More Stiching at Speech

More waiting? No problem.  More stitching.  I need to find more of this blue floss in the drawer.  I need to finish the last blue safety pins...

 

Linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.

Slow Sunday Stitching -- Look at My Hoop Edition

I found ANOTHER red flower that needs stitched.  Seriously... I think this is the last one.  Here it is on my kitchen table shown in my white oval hoop.  Kathy at Kathy's Quilts added the fun of a photo challenge with the link-up this week.  The challenge is to take a picture of your hand-stitch project in the hoop.  So here it is:

 

My favorite hoop is a plastic, white 4.5" x 9" hoop.  I like it because I like to hold the small ends while stitching across the almost 9".  It's also funny because I just started slow stitching last year (as a grown-up).  I stitched when I was a kid up until about 10 years old.  I lost interest about when my grandmother (who was my sewing and crafting role model) passed away.  Now I think of her nearly every time that I stitch.  This was not her hoop.  I got this from a "free" box at a garage sale.  I also like it for small projects like this crib quilt because when I fold my project around it, it fits nicely into my school bag for when I go to work as a substitute teacher.  It doesn't take up a lot of room.

Here's a picture of it without my project on my old towel that is stained and ripped.  Funny... this is my favorite towel from my aunt.  She too has passed away.  I keep it next to my sewing machine and use it for ironing.  I don't see a brand name on it.  But it does have "THIS SIDE UP" on the bottom half.  I liked that because I totally forgot how to stitch the 40 years that I did not stitch.  Now I got it.

 

I also like these two hoops.  I have more than one to-go bag.  The blue one I got in the same "free" box as the white hoop.  The wooden hoop was my grandma's.  It doesn't have the screw thing on it.  But if I use it, I can easily take the one from the blue one.  I also have a box of hoops in the other house where my longarm is.  There's at least a dozen hoops in there of all different sizes.  I got that box at a garage sale for $5.  I knew I'd use them someday...  Thanks to this group, I am inspired to hand stitch while waiting on others.

 

 

I also have some metal hoops that were my grandma's and my original metal hoop that she (or my mom) gave me.  I don't use them anymore because they left a ring on one project that was a WIP.  I don't remember if it was rust or not.  It was just a ring...  I don't remember the project.  I'm pretty sure it's just something that was thrown away when the family was cleaning...  If I had that project now I would have probably made a shadow box of it and put it in my sewing room. 

 

Linking up with  Kathy at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.

 

 

 

Scrap Saturday

This week I didn't get much sewing done a g a i n...  More snow days meant more fun with the kid.  They are only little once (I mean 10 and a half...)  I did get a few more four patches sewn:

We did get a lot of this done...

He did get cold waiting on me to do my chicken chores.  See the ocean container in the background?  It makes an awesome storage area for all of my barn and garden stuff.  My husband welded a nice, heavy door on it and put lights and electric in it.  I'm a lucky girl.

Here's a pic of me in my winter gear.  Brrr.  Owen takes pictures of me all the time now. :)  The chickens are getting a little "cabin fever".  Hopefully it will be in the 40's and maybe even 50 degrees this week--enough to melt the snow so that they can come out and play.  If I leave them outside when there is snow on the ground the two roosters chase each other and the hens around and sometimes somebody gets "stranded" because they really don't like getting their feet in the snow.  Fingers crossed they get some free ranging time next week.

Linking up with Angela and the gang for Scrap Happy Saturday for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge, 2018 -- RSC18.  Come join the fun at Angela's blog SoScrappy.

Shrek Jr. Musical

I found these pics on my phone the other day.  The kids at the Middle School where I sub often put on the musical Shrek.  It was fun.

What my kid says Experiment...

WITHOUT prompting, ask your child these questions and write EXACTLY what they say...
 Owen 10.5
...

*What is something I say a lot?
 Mommy... uck!
*What makes me happy?
Eat food
*What makes me sad?
 When Owen says a bad word
*How tall am I?
 Hmmm  High
*What's my favorite thing to do?
 Play basketball
*What is my favorite food?
 Hash browns
*What is my favorite drink?
 Coffee
*If I could go anywhere, where would it be?
 Taco Bell
*Do you think you could live without me?
 No
*How do I annoy you?
Hmmm You come over here...
*What is my favorite TV show?
 Big Brother
*What is my favorite music to listen to?
 Owen playing his recorder
*What is my job?
 School
*How old am I?
52
*What's my favorite candy?
 licorice
*what's my favorite color?
Green
*How much do I love you?
 A lot
Copy, paste and change my answers and see what your child says

Slow Sunday Stitching

When the snow is blowing and everything is iced over here in Ohio.  This is how I roll...

 

 

Linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.

Scrappy Saturday in Blue

 

Today I made a few little blue 4-patch units.

These four-patch blocks will be used in my Go Four It quilt.  I need to turn this in to a baby quilt by March.  Then I'll have to turn the rest of the sub blocks into another by April for another baby.



I'm linking up with Angela and the gang on Angela's blog, SoScrappy for Scrap Happy Saturday #2.