Happy Thanksgiving

    That's it.  I just wanted to wish you all a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.  I am thankful for all of you and wish you a safe and wonderful day.

Am I cleaning or just ignoring...

    That is the true question.  Am I cleaning or am I putting on blinders.  I am tired of a sewing room where I can't easily find stuff.  Soooo, this is my plan.  I am going to just stuff everything smaller than a sewing machine into a plastic bag.  I have plenty of Walmart plastic bags from grocery shopping so I am using them.  NOW, those bags will be stuff with things that were on my table.  Then once a day or at minimum once a week, I will take one bag and thoroughly go through it and put things where they belong.  This will probably be like a year long project (or longer) but slow progress is better than no progress.

   So another thing I worked on today was digging out my Christmas cards and started to address them.  I have addressed around five.  They will be sent out early December.  I have others I will probably send out if I get a card from them.  My card sending has whittled down so I won't have that much more to send out.

  Now I have to work on Christmas presents for my SCA group.  I think I might try to do something as a small medallion or ornament.  I am thinking of a white background and I will stamp a black raven on the front.  I might do a red leather blanket stitch around it to stitch it together.  I might have to get more leather since I only have a minimal amount of red thread. The only problem is I am running out of time.  I need to get around 10 done by December 7th.  Wish me luck.  :)

    

It's decision time...

    The worst part of a project is when you have to make a decision.  For e that is.  Maybe it is not so bad for you.  I finished stitching a center for a small wall hanging that I am working on and that means now I have to come up with material for borders.  The first picture is the actual stitching and the second pix is showing some of the option for a border.  I am leaning towards the flower border but I'm not sure.  I will think on it a bit longer.  What do you think?

   I will have to get used to it.  It is a bit more "rough" than I usually like but for some reason it drew me in.  

   That is all  I have to report on right now.  Tomorrow will be Dan's and my Thanksgiving.  This year we are going to go out to eat.  It will be BBQ this time .  I little different but that is ok.  IT is good sometimes to change things up.  The good part is that II already have my Christmas dinner all planned out too.  Now I just have to have time to get to  do it.

   I hope everybody has a great day.  Hugs to all!

A FINISH!

 This is just a quick note to say that I FINALLY have a FINISH!  Yes the wall hanging is done and hanging up on the wall.  I will have to work on getting the chalk markings removed because they are being stubborn.  It still looks ok.  I love the fabric that I used on the back and wrapped around to the front for the binding.  The binding really blends in but also stands out a bit...if that made sense.  That is all I have to report.  Time to rest the hands and put away groceries.  Have a great day everybody!  Love ya all!

The backing fabric

The finished wall hanging using the backing fabric as the binding.  :)