New year, New Project

I've been a bit absent lately. My husband was home for the holiday and, of course, there were the holidays. But, I'm baa-ack.

I've made no, well very little, progress on my skirt. I just kind of ran out of skirt steam. It's still hanging out about 2/3 done. I'll get back to it, maybe later this weekend. We'll see.

But first I want to show you my new project. When my husband was home we mentioned he wanted to take one of my quilts back with him to hang on his apartment wall. I gave him a choice of the blue floral or the "snake" quilt - and he declined both. So he then requested I make him a new one. I think he feels a little bad about the yard sale comment. Today was my Friday off, so after doing some work from home, doing some laundry, cleaning out the entire office files and going to the grocery store, I made it to JoAnn's for fabric. I want to make the Oh, Fransson! wonky 9 patch lattice. So I needed 9 "scrap" fabrics and a solid neutral. So, without further ado, here are my fabrics. They are laying on the brown neutral. I hope to get them cut and pieced tomorrow. I should have time since I did most of my busy stuff today.

One of the things we did while the husband unit was home, was go back to Ikea. I wanted another table for my sewing area. It was just too cramped and I didn't like shoving the serger and sewing machine around to use them. I have the room, so why not use it, right? Much better, don't you think? If you look closely you'll see that I took this picture while embroidering. This: Cute, isn't it. It was on a flour sack towel and in the end I turned it into an apron. Why not?

We also took a drive back down to Alexandria for dinner. It was cold! And windy. But I pause long enough for a couple of pictures of the wharf. Yes, that's ice in the foreground. And see the lights on the sailboat mast?

I hope you all had a nice holiday season and haven't broken your New Year's resolutions, yet.