A New Start and Startling Discoveries

Happy Tuesday everyone.  I have to thank everyone for your wonderful comments on Adam Alone!  I loved reading each and every one of them.  And thank you too for the concern about the bat.  We did find it, but I'll get to that in a little bit.

I had a new start this week.  Yes, another Adam and Eve.  If I don't do them, I'll never get my wall done.

The Yellow House Sampler

Sheepish Designs

DMC Threads and 35 ct. Pearled Barley

This is going so fast!!  And I'm lovin' every minute of working on it!  I don't know why I'm on such a tear with the Sheepish Designs charts at the moment.  Probably because they've been in my stash for so long I figured it was time to stitch them before I stitch some of my newer A&E's.

I received in the mail this week a very special something from Cari:

I just love them.  It seems that Cari and I share the same affection addiction to Adam and Eve samplers.  It's alway great to have a partner in crime.  Thank you so much Cari!!

Nothing much more on the stitching front this week except that I also worked on another Mary Little pillow for a friend of mine.  After three attempts of stitching it - two times on the wrong sized fabric - I finally got it done!  AUGHHH!  I don't know what I was thinking.  It was one of those head smack moments.

I've gotten myself into a real cleaning mode lately.  We had numerous boxes on shelves in our workroom that I had been through before, but decided that since a year had gone by, and I hadn't used anything in those boxes, it was time for purging.  The Salvation Army got two van-loads of things.  But in the past, almost five years that we've lived here, I had never gotten around to my boxes and bins with quilt things in it.  I realized that I hadn't really quilted in seven years, and the urge has come back strong.  So I finally went through the boxes and what great things I found:

Seeds of Change

Kansas Troubles

Moda Fabrics

Hmmmmmm, I don't remember ordering this.

Are these fabrics not gorgeous?  I plan on taking the ole rotary cutter to these this afternoon.

Then I found this box of Moda fabric rolls.  If I remember right, it came with two wooden spoons, but I think I needed one at some point.  For the life of me I can't remember if they're for a certain quilt or not as I usually box the pattern in with the fabric.  Kim, do you have any idea what these fabrics could possibly be for (I'm relying on a Moda expert's opinion here - LOL)?

(Edited to add that Kim did identify the fabric and asked if the pattern was under all the fabric - but that, of course, would be too easy.  Well, Kim guessed the fabric correctly and yes, there was a pattern under all the fabric called Hearth and Home.  Thanks Kim!!!!!)

Next up is Old Glory from the book  Summer Weekend by Blackbird Designs.  I had originally thought that my first attempt at a BBD quilt would be Home Sweet Home, but since all the fabrics are wonderfully arranged for me (thanks to a BOM program I was in) I'm going to start with this one.  I'm not a hand quilter, but you have to start sometime.  This will be a great project to work on while DD is dancing.  For some reason I hate lugging cross stitch around.

Then another BOM from a shop.  I've been aching to work on a Civil War Quilt - I've seen a few on the blogs that I just love, but I'm trying to make 2010 the year of being frugal,  so since I've found one in my stash, the wallet is safe for a little bit!

And the next one (and last - I won't bore you with all of them now), is the Mother of all Samplers (kind of like Ann Medd, but in the quilting world):

The Jane Stickle quilt.  All 225 blocks of loveliness.  Another BOM, so all the fabrics are at hand!  This one is going to be a challenge.  But I figure that I have no deadline on this - it's only been sitting around here for the past seven years.  So now is the time.  It will probably take me seven years to complete, but what the heck!!  What thrills me more is that the software that goes along with the quilt is compatible with my old computer (which still runs if you talk nice to it), so I think I'm all set.

And now the bat  It was found and safely removed from the house.  It showed up at 3:45 Saturday morning in the guest room where I had fallen asleep reading.  Luckily I had pulled the covers down and gotten under them when I was reading.  Because when I heard that thing, those covers flew over my head!!!  UGH!!!  At one point I reached out and turned the reading lamp on and saw it on the floor, but was afraid to move.  I didn't want to call anyone either for fear that it would fly out of the room when the door was opened.  I finally got the nerve to high-tail it out of the the room, shoved a towel under the door and wake up DH.  We called a Bat Removal service who was there an hour later, walked into the room (the bat was hanging from the window treatment) shined a light on it and removed it with tongs.  Humanely, by the way.  He takes them back to his shop, makes sure they're okay and then releases them.  So all's well that ends well.  But what a fright!!

Well, that's all the fun for me this week.  Tomorrow I'm finally having the sinus lift and implant done.  I'm not looking forward to this at all.  I guess I'm suppose to rest for a few days after this procedure to prevent excessive bleeding being surgery in the head (bloody noses, etc), so I'm thinking that this just may be a good excuse to sit and stitch.  What do you think?

Have a wonderful week and thank you again for all your wonderful comments.