Wow!  Does every year pass faster than the last for you too?  This year circumstances set many new paths in motion.  I look forward to seeing how it all plays out.  One of my main focuses this year was changing my diet to eliminat

I can’t believe this is the last report for 2008.  It went so fast.  Some projects planned for this year will have to carry over into next year.  My totals didn’t change this week.  The picture shows what 16 2/3 yards

My mom comes and stays with us every Christmas so we can celebrate as a family.  Now that we have finished with all the Christmas food and preparations, we have time to do some fun things.    I took her today to have her hair styled.&n

A ham and green bean casserole baking in the oven.  Soup simmering on the stove.  Bread rising in the bread machine.  It doesn’t get any easier than this.  We had fewer gifts and no cookies this year and enjoyed the day more

She has a body and some clothes now, and the woods have grown around her.  I have a plan, but I can’t seem to concentrate on it amid the holiday doings.  Maybe I’ll work on something mindless for the next few days and start

I finished the crocheted scarf last night.  I couldn’t figure out how to show it so bear volunteered to model.  The pattern came from the Vogue Knitting series book Crocheted Scarves.  I finished just in time as the temperature d

I had a reader ask me to explain how someone can add or bust hundreds of yards of fabric in one year.  That's Santa, not the reader, on the left.  I’ll do my best to summarize what I’ve seen other quilters do.    I

Between my job, the weather, the holidays and a sick child I have lost my rhythm and feel like I haven’t accomplished anything in days.  Like everything else in life, it will pass.  The scarf continues to grow as the days left in the

Judy at Patchwork Times invited us to continue our stashbusting efforts into next year.  I didn’t use as much fabric this year as I would have liked, but the challenge made me more conscious of what I had and what I bought.  When choo

I had mixed results in the fourth week of getting up early to sew.  I started out strong, but life got the better of me later in the week.  I continued getting up early but used the time for household tasks and blog updates.  I ended u

With the various holidays making this such a busy time of year, I wanted to take a minute to thank everyone for reading.  I hope I’m providing something of value that you can take with you and use in your own creative journey down the road

I decided the current project needed painted sheer fabric as part of the design and this is what I came up with.  I never painted sheers before.  I may never do it again unless the project begs for it.  Painting sheer fabric is like tr

The third week of getting up early to sew went better than last week.  I ended up adding 4 extra hours of time over six days, for a 40 minute per day average.    I made some progress on an old UFO that I first posted about here. 

Sharon at Pin Tangle chose generosity as the theme for the December challenge.  She asked us to represent in fabric what it means to give.  The optional color challenge included red, green, gold and white.  After seeing my husband&rsqu

This pile contains all the magazines I’m behind on reading.  Sorry for the picture quality, but shiny covers don’t photograph well.  For many years I didn’t subscribe to any magazines.  Last Christmas I received a gif

I’ve done some shopping recently, but not for fabric.  I think we should get an amnesty week between the 2008 and 2009 stashbusting challenges.  Any fabric bought that week wouldn’t count.  I bought this book a few weeks ag