Need to move at my own pace on a Slow Sunday...

 Hello - did you have a nice Thanksgiving?  As I talked about last week we had ours on Friday... and it was delicious... but I'm even more discombobulated about what day of the week it is... so glad I have a clock next to my bed that tells me what day it is when I wake up... 

And as I talked about last week I do not have much craftyness  to show for my time... some of my normal activities didn't happen but other things did ... my Tuesday which I thought would be wide open because I wasn't watching Elliott ended up packed full of stuff... it started Monday evening when the place that I use to detail my car texted and said can we move your 9 am appointment to 1pm because the forecast was for rain in the morning. OK that's fine with me, I didn't have to get up so early and their regular method is to come and clean the car in my driveway... then Tuesday morning they texted again and asked if they  could  come at 10:45am  and get the car and take it to their garage and do the work there. Now I have to say that was great. A very nice young man came and got the car and returned it spic and span a couple of later.

Since the appointment had gotten moved I was still in my pajamas at 10am thinking I could lounge a bit... but then the doorbell rang. The appointment for the guy to come and winterize the sprinkler system was for between 11am and 1pm... but he showed up at 10:05... I scrambled to throw on some sweats and let him into the basement to turn off the outside water and he was done outside in about 30 minutes.

And then a friend came over to visit and look at some of my Christmas cross stitch charts... that was nice and she left with a couple she'd like to stitch this season... I on the other hand am taking a different path which I'll talk about in a bit. 

I don't remember what happened Wednesday but it disappeared and I spent Thursday doing prep for the meal on Friday... and now it is Saturday... Nick and I went out to lunch, got gas in my car, hit the grocery for some fruit... and then came home and we brought in the Fall/Thanksgiving outdoor decor and decorated the window boxes.  I should have gotten to them earlier. The dirt in the boxes is frozen. I attach the greenery/garlands I put in the boxes with large lawn staples so they don't blow out of the boxes. The wind can blow something fierce around my  little house on the corner as it is exposed on both the west and the south side where the boxes are located. We had to use a hammer to get the nailed down...literally. I added some large wooden snowflakes from Hobby Lobby, and I want to put some lights in the boxes. I think I'm going to go with some battery operated white lights. I think that will be pretty and I would like it even in January and February. 

As for inside my plan today is to get the Fall/Thanksgiving stuff put away and to start to get out the Christmas stuff... but I need to move at my own pace. My knees are still giving me problems and I need to keep reminding myself Rome wasn't built in a day and I don't have to have all my stuff up immediately. 

And these thoughts are the result of a lot of thinking lately... and how I should move at my own pace and not be egged on by how much other people are getting done. They aren't 72 and they don't have my knees and does it make any difference what I do or when I do it?  I've been thinking about my cross stitch and quilting and knitting and crocheting and I want to do what I want to do when I want to do it. Right now nothing Christmas-y is calling my name as far as cross stitch is concerned. In fact, I didn't put in a single stitch on any cross stitch project last week. 

I did what I wanted to do and I knitted ... I finished this pair... the yarn is by Opal and was called Australia.

And I started a new pair of socks... I'm using 2 different Opal yarns that are highly patterned and alternating every round... I have NO clue what it is going to look like... it reminds me of Stack n Whack as you aren't sure what it will look like until you whack it and sew it back together... I like that mystery... here's where I am so far...

lots of stripeyness and then that chunk of green ... oh I LOVE that chunk of green!  I hope it will repeat itself somewhere on this sock or on its mate.  

And this is the pace I want to move at. Realistically nothing for this Christmas would get stitched and finished in time... I might do a little Prairie Schooler Santa for completion next year. I got the floss for the Chilly Cardinal Sampler to do in January... need to dye some linen for it.  And I'll see how far I get on the Bent Creek Soapbox Winter... and then I want to move onto the patriotic stuff ... I want to go all out for the 250th birthday of the United States... got a bunch of  great cross stitch charts and there are 2 quilts I want to make. But I don't want to be rushing with myself.  Eons ago when the dinosaurs roamed the earth as a 15 year old child I was in a high school version of the play The Pajama Game and one of the songs I can't forget was "Racing with the Clock" .... the final refrain was "It's a losing race when you're racing with the clock."  So I need to move at my own pace... and what gets done, gets done... and on that note I'm going to sit here a while and knit  a bit more...

