Let's Book It - December 2014 Winner

It was a lovely display of projects for our last month in 2014 and thank you ladies for your participation.

   

The winner of the last Quilt Barn Pin with the Tumbling Blocks Charm is:

#1 Sheila

I will be in contact with her for mailing.  I hope you are getting your January projects dusted off.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

Slow Sunday Stitching - 1/4/15

I will be joining Kathy today with some leasure time stitching.  There isn't a lot of cross stitch left to finish. Then the backstitching and some couch stitching for the details.  I need to audition fabrics for framing.  This could be my first finish for 2015.

Won't you come and join us?
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

Simplicity - 2015

Around October 2014, I decided that I needed to simplify a lot of things in my life.  Then I started to see many other bloggers turning to this same feeling.  I want to keep my quilting and creativity - Simple - and allow myself to enjoy it more.  So for 2015 there are no long term goals, or lists, or accountings, or stressing.  I am limiting my participation in swaps and hops and QALs - I am keeping it simple.

I have found great pleasure in returning to those treasures that got 'shelved' and forgotten.  I will take my time in browsing them to find that project that will fullfill that simplicity for the month or however long it takes to complete.

So for my January Let's Book It, I chose a print out that has hung on my wall for so many months.  It's 'Ground Cover' by Me & My Sister and uses a layer cake.  A simple pattern with simple fabric (well pretty fabric) and I may even take the time to hand quilt this one.

I do love playing in my scraps and find it very relaxing.  And there is always an abundance of them!  But I am keeping my projects with simple in mind.

Do you get these freebies in the mail? (along with the hype to subscribe to the magazine).  I have quite a few of them.  Using RSC15 to work each month on these will make it much simpler to do.

I have in progress from 2014 - Country Corners, Sew Sweet Simplicity, and my OMG.  And I do like to participate in Hands2Help and 100 Quilts for Kids.  I have some flimsies that need quilting and I will use those for these wonderful charities.

And there is my year - simply,
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

Let's Book It - 2015

Yes, there will be Let's Book It this year.  So go browse those book shelves (you can dust them while you're there), pull a few books, magazines, patterns...........  Rediscover those hidden treasures.

We all have those books that probably the cover is what caught our eye.  Or maybe it was a new techniques you wanted to try.

Or maybe it was something you saw on the internet, copied and stored away.

I'll be honest with you all - yup - all projects taken off the net and never used.  I went thru these 6 notebooks and now I am comfidently down to just 2.  I felt like I had to save everything when I started out - silly.  80% of the paper will be re-cycle print (paper piecing gold).  Some projects I set aside to see if students might like.

Or those magazines that are just piling up.  I have to admit - these are the only magazines I have and they were give to me (borrowed) as I plan on using them somewhere during the year for Book It.

Those patterns that called...................

and more patterns that called.  And yes, lets make it any fiber play.  Chrochet, knitting, bag making, clothing, cross stitch, embroidery - we quilters do more than just quilt.   And if you select a project that will take some time to complete, please feel free to use it over the months - just show us your progress.  Yes, that is some of my quilt books piled there.  As part of my 'slow December', I revisited my books and patterns and there was some purging done.

This year's Charm Pin will be this really cute antique sewing machine - love it!  And a whole new (and some are really new to the distributor) set of charms. An end of the month linky is held for show off (and you don't have to have a finish, so relax)  and to pick a winner of the pin/charm.

So pull those treasures, pick a project, and join us.

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon