Whatcha Working on Wednesday

I missed it last week, but I am back today with

Whatcha Working on Wednesday.

Leslie at My Country Home is our wonderful host.

Thank you Leslie for hosting.

I am still working on A Christmas Wish BOM.

This is the fourth one.

I have decided I am not going to get them done for this year.

So I will just keep working along on them in 2010 and

finish them for next year.

Currently I am stitching on the HOPE block.

It is almost finished.

I sometimes wonder where others do their stitching.

I do my cross stitching at this table.

I have a good light to shine on my work and

there is more light coming from above too.

I don't usually carry my cross stitch around with me.

But I do carry my other stitching like the BOM

in the first picture.

I frequently work on those in the car, during lunch at work,

and worked on it during a concert the other day.

I did have this sewing machine in the living room,

but it is now too cold to sew in there.

The sewing room is in transformation right now.

So I moved it to the other side of the table

from where I cross stitch.

Works quite well for right now.

My birthday present was getting the materials needed

to start putting up the shelves in the sewing room closet.

The ones on the left there will hang on the right side

of the closet.

Those two boards go above the shelf I already have.

I need to spray paint them white,

but it has been too cold and damp to do that these days.

Waiting for a warmer dry day.

We also got that step stool there.

It will be stored next to the dresser when not in use.

I hope to start putting them up this weekend if not before.

I have received a gift card from The Container Store

for my birthday also.

That means getting more shelves. Yippee!

I know getting shelves is not a glamorous gift,

but that is what I wanted. :-)

Here is a peek at something I am working on.

Some of you may be able to figure out what it is.
Here is where I am on my current cross stitch project.
I did some more green. And you can barely see some
white I did at the top of the pink hearts which are
also hard to see.
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So what have you been working on lately?
Happy Wednesday!
~Linnea~

Today is My Day!!

Today is my day. My birthday that is! Click here for more as I did a post about it on my main blog. Happy day to you!

~Linnea

Get R Done Friday!

I can't believe it is Friday already!

The week has flown by.

I have spent most of it being very tired.

But I do have some finishes to share.

First I want to thank

ClassyChassy at Expressly Corgi

for hosting for us.

I finished this card I had been working on last week.

Then I also finished this card this week.
It was for a couple at work who had gotten married
the week before Thanksgiving.
They also brought their baby.
It was my first time to see her.
She was wearing the dress I made for her too!
It is always cool to see the babies wearing the outfits I made
for them.
Several of the co-workers have brought their babies to work
in the outfits I made.
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That bookcase I am working on clearing out.
Not done yet, but I am getting there.
Takes time to figure out where to put everything.

I got that skirt hanger to hang my bags of strips.

They are hanging in the closet next to the dresser where

I can find them.

So what have you gotten done?

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Happy Friday!

~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

Today is Whatcha Working on Wednesday.

Leslie's is our wonderful host.

You can find her at My Country Home.

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I continue to work on my sewing room

to get it organized and to get it ready for more painting.

See this messy bookcase.

Well, it is a lot emptier now.

I am slowly getting things out of there

and either finding other places for it or packing in

boxes for right now.

My brother has cut me a couple of shelves to

add to the closet.

I want to paint them white before I put them up.

I hope to get that done soon.

This is my latest update on my project

for the stitch along blog.

I now have some green in there with the pink.

On my main blog I posted about going to BevMo.

We also went to JoAnn's Fabrics.

The DMC floss was on sale so I got 30

more skeins.

30 was the limit.

That left me with a mess to sort and to wind on to

bobbins. I have finished that project already!

I showed a start on my last post on this card I am making.

Here is where I am.

Oh wait! I did more!
Here is another picture!
I have got to finish this card tonight.
Need to take it to work tomorrow,
along with something to contribute to the potluck.
A therapist and a nurse got married.
So we are celebrating their union.
Can you tell those are going to be two
blue lovebirds on the card?
What are you working on?
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~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

Wednesday is here already!

And tomorrow is Thanksgiving!

Fortunately I am not hosting this year.

My dining room and living room are still messy

as I try to organize my sewing room.

Today I am linking up with Leslie at My Country Home.

Thanks Leslie for hosting!!

Something I did in that direction was

go through one of my boxes of fabric scraps.

And I emptied it too!

I have a Little Quilts book that suggests

cutting fabric into strips of different sizes.

That is a good thing to do with scraps that I like.

Above I have 1" and 1 1/4" strips.