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts... hopefully by next week I will have some Christmas stuff out... I know that once I get started I am more motivated...mostly because I want the boxes out of my living room.  Not sure what the weather is going to be next week. It is definitely going to be cold and the "snow" word has entered the forecast... as I recall, meteorological winter starts December 1...which is tomorrow... right on schedule...

Hope your week ahead is a good one... perhaps you work a little on the Christmas stuff, perhaps not... move at your own pace!

happy stitching-

carol fun 

Thanksgiving thoughts...

 

Cleaning and Thanksgiving on a Slow Sunday...

Hello - another week that was the kinda "lather, rinse, repeat" of the last couple of weeks... and I'm sort of getting used to it...  but for what it is worth this week will be different as Elliott is off of school all week and we will be celebrating Thanksgiving on Friday instead of Thursday to accommodate the schedule of both sides of the family... and that is a good thing... already gotten a start on some food prep. Picked up my prime rib roasts from Costco and picked the bread for the stuffing...and I'll have all day Thursday to make the pasta salad, the deviled eggs and the marinated tomatoes... and I feel like there is something else I'm forgetting that is my part of the meal...hmmm.... We are eating at 3pm so I don't have to get up real early to do the prime rib and I have lots of time to finish up stuff. 

So I've mentioned several times about the cleaning out projects I want to do ... my closet, the garage, the kitchen cabinets, the closet in my craft room and a re-arrangement of my fabrics and the decor storage in the basement.  And I reflected that the spirit is willing, the flesh (my knees) are week and the motivation is fleeting BUT ... a great big BUT... spirit, flesh and motivation came together last week and I cleaned out my closet and re-arranged my clothes and took several bags of stuff to Goodwill and boy did that feel good! 

In fact it felt so good that the next day, with a ton of help from Nick, I CLEANED OUT THE GARAGE!! The weather was great, sunny and upper 50's... and we got rid of stuff that has been sitting in boxes and other containers UNTOUCHED for the last 11 years!!  Unbelievable!! We made a couple of trips to Goodwill and filled to overflowing every trash can we had (3) and then had more boxes and bags of stuff to put on the curb Monday night... and I was sooooo happy to wake up Tuesday morning and it was all GONE!!  Now it still looks like a garage...not one of those magazine photo shoots but it is tidier... like items are together... I can see all the stuff and there is even some empty shelf space... woo hoo!!!

I might get to the kitchen cupboard clean out in a day or two however, the basement probably won't get touched until after I get the Thanksgiving stuff put away and the Christmas stuff out.  Each season this year as I've put away one set of decor I've reduced what I have by at least one bin... and I'm feeling really good about that. I don't foresee another major reduction in the upcoming year but that's okay. With some clean out of the basement storage room it will all fit nicely. 

As I alluded to with "lather, rinse, repeat" I was in and out of the house a lot this week again. But other people got things done for me. Adam who is my outdoor lighting guy came by and put in a new fixture at the base of my front porch steps and another fixture that puts light up on the landing... I LOVE it!  Just what was needed.  And then another Adam, who lives down the street who owns a window washing business, came and washed all my windows, inside and out and cleaned the tracks and got them all to latch close...so the house is buttoned up for the winter... yeah!! 

I did get a tiny bit of crafty stuff done... and while I should be stitching Christmas, all the charts I had out required more attention than I was able to give them.... sooooo.... instead I picked back up the Bent Creek  Soapbox Winter... 

and I just stitched boxes... which required minimal brain power. 

Now I can go back and fill in the letters and the motifs. 

