Knit One.....

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Have been spending a little more time of late catching up on some of my started but never completed projects. 

One of these projects is the Starting Point Wrap that was a mystery Knit Along last spring.  As of this evening I can actually show that I have finished Step 3 on the second half:

Really hoping that I can get this done in the one year time frame.....everyone else did it in 5 weeks.....

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Flying Along......

Good Evening Internet Friends!

"Sew" yes I am finally flying....figuratively not literally.

Today among other things I made a total of 4 sets of the paper pieced flying geese for my Flowers for My Wedding Ring Quilt:

I am SERIOUSLY loving these paper pieced blocks.  The points are perfect!!!!  I don't know if I can go back to making them the regular way after this....

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Clean Up...

Good Evening Internet Friends!

I have been on a huge clean up of my house intermittently for the past year or so.  I really have NO idea how so much junk has managed to find its way in here and I am not longer disputing the idea that maybe some of it reproduced.....there may be second or third generation junk in here. It is not that my house is mess, there is just MORE stuff than what I would like.

Dinner this evening was also in keeping with the theme of clean up.  You know the vegetables that look a little sad at the bottom of the fridge a week later (okay, I know.... no one else has these) well I chopped all of the peppers, broccoli and onions up with some chicken breast, tossed with some salt and black pepper and some of the Garlic Olive Oil I picked up yesterday and along with potatoes put it in the oven to bake:

Turned out great considering it was the sad looking vegetables:

After dinner I went down to my craft room with the intent of organizing and sorting some more but then decided that I should start on the next section of my Flowers for My Wedding Ring Quilt.

After scratching my head for a bit and a few failed starts I think I finally got how the flying geese paper pieced borders are supposed to go together.....follow the instructions on the paper like the other blocks:

"Sew" there I am!!   Tomorrow I will try and get a few more done as I will need 22 of these sections in total to surround the quilt.  

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

GO Day

Good Late Evening Internet Friends!

Today was finally a GO Day for us.  We were up early (okay 0900 hours) but it is Spring Break Week.  Household chores and lunch and then off to the mall to shop for a teenage boy who has out grown all his clothes.  Getting a teenager (even mine) to the store is a feat and finding clothes is another.

As of now I can report that a new pair of Nike sneakers was obtained along with 12 pairs of Nike socks (buy one pack get second pack 50% - could not leave that behind).  Then it was on the Hudson's Bay where thankfully Levi's jeans were on sale and there was a good selection of tops that my son would actually wear.

Next it was on to Evoolution to pick up some flavoured olive oils.  I am all out.  I also wanted to pick up a bottle for a friend as I ran short on Steam a Seam so she cut me a meter from her box!  I was very grateful and since she likes to cook (and makes wonderful soups) I thought this would be a nice treat and something she would not have:

I got a bottle of Garlic infused Olive Oil for her (everyone loves garlic) and also picked up the staple flavours for our house - dill, and butter along with truffle salt that tastes fabulous on popcorn and well just about anything.

This evening after dinner and with my meter of Steam a Seam I set about finishing my Seawell the Turtle:

Placed on his background ocean (or swamp as my son calls it - too much algae):

A close up of the eye:

I did a Google check on Turtle Eyes and was "creeped out" by what I saw so I gave up and decided to use my bubble batik fabric to make the eye.  He looks like a sleepy turtle and I am okay with that!

Tomorrow I will fuse Turtle together permanently and then start to work on the background!  I have BIG plans for this turtle.  🐢🏡

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Ho Hum...

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Somehow I am not really accomplishing anything on this Spring Break.  Today was another Ho Hum kind of day.  

I did make homemade tomato soup for lunch and now I have 2 quarts in the freezer for lunches another day:

Served with grilled cheese sandwiches it was FABULOUS!  The snow was falling outside again.....so I had an afternoon nap.

After dinner I decided that I actually should be somewhat of an adult and so I made muffins as I might have a friend stopping by tomorrow about morning tea time.  I made banana, coconut, oatmeal, flax seed, ground flax, whole wheat and chocolate chip muffins (I sampled one - they are delicious):

Now to retire with my knitting for a bit and see if I can make some progress on my KAL I started last spring....

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

Just Keep Swimming....

Good Evening Internet Friends!

Today was another sort of lazy day "sew" not a whole lot of anything accomplished other than I did have my afternoon nap 😸😺

After dinner I played with my collage again and here is what I managed to complete:

Will try to start on the head and finish the "grout" on the shells tomorrow...

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy

"Sew" Much Fun!

Good Evening Internet Friends!

It was Collage Class Day today at Purple Katz!!!  A road trip was involved "sew" that made me happy as well.

Here is my progress for today:

Seawell is doing swimmingly in his new ocean 😁.  I found this batik fabric when I picked up my kit at Purple Katz the other day and thought it made the perfect ocean background.  

Using batik fabrics has been a huge leap for me because up until recently I had not used batiks.  The reason largely being that I had not used them and when I pointed out a more experienced quilter than I that her points were really off on her blocks she informed me that batik fabrics stretch and if I knew more about quilting I would know this......well...now that I have used batiks for the Wedding Ring Quilt and this collage quilt I am excited to use batiks!!! (and batik fabrics do not stretch......shhhhhh).

I am hoping to get some serious progress made on this quilt this week and then show you what I have planned for him.

Hope this inspires your own creativity...

Kathy