Hello - I meant to post here last week & the week before that & the week before...well you get the picture... but I just can't seem to get my act together... I'm flitting from project to project to project ... focus was never a strong suite of mine.
As for problems... the furnace is paid off... the house seems to be warmer at the same temperature setting and the humidifier works!! No more shocking myself as I walk across the room. Now my dental woes continue... I ended up going back to my regular dentist and he assured me he could pull the throbbing tooth quickly (like under 30 seconds) without IV sedation... costs lots less money... so I did get the nitrous oxide and he got the tooth out... took longer to stitch it up ... it is healing nicely... but then........ a tooth on the other side of my mouth has been hurting on and off... went back to the dentist's office (that made 3 visits in 3 weeks...arggghh)... the offending tooth was crowned 30 years ago, BUT it did not have a root canal... don't know why... but it appears that what it needs now IS a root canal...arrrggghhh again... so now I have an appointment with an endodontist for a evaluation for a root canal... not sure how this will all go but the idea of drilling through a crown doesn't sound like fun.
So let's shift gears and talk about more pleasant things... like the many many many many projects I've started ... but not finished... Here's my design wall...
It started with this tulip, a freebie from the FQS QAL last year called Sewcialites... it is block #24 and you can find it here on the Jolly Jabber blog... it comes in 3 sizes, this is the largest...finishes 9"...
I want to make a wall quilt with this block...that blue background fabric is at least 20 years old... it is Hoffman Painted Desert... it came in a couple of colorways... it is good to have stash...LOL...
but then a friend made the block in Tilda fabrics....ooooohhh... I have a bunch of Tilda's I've been wanting to play with...so I made a Tilda tulip block...
I like this A LOT... this may be the collection for the wall quilt...and since I had all my Tilda's out I know I want to make a bed size quilt out of them too... something where you can see the pretty prints... that Charming Stars pattern is a fav of mine...another freebie you can find here... and I found a lovely tone on tone creamy white floral for the stars... in my stash... did I say how good it is to have stash???
Oh this will be very nice... but then the tulips started talking again and I wanted to see what the littlest size would look like... 3" finished... so I made 9 of them...
insert little squeal...this will make a cute mini quilt... still needs sashing/border/quilting... it's on my list of thing to do...LOL
Oh and then I was scrolling through IG and came across this block... Treehouse Crossroads... how would that look in my Jen Kingwell fabrics?
Well it looks good!! Need to do a quilt with this block and these fabrics... gonna try to keep it to a throw size... fingers crossed... you can find the pattern here... and here are some other versions on IG. And then there was more scrolling on IG and I saw another quilt I liked called Vanishing Time...and while I've just finished TWO quilts using my Momo fabrics I still want to play with them... sooooo I had to make a couple of blocks...
Now I like the first layout better than the second one but it will take more blocks to have it come out symmetrical... so I may go for the second one... 25 blocks would make a nice throw ... here's a link to the construction of this one... it is a riff on the disappearing 9 patch idea... I've already cut about 100 5" squares for this one... lots of different prints... still need to cut the Momo's...
And there is a quilt I want to do for my son... got the fabrics... changed my mind several times but think I've settled on this pattern... Pointed Possibilities... this is a bad screenshot....
you can see it here... it's a freebie... haven't started it....yet... but I can really want to get it going...
Oh and here is my latest toy... a We R Memory Keepers project cart... I got it here from Joanns... I like that the trays come out but there is a lip on the back side so they don't slide all the way through...
I'm thinking about spray painting it a prettier color once it warms up outside... I wish they had made it in white...
And if you think that was a lot of different projects going on...well... I'm not doing much better where crossstitch is concerned... I do have a couple of finishes... First is Snow Day from Prairie Schooler...
And then there is this freebie from Wendy at From the Heart Needleart called Love Mini Quaker...
You can get this freebie by signing up for her newsletter...look here.
I did this one on 32 ct linen dyed with Rit Aquamarine...the floss is DMC 4210 ... a variegated red... the beads are Mill Hill... check out my IG post and see how I marked the spacing for the beads with a Frixion pen... best idea I've had in a long time.
And I pulled out my BBD Oh Joyous Day and made some progress there..
And then I got distracted and got out Bower Birds and stitched a couple of letters...
OMG...the color on this is awful!!! IRL is it a lovely spring green ... yellowy green... I hate the camera on my phone!!! I tried to adjust it and it looks better on my phone than on here... sorry...
And then I saw this piece on IG... Brite Birds by Kathy Barrick... a freebie that I tracked down here...
And AGAIN the color here is soooo offf....the linen was dyed with Apple Green Rit and the floss is the left over bits and piece of a multitude of skeins of Gentle Arts Dried Thyme... it is one of my favorite greens but the dye lots are all over the place, so I when I start a new project I get a new skein ... so I have a whole flossaway bag of leftovers...
And I was watching MommaLovesYouGB and saw this adorable chart...which of course I started...
And explain to me why the green linen on this one is showing up pretty true ??? The other two are just a lighter shade of this one... Anyway you can find the PDF here...
Sooooooooooooo many things I WANT to do... I do think if you looked in the dictionary at the word flibbertigibbet my picture would should up there.... LOL... and for a short month there are a lot of things I HAVE to crammed into it... I have a mammogram this week and a haircut... last week was a semi-annual eye appointment that requires they dilate my eyes...ugh... and like I said I've had 3 dentist appointments with 2 more the last week of February and a semi-annual check up for my son too.
However today is the SUPER BOWL... and the Cincinnati Bengals are playing ... OMG... it has been 30 years since they've been good... so I'll be parked in my stitching chair cheering them on... it's been too long since the city had a winning sports team.... WHO DEY!!
I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts... I know I'll need check out what everyone else is up to... and probably find some more things I want to do... I'm hopeless... hope you have a great week ahead!!!
happy stitching and everything else!!
carol fun
