piece but also doing this clown piece. I've been wanting to do a Circus piece and when a Circus Quilt came up at Love Quilts I signed up for it. This isn't my typical style of piece but it caught my eye. It will be a clown face when all done.



Speaking of circuses, Johnny went to one last week and had a ball. Here is a picture of him and Teacup the clown. He even got to ride an elephant which he loved. You can tell by the look on his face (in picture with his dad) that Johnny is just loving everything!

Our weather is warming up some now. By the end of the week we are suppose to be 40's and most of our snow will be gone. By the way, how are those of you out east? I heard about all that snow that hit.

Well, until next time, Happy Stitching!