Happy Groundhog Day!

Happy February 2nd, Mr. Groundhog is overshadowed this year due to some football game playing today. Okay, it was "Go Broncos!" at the Davis' house. Too bad....Anyway, on to other stuff ~



Larry is settling in to his art classes, doing well but tired. Not as easy as when we were young. He is surprised at how many of the classmates do not even attempt to do assignments. He has received comments from students like"How do you know all this stuff?" (when he helped them do something on the computer, he is not one to speak out or draw attention to himself), to one teacher seeing a caricature drawing he submitted, and stating aloud, "We have an illustrator in our midst!" ~ Insert cheeky grin, I'm proud of my honey! ~

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The last two weeks have been report cards for the little people in my life, and the grand field trip: lighthouse tour, mariner's museum, whale watching at lunch time, marine museum with touch tank and lastly, the actual tide pools at oceanside. The Kids L.O.V.E. all the exploring time, and the parents enjoy it all, too ~

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I wrote out my UFO list, or rather my PhD's. Either way I started writing, and thought I wouldn't reach the end. 

 

 Look at the little note pad sheets...

I needed four pages, LOL!

 I do not plan to finish all 24 on the list, But I wanted to have them all written down. Let me show the ones I'm hoping to complete. 

 

• Jeanette's Comfort Quilt. This has been a casualty of the unorganized sewing room, but I found it last week! It needs the backing, and then quilted and bound. from June 2012
  
  
• Temecula Quilt Company projects: two samplers from 2012, 
  
• and the cakestand from June 2013. All three are small. The cakestand is bigger, but the quilt on point is what stymied me.... 
•  half hexagon. First 110 inch quilt finished on my quiltframe, and the back had some big winkles in it. It was half ripped out, and then pushed into the cedar chest. That quilt WILL be finished and used.
   
• Larry's Blue Kitchen Sink. Another monster size quilt. I have trimmed it; we have even had this on the bed, but it is not bound! Must. do. this. 2011
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• Great Granny. I love this. Even the backing is ready. Hmm. 2012
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• Friendship Stars, and Bright Hopes. Both inspired by Tina of Seaside Stitches.  2013
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• Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street, 2013. This needs a border and backing purchased. This may have to wait a bit ~ 
• Checkerboard and Dresdens, using a prized Amy Butler jelly roll. Quite a bit of sewing to complete the top, but it will be special! 2011.
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• Wiggly Whimsy with Terry, 2013. Half assembled.
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• BOM 2014 with Quilt Doodle Doodles
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• Spools, 2013. need to find a backing, and quilt it!
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•  Tiny Pinwheels- I dnk why I called them windmills on my list. 2013
  
• One I do not have a picture of is another comfort quilt for my friend Sharon, made from her husband's shirts. She gave me them this past fall, 2013.
• These are pictures of other UFO's I'll just show you:
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• flower garden scraps in green ~ Block Lotto coin stacks ~  Pineapple blossom

 Well, that is a list! I must admit, I so enjoy the learning process of the sewing project, and I see many tutorials that I want to try, that sometimes some sewing is started just for the educational experience. Does that sound like an excuse? I feel it is only an excuse if I tried the steps and decided to not take it to a project. The pictures I've shown all moved to the project stage!

My list is for the UFO and NEWFO

Now, let's see what is possible!

 

"Jesus said, 'If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.'" Mark 9:23

"...with God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26