A sleigh of Santas for a Slow Sunday..,

Hello  - well as I suspected  it would, last week filled up fast with places to go and things to do but I did make a little progress on the Christmas decor I want done for this year...and in the process I learned what you call a group of Santas... you call it a sleigh... and I certainly have a sleigh  load of Santas going on this year. 

Monday was my most productive day as I  kinda FFO'd  5 little pillows...

and in the spirit of total transparency... they aren't totally FFO'd...

but they are tucked into displays and perhaps I'll get them sealed up this week.  I'm thinking of doing a bunch of candy canes like I did with the PS Santas last year... a festive touch!

I thought about changing up the wall quilt in the living room but just went with the GIANT  Ho Ho Ho Santa... he's such a friendly guy...

this started life as a quilt kit from Moda where you were suppose to make a bajillion log cabin blocks for the background and then cover up 75% of them with Santa... which I thought was a waste of time. So I ditched the log cabin blocks and then just machine appliqued Santa to a background of minty green Grunge....the Ho Ho Ho's came from the pattern Jingle Jangle by Seamed to Be... and in searching the blog I realize I made this in 2018... time flies... 

Now the tier tray is loaded up with Santa's... 

Up top, the needlepoint one is going on 35 years old... damn time flies... I made a bunch of these but he's my favorite because he reminds me of the costumes in the finale of the  movie White Christmas... which is my FAVORITE movie... the 3 Santas from Prairie Schooler No. 135 Good Saint Nick... and you can't even tell they aren't totally finished...LOL

and below I have some Debbie Mumm Santas and a freebie from With Thy Needle & Thread called Merry & Minty... 

and then there is little  boy holding a train needlepoint tree topper I made 39 years ago ... again time flies... and a sleigh of Debbie Mumm Santas... this is the result of that foray over to eBay last month where almost  vintage Debbie Mumm salt & pepper shakers and cream and sugar pieces kept jumping into the cart... for chubby guys they are quite agile, dontcha know...LOL   

and on a stack of Christmas quilts I have the LARGE Debbie Mumm Santa in a Sleigh... I got him several years ago and I don't remember what I paid but I checked him out over on eBay and he's going for anywhere from $20 to $63, yikes... you gotta watch those prices on ebay... and if I knew what was good for me (and I do but I ignore it) I 'd stay off of eBay... but it sure is fun!

And I hung my Wonky Christmas Trees quilt over the back of the couch...

and yes it quite a vivid olive green which I am totally infatuated with...even though some of my family and friends think I'm nuts... but if I didn't do it now, when would I do it?  I ain't getting any younger because time flies...sigh

On the front door I have my Christmas ornament wreath... and I LOVE  LOVE  LOVE this wreath... 

it wasn't as hard to make as I thought and this video by Retro Renovation was super helpful...it takes a ton of glue sticks... I went through 20 of the long ones but in the 7 years since I made this wreath only 2 small ornaments have fallen off and I glued them back on.  I keep thinking I'll make another one. I have a stash of gold and silver ornaments in the basement... someday... and then I saw this today on IG on the account magpieethel...OMG... she has SO MUCH STUFF!!!  She makes you feel okay with however much you have...

That garland of vintage ornaments over the door has me entranced. She explained that she starts with some vintage white fake pine garland and hangs each ornament individually... and it has me walking around my house thinking where could I do this... definitely something for next year... need to start looking for white fake pine garland 

Next to the wreath on the front door I have my Lizzie Kate Jingles...

this another one of my long samplers which got truncated because I mis-counted how long the linen should be (a mistake I have made several times in my stitching life... sigh ) ... but I'm happy with it as if it was any longer it wouldn't have fit that wood back from Hobby Lobby. 

Outside on the sunroom porch everything is in the pink... and it all started with this wreath ...

hard to take a pic as the sun is coming through the storm door but while it is white it gives off a pink-ish glow....

And here the little green shelf ...

Up top I have Lizzie Kate's Christmas ABC's and the needlepoint tree topper angel I made 40 years ago... OMG  how could it have been that long ago??? Time, time, time...what has become of me??? Sorry for that little fit, but this year I am feeling OLD... and when I realize how long ago I made a lot of these things it really hits home... sigh.... okay let's move on...

Middle shelf has Barbara Ana's Christmas Joy and the tree from Emily Call's Quilted Christmas... and on the bottom Lizzie Kate's Tiny Tidings XXI...

