Spring at Last!!

Spring has finally made it to Indiana.......and maybe, just maybe it's here to stay!!

This week was productive but not very showy.... there's only two pictures this week so I'll post them here....one is the Thimbleberries Second Quarter Project.... whew!!! It's huge....and it's ohhhhhhhhhhhh sooooooooooo purty! It's ready now to be backed, batted and quilted.......... the other project is the baby stars quilt. I have to add the outside border yet......and it will also be ready for the batting, backing and quilting routine.........

I've been working on the signature hanging and hope to have that quilted and ready for binding by the middle of the week.

I've also been working on cleaning out the sewing room........... I've gone thru about 4 or 5 boxes of true crap so far..........out of all those boxes, there was probably 1/2 a box worth putting in the garage sale, and 1/2 a box worth keeping....... I have plans to move things around and redo the whole thing during the end of May.....that's how I'll spend my vacation... or at least part of it.

I'm hoping this will be the year I kill the pack rat! lol Between the garage sale and the SRP program that room should be a lean mean sewing room when I'm done with it.....

I got the coolest popup at BB&B! It pops open to 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 and it has a lid! It's water resistant...bonded plastic and it's perfect for throwing the stuff for the garage sale in now...and storing sewing room stuff in later..... It's blue and white striped and I just might have to go out there and see if they have any more of these things....

Oh.... a funny... while I was emptying a box of stuff...the little cat..Rowdy...was sleeping on the bench next to me... in this box was a bag of catnip... I took some stuff out of the box that went in the trash.... that's when I saw it.... I picked it up and within 2 nanoseconds Rowdy was awake, and hanging off my arm ..... she loves that stuff! The bag was sealed even. So I put a bit down for her....she guarded it from the other cat... ate it all... slapped Ticker ( the other cat) a couple times and now she's napping... what a hoot!

Ok... gotta run.... I want to spend some time outside in this gorgeous weather before I settle in and do some sewing......

Have a great week.....

Lish

April 22

Spring has finally arrived in Indiana... at least for today anyway... it's a truly gorgeous day... Right now a squirel and a bluejay are fighting over the birdseed that's left in the feeder.... geeeze!

It was a good week........ I got towels monogrammed....a set of purse accessories made for myself plus a zippered pouch and note pad holder for a friend at work. I finished up the bird cage cover, got all my handouts ready for club on Tuesday and worked on the Thimbleberries project. This thing is huge! I still have one more border and it will be ready for the quilting pile.... the signature quilt is backed and batted and also ready to be quilted... hopefully that will get done this week...... the UFO pile is dwindling!! Soon it will be back to making stuff just because I need something to do! Wow... won't that be different!

I have another Quilters Necessary to make.........that's for a customer..........I'll work on that later this evening... right now... I"m going back outside to enjoy more of this gorgeous day!!

YOu can see the pictures of this weeks goodies at http://LSeem.photosite.com

Have a good week

Lish

April 9-14th

Well the weather pretty much sucked this week.......cold and rain and snow! It's April!! Where are the lite warm showers that are to bring beautiful may flowers?

The photosite has been updated with this weeks projects. The thimbleberries club block is done as well as the blocks for the block lotto.... the saturday sampler and the challenge block are also done. I finished my purse so now I have a purse and wallet that matches.......I'll make some accessories for it maybe this coming week.....

The ufo stack is dwindling..... I have the signature quilt wall hanging top done now.... gotta back and batt and quilt it now and do the binding.... I might even make the May 1st deadline!!

I have two baby wash cloths done.... a bottle and a butterfly.... forgot to take pictures of those... I'll get them next time. I have a dishcloth on the needles... it's a sewing machie! How cool is that! It's just over half way..... so that should be done for next time also.

I got table favors done for an upcoming bridal shower....I did some embroidered shirts for a girl at work.....and got the sashings cut for the baby star quilt......I hope to have that done by May 1st also.... the baby that the quilt will belong to is due May 8th... no one knows if it will be a boy or a girl....and they won't even divulge what potential names they've chosen....

There is one orange batik wallhanging thing in the UFO box still..... I hate working with batiks...they feel funny.... I have no idea what possessed me to get this particular kit... but I did.......so I'll have to do it up!

I have a bird cage cover left to do for a customer and a set of monogrammed towels...and those darn ties are still hanging around! I guess I'll put a push on this week to see just how much I can finish.....

I guess that's it for now.... don't forget to visit the photosite and also drop by Okie Dokie Duckies place and Winged Horses Places to see what's new with them!

the photo site address is http://Lseem.photosite.com

Til next week..........

Lish

Catchup Week

I know I know ... I missed updating last week... sorry... Life got in the way a bit. But I have been busy.

The black/gold sig quilt has all but one signature... I'll get that Monday hopefully and then put it all together.

I did another set of LazyGirl Pouches and another LazyGirl Runaround Bag...both were cut...sewn and all done in under two hours total! Geeze I love these things.

I also did a Wallet Purse... really nice.... sort of easy to sew...there were one or two parts that really sucked...the seams were extra heavy due to all the card pouches... I may try to redo that part if I make another one.

I finished up 2 UFO Rollups...and thought up another use for them... I plan to make another out of some cool coffee shop fabrics I have.... I'll fill it with coffee bags, and sweetner and creamer and have a cool gift for my coffee drinkin' friends...and probably for me too. I'll stick it in the computer bag when I travel.......

