What else I have been doing?

A couple of posts ago I said changes were coming. Changes to this blog, my job and my life.  Well if you have followed or view this blog you can see the changes I made to it.  The name, the background, colorings etc.  As for my job, well I resigned from that in November for various reasons that I won't go into here.  As for my life I was not feeling challenged. I was bored and needed to do something different. I am needed at home because of our youngest son who has autism. For me working outside the home would cost more in care giving than I would be able to earn.  So I had to come up with another solution. 

 

Over the last couple of months I have moved my sewing space to the basement in hopes of starting a small home based business selling quilted and knitted items.  I also hope to open an Etsy shop in the near future once I get a few more things ready for sale.  The pics in this post are some of the things I have been working on.  

 

 

 

 

A Quilty Finish

This I Spy quilt has been waiting patiently on my quilting frame for quite some time.  I finally finished it when I had a person express an interest in buying it.  Now it is quilted, bond and delivered.

Back in business!

Over the last couple of months I have been slowly moving all my sewing equipment from our dining room to our basement.  I have a lot of organizing to do but it is all moved and I can get back to quilting. Eventually I am hoping to open my quilting frame up to it's full length.  One thing I really like about having the basement as my sewing room is I can spread out and if I am in the middle of a project I can leave it where it sits until I can get back to it. 



 

 

 

 

 

 

I did it!

 

For a long time now I have wanted to knit a pair of socks.  I was always hesitant about it because I have always heard how difficult they were.  Well last November I decided to finally just do it.  I went to a lovely yarn shop called The Little Red Mitten and I bought some yarn and a book on sock knitting and preceded to teach myself how to knit socks.  The book I bought is called Teach Yourself Visually Sock Knitting.  There are some errors in this book so if you choose to use it search the book title in your favorite search engine (I used Google) and you will find the corrections. I also found some how to videos on YouTube helpful.  Here is my first attempt at knitting socks on 5 needles!



 

 

 

Changes are coming...

Kneedleworks By Deb, new blog name, new look.  What do you think? Life is always changing and with this in mind I have decided to make some changes in my life and with my blog.  These changes and this blog are works in progress and I am excited to be doing some new and challenging things with my life and this blog.  I hope you all will stay tuned to see what changes are coming in 2013. 

Finally Finished!

 

I finally finished knitting the slippers that I started last year!  You can read about them here. I didn't get them finished for last Christmas but I plan on giving them to my Mom for this Christmas. 

More Baking

Last Saturday my family got together to celebrate my oldest sister's 65th birthday. It just happens that her granddaughter's 5th birthday was on Friday so I made this cake for them. I think it turned out rather cute.