Tea Anyone....

There is a lady at my husband's work who makes the cutest crochet dress tops on tea towels. I have trouble following a crochet pattern. I read the pattern, do what it says but it rarely turns out. I asked this person if I supplied the towels, yarn and buttons if she would make a couple of these towels to include in a wedding gift for my husband's niece this June. She said she would so we worked out a barter of sorts. She would make up the towels if I would make her a tea cozy.

I have had this tea cozy pattern by Fran O'Neill, (http://www.fransquilting.com/) for a couple of years now and I have made it once before. I decided it would be the perfect project to work on for the Friday Nite Sew-In. (See link in side bar)

Where does the time go??

The next Friday Nite Sew-In is happening on the 19th of March. It doesn't seem that long since the last one. I have made a little progress on the quilt top I started in February but I set it aside for a bit when my brother passed away at the end of February. While we were dealing with his passing my brother-in-law lost his battle with cancer in the same week. I have finally gotten the energy to work on the quilt again. I am hopeing to get the top done by the end of March.

My niece, Christina has been bitten by the blogging bug and has started a blog about her photography. She has taken some wonderful pictures of sunsets and I look forward to following her blog. Check out the link in my sidebar.

Friday Nite Sew In

I was able to make a fair amount of progress on the Seven Shirt quilt project during the Friday Nite Sew In. The pattern for this project can be found on the blog Life is a Stitch(http://thethriftyquilter.blogspot.com/). I was able to get the nine patch blocks finished and the snowball blocks started. The colours look brighter in person. Some of the points don't quite match up so I will have to go back and fix them but I wanted to get an idea how the colours would look together.

New Project

I haven't been sewing or crafting lately. A while ago I pulled a muscle in my arm and it made even picking up a cup of tea painful. It has been feeling better lately so I started a new project today and I plan to work on it for the Friday Nite Sew In tomorrow night. Nancy over at Life is a Stitch (http://thethriftyquilter.blogspot.com/) has a quilt pattern that uses seven shirts from the thrift store. I like the pattern and I think I will try to make it from scraps and yardage I already have in my stash. Stay tuned to see the finished top.

Friday Nite Sew-In

February's Friday nite sew-in is slated to happen on the 19th of February. I am looking forward to seeing what other UFO's I can make some progress on.

Progress!

I have finally finished crocheting the last of the strips for the mile-a-minute afghan and now comes the job of joining the strips together. As you can see from the picture I have the first two strips together and I hope to have the whole thing finished very soon. I am so glad to be making progress on this.

Friday Nite Sew-In

Well I decided to work on a crocheted afghan I started about three Christmases ago. It is a mile-a-minute pattern made in a Christmas green, white and red. I have made this pattern years ago using up scraps of yarn that I had laying around. I wanted the current one a bit larger. This pattern is quite simple to add to. The stripe I worked on is the nineth of ten stripes that I am going to use for this project. I am getting closer to the end!