I like to cover my chair out here with a quilt and this one is Quilty Stars ... I've made this pattern twice...once for Nick in greens and blues... you can see it here... and once in Christmas fabrics for me which you can see on my bed here. 

On the wall by the front door on the porch is the Twas the Night Before Christmas from Prairie Schooler No. 63 Christmas Samplers... 

As I sit here out on the sunroom porch typing this and looking at this piece it occurs to be that the bottom portion of this with Santa and the reindeer would make a cute pillow... I'm happy with the one I made this year and I have another little pillow with Santa and the reindeer flying over a yellow house... so a third would make a collection and I'm ALL into collections!!

And I had a handful of stuff left over when I was decorating the porch... and it was cold that day... so I just tucked them up here on the window ledge... the crosstitch is a Lizzie Kate but I don't remember the name of it...

So it is now Saturday afternoon... and I'm thinking about the week ahead... not a lot scheduled yet but I'm sure it will fill up.. I need to do Christmas cards, which I think about starting in July but always drag my feet about in December... and I did start a snowman cross stitch piece ... I'll show a pic next week... and I want to do some sewing... but it is so nice to just sit here on the sunroom porch  and watch the birds at my feeders and knit... I'm working on a scrappy sock and that is mindless knitting... 

This is the week in December where I always wish I had more time... but then there's a good chance I'd fritter it away... oh well...

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts ... I hope that your week ahead has plenty of time to get done what needs to be done... gotta pick up a gift card or two ... and some fixing for appetizers at Costco for our Christmas Day celebration... and drop off a couple of gifts... oh and make the pillow cases for Elliott's presents... I found some Transformers fabric and he LOVES Transformers... he's so excited about Christmas this year... he's driving his parents bonkers... he knows exactly what he wants... and he is going to get those gifts... lucky boy...

happy stitching-

carol fun 

Tried and true with a smidge of something new on a Slow Sunday...

 Hello - well that turned out to be a much busier week than I thought... and it was more productive than I thought too...  I got all my Christmas decor out of the bins and arranged ... I stuck pretty much with the same arrangements I had last year... tried and true, because I was exhausted from all the decorating... now what contributed mightily to being exhausted is the realization that I have TOO MUCH STUFF... and even after covering almost every surface in the living room and half of the kitchen, there was still SO MUCH STUFF left in the bins. There is gonna be a major purge here before the 1st of the year. 

Just about every season so far I've been reducing the number of bins I have... now I still have WAY TOO MUCH, but it is less than I had before... and that is a good thing, right?  (Here's is where you nod in agreement to make me feel better...LOL) I'm at that age when I wonder how much longer can I do all this decorating? or even want to do all this decorating?  I remember as a kid that we  decorated for Christmas and at Halloween we put cardboard cutouts of pumpkins and ghosts and black cats in the front window, but it is nothing like that any more, is it?   My Mom had one style of decorating for basically 11 months of the year... and it was fine... I'm just not sure what exactly I would do if I didn't do seasonal stuff... I'm certainly not modern, or a minimalist... how would I ever decide on just ONE centerpiece for the dining room table or ONE quilt for the wall in the living room?? I probably can't because I had way too much trouble just settling on several of my Christmas displays. 

So I've been  saying I was going to start with a NEW Christmas tree, with colored lights...ooooohhhh... and Nick & I set it up and I was underwhelmed... 

I know this isn't a great picture and while I did love the color lights it just seemed small and scrawny... and to be perfectly honest I wasn't looking forward to undecorating the old tree and redecorating the new one... so the scrawny tree sat in the window for several days when I had an idea...let's put the old tree up on the table and  add a smidge of something new... I bought 2 strings of colored lights and 2 lengths of a super fluffy silver and colored garland and I put them on the old tree and as the French say,  viola... this makes me happy!!

Now it is chock full of ornaments and they all have memories attached to them... several Hallmark Light & Motion  ornaments from the 80's that still work like that train ... I love the bubble lights like the ones that were on my Grandma's tree ...and yes that is a deviled egg ornament... a gift from my older son who LOVES my deviled eggs... and you can see the fluffy sparkly multi -colored garland ... very maximalist!

and the ornaments covered in sequins that my Mom made the last year she was on earth... 

which was over 40 years ago... and you can't have Christmas without memories of the past now can you?