Then 1 1/2" and 1 3/4".

And 2" or larger.
I am storing them in those large 2.5 gallon ziplock bags.
I still need to get one of those skirt hangers
that holds about 5 skirts or so.
I will clip the bags onto that and hang it in my sewing closet
next to the dresser.
Here I am preparing to cut more strips.

I also cut some into bean bag size.

I make those for work.

If the pieces were big enough to be almost fat quarter size,

or an 1/8 or bigger,

then I left it whole.

I will later organize those by color after

I finish going through my other boxes of scrap fabrics.

What did I do with the empty box?

I used it to start emptying the bookcase that I need to remove

from the sewing room so I can paint the rest of the room.

I keep moving along on this project in baby steps.

I guess that is better than no progress at all.

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I have also been doing cross stitch.

More progress on my Stitch Along project.

I made this card for a co-worker who is leaving

our facility for a different facility closer to where she will

be living.

A birthday card in the works.

And this one will be a wedding congrats card.

I am also still working on my

A Christmas Wish BOM.

The numbers as to how many I have done keep changing

in my side bar on the right.

Right now I am working a JOY block.

I do those during my lunch breaks at work.

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Happy Wednesday!

Happy Thanksgiving!

~Linnea~

Get R Done Friday!-The Closet

I am joining ClassyChassy over at

Expressly Corgi

for Get R Done Friday!

Go on over an see who else has gotten

something done this week.

I have been working on this closet.

I finally finished painting it!

The rest of the room still needs to be painted.

You can see the white walls outside the closet there.

Then I took this highboy dresser that has been hanging out

in the living room and put it in the closet.
Then I started going through some of these
containers and moving some of the stuff
into the drawers.
This is how far I have gotten.
The two top drawers are still empty.
I have yarn stored in the bottom drawer.
Then crochet cotton in the next.
Third drawer up has embroidery hoops
and other things related to stitching.
I have unfinished projects in the third drawer from the top.
And I am still deciding what to use the two top ones for.
I also want to add two more shelves above the one that
is already there to use that empty space up there.
The long wall on the right will have shelves from
The Container Store.
I hope to start getting those soon.
Then on the long wall on the left
I will use for hooks and things
to hang flat things on the wall.
I look forward to the day when I finally have it all organized.
I sometimes wonder if I will ever get there.
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Happy Friday!
What did you get done this week?
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~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

I am very late posting for

Whatcha Working on Wednesday.

But I was in a hurry to get to work this morning.

Better late than never!!

Leslie at My Country Home is our lovely host.

This is my progress picture for the

Stitch Along Blog.

Won't be long now and I will have the whole

pink area done.

It will be cool to move on to other colors.

I am also getting back to painting the closet in

the sewing room.

I had started this project during the

Procrastinator's Challenge

in October.

But our trip and the fumes from the paint

slowed me down.

This is the shade of yellow that I have used

in the sewing room.

But I have not painted the entire room yet.

To many things in the way.

Getting the closet done will help.

This is part of the master bedroom closet.

That is where I store a lot of craft items.

I want most of my craft things to

be in the sewing room.

Not in our bedroom.

This highboy dresser that is sitting in the living room

will go in the closet.

Then I get to decide what I am going to store in there.

This mess is in the living room still.

Stuff I took out of the closet in order to paint it!

I have a major organizing job ahead of me.

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So, what are you working on?

And have a great day!

~Linnea~

Get R Done Friday! More Sewing with Niece

Whoo Hoo!

It is Friday again!

Time for Get R Done with ClassyChassy

at Expressly Corgi.

Feel free to join us with your Get R Done projects.

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I have been sewing with my niece again this week.

I am teaching her to sew.

Here she is using my mother's featherweight.

I helped her sew the pockets on.

This one too!

It is a reversible apron.

While she was sewing, I worked on this block.

I finished it too!

Making progress!

Here she is sewing the two sides of the apron together.

Turning it right side out and pressing the edges.

Ta Da!! Side one.

And side two!

And yes that is a loom to the the left there.

And on the windowsill are two Amish

dolls I had painted for my mother one year.

This room was once my bedroom.

Now it is my mother's sewing room.

Finished this anniversary card this morning.

The inside.

Helmi has hopped into my bag again.

She likes traveling with us.

We are packed at ready to head out the door.

Will mail the card on the way.

Have a great week end folks!!

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What is your Get R Done?

~Linnea~