Wow! How Time Flies

It has been a very long time since I updated this blog! I created this blog to get more things done and I did, but I didn’t keep the blog up to date. Last spring my daughter graduated with her Pharm D! We are very proud of her; she is now part of a residency program and has started a very busy life. I was lucky enough to have my youngest daughter home this summer while she was working on an internship. We painted 6 rooms in my house and I am very grateful for her help! It was a very productive summer and I have a new upstairs!

Below are some of the photos of our summer:

I also included a current photo of our beautiful valley – we are currently under hazardous air quality due to the fires in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Sadly, for the last 10 years we have ended every summer with a smoke filled valley.   

Since the air is so bad outside I am ready to start my sewing and knitting projects again. Here is where I left off last February – on the Sunflower Gatherings quilts inner border. I will sew that on now and then proceed to the outer border. 

I am excited to finish this project since I have a newly painted wall to hang this quilt, I can’t wait!

Thankful for My Knitting

Knitting Daily® had this on their Thankgiving newsletter last year, it has several points that I agree with and it made me smile!  

Five years ago I took an Adult Education class at our local high school with some of my friends from work. I have enjoyed knitting ever since. I would encourage anyone who likes to learn new things to take a class and learn this fun hobby.

Finished! Wisteria Shawl Collar Pullover Sweater

I created this blog so I would finish projects, this sweater has been sitting in my craft room just waiting to be sewn together! The sweater really didn't take long to knit, the procrastination of sewing it together was the delay- it really is not my favorite part of knitting. The pattern is free and can be found on the Lion Brand Website, I used the yarn below for my sweater with the color called Olympia.

Lion Brand® Amazing^®

Pattern #: L0033AD

Photos of the project just waiting to be sewn together. 

Here is my daughter modeling the completed sweater!

This was my first attempt at knitting a sweater, the pattern was easy and I thought it turned out great. I would highly recommend this pattern and yarn - just don't procrastinate as long as I did in sewing it together! 

Sunflower Gatherings Inner Borders

It has been a long time since I updated my blog! I have been busy finishing each of the 13 blocks with embroidery. Today I got out the inner border and began to cut and sew all of the patches together.

With what I have left over from the previous blocks and what I cut out today I have the following: 80 of the 4 patch; 52 brown squares; 16 tan squares; plus the 20 tan pieces cut to size. I am happy this part is done, next is sewing it all together!

Sunflower Gatherings Blocks Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen

I've been busy stitching blocks during the week while watching TV. I finished blocks eleven and twelve and I like the way they turned out. I am so excited that I am getting this quilt done. If you knew how many kits I have that are just sitting there waiting for me to work on them you would agree that this is quite an achievement. I really like the way that Lisa designed this quilt. If you want to purchase this block of the month, Primitive Gatherings started a new program in October. It has been fun and very challenging, I have really enjoyed working on this quilt.

I finally reached the last block - block thirteen!!

I decided that I wanted to change this block as I didn't want my initials or the year in the center. I took a few of the flowers from the other blocks and incorporated them in the center. You can see the original pattern then the changes I made to the center. I am happy with the way it turned out.

I still have the inner borders to sew and then the outside border to complete so I really need to calm down ... but I made it to block thirteen!

Montana!

Our first snow fall of the year! We went for a drive today and took some pictures of Lake Como. Montana is really a beautiful place to live, we are very lucky to live here.

Some of the leaves are still on the trees. Today was a very sunny day with no wind. The temperature was around 24 degrees. Tonight we should go down to around 13 degrees. It was much colder earlier in the week, but today is great!

Sunflower Gatherings Blocks Eight, Nine and Ten

It has been awhile since I updated my blog. I have finished blocks eight, nine and ten. I have three more blocks to get done then the boarders, I am happy with my progress!

I really like the dragonfly, this block took a long time to cut out all of the small pieces. I have a lot of stitching to do, but I am getting it done!