First Sock

This is how far I've gotten so far on the sock - not sure I'm feeling the love right now.

Knitting

Lately I've been obsessed with knitting. As a result knitting needles have been found from my "old stash" and accumulated and acquired recently. To that end I had put the short and small stuff in my old "notions box" and the long needles in an old freezer wrap box. Obviously I needed a knitting/crochet needle case. This is what I came up with - I still need a closure (thinking ribbon and beads like I do with my folios). I'm gonna work with it for a while, then make a gift or two once I tweak what I did. The fabric is some upholsery samples I was given - I think it might be a little heavy for all the layers - may not use it for the pockets in future ones. The possibilities are endless - that's for sure!

Elden's Quilt

Elden wanted a SpongeBob Squarepants quilt for xmas. I couldn't find focus fabric locally so I ordered some blocks on Ebay. They were ok, but not fussy cut like I would have done. He didn't seem to mind though. I forgot to take a pic of the back. it's Navy flannel, with cars and street signs - very cool and he has two sides for variety.

Melissa and Dave's Quilt

This was xmas gift for Melissa and Dave. They have a quilt that I made for them years ago which is in dire need of repair so this is a replacement. I used some of almost all the batiks I have in my stash for the four patches, then alternated them with blending blocks. They have a combination of cream and robin's egg blue walls - so it goes quite well.

Quilt top .... ready to build ...

Just finished this quilt top - it's a gift for a friend that is building a colonial house. Not sure when the house project will be done (as it's gone on forever) but this will be built and waiting for that day!

The middle is blocks from Mr. B's Benartex club that I had (all reproduction lines). It came out kind of cute!

Not totally sure blogging is for me ...

since so much time goes by between posts. Some people challenge themselves to post daily, weekly, a special thing on a certain day of the week and manage to do it. I just don't see that being me - now mind you - it's not that I don't have the time - I'm on the computer enough, that's for sure - I just don't think my projects, or me for that matter is all that interesting. I certainly do admire the people who write the blogs I read - and it's a long list.

So ... that being said, I'm gonna keep the blog, but will probably just post finished projects and other stuff "whenever". Sort of a crafty chronical - maybe I'll even rename it - who knows? I think I'm even gonna change the header of this blog ....uh oh - getting inspired (for the moment anyway!).

Here's pics of a couple of binders I made out of upholstery fabric - these will be donated to the craft fair at my friend's church - but I think I'm gonna make more for gifts - they came out really good. I looked for patterns on the net but ended up drawing one up myself by looking at one I've had for years. I'm sure there is a pattern similar out there though.

It's been a while - yet again ....

this time has been longer than ever since I started blogging. Guess it's not quite in my blood yet or something. Things at the Mucci residence have been busy - I haven't been doing much in the way of quilting, but the days tick away and I am busy - just can't say what I've been doing - it's all a blur.

One thing is that computer time is kind of limited since I've taken it out of the living room. It's hard to actually watch a show, spend quality time with Donnie and peck away at the computer all at the same time. So... I picked up knitting to watch evening TV with and it's much easier to view TV and have a conversation. Pics at 11.

Also have been reading - which is something I haven't done much of - guess I'm making up for it now. Here's a pic of Jet and Donnie from the car show we went to last Sunday. The edited version didn't upload - not sure why.