Nick was a HUGE help in getting all my decorating done and while I was dithering about what to  concerning the tree we did this...

the green velveteen slipcover I first talked about in February of this year... OMG... I knew it was a while ago but I didn't realize how long this slipcover has been waiting to be put on... at first I dragged my feet because Elliott was still in his "let's build a house out of all the couch cushions and quilts" phase... it seems to have passed, at least at my house. Now I remember saying this is going to make a BIG statement and it does!!!  I LOVED it when we first put it on... and then that evening I has second thoughts ... it seems even brighter at night if that is possible...LOL... but now that a few days have passed I am so HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY with it...   It is over top ... a maximalist piece!! I don't know why I want a green velveteen couch, I just do!!  And this isn't just going to be for Christmas... this is going to stay green, forever... or until I get another wild hair and fixate on a new color... LOL

As for some other decor in the living room, I put up the display with the mix of vintage and current Shiny Brite ornaments... 

and below is the small shelf unit... Olive, the other reindeer is keeping an eye on things...

There is J'Arrive by Tournicoton...and a trio of little Gurley caroler candles... these are repros but I remember my Mom having them...  I got mine here...

I do love those Santa head mugs but I couldn't squeeze another one on that shelf... I tried... maybe I could stack a couple on top of each other...hmmm.... gotta think about that  because I have 2 more that I put elsewhere ... and as much as I don't want to admit it, I  may need to stop adding to some of my collections... I have run out of room... so sad.... 

On the left I have Little Bits of Christmas from The Drawn Thread ...

On the right I have The Best Time of the Year  from With thy Needle and Thread....

I'm still happy with the Prairie Schooler Santa's I stitched last year... these were from the chart Merry Mini Surprise  No. 215...

And I finished stitching the 3rd Santa from Prairie Schooler No. 135  Good Saint Nick ... but I haven't got them FFO'd yet... maybe today...

I did finish stitching on the snippet of Santa and his reindeer from the same PS No. 135 chart... 

And I started on Little Nick from Notforgotten Farm... I think I'm going to add some red bead for the berries on the holly and a bell on his hat. 

And I remembered that last year I stitched this Cinder Klaus also from Notforgotten Farm last year... he also is getting bell on the end of his hat.

I'm thinking next Christmas I may do a dough bowl full of Santas as I should have about a dozen of them... and then I'll have to stitch some more to back fill the displays I have them in now... always something new to stitch!  I like that! And to that end I order a couple more Prairie Schooler Santa charts... one can NEVER have too many Santas!!

I think I'm going to move on to some Winter stitching... or even pick back up one of the many many BIG samplers I have started in '24... I'm already mulling over what I want to do in ' 25... not making any resolutions but I still do want to add more samplers to the walls in my living room and craft room... maybe more samplers and just a bit of seasonal... that would be a nice mix... and it is a great plan till something new and shiny comes along and I'm led astray...again and again and again...LOL

As I was searching past posts I also came across several quilts I started last year... there's a Momo and a Debbie Mumm and a Stack N Whack that are all calling my name.  And I still want to do some major reorganizing of the fabric shelves in my sewing room.... I will NEVER... EVER.... run out of stuff to do!

Some of the productivity of this week had to do with getting things done around the house... on Monday John my favorite electrician came. He's done work on the house before... turns out the electrical issue wasn't a problem... it was working the way it should. Water got into the connection where the inflatables were plugged in and it tripped the GFS Ground Fault circuit interupter... all that was needed was to push in that little tab that popped out... now I know what to do...and he gave me some good ideas for how to keep the water out of the connections for the inflatables.  On Tuesday Dan came and put down 21 bales of pine straw... I've never used this for mulch before but I really like how it looks ... and it covered up all the left over stuff that grew back after I cleaned out the beds back in October. 

On Wednesday the window company came and looked at the broken window and the 2 windows that don't lock completely on the sunroom porch. They took measurements and will make new windows to replace them... covered under warranty... will be ready in about 4-5 weeks. On Thursday my cleaning lady came and freshened up the kitchen and bathrooms and Nick and I took a bunch of stuff back to Kohls that I purchased on Amazon... felt good to get them returned. On Friday we joined friends to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra Christmas show... it was AWESOME!!  The music, the lights, the spectacle... it is an over the top performance.... here's a link to a bit of the show from about 2 years ago... they change the show up each year but this give you a flavor of it.   Now is is LOUD and there is so much bass you can feel it in the back of your seat, but it was FUN!!  and afterwards we went out to dinner... it was a GREAT evening!

Looking at next week along with Elliott I have lunch with my quilty lady friends and dinner with another friend and some errands to run ... and I'm pretty sure other stuff will come up.  Today I'm waiting for Dan the handyman to swing by... I have a couple of minor projects I need taken care of... the most important is a new handle on the back breezeway storm door that is our primary entrance.. I have no clue how old that storm door is but I know it's OLD and Thursday (which was bitterly cold) I went to open it and the handle broke, the metal just snapped... and now if you close the storm door, from the inside you have to play with the little metal latch bar to get it open, but if you are on the outside there is NO WAY to get the door open!!  Yes I have a front door, but since I enclosed the porch you now enter through another storm door, into the porch and then you get to the front door. But I ALWAYS lock that storm door so no one can just waltz in... I know, 1st world problems, making things inconvenient... but Dan will fix it, along with a new light switch in the laundry room, and oil the overhand fan in Nick's room and put the screw and bolt back in Nick's recliner... taking care of the little stuff...

Only 17 more days till Christmas... yikes!! I still have a bit of shopping to do ... and hope to do it all online... and there's a Christmas quilt that still needs a binding (it has been quilted since January... OMG I am slug)...and if I want to do cards I need to get my butt in gear.  Every year I wish that December was a bit longer..

Hope your week ahead is a good one! I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts and check out the pretties over there...

happy stitching-

carol fun 

Feeling the need for speed on a Slow Sunday...

 Hello - I hope you had a great Thanksgiving... ours was lovely... good company and good food if I say so myself and I do... we had dinner with my son and daughter in law and her parents and we all contributed to the meal. We had turkey and prime rib and tons of sides... mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli casserole, stuffing, marinated tomatoes, pasta salad, green bean salad, deviled eggs, cranberry sauce (the kind that come in a can that foodies turn their nose up at, but it's what I had as a child and I LOVE it) ..oh and there were rolls...needless to say we stuffed ourselves, then sat around and talked for a while and then indulged in a yummy homemade  pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting.  I came home hours later and sat down in my chair and did absolutely nothing... 

and that has been the trend for the last week.... zero motivation.... and if you skimmed this post you'll see that I have very little crafty or decor-y to show for the last week... minimal pictures... sorry...

I had BIG plans to have my new Christmas tree decorated on Friday... instead I piddled the day away watching YouTube videos and trying to get someone at my bank to notarize some documents for me. Didn't get that arranged till late afternoon and didn't want to start putting away stuff if I was going to have to stop in the middle of the mess. 

I'm feeling the need to speed up as today is December 1 and Christmas is only 24 days away... plan is to get ALL the Fall decor back into its sterlite bins  pronto... then Nick can haul out all the Christmas stuff ... I have Elliott on Tuesday, an eye doctor appointment on Thursday and tickets to go see a performance of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra on Friday... so a semi busy week. I need to make the most of today and Monday and Wednesday... 

The weather has gotten dramatically colder... highs only mid to upper 30's ...lows in the upper teens... and according to the YouTube weather videos I watched this is going to continue for at least the next 2 - 3 weeks... I'm not ready for it ... now I did get my house a bit more ready... last Wednesday I had the windows washed inside and out and the tracks cleaned and Adam who has a window cleaning business and just lives down the street got all but 2 windows shut and locked. The 2 that wouldn't lock are out on the sunroom porch so that's not a horrible situation. I'm calling the company that put them in for me and someone will come out and look at them and if they can't get them to lock they will replace them. Next thing I want to do it get the blinds cleaned. I think I've tracked down the company that did it for me before. They come to your house and take down the blinds and take them out to their truck in your driveway, clean them and put them back up. 

And Thursday evening I realized I have an electrical problem that needs attention. When I came home from Thanksgiving dinner my Macy's Day parade inflatables were FLAT... and all my outdoor landscape lighting was DARK... I assume the problem is the electrical box out on the side of the house.  The electrical  company I've used before is closed till tomorrow so I'll be calling first thing in the morning. 

As for the pitiful amount of crafty stuff I have to show here are the Prairie Schooler Santa's I've done... this is  from No. 135 Good Saint Nick... 2 complete and a 3rd in the home stretch ...

almost finished...

I'm very happy with these... I'm going to finish them as little pillows with a bit of fabric at the bottom and put them in the tier tray with these almost vintage Debbie Mumm pieces...

these were an eBay purchase ... a cream and sugar set that somehow escaped me back when they were new. I got a good price on them which makes me happy! 

Oh and I did a bit of knitting... got one sock on this pair done and the second sock about half way done...

and then I played with another pair... it is going to be scrappy... now my vision was for a purple-y scrappy pair and while all of the yarns have some purple in them this isn't looking real purple-y at the moment... but I'm gonna keep going. 

