A Year in Review

Review?
Its only mid April!

But I feel like this year has already been so busy and hectic!

And my poor blog has just been ignored!

I can't promise that I'll blog more often, but I am going to try.

I really hope that life is going to slow down a bit, at least for awhile!

I look at the past few months and I know they have flown by.

Drama took up all of my January and February.

It took up the first 12 days of March.

Less then a week later, my grandpa died.

A week gone, a week and a half at home,

and then a week in Disney.

I've now been home just over a week.

But my son's 10th birthday is this weekend.

Next Thursday we have 10 of hubby's friend's coming to stay at our house for a golf tournament on Friday.

And my middle daughter's Sweet Sixteen party is Saturday night, with her birthday the next day.

God grant me the patience....

I have sewn here and there this year.

I have a feeling its not going to be a year of quilts,

but rather, smaller projects.

My one  finished quilt top was for Valentine's day and I never got it layered and quilted.

And I only have 2 Swoon blocks done.

I guess I just can't wrap my mind around any big projects.

And I'm ok with that. Mostly.

I have a Blueberry Crumb Cake jelly roll that I want to make plans for and order the additional yardage before it leaves the store. I really want to get on that.

I want to work on Swoon. My plan had been to have it to the quilters by the end of March. And then life happened. Now, I'll settle for getting it there by the end of June.

I also have serveral wall hanging's, table runners and pillow covers I want to do.

A new apron, or two or three.

Lots of new hanging dish towels for my kitchen.

One thing I have contemplated for several years is being able to get a table at a craft fair.

I'd really like to do that. So, maybe some small projects for that.

I have done some sewing this week. 2 small projects that almost got forgotten!

But, they are for the birthday children and I can't share until after they have made their debut. Its 2 new tradition's that will bless the birthday child every year.

And I know I promised you some Disney sewing projects.

Yeah. They are still in the wash.

Hopefully next week :)



Skipping Winter

Haha, now Jen has me looking to see how many blog post's I have!
And this is #100 :) Yeah!

So, yesterday I decided to skip winter and head straight to Valentine's Day!

Ever since I finished my 12 Days quilt, I've been itching to start something new.

Thinking about quilting.

Dreaming about quilting.

Planning my next "thing".

Except, I couldn't decide what my next thing was.

My options were:

a snowman wall hanging

valentine pillow

valentine wall hanging

valentine quilt

winter pillow (cover)

swoon quilt

Then I signed up for the Swoon Quilt Along.

Then I signed up for the One Thing, One Week Challenge.

And then I sat in my cave and stared. And thought.

And planned. But I could not make a decision!

Sooooo......I made the winter pillow cover that I wanted to make for my OTOW challenge.

Got that done. Quick and easy, maybe a 2 hour project :)

Then came the hard part.....everything else is fairly involved.

And I usually only have 1 quilt going at a time.

I may have other small projects, but never 2 quilts.

Except, I can't say that anymore!
I started the Valentine quilt yesterday, block 1 of 20 is done.

And I still plan to work on Swoon at the same time.

Today, I ordered the rest of what I need for the Valentine's Day quilt:

border, binding, and another jelly roll, as its going to take 2.

I am using Always and Forever by Deb Strain for Moda.

Its so sweet!

I also picked up some Kona Medium Pink for the sashing and some pink flannel for the backing.

I'm all set for block 2, I just need to go cut it out and do it :)
How about you?
Are you staying with winter? Or looking ahead to Valentine's?

One Thing, One Week Challenge

You know Amy, right?
Amy, from Amy's Creative Side?

I started following her blog sometime last year.

She's a nice gal, has lots of kids, like me.

She does, and post's about, some really fun things.

And one thing she does is the One Week, One Thing Challenge.

I always have more then one thing going on, but sometimes this help's me get motivated.

And, she always has prizes :)

My one thing this week is to make another pillow cover for my couch.

Or two.

Plus, cut out at least one Swoon block.

But my One Thing, One Week is to get that pillow cover done.

I did one over christmas, but I think I forgot to show you, sorry!

I'll definitely have pics for you this week!