Sunday, February 8, 2015

It's been a long time baby.... and now I am percolating!

It's been a long time baby....

It really has been a long time when it has come to blogging.
After our wonderful family trip last fall things have gotten terribly hectic and I have lacked the energy to do much...

My never ending computer problems, working 3 days a week and my fibromyalgia have whacked me out. Have you ever just not had the energy to think?

I think I just gave up for awhile.

But it is time to pick up my socks and soldier on.

So what is the plan this year.

Work on some projects that have been sitting around. I have decided that work in progress- WIP or UFO's  make me feel guilty.  No more! They are now pieces that are percolating.  You know the old coffee makers that went on the stove. Sort of like that my pieces are started and put in the maker and need to bubble and boil for awhile till they are done.

There are my own Percolating Projects...

Traditional Quilting Projects


  • Dear Jane  Need to take an inventory or what I have made- making the blocks - hand piecing ?/? done
  • Grandma's Flower Garden ? Till I get bored with the blocks- making the blocks - hand piecing
  • Bible Blocks Queen- making the blocks - machine piecing 7/? done
  • Red and White and Black all Over ? until I am happy with the blocks - making the blocks - machine piecing
  • Steve and Leah's Wedding Quilt Oversize Queen- making the blocks machine piecing 6/80 done
  • William Goes Fishing Lap Size- quilting machine 
  • Turtle Party  Queen- basted and waiting
  • Go the Twist Right - finished top. Next layer and baste
  • Go the Twist Wrong - finished the top. Next layer and baste
  • Quilt block challenge Twin - Hand Quilting
  • Quilt block challenge small - Need to layer and baste. 
  • Spiral Table Runner. Cut out strips. 


None of these projects are pressing so I fit them in as I have time.

  AND 

Fibre Art in Progress

  • "Circles Squared"
  • "Forrest Fire" 
  • "Life on the Farm" 
  • " Red and White and Black all Over" 


AND

Fabrigos 

  • Al's Challenge - Concrete and Grass Lands 
  • Clothing Challenge
  • Aids Awareness Block  
AND



Misc Sewing

  • Bears for Babys
  • Book cover for Art Journal for Fabrigos
  • Book cover for Art Journal for my own projects
  • Some clothing projects to be rediscovered in the abyss of the sewing room. 
AND

then there is my photo projects



  • History of my family... currently scanning photos with my mom so we can get the stories down. 
  • History of my husbands family
  • Making on line photo books out of my pictures. All the ones I took in Europe last fall and backwards
  • Finishing the scrap books I started... 
  • Scan the other family history
  • Develop my photo shop skills and
  • Develop my camera taking skills. 


Sound like a tall order...

Then there is the home repair projects


  • Re do the main floor by Christmas 2012
  • Go through each room and re evaluate what is in it and organize. 



I need baby steps... not look at the grand picture so much but move forward and work on it a bit by bit.

I plan to put  a progress page on each of the above. Just to give accountability to myself.

A dull post but it is down in writing. so here goes to 2015 and beyond.

Cheers

Jo

Not an exciting post ... no pictures