I'd also like to get back to this shawl I started last year? maybe the year before?  it has a purple-y swath in the middle and there's a repeat of that in sight in what's left of this skein... I got a thing for purple right now ...not sure why but again, I'm gonna keep going with it. 

So anyone else feeling rushed right now? I keep seeing pics on IG of people who are all decorated for Christmas and everything looks so pretty ... and I do LOVE Christmas... and I want to get my house all dolled up, but while the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak... and lazy... and tired... and not particularly motivated. In my fantasies I have a personal assistant who I could direct to do the decorating and I could sit in my chair and watch... but that ain't gonna happy. I'm telling myself that if I get the stockings hung by December 6 that's enough for next week. Little goals... 

Oh last week Time4Stitchin asked about the linen on the little reindeer piece I showed... that one was dyed with Rit dye in the Teal color... the Santas I showed today are painted with Rit Dye in the Evening Blue color. When I dye linen I shove it into small mason jars to get a bit of mottling as I like that look. When I paint linen I start with a dry piece and treat it like a piece of paper. I use a paint brush to apply the dye that I've diluted with water. I try to get it splotchy... light and dark areas... and in both processes you have to be amendable to what happens.... at least I do, as I really can't control the process... gotta go with the flow...I envy people who dye fabric for sale. You have to be more precise than I am, I don't measure anything so I can never get the same color twice ...and I'm okay with that. 

I hope that your week is looking happy and productive... that's what I want for me!!  I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today and fingers crossed next week I'll have a lot more to share...

happy stitching-

carol fun 

Craziness and kindness on a Slow Sunday...

Hello - well winter arrived this week in SW Ohio... it was low 60's on Monday and I took advantage of that  got out and put some winter greenery (fake) in my window boxes ...snow came on Thursday... I heard we set a record of 2" but most of it melted when it hit the ground... streets were wet, grass got a covering.... melted by Saturday morning, and a forecast of 60 for this coming Monday... ahhh... I love the weather here ... such variety...LOL...not sure what to do with the flowers in the yard as the dahlias appear to be okay and even the new shoots of cannas are looking good... crazy weather...

And the week had some crazy worked into it.... some drama (perhaps of my own making), but it had me hot and bothered for a couple of days and I did nothing productive on those days... the older I get the more I hate to waste time but there seems to be plenty of occasions where that is exactly what happens... sigh... and I also found out that a long distance internet friend passed away. .. that had me sad... sigh again...

As for kindness I was the recipient of some lovely goodies.... first was this arrangement of flowers from my son and DIL to thank me for watching Elliott during the funeral ...

I love the color of that rose in the middle.

Next was some cute bags from my friend Vicki... she's  retired to Florida but was in town for her grandson's wedding and we met for lunch... I LOVE the cross body bag.  Measure twice, cut once, curse, repeat... yep I've been there... and the little pouch with the diagonal zipper... LOVE that polka dotted chicken fabric... 

Vicki is super creative... and she loves to make little bags... she watches a bunch of YouTube videos and can design her own pattern from there... I envy that talent.

I can't believe Thanksgiving is this Thursday...ok I can believe it but I'm not liking it... November is moving waaay too fast for me... I have so many things I want to do for Christmas and I'm not making a lot of headway... now  I did do a little Santa stitching this week... I went through my stash of Prairie Schooler Christmas charts and decided this one has several images I like...

Here's a close up of the Santas I zoomed in on... I want to stitch the 3 that have toys  and finish each of them as a small pillow.

And here's the  Santa I stitched.

now this is a restart as my first choice of linen was a darker turquoise and I just wasn't liking the coverage of the white and there is a lot of  white beard on all these guys... this lighter blue is better IMHO...

Not only are those Santas cute, go look at the cover again... I think that reindeer in the middle on the right would make a cool pillow with a scattering of snowflakes around it... maybe a red reindeer on a  turquoise background?  And then I got to thinking how nice a small pillow would be if I stitched part of the bottom of the larger piece... just Santa's sleigh and reindeer and some rooftops... and well I just wanted to see how it might look sooooooo... I stitched up a couple of reindeer.. and I like it... I like it a lot!!

