Category Archives: Lizzie*Kate

Old WIPs, Tracking, and Stash Enhancement

Isn’t it funny how things change, but stay the same.  Blogging used to be all the rage, then came Facebook and Instagram.  Now YouTube is taking over the stitching world by way of the flosstube posts.

I try really hard to not get sucked in to watching flosstube. I’m trying to limit myself to 2 cups of coffee worth.  I turn it on, and start going through my emails (which I had up to a couple of weeks ago horribly neglected).  When someone says something really interesting, or they get to the “this is what I’m stitching” or “this is what I bought since last time” part I switch over to watching with undivided attention.  😀  I did remember several days ago that I can watch it on my TV, so I may indulge a bit more while I’m stitching.  It’s can be horribly enabling though.

While I like learning more about bullet journaling (my latest tracking love), I can hardly stand to watch the videos.  There is a whole lot of looking at someone’s journal sitting closed on a desktop with their fingers waving around (likened to playing an invisible piano keyboard) while they talk.  That drives me nuts.  So I don’t watch very many of them.

Creating a bullet journal has allowed me to blend stitching, quilting, and journaling into a joint venture!  This is how I’m tracking my Yearly WIP Challenge pieces, where in the past I used Excel.  I do love the convenience of computer programs, but I’m a paper and pencil girl at heart.

One of the things I was determined to do in 2016 was pull out Teresa Wentzler’s Peacock Tapestry – which was started Sept 1999 – and grid it. This was the first TW I ever started. I was living in Japan where I knew no other stitchers and had just gotten internet and ordered the kit.

I pulled it out to take a picture for a group I’m in, and look it’s already gridded. No idea when that happened, but it wasn’t this year. SMH.
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I keep forgetting to share my latest stash enhancement item.  It’s Crossroads & Country Roads by Piece by Piece.  The designer, Pam McMahon is a local designer and I love her stuff!  She posted on Instagram that she had a new design out and offered it up there first (I think).  I sent her a message and she popped it in the mail on Monday and it arrived the next day.

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I love that she includes instructions for both sizes.  I love the red and white version, and the smaller quilt is 25″.

I just returned from my trip to Louisiana, and brought back a couple of stitching things.   Main reason for the trip was to celebrate my father’s 80th birthday (which was yesterday).  I also got to visit with my high school best friend and she’s who I went stash shopping with.

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Count Twice Stitch Once by Plum Street

Fleur de Fleur by Alessandra Adelaide

Fleur de Fleur by Alessandra Adelaide

Do Small Things With Great Love by Lizzie Kate

Do Small Things With Great Love by Lizzie Kate

There were a couple more Louisiana related that had to be ordered.

I’ve also started on my Year of WIPs Challenge but that’s a separate post since it’s photo intensive.

Boy, oh boy, am I behind!

I finished Rose Quaker last night and the first thought I had was I needed to get it ironed and post a photo to my blog.  When I went to log on this morning imagine my surprise to see how long it’s been since I last posted!  Yikes!

Time flies when you’re having fun, and I’ve been having all kinds of fun redoing my sewing room, working for Arizona Quilters Guild, working for COMICON, and stitching when I can.

I actually have two finishes to share today, since I thought I had posted when I finished Lizzie*Kate’s Unseen Things on February 8.

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I had planned on working on And They Sinned after Unseen Things, but I couldn’t find it!  I started a #MirabiliaMonday on my facebook page and had planned on Fairy Moon since I’m almost finished with it.  I couldn’t find it either!  I knew they were together, though.

So I pulled Rose Quaker out instead of And They Sinned.  I finished Rose Quaker last night.  Here’s a craptastic photo since I still haven’t ironed it. 😀

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I finished the painting in my sewing room and have started putting everything back in its – hopefully – forever place.  And….I found the two missing stitching pieces.  Woohoo!  So now that Quaker Rose is finished And They Sinned is patiently waiting.  I started it January 4, 2013, and here’s where I stopped in August 2013.

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Monday’s dedicated to Mirabilia, and since I couldn’t find Fairy Moon, I pulled Garden Verses.  Here’s where I am on her as of last Monday:

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What else to share?  Oh yeah, I finally ordered, and received, the bell pull hardware for the SamSarah Lagniappe design.  No sewing has been going on so nothing to share there.  I am anxious to get back to it even though I’ve really enjoyed all the stitching I’ve done while not working on other things.

I’ll try not to let it be so long before I post again 😉

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Bizeeee!

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I swear, for someone who’s “retired” my calendar sure is full these days.  I’m not complaining, but feeling very lucky and in some cases very appreciated 😉  There are stitch-togethers one night a week at my LNS; twice a month sew-togethers with a local group; guild meetings twice a month; a sew-in at my LQS; manicure and pedicure appointments, dental appointment, COMICON meetings – the event is next weekend!; and Christmas and our trip to California is just around the corner. Plus there are 2 other sew-togethers each month that I haven’t been able to attend yet, because of my busy schedule. Oh, and let’s not forget the mystery quilt!

While all of this is bringing me joy (okay, except for that dental appointment – which actually contained good news on the surgery front) it is sapping my mental capacity and I’m forgetting to blog again.  I haven’t felt like there has been that much to share.

So, I’m pulling out my phone to see what pictures I’ve taken this past week.

Our oranges are starting to turn.  Yum! Winter harvest.

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I bought a new cooking tool. I’ve wanted one for quite a while and it ended up on sale at my local grocery store, on 10% Senior Discount Day!  Yay!  Haven’t used it yet, but I see a pot of stew brewing in my future.

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I finished another stitching project

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which meant I got to start a new one

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As to the mystery quilt, I managed to get 28/100 of the first part made.  I’m cool with that.  Last year I got behind and gave up.  This year I’m following Bonnie’s instruction to stop where I am and start on the next part when it come out.  After I hit “publish” I’ll be working on part 2.

Before I forget, again, I know I haven’t shown any weight stuff on here lately.  With the busy-ness I have had I have been hopping on the scale Tuesday morning, writing it down, and hitting the road running, so to speak.  I actually haven’t been running.  Or even walking.  I’m just now back to my knee not hurting after my graceful tumble down the mountain a month ago.  I’ve been throwing a month-long pity party and eating sugar.  I’ve paid for it the next day waking up with a headache, and my weight has bounced up and down.  I’ve reminded myself that this is a lifelong way, forgiven myself, and this past week, it was back down to what it was the week I fell. I’ve got my alarm set to get out and start walking again tomorrow.

Unless I get a chance to share my Part 2 Grand Illusion progress, I probably won’t blog again until after next Sunday.

 

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