I've been doing a lot of knitting lately. Go figure - it's hot and humid and I'm knitting. :rolleyes:

I'm also working on finishing up a needlepoint piece that I set aside some time before I was married. :o I only have to fill in some background stuff and then block it.

I did an Alpha Gam armorial bearing years ago, no idea where it is.
Maybe after we move and get settled, I'll start another one.

Maybe it will be ready when/if GTau moves into their new house Fall 2009 (if approved).;)

i am going to make my old TBS shirts into a quilt. I'm about 85% sure i have enough shirts to make a nice sized quilt. If not, i will sprinkle in a school shirt here or there or maybe an old band camp t-shirt... yes, i am a 28 year old woman and i said band camp t-shirt!

I have been thinking about doing it for a while but never actually started. This summer it will happen so this fall I'll have a cozy quilt to nap upon.

aah! the band camp tshirt! i still sleep in mines from high school and my fiances from college. that is such a good idea to put them in a quilt! they are getting a bit older now, that would keep them in one piece and color coordinated! thanks for the idea!

i'm still hoping that one of these days, i'll finish the crossstitch pattern i've been working on intermittently for...five years now? maybe? that thing has travelled the world with me. it's an assortment of flowers, quite pretty. i keep toying with the idea of finding a phi psi pattern and making a pillow or something for my brother (though that sounds a bit silly, i mean what's a 20 year old boy going to do with a pillow? :P) anyone have suggestions for what i could make it into? im not talented enough to make my own, so if there's a free site to convert images to xstich patterns, that'd be dandy too :)

You probably shocked the socks off of her! I can see that poor woman now, rubbing her hands with glee, hoping that you add yet another GLO to your garden!

One of my more mathematical quilting buddies sent me this. Look closely.

http://www.theiff.org/reef/index.html

Yesterday 4 of us started new projects. I began that huge cross stitch vegetable wreath and I got our 3 littlest girls started on projects--1 on a pansy rug, 1 on a needlepoint sunflower, and 1 on a cross stitch butterfly. I hope they'll use these skills for relaxation in the future!

We were at Michael's yesterday and :eek:, they had already put up the fall florals and were getting ready to set out the Halloween aisles! They said they'd even have a bit of Christmas stuff in a couple of weeks. The Halloween items weren't even the craft stuff that you have to work on ahead of time, they were just decorations!

The Michael's near me already has some Christmas projects out. I wanted to just sit down in the aisle and cry!

What is up with that?

I can sort of imagine why with school starting earlier and earlier that Michaels might want to make sure they have anything back-to-school fall related up by the end of the month because teachers will go back for pre-planning so early. (Don't we all pretend that school still starts in the fall even though it's really August?)

But why in the world would they be looking all the way to Halloween and Christmas? Do think they have to start getting people in the mood with fall and winter decor so that they'll be ready to buy the fall and winter crafts come September or October and still have a shot at finishing them? I wonder what the peak selling season of Christmas themed needlework actually is.

I've been meaning to tell you that I think your signature should go in the Signature Hall of Fame! I'm thinking of calling the process "R" this year, and letting the chips fall where they may!

Thank you so much!

I like the idea of using "R" for typing expediency.

1. Still handcouching.
2. Started distributing the sections to the new quilt. (thistle plaid design).We make our quilts via the lapquilting technique ala Georgia Bonesteel. So far we have raised $1000 in raffle tix for the Kappa Midnight Garden quilt we just finished (drawing next April).
3. Am auditioning stash-fabric for letter shirts for D and D's hs buddy who is a KD at William & Mary. I have no cricket, shell, grasshopper fabric but I DO have shamrocks and my D said the the KDs at her school and her friend's school are big into shamrocks. Is that a chapter thing? I didn't see any reference to it on the KD HQ website.
4. SHOULD be working on a xstitch of my D's college crest but am not.
5. Just received a commission to do a tshirt quilt for a girl who just graduated hs and is headed off to college. She is a swimmer and a rower so I'm thinking water fabric for the sashing.

In terms of the Christmas stuff already being displayed at craft and fabric stores... They need to provide enough lead time to chronic dawdlers and owners of too many UFOs to actually get a Christmas project done in time for the holidays.

I'm finishing my two knitting projects this summer. One is a purse I've been doing in the round, and it is multistranded. The other is a yoga mat bag as a gift. Once those are finished I'm going to be making some net/mesh bags out of cotton for when we go to the grocery store and farmers market.

I also need to do something about my curtains, they hit the floor, which is fine except I have furniture that sits under one half of the sill. I might cut them, and frankenstein a balloon shade out of the cut pieces, since it is a three part window.