NOVEMBER 2014

Lots of charity knitting--

Finished up 2 stitcheries--

And I did get some gifts made--

Found this pattern in a 2013 magazine-
and I made 6 of them--
and yes--one is for me!!!

and I got addicted to making these--

first there was 2--

then there was 8--

and then there was 15!!!!
so easy to make--
But not these--

2 was the limit on these!!!

started 6 mug rugs--

the rest of the knitting--

This brings the total of Oct and Nov to--
15 sets of hats and mittens-
5 sets of mittens-
2 sets of hats and fingerless mittens-
1 set of fingerless mittens--
so that was alot of  knitting!!!

Some more crafts

lots of little gifty items--

got all 6 of these mug rugs made and hand quilted--

and made 3 snow people tote bags--
So I had a busy month--
am also working on hand quilting a wall hanging from the same Santa panel as the mug rugs--

OCTOBER

The weather is still really lovely here and it is the 10th of Oct--
Here is the works so far--

Am working on sewing all the hexie flowers together--

and--

knitted 2 sets of hats and mittens for the yarn shop to give to a charity--

started this--
from this pattern--

Got these two stitcheries framed finally--

More knitting--

yes these are 2 different greens--

SEPTEMBER

I did alot of photography this month--
including taking a 3 week class--
and the weather was just beautiful--
so spent alot of time outside!!!

did get this wall hanging all hand quilted and the binding on it--

this month my challenge was 'purple'-
so I worked on doing up the Friends line--
here is 4 pincushions ready for gifts--

and I got 2 shawls finished and blocked--

and I got a fall counted cross stitch stitched and then finished for hanging--

and I got this 2009 quilt top all hand quilted and the binding on it--

and here is 4 mug rugs from the Friendship line--
all ready for gift giving!!

And I ended up knitting a total of 12 boobs for the breast cancer center!!

AUGUST

Was suppose to keep working on this quilt--????

Choose this pattern for the Aug challenge of polka dots--

and the top is finished--did hand applique on the chickens--

got these in to play with--
only they sent me the wrong apple core template!!!

finished knitting this shawl and got it blocked--

finished knitting this scarf and got it blocked-
these were made with silk and camel yarn--

got this quilt all hand quilted and the binding on it--

so started hand quilting on this wall hanging--

two more shawls are finished knitted--
but not blocked yet--

went to a workshop and learned how to knit these bra inserts for cancer patients--
these are DD!!!

and Odie came to the yarn for a visit from NC

JULY

here we go with another months of work--

turned this pile of stitching into--

100 of these spools!!!

started the paper piecing Christmas tree--

prep work for the center panel on the Summer spools quilt --

center is done--did mine in wools--

tree is growing--

and knitted 2 baby bibs-

more tree parts--

Tree is all done!! and it is over 6 feet tall!!!!

getting the spool blocks stitched--

almost done--

Now we are talking!!!

the 12 month 'virtures' cross stitch are now a quilt top--

So I did keep busy--

and I took lots of outdoor photos--