Woefully Behind

How do you guys sew so fast and get so much done? I'm always behind!

But I promise, I'm still in the game, and chugging along . . .

Here's the beginnings of my October challenge:I've decided to make a fairly large quilt for mine, so it might take me awhile, but since it's not a race . . . I'm making what I want to make, and enjoying the challenge and the process for what it is.

Here's my January challenge piece:
I don't have it quilted yet, and I'm toying with the notion of outlining the letters with black embroidery before I do, since they don't seem to stand out as well as I'd like from my made-fabric background. What do you think?

And I have a plan and a recipient in mind for my February challenge, but I simply haven't taken the time to start it yet.

I also have plenty of orphans to use in the March challenge, so I'll be getting busy on that one fairly soon.

I'll post more when I have more to show!

January Word Challenge

Thanks for taking up the January Challenge!  You all did a wonderful job with the words.  I am so impressed with the thought provoking words you chose and how they got into material.

I hope your word inpsires you this year, and that you feel a bit more creative, confident, beautiful and willing to stretch when you look at it hanging in your sewing room.

Albondigas to all!

glen:  LOL, still laughing at that silly word!

One Word Challenge

This year I'd like to break some more quilting "rules".

I'm going to "live dangerously" in 2012!!!

LOL!!!

Word for the Year

My first attempt at letter piecing reminds me of first grade Penmanship class. Lots of ink smudges...but I did it!

Apropos of, no?

One Word Project from Christine Sneddon on Vimeo.

http://vimeo.com/35413872

It's not a race, but.....



My word for the January challenge

 is more of a theme for my activities outside my quilting life,

although it could be applied to quilt making as well.

This is the year I'm going to tackle a large writing project,

a mid-life master's thesis

so I thought my word should reflect that.

I want to complete that thesis in 2012,

so my word reflects that goal:

a finish line.

Here it is, hanging like the banner at the finish line of a race,

in front of the window behind my sewing table.

The Amish quilts on top of the window

are calendar pages mounted on foam core. 

My Word Is ...

This is not my original word.

But the more I thought about my original word

the more associations I had -

until finally I settled on the word Trust.

It's a personal word & does not refer to trusting others

but rather trusting myself ...

my instincts, impulses, thoughts, decisions, etc.

Thanks for the challenge, Glen.

I know I can look at this for a year & it will have meaning!

January Challenge - glen

I got inspired today and took advantage of a clear calendar.  I only need to bind my word and it will be finished.

I still did not find the Word Play book so I had to wing it.  I wrote the letters out on a notebook page and then drew them so I could see how to  set up the fabric.  It was really easy that way.  I listed 6 of the "O" units and made them easily into a, b, d, and g.  I and L were simple.  But the S and N gave me fits.  Mostly because I made the N part and accidentally used it in the S and had no N when I went to sew that one...aughh!

And quilting was interesting.  I sewed my quilting gloves into one of the letters.  AND....I also sewed a pin cushion into one of the long side strips.  Now how do you figure I did that?????????

It is odd, I must admit.  But it is decidedly me.

And for my word, if you can't figure it out, I chose the albondigas.

Huh?  Well, it is not an English word, it is Spanish and it happens to be my favorite word.  Both the a's are short a's and the accent is on the "bon" part of the word.  Al-BON-di-gas!  Say it with feeling!

Ever since Spanish Class in High School I have loved this word so it has special meaning to me.  Oh, it actually means "meatballs".  But it makes me laugh.  And last year was a horrible, sad, terrible, icky year, and looking at this word always makes me laugh.

Silly, I know.  But I am hoping for a fun, silly, wonderful year in 2012.  And Albondigas just might get me there!

glen

January Pondering

I was lying in bed this morning pondering my word HOPE, when my eye landed on this block which I had put into my Dear Jane quilt. I thought of my early days in 4-H and could actually remember the pledge! "My head for clearer thinking, my heart for greater loyalty, my hands for larger service, and my health for better living..." Aha! I believe it makes sense to renew this pledge after sixty years. YESSS!!!

January Challenge Update

I want to know how you are doing!  I want to know that because I have been totally and unproductively searching for my Word Play book for two weeks now.  I was doing that big clean up in my room and I had the darn thing in my hands.  Now, it is nowhere to be found!

I even started a process post and had to stop because all I did was search through stacks of books for my precious book.

Doesn't that make you want to AUGHHHHHHH!

January Challenge

Oh Oh Oh......I am soooo scatterbrained these days.  Someone should have rattled my cage!

For January I want you to take one of those words you thought about  and make a small hanging for your sewing room/area/closet that will inspire you throughout the year.  Think about what you want to look at in June and in September and in December and hopefully into the next 50 years. 

Make it a positive word of course.

And size is up to you, but I am thinking something smallish like a 12 or 20 inch rectangle or square or circle even. 

What will inspire you, what will make you feel good about your work, what will make you happy?  What will keep you grounded?

Give this one to yourself, you deserve it.  And let it take you through the new year!

glen: