1 Recruit for the Felt Army

Today I received my needle felting kit (one of my most anticipated Christmas presents this year... thanks mom!!). While I completely skipped over the instructions that came with the kit, I did manage to create one of the animals from my new, super cute felting book. And although it might be hard to discern that it is in fact a rabbit (I had a little trouble with the sizing, but this was all for the sake of learning) I am pretty proud that you can at least tell its some sort of animal.

Its definitely going to take a lot of practice to master this new craft, as its by far harder then I thought it would be, but its also really fun (even if a little painful at times.... they aren't lying when they say the needles are sharp). I'm really excited to start making little felted friends, and even more excited to turn them into a felted army!!!

JoAnn Fabrics FAIL

Time Management

I have no idea how it got to be November 2009. I'm still writing 2007 on everything! Not to mention the part where this officially makes me 30, which officially makes me too "old" to use my age as an excuse for anything. Although I've decided that by the time I turn 33 I'll be comfortable with being 30, so I guess its not too bad.... I still have three years to "be" 30.

But I digress.

The point of all this is that Christmas is a month away and I haven't finished a single thing. I've started a few things... but finished nothing. SO - I'm reverting back to my high school days of serious scheduling and devising a Christmas Plan of Action:

CPA:
November 17-20: finish HR quilt blocks; cut binding strips for KND quilt, cut quilt strips for RY quilt.
November 21-22: sew front and back of HR quilt; bind KND quilt; start stippling on HR quilt
November 23-24: sew RY quilt blocks
November 25-28: Kentucky for Turkey
November 29: finish stippling HR quilt, piece RY quilt
November 30-December 3: layer & start stippling RY quilt
December 4-7: Basel Miami
December 8-18: FT quilt binding!!!!! Also, side projects

Side Projects:
2x Market bag, holder
1x PH
2x knitted WC?
4x Co
Tasty Food Products

Yes. This is going to be great.

Quick quilt... Will it ever end??!!

Just when I think I'm done with my alleged "quick quilt" something always seems to go wrong. Like today when I ran out of ribbon for the binding (just one yard short!!), or last week when the cats played judge and the verdict was "we don't like it so we're going to pee on it" (everyone's a critic!!).

Live and learn but you still die dumb!


UPDATE:
I finally found the same ribbon I was using for the binding and was able to sew the last edge of this "not-as-quick-as-I-thought-quilt". Whew. I feel like a weight has been lifted!! And while this isn't the prettiest of quilts, it did help to teach me a few new techniques. And perhaps most important of all its made me feel more comfortable with machine layering.
All in all I think it was a success, and now the couch has one more throw blanket!

Quick Quilt that isn't so quick... part 2

I guess technically I'm about half way done with this "quick quilt", and hopefully I'll be finished with it before the weekend is over.
Basically its just two yards of two different colored fabrics sewn together with zig-zag lines using various colored thread. Pretty simple really, its just sewing all the lines takes a lot longer than expected (at least at my skill level). Plus, I get sidetracked by the 18 other sewing projects I'm in the middle of so nothing ever gets my full attention... the joys of sewing A.D.D.