This is barely 2" wide but 18" long.... it will fit nicely next to the door either inside or out on the sunroom porch. 

I knit a little more on that sock I showed last week, but not much.

I hemmed 2 pairs of pants for Nick.

I sewed more 2 x 4 units together for my Dorothy Momo quilt. I need to count again. At first I thought I had cut all the squares I needed ... but then I thought I was going to be short... but I didn't cut anymore... but I now think I do have enough.  Too much mathing for right now. 

 I am happy I have my Thanksgiving decor to enjoy... here's it the big shelf display...

From the top ... Bent Creek's All in a Row... I stitched this eons ago... by next year I want to have Bent Creek's  Let's Be Thankful stitched for this spot. 

Moving down there is  Blackbird Designs Feast of Friendship  my Jim Shore cornucopia and a couple of small turkeys...

On the right side lots of blown glass pumpkins and November from Prairie Schooler...

And moving down another shelf  Ever so Grateful by Threadworks Primitive and Autumn Alphabet by Lizzie Kate... and the cornucopia pillow is a Prairie Schooler Snippet and the little turkey in the dish I forget where he's from... but he's cute.

On the right side here at the bottom I have a small turkey mold (got that from Michaels a couple fyears ago) and I Love Fall from Calico Confectionary. 

As I type this on Saturday the sun is shining and I'm pooped from running around all week... there were a couple of doctor appointments and a couple of dinners with friends and errands... lots of errands... I'm thinking a nap would be nice... I do need to get out and get the Spring bulbs I bought at Costco planted. I got some more daffodils and alliums and crocuses cause you can't have too many Spring flowers. I'll get Nick to help me ... he digs the holes and I toss in the bulbs... seems like a good job for tomorrow.  

The weather guys are predicting a noticeable change in the weather starting on Thanksgiving and the forecast I looked at has below freezing temperatures for several nights next week.. brrr... along with getting the bulbs planted I need to get some coverings on my rose bushes... I ordered some collars that you stuff with leaves and I have tons and tons of leaves in my yard...they will insulate the bushes... fingers crossed.

I hope that you all have a great Thanksgiving... between what I'm cooking and what my daughter-in-law is preparing and her mom is bringing we will all be stuffed to the gills... and there should be plenty of leftovers. I'm not big on leftovers for the most part but I do love a cold turkey sandwich on white bread with a side of cranberry sauce and some stuffing the next day... tradition...LOL

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today... and we'll have to see if I have anything blog worthy next week. I know I won't have my Christmas decor up ... well maybe I'll have the tree up... it is already fully decorated and sitting in a plastic bag in the basement...I just need Nick to haul it up the steps... I'm hoping to get some sewing done and put in a few more stitches in something... not sure what exactly... and I should be able to get those socks finished ... just have the foot and the toe to go and I'd really like to cast on another pair guilt-free...and I heard through the grapevine that my big pink Christmas Lemoyne Star quilt was next up at Delinda's to be quilted... I should get the binding made and I want to do some pillowcases too... well it looks like  I do have stuff I could show... IF I get 'er done... 

Happy Thanksgiving!

carol fun 

Things I've gifted myself on a Slow Sunday...

Hello - it was another week where I would swear that someone stole 24 to 48 hours out of my week.  It just blew by!! Monday was calm, Tuesday revved up with Elliott, Wednesday got stuffed with lunch with the quilty ladies and errands that were a bust, Thursday included taking a family member to the doctor for an appointment that wasn't very informative and dinner out with friends... that part was nice, Friday Nick and I completed the errands we tried unsuccessfully to do on Wednesday and then had a lovely dinner with other friends... then came Saturday... and we finally stayed home!!! and I really needed it... my knees have been killing me which is probably aggravated by the weather we've had (more on that in a bit, don't you worry, couldn't miss my weather rant...LOL) ... and a nice dose of family drama... sigh... but today is Saturday and I've got my butt parked in my easy chair and an ice pack on my knees and that is so much better.

