Happy New Year

Happy New Year Dear Readers

The holidays flew by way too quickly, and I find myself wondering where the time went.  For a change this year, I wasn't up late on Christmas Eve wrapping gifts.  I have been known to have to finish wrapping after coming home from midnight Christmas Eve service.  This year I was done with most everything a week ahead of time so that I could relax and enjoy.

Mass Ave Knits had Saturday Make and Take knit togethers, and my daughter and I went to a couple of them.  I made this snowman cup cozy.  (Yes, that's a Starbucks pumpkin spice latte!)

I also made this tiny scarf inside of a glass ornament at one of the Saturday Make and Take get togethers.

One evening all of the family piled into Grandpa's Highlander, and we went to Garfield Park to see the model train exhibit.  Then we stopped for dinner and drove around different neighborhoods to look at Christmas lights.  My daughter-in-law made delicious peanut butter kiss cookies and brought candy for the ride.  We also made a Starbucks stop on the way.

For Christmas dinner, I decided to do something different.  This is sweet and sour chicken.  I was going to make rice with it, but there was so much food that we all decided to pass on the rice.

We also had carrot souffle'.  I used Paula Deen's recipe, so there was a nice amount of butter.  It is becoming one of our family's favorites.

My daughter made Southern Banana Pudding this year.  I've put the recipe in the Recipe pages under my header.  The little pudding is for Daniel.  I finished the little quilt this year, and that is a knitting needle Christmas tree.  You can see how I made it here.  

I'm still working on taking the decorations down and putting them away for another year.  I still have the family room tree to pack away.

This tree is still sitting in the entryway.  I always hate to see the decorations come down.

This is about 1/4 of the Yes, Kevin I Can Do Scrappy Mystery.  This is going to be a pretty large quilt when it's put together. And, my Allietare mystery quilt by Bonnie Hunter is in a lot of pieces.  The mystery has been revealed, and I just love the quilt so I'll keep working on it until I at least have a finished top.

I've been taking stock of the things in my quilt room.  I've sorted through my strips and scraps.  I kind of want to make some string blocks, but don't really have an idea for them yet.

And I'm wondering why in the world anyone would need so many charm packs.  This isn't all of them.  I've found a few more stuck in baggies of projects.  I think I'm going to work on using some of these soon, too.

Thanks for reading my blog and leaving such nice comments.  I hope that you have a healthy, happy New Year.

This was a cross stitch I did years ago.  I bought a frame for it this year so I could get it out of the moving box.  

Hope you are finding some time to stitch today!

Thanks for stopping  by for a visit.