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with midwinter reds fabric the midwinter reds fabrics seem appropriate for this time of year don t they vanilla and blooms makes me think of spring so i think i ve got some fun quilting time ahead of me maybe it shouldn t warm up after all hope you re all staying warm and thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful comments i always love hearing from you posted by deb at 9 44 am 35 comments monday january 6 2014 almost four months to the day hello dear friends yep it s been almost four months to the day since i last posted in september it was 90 degrees and today well it s been a crazy few days with huge snowfalls and currently the temperature is 2 degrees and with the winds whipping like they are i don t even know what the real feel temperature is i don t think that i want to know we got at least a foot of snow yesterday and it s still coming down such a difference from when i last posted i don t know where the time goes but i ve missed blogging keeping up with blogs and i m going to try to be better promise although to tell the truth i haven t gotten much done in the past four months sad but true not for lack of trying mind you but for lack of time it seems it s been a busy past four months but i think that things are finally calming down knock on wood it doesn t help that for a month during the christmas season no less i was almost flat on my back from the flu but things are better now seems that i caught a little bit of a bug from a wonderful young man that was sitting next to me on a flight back home from new york in late november nice boy bad cough nasty bug and the bug decided to come home with me figures but my trip was great nonetheless i visited purl soho and city quilter among quite a few other places and i came home with a some really unneeded stash from both them although we all need stash right but also came home with a wonderful surprise my wonderful surprise was acquired at a tag sale on long island now i ve always heard of tag sales and equate them to what we call estate sales here although things are taken a step further there like sell the contents of the home everything that you can remove from it doors windows floors kitchen cupboards and then tear the house down why because the owners are bored with the house must be nice to have money right and the antiques omg are there a lot of them i plan on going again in the summer with my van and loading up anyway my sister and her sil s are avid tag sale shoppers and they dragged me out in the wee hours to stand in line at a tag sale in 20 degree weather for a good hour as my one sil was eyeing a dresser well thank goodness she did that as we were 2 3 and 4 in line and what did i find there were a lot of wonderful things but one was this sampler she s charlotte kinsley aged 7 stitched in the year of 1800 i can t tell you how thrilled i was to come across her poor charlotte needs a little bit of work i need to take her out of the frame and unmount her a scary proposition and then i received the name of a person at the henry ford that i m going to have look at her see about cleaning her up and whatever else i can find out about her i ve been trying to track down her information but haven t come up with anything yet from what i understand she s a new york sampler in the federal biblical genre but need to get that confirmed it appears to be though by referencing betty ring s two volume set of books on samplers i m anxious to look at the back of her to see what colors were actually used as i think that i would like to chart her sometime down the road from this picture it s hard to tell but there are a lot of pinks that are faded but i should be able to see them better when i look at the other side as far as getting things done in the past four months i haven t had one finish well i had one and i ll show that in a minute i ve had a lot of starts though after i finished off mary gail i was kind of at a loss as to what to do don t we all go through that have tons of stash and then don t know what to work on but i decided to start on jane atkinson jane atkinson the scarlett letter dmc threads and mystery fabric i worked on some quilting and managed to knock out blocks on some of the bom s that i ve had around here these blocks are for four different bom s that i ve been working on over time civil war tribute women s voices civil war quilt harvest song and one other bom whose name escapes me right now tells me i have too many things that i need to finish if i can t remember the names of them lol and just because i love confusion and also a new project i started on tula pink s peaks valley s quilt and have a few blocks done i got about this far before i went to new york and then came down with the flu two days after i got home and somehow working all that over one wording on jane and messing around with quilt blocks just didn t appeal to me what did appeal to me for some reason was knitting and crocheting i started an afghan for my daughter flowers in a row free pattern on red heart yarns then i started a wiggle wrap and actually finished it kauni wiggle wrap done in two color ways on ravelry a little closer shot this shawl was so much fun to work on and loved loved the yarn it was the perfect thing to work on when i wasn t feeling well sit in a chair with a cup of tea a blanket over you and the tv on a good movie doesn t get much better than that although i think that i ended up falling asleep more than i knit for most of those days and i never sit during the day so i almost felt like i was getting away with a crime doing that the shawl needs to be blocked but i d almost like to make another one in another color way well maybe not this shawl has been called the never ending shawl by a lot of people but it was so fun to watch the colors emerge and i have another project using similar yarn in the knitting queue from there i went to the hitch hiker scarf hitch hiker scarf sausilito yarn by crystal palace yarns on ravelry this one is so much fun also although i still have quite a ways to go i m about half way by the number of teeth at the side but it increases in size as you knit it width wise so i still have a ways to go then if this wasn t enough i decided that i needed to start something for new year s so instead of one project i started two mary gibson haslemere museum done in a variety of silks mainly avas and then the rococo shawl rococo shawl merino 5 yarn by crystal palace on ravelry so there you have it the last four months of my life in review at least with the crafty side of things there is more but i ll save that for another time thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment if you do i have missed blogging not only because i feel that i ve missed so much but also that i love to use my blog as kind of a diary of the things that i do over time it s fun to look back over the pictures and see what you finished or didn t finish during a year in my case what i didn t finish i hope to get a little better about posting and commenting in this new year sometimes it s hard though with so much going on i never realized that a 16 year old daughter could be so much work and also on a more serious note my fil was diagnosed with bladder cancer a few months back so that has been a big concern he s gone through treatment and we re now waiting for the results prayers for him would be much appreciated hope that you re surviving the cold where you are i understand that a great portion of