Happy Thanksgiving

Here is my hope that you are enjoying this day with your loved ones.

Ramblings of a Mad Quilter

Nothing new here on the sewing front. I did start to hand stitch the pictures I traced last week, and will see how the first one turns out. I have been spending my time reading all the blogs I can online. I love to see all the new things that people are making out there. And it gives me ideas on what to make in the future. I am really at a cross roads in life and can't spend any money on new fabric and don't want to use up all of my small stash. I am not sure what direction I am heading to. I love to quilt, but I miss quilting with people. I can't afford to take classes right now and so it stunts my flow. I wonder if I would be any good trying to design my own quilt, I only use other peoples patterns as of yet. Oh well, on the bright side if I did have any spare money I would probably spend it on the day after thanksgiving sale at Jo Ann's. I thought I would be working that morning, but it looks like I will not work until the afternoon.

Today, I worked on tracing some snowmen that I was able to find online at the family fun coloring pages website. I am going to try some more hand work. I want to try to do a quilt entirely by hand stitching. My 15 year old wants to do it with me, so I have to trace enough for both of us.

I had to go out and buy new thread because I couldn't find the thread that I had. Turns out that my daughter has been using it to make bracelets with for her friends, and has it in her mess of a room somewhere. If you have a teenage daughter you know how many times you ask them to clean up their room.

Finally

Finally, I have had the time and will to sew.

I put this together with some redwork iron-ons that I found at Sew Special when I lived in California. I also have another set in blue. At the time I bought two sets of each so I have made two of these in red.

They are nice baby size, but the two end squares on the middle row I embroidered yesterday. I just couldn't leave them blank but because I had already sewn it together and quilted in the white borders. I was a little nervous to sew by hand and not take it through the whole square. But I had no problem after all, to look at it you would not know that it was done as an after thought.