Crafting in 2010

It's already the 5th of January and I am feeling like I am making no progress on anything. I have a lot of things on the go but it is hard to actually see any progress on them. I think part of it is besides trying to craft I have a lot of other things going on in my life right now and just want everything to stop and let me deal with my feelings.

I know lots and lots of ideas that I want to write about but it is finding the time to actually put everything in words so that I can post them.

Now to try and do a little bit of crafting before tucking in so that I can relax otherwise it is going to be another sleepless night for me.

Christmas and crafting

I cannot believe I haven't posted for three months. Part of it is I haven't had a lot of time to sit down and write and another reason is I didn't have much to report on.

Finally I can post that I have finished Christmas gifts for both my mom and sister. I made biscornu's, scissor fobs and chair necessaries for both of then and finally finished them last night. I still need take pictures of them so that I can post what they look like.

These projects ended up being a lot bigger and time consuming than I first thought but once they were finished I was extremely happy. I know that they will both like them as they are something that neither of them would make for themselves.

Now to just find some time to work on a set for myself so that I have something to have around to look at that I have made. Normally I don't do a lot of cross-stitching but through these projects I have realized how much I have missed cross-stitching and how I need to get back to doing it a lot more.

My goal in the new year is to set one evening each week aside to cross-stitch and maybe work on one of the many started projects that I have.

Well it's now time to finish wrapping gifts and get ready for Christmas.

Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year.

I will post pictures of the items after Christmas.

I do miss crafting

I have to admit that I have been busy with a lot of other things in the last little while so that my crafting has suffered. I haven't had as much time to do the things that I love as I am working and also taking a course.

I have been able to complete one biscornu in the last couple of days so that did give me some quick gratification. It only took a couple of days to do this so I am very happy. I will have to take a picture of it and post it so that you can see what I made.

The next little while I hope to be able to go more crafting time in but I also have other deadlines to meet. First I need to get myself organized for work and then get the course finished as I write my exam in November.

Well I think it's time for me to curl up for a little while tonight and do something for myself instead something for someone else.

Always remember to take time for yourself as it is important.

Charity Drop Off

It's hard to believe but I think summer has finally arrived for us and here it is almost the middle of August.

I have been working on a few projects lately so of course I have lots of stuff started but not a lot of items completed so now I need to sit down and start finishing them. Maybe that should be my goal until the end of the month to actually finish some of the many projects.

On Monday I am going to be heading out to drop off all the items that I have collected for the Soldiers. I now have two boxes full of stuff which means a lot of Canadian soldiers are going to know that people are thinking about them. This collection of items is from 15 different people.

I also have to organize a bunch of other charity items that I have to go to a different group so that they aren't taking up as much room as they currently are. This is a project where we are helping by making packages for new babies.

Off to try and get things organized or finished.

Yarn, yarn and more yarn

Yes I love buying yarn and this weekend was another one of those trips. I headed out to purchase one ball of yarn for a baby afghan and like usual ended up with more than that ball.

I have been looking for a ball of yarn for a while and of course I know think it has been discontinued as I cannot find it. So instead of leaving the store without anything I ended up picking up four balls of baby sports weight yarn for a couple of baby afghans. The nicest thing about this yarn is that it works up quickly so it shouldn't take me long to finish the afghans that I want to make. I have started one of the afghans so will see if I can have it finished by the end of next week.

Tonight I heard that one of the guys that we know just found out that his wife is expecting a little girl. I am now sitting here figuring out what colour afghan I should make for the two of them as I would like to give it to him before the end of August as the baby is due in November. I guess I should just look through all my yarn and see what I have a start an afghan otherwise I won't get it done.

Things are going along pretty good with my main project as well as I have been getting some items finished for the soldiers. I want to drop off another delivery to them in August so need to sit down and finish up a few of the items that I just need to sew together.

Now to just sit down and work on finishing all of these projects that I have started. I guess my project lt is going to grow a little bit if I start another baby afghan but that's OK.

Yes another project on the go and some projects are going to be left for a while as I work quickly on this new afghan. Off to workk on the afghan and hide from yet another thunder storm.

Craftkitten Spore

Well my wonderful husband keeps teasing me that I leave little bits of yarn all over the place. I know that sometimes I do lose the occasion piece that has been stuck to me.

When I crochet in the car as a passenger I know that I get the fluff off the yarn all over the car sometimes. The best one was when I was using red yarn and it was flying all over the black interior of the car. It did leave a rather interesting layer on the dash board. Sorry dear.

The latest incident had both of us laughing rather hard. We were away for the weekend and of course I had my crocheting and knitting with me. I carried my bag back up to the apartment and that was the end of it for the day. Little did I know I had lost something.

The next day we went down to the parking garage and when walking to the car I noticed something on the ground. It just happened that when I was carrying my knitting bag back upstairs I dropped something. There on the ground in front of me was a one round granny square which I had made the day before. It had probably been run over a few times but it didn't look like it had so I picked it up and it's now a six round granny square.

So please remember that you may lose some of your craft spore anywhere.

Charity Picnic

Yesterday was a day for me to get together with my online friends from a group that I belong too. I have to say that it was wonderful even though it rained late in the day. There was about 26 of us that got together and it was a lot of fun. The laughs that we all shared was wonderful as a lot of us had not met until yesterday but we were like a family.

The group does knitting, crocheting, quilting and sewing for charity and most of the items goes to various charities around Canada. The get together also gives all of us a chance to give the other people the items that we have made for their charity. I am now one of the coordinators as I collect the items for the troops and it was such a good feeling receiving all the items that I did yesterday.

This year an american charity also chose our charity as their June project so a lot of items were received from them.

These are the pictures of the items that I received for the troops yesterday.

This picture is of the items that I received from the American group.

Here is what I received from the group of women that were at the picnic from our Canadian charity.

Well now to finish up all the items that I have on the go for the troops so that I can sit and get them all ready to deliver.