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Good morning, my friends. It's true I didn't think I would be blogging today, but here I am. You know me...such a blabbermouth. After today, I am going to take a couple of days off. The carpet installation is set for tomorrow. We've been getting little reminder emails and texts from the crew that will be here to do it. All I know is that it will be nice to have things put back where they belong. New soft carpet on bare feet will be nice too.

My energy all went to slow-stitching yesterday. I'm ...

Good morning, my friends. It's true I didn't think I would be blogging today, but here I am. You know me...such a blabbermouth. After today, I am going to take a couple of days off. The carpet installation is set for tomorrow. We've been getting little reminder emails and texts from the crew that will be here to do it. All I know is that it will be nice to have things put back where they belong. New soft carpet on bare feet will be nice too.

My energy all went to slow-stitching yesterday. I'm ...

Good morning, my friends. It was way too early when I awakened this morning. Right away, my brain went to work thinking of everything under the sun...both important and not...and my night of sleep was over. This often happens when we're anticipating something new or big or uncertain or exciting or whatever. Anything different, and my brain becomes a noisy place. Of course, we're thinking about our carpet installation on Monday. There is still a little bit of prep work to do. Also this morning I was thinking about our upcoming trip, beginning in March. This ...

Good morning, my friends. It was way too early when I awakened this morning. Right away, my brain went to work thinking of everything under the sun...both important and not...and my night of sleep was over. This often happens when we're anticipating something new or big or uncertain or exciting or whatever. Anything different, and my brain becomes a noisy place. Of course, we're thinking about our carpet installation on Monday. There is still a little bit of prep work to do. Also this morning I was thinking about our upcoming trip, beginning in March. This ...

Today I did a little

(very little if the truth be told)

slow stitching 

while I was watching the NFL Footbal Playoff Games

 with Mr. Scrapatch and one of our sons. 

The games were interesting so my hands were idle much of the time.

I did make some progress on the first large flower motif

in the upper left hand corner of the grid.

I am playing with the colors that are given in the pattern.

 and I will be working on it for some time,

Flea Market Flowers ~ Started Here ...

 Before the pandemic, I used to invite a few friends over for a sewing day several times a year.  Today, three friends came here for a sewing/embroidery/knitting/cross stitch day.  It's fun to sit and chat while we work on our projects.  I made everyone basket block pincushions as a souvenir of our day together.  

I spent some time this past week getting my main sewing project ready.  Last year, one of my Rainbow Scrap Projects was four 6.5" crumb blocks for each of 12 colours. I have been thinking about how I will use these ...

Good morning, my friends. We're in a warming trend this morning. It was 10°F when we went to bed last night. This morning, we awakened to a balmy 12°F. It isn't much of a change, but we'll take it. Sleet fell almost all day yesterday. It was so dry and windy that it mostly just blew around, not really adding any depth to the snow already on the ground. We have about two inches. 

Good morning, my friends. We're in a warming trend this morning. It was 10°F when we went to bed last night. This morning, we awakened to a balmy 12°F. It isn't much of a change, but we'll take it. Sleet fell almost all day yesterday. It was so dry and windy that it mostly just blew around, not really adding any depth to the snow already on the ground. We have about two inches. 

Kathy, our Slow Sunday Stitching organizer and cheerleader, keeps a journal/calendar where she documents what she sews/knits etc.  each day.  I decided I would track my stitching activities each day this year on a wall calendar which I will keep in my sewing room. So far, I have stitched and/or knitted every day this year!  We will see how this goes.  I don't have a goal of how many days each week I want to stitch--I'm just going to track my activities.  

 I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and some time to relax this past week once the festivities were over.  I have managed to do a bit of knitting this week as well as some un-sewing (more on that later in this post!).  During the month of December, I worked on knitting a new hat for my husband whenever he was out or otherwise occupied.  Despite my best efforts, I did not get it done in time and he ended up unwrapping an unfinished gift.  He was surprised and pleased with my gift to him, which makes it all worthwhile ...

 Good Morning!  Finn and our daughter arrived last night for the holidays so the festivities can begin now!  I did a bit of cross stitch on my Christmas project.  The wreath is getting there!  I hope to have more time to work on this after Christmas Day!  

I finished off the centre snowflake and started the wreath above it this week in my Christmas cross stitch project.  This pattern is called "Invierno" from Satsuma Street. It is made up of nine motifs with a purple frame around each one.  I have a ways to go but this will be my relaxing slow stitching project over the next few weeks.  I will have it framed to hang up before next Christmas. 

I've added several rows of knitting to my scarf.  I expect that it won't be done for this winter!  Good thing I have other scarves ...

 This past weekend, my friend Christine and I went to the semi-annual Oxford Guild Quilt Retreat in Stratford.  We both were very productive at the retreat--sewing morning, noon and night with breaks for meals and sleeping only! This is why there was no blogpost here this past weekend.   I brought lots of projects with me--heaven forbid I run out of things to sew!  

I made a couple of Christmas gifts, one of which I can show here now.  This little wall hanging is for my MIL for her room in the nursing home where she lives.  She loves Christmas and ...

Good morning, my friends! Did you remember to fall back? I know the time change is hard on some folks. It has never bothered me, but I'll admit to preferring the falling back time to the springing forward time. Getting an extra hour to sew is never a bad idea.

Good morning, my friends! Did you remember to fall back? I know the time change is hard on some folks. It has never bothered me, but I'll admit to preferring the falling back time to the springing forward time. Getting an extra hour to sew is never a bad idea.