So let's get the weather out of the way... it is Ohio and this week we had the full menu of weather. Started out with our first snow of the season ... about an inch or so... melted on the streets and stayed on the grass for a day or so... then a couple of windy days... had to go out and re-stake our inflatable Pumpkin Pie Pilgrim and the Turkey guys...then we got rain... and today, as I write this, it  is almost 70 degrees... oh oh and a couple of nights you could see the Northern Lights... I didn't get a really good look,  but others who live with less light pollution got some gorgeous views... so we touched lots and lots of weather events this week. 

As for craftyness ... it hasn't been a great week. Several nights I was just too pooped and achy and cranky... couldn't concentrate... so I did some mindless knitting... I got one sock done...

and a good start on its mate... I'm just starting the heel..

And while I was too tired to be productive I wasn't too tired to shop... so I did... LOL... and I have gifted myself several nice things this week. Self care.  I needed/wanted another couple of pairs of those Hiya Hiya needles I like and none of the local shops had them so I ordered them online from Simply Socks... but I didn't want them to have to travel alone from Ft. Wayne, Indiana so I had a couple of skeins of sock yarn booked to accompany them... safety in numbers, dontcha know... I got these 3 skeins of Opal sock yarn... my FAVORITE!!

The plan right now is to knit 3 pairs of socks from these but mix two colors each time... my hope is I get a nice scrappy stripey pattern with some chunks of tone on tone greens... we shall see... and I might just cast on a pair later today since I have some new empty needles. 

Then I had a conversation about Advent calendars with a friend... I already got Elliott the Lego one... this year it is Minecraft and that is his current obsession... he can hardly wait... and I got a puzzle one for my daughter-in-law... and I got to thinking about the Opal sock yarn mini Advent calendars I've gotten in the past... but I know that Opal doesn't do them anymore... insert sad face... but I stumbled upon this place that puts together its own Opal mini Advent calendar... Purple Circle Yarn... here's the Etsy listing... and I gifted one to me!!

Outside...

Inside...

I've been tempted to peek ... but I've been good... and December is only about 2 weeks away... I'll wait ... impatiently... 

Also another gift I gave myself has arrived... this is the Scarecrow Sampler by Teresa Kogut...

now this is/was ? an exclusive to  the shop the Shepherd's Needle in Little Rock, Arkansas... I don't think it is available anymore.  I ordered mid- September and they got swamped with orders so it didn't arrive till this week. I got the kit with 36 count linen... it is supposed to be stitched 1 over 2... I'll have to see if I like the coverage... I LOVE the pattern... and along with the sampler I want to do the drum...

but I'm not going to finish it as a drum I want to do it framed so you can see all of it at the same time.  Also I want to stitch some of the scarecrows as little pillows... and I might change the color of the house... not fond of dark houses... we shall have to see how it all turns out... probably not going to touch any of it for a while...

Because... these Christmas angels caught my eye and they were PDFs and I decided that I needed a host of angels so I bought 5!

These are from a new to me designer called Kiralyn's Needlearts... you can see all her stuff here... and I ordered the wooden ornament blanks (Amazon link here)  to mount them on as I really like the finishing with the tinsel trim. I also ordered some 18 ct Aida but I want to dye it ... I'll try to work that into my life next week... but it's looking busy too.. working out, Elliott, getting the windows washed (I'm not doing it, I use the nice young man down the street who has a window washing business), taking a family member out to dinner and to a doctor appointment and I have my yearly mammogram... stop the merry-go-round I want to get off!

I know so many people and places have jumped into Christmas decorating but I am enjoying my Thanksgiving decor...  here's the quilt on the living room wall... 

I LOVE these pumpkins... this is my version of the Cluck Cluck Sew Pumpkins pattern ... I call mine Grungy Gourds cause every pumpkin is made from Moda Grunge fabrics as well as the background. A couple of my favorite pumpkins ...

and this one too...

On the tier tray...

