Making progress . . . and a goal

It's been a rough couple of days. Normal everyday stuff, kid stuff, busy-ness.

I had computer issues again, but I worked my way through it. Not happy about the whole situation, but I'm working on it.

It's the end of September. I'm managing to stay current on projects and even keeping my mothly goals up to date.

There are A LOT of French knots on this month's Wool. It took me most of the weekend just to get the berries done - mind you, I took a lot of down time too.

I've moved on to the leaves - wool, stem stitch and more French knots to fill in. Once those are done all that's left is the bulb. I'm hoping to finish by week's end.

My goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes (ALYOFs).

I'm dusting off another oldie from my days at JoAnn's. It's a small wall hanging and pillow. There are a couple of small cut out angels matching the center of the wall hanging that I'm going to make little ornaments out of to use up the panel. This one has matching fabric for the backing. If I had another use for it, I would just back in muslin, but I don't.

With all my busy-ness at this time of year, I've decided to concentrate on smaller projects and get them out of the way. In January, I'll start bigger projects again. Some of my concern is not having supplies to finish some of the bigger projects and until they go on sale and I can get them, they'll just have to wait for another time.

Stop By Sew Bittersweet and see what some of the other ladies are committing to finishing this month. That's where I'm headed :)

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Lazy weekend . . .

Honey Do and Newton took off for the day on Saturday . . . deer hunting season is now in full swing. Unfortuneately they saw deer, just none came home with them. I was hoping to fill the freezer. More days are planned, so I'm not giving up yet.

As for me, I had a glorious day at home, alone, with the pups. I got the laundry caught up, rested, napped, and did little else except park myself in front of the television and watched a couple of sewing/quilt shows, some cooking shows and several movies. And I don't feel the least bit guilty that I wasn't working on a project :) Sometimes you just need a day off from everything.

I did, over the course of the weekend, play with some new fabric.

A stack of fat quarters. Isn't it a lovely collection? 

I'm thinking these will be for Rose's Chatelaine BOW.

Not sure how many there will be, but she's up to week 47 !!!! 

Not sure when I'll start, I'm thinking January, 2016 - I always seem to be behind :)

Sunday meals . . . 

Honey Do's lunch went from this . . .

To this :)

Added fresh green bell pepper, onions, mushroom and some extra cheese. 

Looks pretty tasty, if I may say so myself :)

I did manage to make some time find some enthusiasm (as I had nothing but time) to work on my Wool BOM.

It doesn't feel or look like a lot to me, but stacked French knots are very time consuming. 

There are more French knots on the leaves. I was hoping to have this project done by Monday but that's not going to happen. I will finish it before I move on to the birthday gift for BF. I have a couple of weeks to work on that before it's due.

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A new project

I always have several projects going at the same time, hand embroidery and something on the sewing machine and at least a hundred more patterns to choose from.

Wednesday, I received my new Wool BOM. This is number six of nine. The small circles are actually done in a very dark, almost black green. Needless to say, stitching on black in the evening is difficult at best for me. So I need another project to work on. :)

I know, an excuse to start something new :)

When I met with BF on Thursday, we went through a stack of magazines she acquired from her Dad. They were her mother's and they are slowly sorting through her sewing room.

One of the magazines had this great pattern in it. I've chosen to do it on muslin - the pattern called for it on an orange-red, but I wanted a lighter background. All the outlines will be embroidered.

The design is called Mr. and Mrs. Chicken :)

I hope you are all doing something fun this weekend.

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Finally home . . . for a minute

WOW, has it been a busy month. Yes, I know there's still almost another week, but wow has time gone by and I never seem to be home for more than a few minutes. Yes, that's a slight exaggeration, but only slight. When I am home there always seems to be something that needs my attention or I'm just worn out from all the going.

I did take a minute to put my feet up :)

Wednesday, BF and I met up for the wool class.

Not much progress, just a start.

Thursday, we just met up to chat :)

Going through old magazines . . .

means new projects - can't wait to start this one. It's adorable :)

Yeah, only a sneaky peak :)

Back to work on the wool. I'm hoping to finish that block this weekend so I can start the new project. Honey Do and Newton are going hunting on Saturday. If it rains, I'll have all day to work on it. If it doesn't I'll be in the garden planting a couple of new butterfly bushes and cone flowers gifted by BF.

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A Lovely Year of Finishes - September Edition

September finish :) I'm linking by to Sew Bittersweet Designs.

A simple design made special by fabric choices and some hand embroidery.

This UFO has been waiting about two years to be completed.

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Not much stitching . . .

but some cleaning . . .

Saturday and Monday evenings I took myself outside and finished weeding my front flower bed. It is in desperate need of mulch, but at least the weeds have been taken care of. I filled several trash cans over time to completely weed. And unfortunately, it's time to start at the beginning again before they get out of control. At the moment, nothing is blooming. I did have a gorgeous pink rose bud, but the deer ate it Sunday evenign :(

Monday afternoon, upon return from my Leaders' meeting, I cleaned the ceiling fan in my kitchen.

I don't clean this nearly often enough and ended up removing the blades in order to clean it properly. I'm always amazed at how dirty it gets in what seems to be a very short period of time. It looks almost new again.

Next up, the windows. Inside and out :)

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Quiet Saturday

Our forecast is for rain - all day. It's now 1:30p.m. and all I've seen is a few spits here and there.

I had planned my day around the rain.

Is there any more perfect day to stay indoors and stitch?

This is my Saturday morning progress - after breakfast and all the morning chores are completed.

Friday night was pretty successful too. I managed to get another section of the fence stitched.

Feeling energized because it's moving along so quickly.

After a freezer meal, stuffed peppers I put up in July when ground beef was on sale, I worked on another scrap block.

Sometimes, you just done really feel like working on a definite project.

These allow me to just let the project take over and basically make themselves.

In between, I finally went out into my flower beds and did some much overdue weeding. I filled a trash can. I was very pleased when I finished and am even looking forward to going back out again on Monday.

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