The Grateful Stitcher

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Just Take 2 progress

Today I was much more productive. What a relief to finally get some things done. Here are my blocks for the fourth set. I still have not stitched down my little red leaves on the center block. Working on that tonight. I love how these blocks are coming together and can't wait to start putting this quilt together. Head on over to Just Take 2 if you still would like to join in on the fun.

FO for February

My Oh My this as been a terrible month for being productive. I had so many plans, so much I wanted to start, yet only started two new projects this month. I did the "Little Patchwork QAL" and January's / February's "Free Motion Quilt Challenge".

Thankfully I was able to keep up with most of my other projects I have on the table.

The Little Patchwork Quilt is what I practiced on for my Free Motion Quilting challenge. My muscles were having a fun time jerking as I tried to free motion this quilt and it looks like a mess. I had done feathers years ago and they were much smoother - but now...Yuck. Even my leaves, which I normally do a lot of in quilting were just "OFF". Like I said, this month has been terrible.

March starts tomorrow and I'm looking forward in great anticipation and HOPE that it will be much much better.

March UFO Is....

March UFO number is #8 - For me that is "Flying Colors".

I wish this one was the number for last month as it is suppose to be a Birthday Gift this month. I hope to at least get it pieced and ready for quilting by the end of this month. And work on the quilting through April.

How have I done on the past two months UFO projects?

Not to good I'm afraid. But then, I do not expect to get all these UFO's completed (quilted) each month.

I Just hope to get the tops finished and hopefully some will get quilted before years end.

I don't have the strength in my hands/arms to quilt a whole quilt in decent amount of time with suffering from MG-so I know my limits, even though they do frustrate me from time to time.

Like going to the Home and Garden show last Sunday... it really took a tole on me. I couldn't hardly talk or see well Monday, and Tuesday was just as bad. Today I'm back to near normal and ready to sew some more. But that was two day's I hadn't planned on doing absolutely nothing.

February was to work on "Sunrise on the Ole' Homestead" - Didn't even have time or energy to get it out of the box.

January was to try to get the top finished on "Hearts Desire" - I almost finished the rest of the leaves around the first border. But it will probably take me another two weeks to get that part finished.

I try not to say I'm a failure at this challenge -as I'm making some progress - be it at a snails pace.

Treasure your health and your ability to do things while you can. You never know what might hit you at any time of your life and challenge your abilities.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Tirzah's Sketchbook

Tirzah is my niece. She does amazing animations for a gaming company. Mostly background work for the games such as the new release Guild Wars 2 - You can see the trailer here. All the background in this game is done by Tirzah. Her talent goes far beyond backgrounds however. Her characters are amazing, and she even did this cute little cartoon self portrait here below. Check out Tirzah's Sketchbook. Please do not pin any photo's. Pining is in violation of the authors copyright law.

Monday, February 27, 2012

What have I been doing?

GREEN was the color for the Scrappy Rainbow Challenge (February). I've made four blocks. Kind of reminds me of a lattice fence. Check out the linky party to see all the wonderful green projects going.

I also finished my block for the Sew Happy QAL this week.