Aging Primitive--before and after

Dug out another weed from the storage room to work on. I have had these handmade Prim Annie's for years..bought them at a sale for a song at $4.00 each, clothed...I know, they're naked here lol. The clothes I took apart to use as patterns for new clothes, more prim looking. The old clothes were poly and still have their nice bright color..not what my decor is now. The Annie's were too cute to toss and I've been wanting to age them, like, forever!
Here's before:

yech, too bright muslin..
Here's after:

 

Much better :) Now, I used the same solution on each Annie and can't for the life of me tell you why one turned tanner than the other but I like the looks of both. Now to sew clothes so the Annie sisters don't stay "nekked" as my three year old used to say lol

Outside my door today, yep, another blizzard...

God Bless and stay warm or cool or whatever...at this point I give up lol!

Wool in a Vase

When the Spring issue of Primitive Quilts and projects came out, my friend Janet and I immediately spied a project that we just knew our friend Amanda would love; and, as Amanda's birthday was coming right up, we decided to tackle the project together. I did all the wool applique and Janet did the sewing.  It was fab fun working together on this project and we think it turned out perfect. Amanda loved it!!

Flags on a Stick

I am so tickled to be joining  in on  Sew we Quilt's Flags on a Stick !
Oh, the ideas bouncing around in my head the first two weeks. I finally have three ideas put down on paper, now which one to choose :)

Do you like designing? I lay awake at night with ideas and designs running through my head and I write most of them down but never seem to get bring any of them to fruition. Mostly because of time factors. Someday I will take the plunge and not work for a week so that I can spend all those days seeing what comes of my ideas. If you have ideas running around in your head, then Madam Samm provides stunning opportunities for you to show your stuff :) Run on over and see what's up and coming.

Been sick and stuff...hope to get back on track soon.

God Bless and Happy Stitching:)

Addiction Reality

Well, now that we've all survived the latest bouts of snow/ice storms...SNOW SNOW GO AWAY, COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY OR MONTH OR YEAR, JUST GO AWAY! You know there's too much snow when the Canadians start complaining lol!

Do you ever acquire mini-addictions? Like you start on one little thing and the next time you look, you're making tons of them, right out of the blue, insanely, non-stop. Well, I was hit by a very serious addiction over the last three weeks. I can blame it on one of those weed projects, the one where I was weedin' out yarn to make chevron scarves for the school kids.

Well, before you could say Mary, Francis and John, there was I was having an out of body experience, standing in the yarn aisle at Michael's buying more yarn! BUYING! I mean it must have been an out of body experience (or was it an out of my head experience lol) because the whole weedin' idea is to clear it out not bring it in!

Yet, out I came with 6 more balls of yarn(I even clipped coupons on my out of body experience haha), three weeks flew by(time flies during addictions); and, next thing you know, I have these gorgeous beauties.

Hang on a sec, I need to grab a chocolate...you know, one of those lifetime addictions :)

Okay, so, crocheting has never been my forte, but I hooked out these scarves in no time. They fit so nicely around the neck :) Last night, I finished the last one, the purple one, put the hook down and said to myself ,"there, I think I got it outta my system". For the first time in many days, I don't have this overwhelming need to hook. Thank heavens, because I have begun hearing things...I think it's all that fabric and quilt projects crying out "what about me?" :) At least, I hope that's it lol
('nother chocolate ;),

We have three cats in this house, so, without a doubt, we have lots of cat hair. In an effort to at least provide a cat hair free surface to sit on for company, I keep quilts on my living furniture, you know the guest furniture. Well, what do you think this lump is????

and, under the lump, defeating my whole strategy:

 

"What, did you want something, I'm trying to sleep here".
BUSTED!
And BE CAREFUL!  cause apparently, weedin' can lead to addictions lol :)

God Bless and Happy Stitching!

Storm a Brewing

So sorry to hear that a lot of my blog friends down south have been hit by a bad snow and ice storm. It's expected to hit here around 5 pm tonight with 12-15" of snow..just a spit for us lol. All of you stay safe and warm!

Well, after some serious computer cleaning and defragmenting, my pics are loading alot faster. Computers are like houses, if you don't clean and dust once in a while, things get all clogged up. I just know that I'm a happy blogger today :)

Another weed project left the store room. It all started with this sweet little pocket purse that I made for my niece's birthday in Jan. Then, I got to thinking, I know I have more of these already cut out somewhere and sure enough, a bag of weeds were found in the store room. So, that makes a total of 5 weeds removed. Don't worry though, there still lots more lol! This one I made for my niece..,love the fabrics, some that came from great friend :)

These ones from fabric from several years ago...