I have  stitched turkey from Stone Street Stitch Workes, a Jim Shore turkey, a cute salt and pepper set with a harvest theme and a little Lizzie Kate turkey...  and over on the other side I have the enormous resin turkey that somehow wandered into my house last year... 

honestly  those "buy now" buttons on Amazon are super sensitive... LOL... but hey it isn't the crazier thing I've ever bought... those purchases would probably be the 8 ft tall inflatable chickens... I now own 3 of these... a Christmas one, a Halloween one and a regular one... my older son said he had a dream where I had all THREE inflated in my yard at the same time... and I LOVE that idea... and I just might do it one day ... it would totally cement my reputation in the neighborhood as the crazy lady who on the corner...LOL

Okay, back to the decor... here is the small shelf unit... 

up top my favorite Jim Shore Thanksgiving piece ... my younger son found this in a re-sale shop and bought it for me so it is super special... and I love how Jim Shore incorporated quilt block patterns in so many of his pieces... 

Over on the other side my white pumpkin mini quilt has returned along with  Welcome Autumn by The Drawn Thread. 

Moving down I have on the middle shelf there is a turkey I don't know where I found and Gather by Pineberry Lane.  On the bottom is Give Thanks by Threadworks Primitives and  Autumn Quaker by Primrose Cottage.

And on the other side is a vintage Ewe & Eye & Friends called Turkey Hill Farm. 

Over on the TV stand flanking the TV that I rarely turn on is a tier tray with a tiny pillow that was from Prairie Schooler and a turkey from Emily Call. 

And on the other side I have my November piece from Hands on Designs. 

So I already gave a rundown on what the upcoming week holds for me... I'd also like to get out in the yard today or tomorrow and plant the  daffodil and allium bulbs I picked up at Costco weeks ago... Nick said he'd help and I'm going to take him up on that.  I'm still wanting to attack some cleaning out projects... my closet, the basement storage room and the garage... the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak and the motivation is fleeting... 

Here's hoping I can stay home the rest of today, tomorrow and most of Monday ... just have working out with Anna on my calendar for Monday and she just lives about 2 blocks down the street... I am lazy and I drive down... don't want my knees to be screaming before I even get there... 

I hope you have a great week ahead. I'm already contemplating what I need to start prepping for Thanksgiving. We are celebrating on the Friday after turkey day to accommodate my daughter-in-law's parents who want to get together with other family members in Kentucky on Thanksgiving ...and that is fine with me... I'm not a Black Friday shopper... in fact anymore I'm not much of an in-store shopper at all... I do still love Hobby Lobby but I've only briefly popped into Michaels and Target in the last couple of months. On line shopping is my speed these days and I seem to get into plenty of trouble there... so many great online retailers ... sometimes I feel like I'm doing a weekly order with 123Stitch... LOL...  so much cute stuff there... and then there is Etsy and so many designers with their own websites. I do miss having a big fabric store... my go to before Covid was Fabric Shack in Waynesville OH but they are only an online store now... sigh... 

Anyway... lots of rambling today... I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts and check out what's happening over there... 

happy stitching-

carol fun 

Non- crafty productivity on a Slow Sunday...

Hello  - well it was a week I will remember... for a while... didn't get much crafty stuff done but I did get the garden beds cleaned out... hallelujah!!!  Now it took Nick and I about 10 hours of back breaking work... not sure how many more years I can do this ... and I absolutely  CAN NOT do it without help.  We started on Wednesday and the weather was perfect... upper 60's, sunny, nice breeze... and we got about 80% of it done that day. We came back out on Thursday and worked again till we finished the job.

Front yard before-

Front yard after -

Side yard before - 

Side yard after - 

The filled dump trailer - this is a BIG trailer ... spans my double car driveway... and Nick needed a 5 ft step ladder to get up into it. 

