Fresh Arrivals and a Few Finishes

With the onset of spring there is a fresh energy in the house and some weather upheaval that prevents outdoor recreating fairly often. I have been antsy and wanting to get a number of outdoor projects completed. The other day I was cutting down volunteer trees from beneath my pines while being sleeted on. It was acually fairly comfortable because I was getting so warm from the effort. But overall, the weather is making for some good indoor stitching time.

The Nashville show patterns are hitting the shops and everyone is sending out emails with their new arrivals and sales. Oh my the temptaions. And I succumbed. I ended up buying a cute cat and dog pattern and then had a sweet little bonus added in from Dirty Annie's. I'm not even sure if they are new this year. I just ended up going down a clicking rabbit hole. I'm not sad at all. I also have a few more patters on the way from Thistles. I love both of these designers! Here are the new patterns I received:

Meanwhile, on the dog theme, I whomped together a small that I have had laying around for a while. It was a sweet little afternoon project from Rovaris. I changed up the colors to use what I had laying about and to make it look a bit more like a bloodhound. Overall I'm pretty happy with the result.

A few days later I finished up the last of the June pieces from the perpetual calendar project. I have the July materials ready to go, but I think I want to wrap up a couple more WIPs that I have going on. There is a growing pile of projects sitting next to me and it is starting to infringe on my personal space!

Halfway done with the calendar! It should only be a few more years before I finish.

Then I decided to wrap up the last of the Mill Hill Marine Life Series with the completion of the Jelly Fish. I'm going to wait to frame everything until I finish Ocean Song so I can put all 5 together.

Overall it has been a good couple of weeks for stitching. Sadly a huge snowstorm is coming through which would be perfect for stitching, but I will be at work instead. For shame! 

Sew Busy!

 The last three weeks have been great for me and stitching. I made the decision to work less overtime so I can have more time at home. I miss the money, but I was too tired and stressed. So with all that time I made things!!

I worked for a bit on the jelly fish project from the Mill Hill Marine Life Series for a bit. I decided to take a break from it so I could work on my Perpetual Calendar. It is so easy to start working on little projects that are super satisfying to finish and forget to take time to progress on the larger projects. I am almost finished with June and am hoping to start July within the week!

I have also been spending some time working on the Bramble and the Rose, but do not have an update photo on that. 

Meanwhile, I have been trying to get up to my sewing room every couple of days to work on some large projects I have going on. I was able to finish my Tradewinds quilt a couple of days ago.

Today I finished the last of the quilt blocks for the Nebula quilt pattern. I have some of the background cut. I'm hoping to cut the rest of that tomorrow so I can assemble the quilt top in the near future. Here are the ones I finished since the last update.

I also have been sticking to my Gravity Quilt stitch along and finished the 3rd month's blocks today as well. Here are the blocks I have completed so far.

I'm working on a challenge project for the Milk and Honey Quild Guild which requires me to make a quild no larger than 28 inches square using 4 colors, 2 of which are provided to me. So far I have designed the quilt and selected the additional 2 fabrics. I am hoping to start cutting the project very soon. I think it needs to be completed by May. No spoilers though!

In addition to the sewing today, I got a little excited and painted the pantries in my kitchen. It looks so much better! Before and After...

I'm looking forward to sitting on the couch soon to do some cross stitch. It was a busy day to be sure!