Now realistically I should start my Christmas decorating the end of this week... and I may start with the Christmas tree.  I bought a new one this year with colored lights... I LOVE colored lights... so I need to undecorate the tree that has been vacationing in the basement under the stairs and move all the ornaments onto the new tree I bought... and after Christmas I will place the entire decorated tree into a large plastic bag and return it to its resting spot under the stairs... my sainted Grandma was my inspiration for this ... she had a small tree (about 4 ft.) and every year she'd wrap a sheet around it and take it up to the attic to wait for next year. As you can tell I love to decorate, except where Christmas trees are involved... my past experience with strings of lights going out and ornaments falling off always drives me nuts... so having the tree fully decorated at the start of the season puts me in a better mood... I'm not looking forward to the undecorate/redecorate process but I think the end result will make me happy.   whoa... that was a tangent, wasn't it?  LOL

As for the Fall/Thanksgiving decorating... I'm very happy with that... here is the big shelf display...

There are some returning pieces from the Fall I put out in September and some pieces that are exclusive to November.  At the top is the Bent Creek All in a Row... sorry it got cut off... and the Blackbird Designs Harvest of Friendship returns and I love that skinny coppery/rose gold turkey... 

And I tucked in that itty bitty Fall Prairie Schooler among my collection of glass pumpkins...

A wide shot of the middle of the shelf unit...

and here are the details...  I have November from Prairie Schooler ... another piece where I painted the linen and I think it came out soooo good. I did some math (and we all know it ain't my best subject) and tried to position the stitching so it would like like a sunset... In the center is  Ever so Grateful by Threadwork Primitives  and tiny PS turkey in that new to me McCoy piece ...

and to the right side a new for this season purchase from Micheals, that vintage looking turkey mold and my Jim Shore cornucopia and a little Bent Creek leaf pillow...

Below is a Turkey Hill Farm from Ewe & Eye & Friends  with a sampler  pillow from Lizzie Kate...

and Autumn from Barbara Ana Designs.

And I did get the small shelf unit on the sunroom porch freshened up... 

from the top the Autumn Alphabet by Lizzie Kate and an almost vintage turkey tin from Debbie Mumm... gosh I still love all her decor stuff ... and her fabrics!

In the middle a sorta purply/burgundy glass plate..... it looks like the leaves on the Crimson Sunset maple in my front yard and  Give Thanks by Threadwork Primitives along with  the two Pinker N Punkin saltbox houses, Turkey Creek Manor and Thanksgiving House... this is the final 2 I wanted to complete the #pnpsixhouses2024sal... I finished them all as small pillows with chenille trim... and I have plans to add to this collection with some Christmas houses... perhaps not for this Christmas, next Christmas is more probable...

On the bottom I have the Primrose Cottage Autumn Quaker.... and I just got the Christmas Quaker pattern which like the PNP houses may get started this season but finished for Christmas 2025.

Plans for the week has a doctor appointment for Nick and food prep on Wednesday... the Thanksgiving feast is scheduled for 3pm on Thursday... I like that timing ... I don't have to get up early to do the prime rib and finish the deviled eggs... I'm not a morning person... I like to ease into the day ...and sometimes I don't finish easing until lunchtime...LOL

We shall see if the motivation holds out for a start on the Christmas decorating... I think if I can get the tree redone and get the Fall stuff put away that is enough to accomplish before Elliott returns on the  Tuesday after Thanksgiving... I don't like stuff out when he comes over so I can begin again on Wednesday 12/3... I'm still debating as to which Christmas quilt I'm going to hang on the wall... I've done the giant Santa with the HO HO HO the last couple of years... may do the wonky Christmas trees instead... I have one new throw size Christmas quilt to add to my collection... I started it last December, had it quilted in January and it has been waiting for a binding since then... LOL... no rush... oh and Delinda finished quilting my Jolly Good FQ 4 Patch... you can see it here.. I need to go to her house and pick it up.. that's on the agenda for after Thanksgiving... 

So my plans for today are to relax on the porch and stitch some Christmas ... the stuff that drove me crazy this last week has kinda worked it's way out... still some issues to deal with but I'm reluctantly resigned to the fact that the situation won't be settled till sometime in  2025 ... and I'm not a real patient person... but I don't have a choice.  I should have spent more time stitching and less time making myself crazy last week... perhaps I can take my own advice this week.

I hope that you have a lovely Thanksgiving... good food, good company and no drama... a time for kindness and no craziness... a time to reflect and be grateful... and eat pumpkin pie... 

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts and check out what everyone else was up to last week... 

happy stitching-

carol fun 

OH  OH... I wanted to say thank you for all the lovely comments last week... it appears that Blogger was cooperative  as several people who usually send me email comments were actually able to leave one on the blog... I have no idea what is up with Blogger but I happy it is still here... I don't want to learn any new tricks...