Bloomington Quilt Show

This past weekend was the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show in Bloomington, Indiana. For the first time I entered two of my quilts in the show, and I received a Judge's Recognition ribbon on my mini nine patch quilt.
I also entered my Nearly Insane quilt.
Here is the group of us after the show. Look at the stained glass windows. Are we at prayer meeting? What's wrong with this picture?

Left to right: Theresa, Carol, me, Claire, Marie and Edith. It was a fun day with quilts, fabric and friends.

You can see other photos from the quilt show on my webshots page: http://community.webshots.com/user/luann426

Hope you find some time to stitch today.

A Few Finishes

These socks are made from malibrigo yarn that was a gift from my friend, Pam, for my last birthday. I made these socks with the yarn, and they are soooooo warm and comfy. I still have some of the yarn left to make something else. I'm thinking....I finished this man's scarf. I had about a half skein to finish on this scarf. Now it's done.

I worked on this scarf in my down time while I was in Lafayette. This is an easy pattern at the misti alpaca website as a free download.

These are fleece blankets that I've crocheted around to donate to Project Linus.
Yes, this is a knit dishcloth. Doesn't everyone knit their own dishclothes? Ha Ha This is from the first Mason Dixon knitting book. I love both of their books. I have several more things started from that first book. When I found this dishcloth in a bag almost finished, it was on some really nice wooden needles that I needed to start yet another project. So in order to free up those needles, I finished this. There is more cotton yarn waiting to be worked up.

A day without knitting is like a day without sunshine.....or is that a day without raisins????????

Another Gift

I'm still sorting and organizing in my sewing room. This cute little tin was a gift from my friend, Vicki, at the Dear Jane retreat in Shipshewana last November. The tin is just the perfect size to hold my little basket blocks from When The Cold Wind Blows by Barb Adams and Alma Allen. Their books are always great.

Here are a few of the baskets that I have finished.

I bought this book at Lollys in Shipshewana during our fall retreat. You can become a Lollys fan on Facebook.Hope you are doing some stitching today.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!!!

Oh The Weather Outside Is Frightful

We just finished digging out from a big snow storm. This was how it looked at the beginning. It was really pretty as it fell on the trees in our back yard.

Somehow I think the camera flash reflected off some of the snowflakes.

Bill just had his second cataract surgery last Thursday, so he can't lift anything over 10 or 15 pounds for about a week. I knew that snow was going to be heavy, so I made friends with the snowblower and cleaned the driveway. Notice there are no photos....it wasn't pretty.

While I was inside, I crocheted this block from a pattern in Knit Simple magazine. My daughter, Kim, liked the pattern and made a few blocks and sent me a photo. So I pulled some yarn from my stash and tried it. Even though I mostly knit now, I learned to crochet when I was very young, but I just haven't done it in awhile. It is like riding a bike ---- you never forget how. And, I can crochet much faster than I can knit. There may be an afghan in my future.
I hope you are having a good day today!!!

Christmas Wrap Up

Here are some of the craft related things that I got for Christmas.

This yarn is from Val complete with a hand made cloth gift bag.

This Sweets bag is from Hanne. We used it to hold our chocolates on Christmas Day.

Mary Ann knit these fingerless gloves for me.
I knit a scarf to match the fingerless gloves.

My son and daughter-in-law bought me this quilt book.......
and this one, too.

And, I am still sorting and organizing and trying to find a place to put my yarn and fabric.

Hope all of you are finding some time to stitch or knit today.

Window of Opportunity

I'm back. In the last 5 weeks, I've made 2 trips to Huntsville, Alabama and 7 trips to Lafayette, Indiana. I stayed a few days on both of the trips to Huntsville and two of the trips to Lafayette. My daughter is totally moved from Alabama and into her apartment up in Lafayette, and she is in her second week of classes to get her Masters in Statistics at Purdue University. Her apartment in Lafayette wasn't ready in time, so we had to move all of her things into our house for about 10 days and then move it back out again into a u-haul and up to Lafayette to her second floor apartment. She has downsized to a smaller apartment so she left a lot of her things here to store. This is what happens when you mix fabric, yarn and genealogy all together in one room.

I started cleaning my sewing room today, and when I made enough room to get to my sewing machine, I remembered that I saw something in an email from Back Door quilt shop about having a sewing day to make pillowcases. So I grabbed some fabric and made these:

I know I have a bit of ADD, but I hadn't sat down at my sewing machine since before the Dear Jane retreat in Shipshewana in November. I have been doing some knitting and crocheting. More later. Hope you are finding some time to take a few stitches today.