These will go into my "gift" trunk or as I like to call it (if you remember watching Mr. Dress-up as a kid) my Tickle Trunk.

And guess what, I missed my blogaversary in January! Gasp! that means we will have to celebrate sometime soon with a giveaway :)

God Bless and Happy Stitching, Hugs to All

Little Bits of Not Much

Been busy here quilting away; and, of course, it's tax time and that means unwanted bookwork...ugghh.

To make the bookwork go down a little easier ;), I made these delicious Cinnamon Buns that Kaaren shared a few Sundays ago. Oh my goodness, they were so yummy and I'm not going to tell you how many I ate..more than two lol!

So here I am with all my buns, a cup of coffee and no company :(

Finally finished the 9 year sock project(another weed gone) and had enough yarn left to make a nice hot mat.

I haven't been able to blog much lately because I cannot get my pics to load!!!! I wait like 1/2 hour for them and I don't have that kind of time. I've done all the troubleshooting suggestions that blogger suggests, so today I am doing a full computer clean. I suspect that there are some un-needed add-ons and programs that have been downloaded by DS and I need to get him to go thru and remove them as he doesn't use this laptop anymore and I think they are not compatible with things I am trying to do. Hopefully, this will get fixed. Until then,

God Bless and Stay Warm lol

THE Accounting..confession time lol

More Snow! I think they have less snow at the north pole than we do here. I like snow, but really, this is beginning to get ridiculous lol.

Well, a new year is a good time to take an accounting of things in your life, of stuff you carry around emotionally, physically, and, wait for it.... the sewing/storage room. The other stuff usually takes care of itself in time but nothing changes in the "ROOM" until you physically go in there and do something about it. And mine, well.....it needed some weedin and since I don't garden (hubby does that task)it hasn't been weeded in a while. Have I mentioned I hate weedin. I'm not what you'd classify as a hoarder ..more like thrifty, may need that sometime, and I paid good $$ for that so I am obligated to save it until I use it lol!

This weedin started a few weeks ago with  uncovering the yarn that I used up for the school scarves. The next buried project I will call the "nine year sock" :) notice I say sock..not socks lol.

I started to knit this sock NINE years ago when this fancy sock yarn come out. The first sock turned out to look like something that would fit an elephant's foot. frustrated, i threw it back in the bag and there is sat for 6 years. Then,two years later, feeling guilty of course, I dug it back out, unraveled it all and started again...with the correct size needles:) I knit enough to turn the heal and knit about 2 inches, then my wrists started bothering me, so i tossed it back into the bag and into storage room it went again. Two weeks ago,year nine, i dig it out, determined to conquer the beastly thing. After all, I couldn't throw it out..it had to be completed and that is exactly what i did. One sock down and the other one halfway done. Another UFO to mark off my list. Another weed out of the "Room". Thank heaven's my feet haven't grown any in nine years...just sayin..  ;) as other parts seem to have grown lol.

Now, confession time..I counted all my unquilted quilt tops and I have 35 of them...YEP..and I own a quilting machine LOL! I counted 5 projects that need to be finished, piecing wise. I did not count how many "want to do but not yet started" projects that are waiting in the wings...afterall, I didn't want scare myself.

And, this does not count the other, as yet uncovered things in the storage room that need to be used up...you know, like those old bottles that can be tinted for candles for your front yards and decks, and that pile of old hankies that I've been collecting to use "someday" in "something", the antique children's book with pictures so adorable they need to be printed onto fabric and made into a quilt, the metal sign that needs an old quilt piece glued to it so I can hang it as art.....well, YOU know :)  This year is my year to conquer this stuff, to my weedin, one project at a time. Can anyone relate???

I did reduce the unquilted tops by one. This quilt hanging was a shared project by my mother and I. My mom does the most amazing embroidery work you will ever see. Think PROFESSIONAL quality! She did the stitching and I did the rest. Even put an antique button from grammie's button bag as the centre of one of the flowers. Now it's finished and when spring finally does arrive, up on the wall it will go :) Thanks Mom :)BTW, this project was ready to be quilted 5 years ago and, imagine, I still had fabric in my stash that matched to complete the binding! Now that's hoarding lol!