Hello February...

I planned to do so many things over the weekend.

One of those things was to finish testing a pattern for a fellow blogger.
When I finally made it to my sewing space on Saturday, I had the sudden urge to reorganize.

(This usually happens January 1st.)

Things happened:

• furniture was removed
• supplies were sorted and/or discarded
• a list was made (I'll share that one later this week)
• knitting books and notions were brought from upstairs
• patterns from various blogs were filed
• things were cleaned and vacuumed

After about 6 or so hours total, I called it quits.

Instead of testing that pattern, I ended up making Annestelle a scarf with scraps from her quilt.

She loves it!

What are you supposed to be working on and what has you sidetracked?

Happy Hobbies!

In the knitter's lunch box...

HobbyHubby and the little people gave me the simple yet effective shawl pattern for Christmas and some lovely Noro sock yarn to go with it.

Been working on the piece for about a week and a half now...

What a simple and calming pattern...

Back tomorrow with some more quilting....

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Squares to go with the pinwheels...

which you will find here.

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Piecing pinwheels for my Christmas quilt....

It is not really late...

I mean, what is another month,

considering...

I've had this fabric since August of 2007

purchased on a shopping trip with my mom and aunt?

Aren't these fun?

Can't wait to get back to the machine...

Still trying to find my post Christmas groove.

Happy Hobbies!

Handmade Christmas Presents III

Well!

I planned to post about all of the Christmas knitting that I completed.

Apparently I didn't take any pictures. Hmmm... What was I thinking?

So here is the run down of knitted items linked to the patterns.

• 2 sets of fetching gloves
• 1 tudora
• 1 set of fingerless (communion) mitts from Knit One, Embellish Too sans the embellishment

Not quite as many things as I thought...

Oh, right, I spent hours of my knitting untangling yarn.

Happy Hobbies!

Handmade Christmas Presents II

Appliqued Towel Sets

for my little people and my nephews...

(I really need to improve my photography skills)

These were well received by all!

Handmade Christmas Presents I

A book mark for our priest.

Pictures drawn by the little people and stitched by me.

Inspired by SouleMama's portrait bookmarks.

Simon asked what to draw and I asked him what he thought would be appropriate for Father.
Perfect!

Annestelle had the same idea!

Happy Hobbies!