Along with the dump trailer Dan left us his wheelbarrow and boy was that a big help. I would cut things off at the base, and Nick and I would yank them out and he'd put them in the wheelbarrow. When it got heaping full, he'd take it to the dump trailer, climb a ladder and toss the debris in. Every 4 wheelbarrow loads he'd get in the dump trailer and stomp stuff down.  The stuff on the bottom is super compacted. 

Now I said a prayer to the Good Lord before I started this epic endeavor to please keep my knees from killing me... and he did... but I should have been more inclusive with body parts as my lower back and right shoulder were screaming after the clean up... ibuprofen is my friend. 

I'm thinking next year I'll see if I could hire someone to do the job. I used to think I needed to be hands on so only the right stuff  got cut down... but this year I realized that we cut down everything but the shrubs so I don't need to be right there every minute. I have a friend with some teenage sons who may be able to do the job. I'll pay handsomely to save my aching body!

And here is a shot of my Thanksgiving inflatables... I still love the Pilgrim boy with the Costco sized pumpkin pie!

I did get a little sewing done last Monday in anticipation of not being able to get anything crafty done the rest of the week. I got the extra fabric for the hexagon Christmas tree and got all the pieces cut out.  It will get some sort of base/Christmas tree stand at the bottom. 

Now to see if I have enough of the background.   The plan is to cut out all the triangle pieces I need, and then I'm going to sew that 2nd to last row together. It is the longest. From there I should be able to gauge if I have enough to finish. And if I don't I won't have to undo too much. Fingers crossed. 

Another week of no cross stitch. I'm into sock knitting and I finished this sock.

Not sure I really liked it but the contrasting heel and toe made me happy. However as I was finishing up this sock it occurred to me that my stitches were kinda tight and small ... hmmm... is my tension getting tighter?  OR  OMG am I using the wrong size needles?? Now I have several pairs of Hiya Hiya circular needles  - size 2. 75 - my favorite for sock knitting.  And I do not know why I bought a pair of size 2.5 needles... but I did ... and darn if that wasn't what I was using.  You wouldn't think that the difference between a 2.5 mm and a 2.75 mm is a lot... but it is. 

And yet after looking at the tan sock and thinking something might be off, I picked up the same needles and started a new sock. This happened last weekend... about 10pm I feel the need to start a new project... so I looked through my stash of yarn and found these 3 skeins... they have been around a while... from what I could find they were made back in 2011... so they are quite mature... LOL  

Anyway I went downstairs where my yarn swift lives and I wound them into cakes. Before I did that I laid them out to see the pattern of the dyeing. These were hand-dyed vs. machine dyed and I'm curious which pattern knits up with more flashing/pooling/blotching cause I like that ... A LOT... 

In the same order they are on the cutting mat from the top down - this is Africa...

This is Australia...

This is Water Play...

So I cast on the middle one called Australia... pretty, very pretty but not flashing or pooling but definitely blotching... I got down the heel and that when I got out my magnifier glasses and looked more closely at the needles and discovered my error. Arghhh!!! I was knitting again with the 2.5 needles!!!

So I unraveled  the sock and started again on the 2.75 mm needles...oh this is much better, not as thick,  a bit looser... I know it is hard to tell from these pictures but there is a difference in the two socks. 

Now  the blotching  pattern has stayed the same ... which is fine... it is going to be a very pretty sock... and totally mindless as I'm not going to change yarn for the heel or toe... it was the perfect project for this week as I was exhausted Tues/Wed/Thurs evenings... and this was all the energy I could muster.

Also in anticipation of the big garden clean up I put away my Halloween stuff and got out my Thanksgiving stuff last Sunday. I started out here on the sunroom porch as I knew I would be able to enjoy the lovely weather we had most of the week.  I changed out a couple of things from the Fall display. 

Up top I have Autumn by Barbara Ana, I love the houses on the branches and the scissors hanging from the branches... and a Debbie Mumm turkey tin... he's cute!