I did some work for some customers of mine this week also....

I have 2 ties, a table runner on the UFO pile....that's all!!!! Yippeeeee!! I have a Lazy Girl Towne Purse started and I have all the squares done for the crib quilt..... those are WIPs lol I hope to get that stuff done this week also.

Thimbleberries club is on Monday...so there will be new homework from that...and yesterday was Saturday Sampler Day... so there are two new blocks that need to be done.........

The SRP is coming along..... I've made most of the goodies from stuff I already have so the stash has dwindled a bit....not much...but a bit.... it's gonna take a lot of projects to dwindle this stash! lol

I have some bolts of fabric that I think will be sold on ebay......or at a garage sale.... it's stuff I'm sure I won't use.... I'll keep a yard and get rid of the rest.... that will help me meet my goal for sure.

The photos for this week are out on http://lseem.photosite.com in the April 1-8 album.

Guess that's it for now

Til next week

Happy Whatever!!

Lish

UFO Update

Hi all...
It's been a busy week, but I managed to clean up quite a few of last weeks UFO"s. The neckerchiefs for Oliver and Dexter are done and delivered...and Oliver just loves his! The green butterfly baby was cloth is off the needles as is the pink goldfish in it's bowl! All my needles are empty! Oh my! I'll have to start something new! lol

Also finished up is the Turning Twenty Quilt top...the Thimbleberries towels for the April meeting, a set of 3 LazyGirl Pouches, the saturday sampler block and the saturday sampler challenge block! I also had time to make a LazyGirl Runaround Bag and matching LazyGirl wonder wallet... you can see this weeks photos at http://lseem.photosite.com listed as album 1.... I forgot to name it after I posted it

Hopefully I can get another one or two UFO's out of the way this week. I'll be gone to Chicago next weekend so I'll try to update thursday before I leave or late sunday nite when I get home.

Don't forget to visit my links....Okiedokieduckie and WingedHorseDesigns are waiting for you to stop by!

Til next week....

Lish

It's a UFO Sunday

It's sunday....finally. It's been a busy week but not much to show you here. Most of what I did this week was for other folks. Blogger is being very picky today and not allowing me to upload any photos...so I put what I've done and my pile of UFO's on my alternate photo site. You can see it at http://LSeem.photosite.com There's only one album there right now. YOu'll see the couple of projects I did manage to get done and my vast pile of unfinished stuff. I started to put it all together so I would know what I need to do the rest of this month...yikes!!! Along with these projects.. I have a pink goldfish dishcloth almost finished...and a green baby wash cloth almost finished and the only thing left on my binding pile is a table runner that's almost finished and I still have to do the samples and handouts for embroidery club on the 27th....

Hope you enjoy the photos....... and hopefully you'll see them ALL done by the end of March... uh huh...that's the plan.......the end of March.....

Finally....pictures of goodies!

Hello Everyone!

Well I finally got all the baby shower stuff finished up and managed to take pictures. A few are not so good....I think it's the lights in my sewing room....... I also have some wonder wallets, a needlecase and a whatnot from LazyGirl too!

Ok... here we go

Booties!!! The ones in the back on the left are made with baby yarn...the ones in the front are made with dishcloth cotton...the pattern is super simple and it's a freebie from somewhere on the net.... the sneaks are an annie attic pattern from eons ago. They won't go to the shower....after the little one is born, I'll make him/her their first pair of jeans and a t shirt and put the hitops with those.

As you can see I still haven't figured out how to rotate the pictures here... but these are a little pair of socks made from cottons tots yarn...... too cute!

This is a baby wash cloth...the color is actually a peach color and the design in the center is a hobby horse.....It's a booboo bunny!!! It's made from a purple washcloth

This is the little card that goes with the bunny... It says

If a boo boo is making you feel crummy

Put an ice cube in my tummy

Hold it to your boo boo tight

Soon everything will be alright

Here are two of the long burp rags...... these are made from regular diapers they are twice the length that you see here...the backs are plain so the little one won't rub against the embroidery while they are being burped

These burps are made from prefolded diapers...they are a little shorter than the other burps and the back half of these is also plain

This burper is made from a soft terry towel

Eyeore and Piglet bibs

This is part of a 3 piece crib mat set..... there are two small mats and one long mat. They are made from flannel backed vinyl with soft flannel on top.....the large one is about 26" long and the small ones are about 15" long

This is one of the small ones open....... I gotta learn to fix these pictures before I upload them! The picture below is the large one.

This is a lazy girl whatnot! It's made from 2 10" squares of fabric and tens all of 15 minutes to make! I added a bit of lavendar sachet to this one before I closed the slit..... it looks cute sitting on a shelf and it smells wonderful!

These 4 wonder wallets are ready to go into the gift box...... they are great for a quick gift. I usually stick a starbucks card in it.

This is a lazy girl needle case...... these are very fast to make. The pictures below show the back pocket on the case... I put a small tape measure and a ripper in there...and on the inside I put a fold up scissors, a black bobbin, a white bobbin and some needles and pins... this is going in the gift box too!

Well...that's all for this week. I have several things in the works right now and one or two of them might be done by next weekend. I have a job for a client to do this week...so that will take up some of my spare time...

Have a great week!

Lish!