Handiwork

I have two hand-craft projects I'm working on right now.

I have big plans to crochet Tessa a doll before the baby comes...but I'm not a skilled crochet-er so I am starting small. Look at this excellent carrot I crocheted. Can anyone think of a use for a carrot made of yarn?



I am now in the middle of crocheting a mouse...then I'll move up to a cute pig.

But I am taking a break from that to work on some quilt blocks I'm supposed to have done months ago for a group of quilters from my church...I'm incredibly embarrassed it has taken me this long - but now that I've started I'm pretty excited about it.


I'm doing "English Paper Piecing" which I can do almost entirely whilst laying down. Super super fun.

A Most Embarrassing Brag

I finished a quilt.



I'm not proud of myself.

I started it in 2006.

I actually gave it to my Mother-In-Law last year for Christmas, unfinished.

I took it home to finish it.

And it took me all year.

Talk about an anti-climatic gift.

Quilt Captain

Look what I did -

I was an official "Quilt Captain" as part of a Stake Relief Society service project. A title which I brandished with only slightly less pride than that of "Wife and Mother."

And of course I must acknowledge those at the activity who tied the quilt very energetically!

(If you are wondering the quilt pattern is called "Scrappy Diamonds" and was in the April/May 2008 issue of "For the Love of Quilting"...and it is really fast and easy)

Look what I made