Blue Monday #9

The first picture is done in cross stitch. The scarf part of her outfit is in blue so I decided to save it for a Blue Monday post. This was made by my mother-in-law and it hangs in my sister-in-law's house. The one we stayed a on our recent trip down there. And yes the ones who had to evacuate during the Sylmar fires. Their house was spared fortunately. So I am sure this beautiful cross stitch is still hanging in its place of honor.
I made this cat more than 6 years ago. It was before we moved to this house and we have been here nearly 6 years. The squares were pieced together and then the cat pattern was cut out. I had more than I needed and used the rest for a mini quilt for my daughter. Maybe she will post a picture of that quilt on her blog. I will have to ask her to do that. The cat is sitting guard over my couch in the living room. My mother made that blue afghan for me. It is a knitted one. I don't do knitting.
At the other end of the couch sits this pillow from Susan Winget fabric. I made this pillow. I lined the top part with batting and did quilting along some of the lines in the design. Like around the house, the door, the windows and so on. The phrase on there is "Be Kind of Heart". It says that all the way around the edge.
I have had some one ask me what a knitting bowl is. Picture above is the knitting bowl that used to be my grandmothers. It is designed to hold your yarn and you current project so you can easily pick it up to work on when you are in your favorite chair, or where ever. I have the yarn for current crochet project in there right now. In the background you can see the linen press my father made. The fall decor on there is the one in my header in my other blog.

Happy Blue Monday!! Thank you to Smiling Sally for hosting Blue Monday for us! Go to the Blue Jay link on my side bar to see others participating in Blue Monday.