TUSAL and Progress Pic

Here is my jar of orts for the TUSAL. In the first photo, it's hard to see that anything is in the jar so hopefully the second photo shows the orts better. What is in there is from "Messy...But Mine!"


Which leads me to "Messy..But Mine!" by Dragon Dreams being stitched on Sahara Flair Monaco by Enchanted Fabrics.

Yikes! Another Post Today! Haha!

I'm going to try to do the TUSAL or Totally Useless Stitch a Long. Every month, at the new moon, we are supposed to post a photo of our ort jars. Since I already save all of my leftover thread bits in a jar I figured, why not? I'm not sure why I started saving my threads but I did.

Edited to fix link. Thank you so much to Daffycat for teaching me how to make links! :-D

Goals For The New Year

I have several things that I *need* to accomplish this year. Most if not all are quilt projects.

1. Finish Nathan's quilt (Seriously, why am I having so much trouble with it?)
2. Machine quilt Sis's Star Wars Quilt
3. Machine quilt Sis's first scrappy quilt
4. Make Froggy Quilt for Atticus
5. Machine quilt my scrappy quilt

I have a few more quilt projects that I could list but I think I'll be lucky if I can complete just half of these. I'm going to try though. :)

New Year And Another Ornament

Ok, first off, here is Atticus's Christmas ornament. Technically, I should have had this finished in time for Christmas but I didn't. I had the front stitched already but I ornified it last night on New Year's Eve. I finished it before midnight so I'm counting it towards last year's accomplishments. The design is "Nickademus" by Raise the Roof Designs from the 2010 JCS Ornament Issue. This orni and the one below both turned out a little bigger than I had planned but I think that's mostly due to my amateurish construction skills.

Happy New Year to all! I cannot believe how fast the years are flying by. May this year be better than the last.

From My Garden And An Ornament

I just had to show off my broccoli that I grew! I know, I'm weird. I get excited over the strangest things sometimes. The taste of home grown veggies cannot be beaten.


This is an ornament that I stitched for my little niece that passed away after only 4 weeks at the beginning of 2010. I am also working on an ornament for my Nephew so I am planning to give them both to my sister at the same time. We have all been missing Lucy and this was my way of dealing with the sadness. We are at the same time excited to welcome Atticus into the family. It has been a very emotional holiday to say the least. Oh, I almost forgot to give all the details of the orni. This is Frosty Friends by Mosey 'N Me from the JCS Ornament issue 2008 stitched on 14 count Polar Ice Charles Craft Aida. I had to change one or two colors to accommodate the fabric but this color just caught my eye as being the perfect snowy background. Hopefully my ornament for Atticus will be done soon and I will show that off as well.

Brave Knight Finished

My nephew finally decided to come! So here is "Brave Knight" by Bucilla, all finished (edited for privacy). I had just a couple of days to stitch the date and frame it so I could give it to my Sis for Christmas. I even had to make an emergency trip to Michael's because the frame I had bought just wasn't going to work. And it was a pretty red one too. :( I work best under pressure I guess. I didn't manage to finish his Christmas Ornament but oh well. No big deal.

Our family drama wrapped itself up and ended in time for us to have a decent Christmas Day. I'm hoping next year goes alot better though.

Bah Humbug!

I'm going to go ahead and say "Merry Christmas" now since I can't guarantee that I will be on here any closer to Christmas. This year has been full of family drama so I'm feeling very Grinchy lately. I have never felt this awful at Christmas before but I'm sure it will all be ok eventually. I hope your holiday celebrations go much better for you than mine are going for me.