In the middle I have 2 houses from Pinkernpunkinquilting...  Thanksgiving House and Turkey Creek Manor... I stitched 6 of these last year and made them all shades of yellow and gold... and if you click here you can see a parade of her house designs that are all free!! Melisa is so talented and generous.  I also have The Flowerpot Sampler From the Heart Needleart... and oldie but goodie dated 2011... I did this one during the time I broke my left wrist... I put it in a Q-snap hoop and put it on a stand. I never stitch like this usually but it allowed me to stitch with my wrist in a cast... where there is a will there is a way!!

On the bottom another wonderful piece from Pinkernpunkin Pumpkin & Bittersweet. 

And you know I love to have different wreaths and decor on the back of the door and this month it is a wooden wreath that has a vintage look that has harvest images and says Happy Thanksgiving... I found it at Homegoods years ago and I have never seen another Thanksgiving wreath... I love it!

Well last week the weather was quite, some rain came in on Friday... as I write this on Saturday the weather looks nice today... going to hit 60. BUT  things change Sunday and Monday is gonna be a cold one... high 35... may spit some snow... brrr!!  A taste of what the long range forecasts are predicting for this winter...yuck!  The temps climb into the upper 50's by mid week. I hope to be able to take advantage of a day and clean out my garage. I might even get out there today for a bit. Trash day is Monday and then I could put some stuff out on the curb to get rid of it.  I did get some things straightened up a bit but I'd like that done before real winter hits. And I want to clean out my closet. I did one purge during the Summer but it needs another one. And there is still the basement storage room that needs a purge and I still want to rearrange the fabric on my shelves... all projects I'll be happy about when they are done, but I'm not looking forward to tackling them. How did I accumulate so much stuff?? I've been in this little house 11 years last month... and EVERYTHING that is in here is something I brought in... so I have no one to blame but me...sigh... hanging head. 

I don't know if I have Elliott on Tuesday or not. His daddy has the day off... works for the county government. Wednesday my Quilty lady group is doing lunch.  I need to take a family member out to eat either Wednesday evening or sometime on Thursday.  Not sure what I'm going to do crafty wise. That hexagon Christmas tree quilt is calling my name but I don't think I can finish it this year, sooooo... after I figure out if I have enough fabric I may put it down for a nap in a plastic bin. The  Dorothy Momo quilt I talked about last week still has my attention as does the Momo  jelly roll hexagon quilt I started about a month ago. I'm reconsidering whether I going to finish that BBD  The Bells on Christmas Day chart... may put it in a plastic envelope till next year and move onto something Winter-y.  I did  find a new chart I'd like to do as a Blessings Sampler in January... Chilly Cardinals...

I want to stitch this on a dark-ish  turquoise linen ... I think the white letters and cardinals will pop!

I've already been thinking about what I want to stitch and sew next year... a mental distraction since I'm not sure want I want to do at the moment...  and to that end I've decided I must write down the "great ideas" that blow through my brain like a freight train that's behind schedule... because I'll think of some "great idea" I want to do ... and then later all I can remember is that there was some "great idea"  but I don't remember what that  "great idea" was.... sheesh...  I chalk it up to the fact that my mind is filled with clutter... kinda like a giant file cabinet...except nothing is in alphabetical order anymore... LOL

So where was I ... oh yeah... my plans for next week ... well as you read this on Sunday I'll be doing lunch at McDonald's with Elliott. His Mama is out of town visiting her sister and his Daddy needs to take care of another family member for a couple of hours. For dinner Nick put a pot roast in the crock pot so that's taken care of. I'll either knit or stitch tonight... it will be fine either way.

I hope your week ahead is a good one. I am sooooo happy to have the garden clean up behind me ... I love planting the garden and tending the flowers in the Summer but oh the Fall clean up is not fun... not fun at all... gotta remember that next year and make other arrangements if I can. 

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts and check it out later today... 

happy stitching-

carol fun 

PS  We are one week past the time change and I'm still annoyed at it... haven't gotten back on track ...feel like I'm sleeping too late  and staying up too late... argh...