the us is shivering in their boots right now good reason to stay inside and stitch or knit or quilt posted by deb at 1 11 pm 36 comments labels boms charlotte kinsley sampler flowers in a row hitch hiker scarf jane atkinson mary gibson peaks valley quilt rococo shawl wiggle wrap monday september 9 2013 where do i begin sounds like the beginning of a song doesn t it this morning i saw a formation of geese flying south and it hit me like a ton of bricks that fall is about to arrive that is after tomorrow when it s suppose to be 90 degrees and that the last time i blogged was before summer started i have to say first that i ve missed everyone and being able to keep up with what has been going on out in blogland it s been an incredibly busy summer and we had a lot of things going on hopefully now that everyone is back to school mom can have some time to catch up with everyone and everything so anyway where do i begin i guess with a finish only about 5 months in the making such a slacker but i finished mary gail and she is such a pleasure to look at oh and a disclaimer on pictures some of the following pictures were taken with my iphone as my camera is still going through bad and good days and i haven t gone out looking for a new one yet but here she is mary gail the scarlett letter 40 ct vintage autumn gold and avas silk i veered off the path on the chart directions and did not fill in the entire background on this piece i figured that if i were to do that i d be at it for another five or six months and i was getting antsy for the finish line on this one probably because stitching all that grass was very slow going and i was ready to add her to the finished pile i understand that the silks really stand out when you fill in the background with the called for wool according to marsha of the scarlett letter but i tried to recreate the same look with the fabric i used so there you have it what i did over my summer this year pretty pathetic huh well i did work on a quilt which is far from finished this is what the quilt will eventually look like this god willing i was going great guns on this until i started putting the thing together only to find out that the instructions for the setting squares were off and i couldn t put it together after sitting and staring at the thing for a day or two or three and measuring every piece 14 times over it finally dawned on me that there was a cutting error and not something that i did whew that was a relief because it s usually my error and not someone else s i always blame myself because i m not known for reading the instructions as well as i should but as luck would have it i just get the whole thing figured out and things get crazy around here and i haven t touched it since i am anxious to get back to it though and i had my ann smith and a couple other samplers finally framed i ll show ann smith this time i look at her as my great accomplishment of the year and she is truly a favorite sampler now here s a close up of the frame that i chose for her in real life the blue in the frame really works well with the blues in the sampler so as far as crafty things that i did that s it three months and not much to show for it but i did have some excitement i was the grand prize winner of a boatload of fabric compliments of pink castle fabrics if you re a quilter or just love fabrics you definitely have to check out her on line shop she also has a shop in ann arbor michigan and it s definitely worth the visit anyway they had a contest where you would get a golden ticket with your order i went out to the shop picked up a couple things and was given a golden ticket my first ticket was for a percentage off which i used up pretty quickly love collecting those quilting fabrics when my order came there was another ticket i didn t pay any attention to it but there was something funny about the package when i pulled the fabric out it was sealed in two plastic wrappings a lot of confetti like fabric came out with it well i didn t even look at the ticket saw it there but didn t read it it wasn t until three hours later that i looked at the packages again and discovered this i had won what did i win well 144 fat quarters of fabric woo hoo i let out a whoop and my kids thought there was something wrong and were oddly disappointed that there wasn t just mom having fits over winning a lot of fabric they don t understand that winning that kind of fabric stash is something to whoop over and whoop loud like were they hoping i was having a heart attack or something well i just about did when i saw that i was the winner the prize was the entire collection of their stash club for the year if you re in the club you receive 12 fat quarters of fabric of each month but they held one bunch of it aside and now it resides in my house here s some pictures my husband groaned when he saw that and his first question was if i was going to have to purchase another large rubbermaid bin for those fabrics lol i m thinking to myself don t complain too loudly or i ll go buy another house for me and my stash only kidding but as you can imagine i was doing a happy dance all over the house hmmm what else oh a fellow blogger came into town and we were able to get together but i m so lame and even with an iphone camera at my disposal i didn t take pictures but nicole from nicole s needleworks came into town with her family and we were able to get together it was a great time and so wonderful to meet her after knowing her for a long time we met up in fenton michigan where her father lives and made a trip to stitches n things quilter s garden and had a great lunch at sagebrush great mexican food i hope that we re able to do it again the next time she s in town then recently i became the proud owner of another sewing machine compliments of my son the week after he went back to school he went to the salvation army for something probably to buy things to make costumes or something for school those college kids love the salvation army for some reason while he was there he sent me a picture of a sewing machine asking if i was interested when i saw the picture i definitely was but i had to check it out for myself so last friday i had took a ride up to see him and he took me to the sa and when i saw the machine in real life i stopped in my tracks here she is a singer redeye and she s in wonderful shape someone must have loved her very much she s very dusty and her table needs a good refinishing and my first urge was to get rid of all the dust but mr sewing repair man says that i have a beauty and not to touch it for fear of dusting off the decals he ll have her looking as new after he cleans her and seals the outside and adds a new belt i looked up the serial number on the singer site and she was born on january 8 1910 making her 103 i think that she looks good for being 103 don t you and i won t even tell you what i paid for it but i ve spent more on the toy sewing machines that i ve collected well i think that s about it three months condensed into a few paragraphs i actually have some more things to show but that will just give me an excuse to blog again soon i d like to try to do that on a regular basis again i ve missed everyone and a big thank you to those who emailed me asking me if i was still walking around and i should mention that if you re on instagram look me up i m threadgatherer there also and i tend to post a lot more things there oh the ease of the iphone and if you re on 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