OPAM 2013!!!

Is here! I have my shiny new button up, and a pile of projects to finish.  However, that would involve being home!  Too many events and meetings to finish anything this week, and now I am in a mad dash to try and get the basics done as well as some projects finished!  I am in desperate need of a nice, calm, at home week.  We'll see what I actually get!

dropping the ball already...

I was trying to get 2 scrappy stars done each week, and I already missed a week! Too many other things going on, I guess.  I did get a cute little beanie knit for D2, as well as finally finishing her hat from Christmas!  

 

The beanie.  I have had that yarn for 4 years, with no pattern to use it with.  So when I found a hat pattern that had a corresponding gauge, I was all over it!  I had no idea who would WANT the hat, but D2 had declared it hers before I finished casting on!

 Below is the hat I knit for her for Christmas.  She kept giving it to me to finish, but wasn't getting the part where I needed to SIZE it!!

 

Oddly, between the two, she always chooses the beanie.  I wish I had known that would be the case 2 months ago!!  I have no idea what  I will get done this week. I think small projects would be best, if I can. If not, there is always February!

Another week gone...

I didn't finish anything, but I did get a strip quilt top pieced out of the the scraps I went through over Christmas break.  It looks amazing!  I am hoping to quilt it in February or March.  May be sooner if I decide to afford backing fabric.  

I did get 7 of the scrappy stars done.  I think I need 48 for a good size sofa quilt.

 

D2 has decided she wants to "approve" all the stars that I finish.  I said ok, since it is her quilt. With the caveat that I am not buying fabric for it!  She prefers greens and blues, so we'll see how big she really wants it, LOL!

TADA!!!

 

 This is the skirt D2 and I made last weekend.  I kind of wish she had gone for a wider ruffle on the bottom. The fabric she picked was really pretty, but you can hardly see it!  

This week I have no idea what I am working on.  Tomorrow is S1's final math test, and then on to the next set.  Homeschooling the strong willed child is PAINFUL!!!  We are starting to see some improvement in attitude, so hopefully he has learned a few  real life things! Once we get through that, I'll worry about some of the other items on my to-do list!

Well, the kids are back in school after the Christmas break, and it has taken me almost all of these week to get the house back into a routine.  I did finish 2 projects, one of which I did with D2.  I'll have to post a picture next week since she has already had to send it through the laundry.  She had to sew a simple garment for her American Heritage Girls badge, and I forgot that "simple" to me is not necessarily "simple" to someone who hasn't sewn before.  So we wound up sharing the project.  I did discover the joy of my ruffler, after about 3 hours of figuring it out.  

These are the coasters I made.

The yarn and pattern was a kit, but I added the wool felt to make them a bit sturdier.  With kids and cats, pretty and delicate does not last long!  It was also a great way to use a project that didn't quite work out!

I also found the scrappy stars that I had started last year.  Wow, that was a big stack! 33 were done!  I had gotten side tracked by life and had "put them away" (aka- lost them in a pile that got moved to somewhere else in the house!)  With them I found the pieces for more, so I may actually get a quilt or two out of it. I am going to recommit myself to making 2 a week.  I think they'll live on the coffee table where I will see them!

2013 is here!!!

Well, I didn't get anything done over the weekend.  I did spend a bit of time getting things "in order" around the house.  Mostly involving fabric.  With all the holiday events, I just did not want to take anything on.  I did, however, decide to purge the fabric stash.  I realized how much had been hanging around since S1 was an infant.  Time for it to go!!  I found an entire box worth of pink!  No one in our house likes pink!  But it had been picked up for various projects and gifts over the years and just accumulated!  I also had an entire box of green and another of blue, but everyone in my house likes those!  So they get rotated through pretty quick! I have a gazillion little squares cut for some 6.5" sawtooth stars, over 400 squares cut for mosaic blocks. I also dug out some scrap quilt patterns that I love so I could pretend I was working on something.  I even dug out the pattern for the little bitty 3" sawtooth starts to usethe left little left over squares in. 

 

Somebody did decide to help with the sorting!  

 Every time I got up, there he was!  I think I spent as much time shooing him away as I did deciding"do I really like that?"

My total for this year's OPAM is 149 finishes.  DH hasn't quite realized the difference it has made in the house, but he WANTS me to do it again this year.  So he saw something good come of it!  Now I am off to sort some more fabric!