REDnesday in the Sewing Room

Time for REDnesday again.

This time I am in my sewing room.

First I would like to thank Sue at 

It's A Very Cherry World! 

for hosting every week. 

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On to what is happening in my sewing room.

I have posted previously about teaching my niece to sew.

Well, this past weekend, I was teaching my OTHER niece to sew.

She wanted to spend some one on one time with me as well.
(I have several nieces, but two live close enough for me to spend time with them now and then)

We didn't know what we were going to do at first, but I did have her practice sewing on fabric scraps to get used to the machine. Sewing in straight lines, then sewing curved lines, how to thread the machine, how change thread color(involves the bobbin when changing colors) and how to rewind the bobbin when we run out of bobbin thread.

I think she is doing something with the bobbin is this picture. 

Not very many REDS this time, but there is the pin cushion again.

That fleece fabric is what she picked out for her project.

RED is one of the colors included in the design.

I am showing her how tell when the bobbin is full.

Bits and pieces of RED. 

There is Helmi watching all that is going on at the machine.

I am wearing PINK, does that count? Maybe?

My niece is 11 1/2 years old. This is her first time to do some sewing.

I started when I was 9 when I was in 4-H.

Working on a pocket.

There is Helmi making sure we keep order in the sewing room.

Putting the pocket on!

Still putting on the pocket.

She reminds me of me when I was young and sewing. :-)

When she wasn't needing me, I worked on this.

RED base on the coffee cup I am using as a pencil holder.

Some RED in the cross stitch. Actually it is a very dark pink.

But I say it counts!

A closer view of my picture.

It is done and my niece models it.

It is a snuggie. But on the pattern it is called a Comfy Blanket.

There is a foot pocket as well.

A great way to keep your feet warm.

Demonstrating how the pocket works.

The foot pocket is at the bottom on the underside so you can slip your feet into them when they are cold.

Ta Da! The comfy blanket has arms/sleeves.

Great for holding a book or a cup of coffee or tea and still stay covered up.

I am definitely going to make one for me!

See all the RED peace symbols on the fabric.

This is the latest update that I put on the Stitch Along Blog I am part of this year.

The very dark pink in the flowers looks RED.

Happy REDnesday everyone!

~Linnea~

REDnesday and Whatcha Working on Wednesday

Time for Wednesday stuff. Been awhile since I did a post on this blog.

I am kind of frustrated with it at the moment. I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the blogger template I had switched too. Now that I got rid of that, I have now lost my 3 column format. I can't remember how to do that. Can anyone lead me in the right direction to fix that again? If so, thank you very much.

On my other blog, comments are disappearing. I had seen them because of moderation. But some would not publish and now some have plain disappeared. I don't know if I am missing comments now.

Is there anyone else out there having these kinds of issues?

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Today is Whatcha Working on Wednesday with Leslie at My Country Home

and I am going to link in with Sue at

It's A Very Cherry World for REDnesday as well.

I still do some cross stitch here and there.

 

This is a birthday card I finished for a co-worker in June.

Finally we went back to The Container Store recently.

We order online and then go pick it up.

They put our stuff in these neat RED reusable bags.

You can also see the additional shelves we bought.

I start putting them up. Here the bottom shelf is the first of the three I added.

Then another shelf with stuff on it.

and the last shelf before I started putting stuff on it.

Now I can put magazine holders on the floor under the shelf and they fit perfectly there.

Maximizing my space!

This is the lastest of my other cross stitch project for the stitch along blog.

Member of the RED family there.

This last weekend and on Monday I get this bookcase totally emptied out.

See my bear with the RED feet and paws?

I am noticing other RED's in the picture too.

Can you spot them?

Now it is on it's side. Ready to head out the door and on to my husband's truck.

Yay! The bookcase is gone.

It went to a new home at our church in the pastor's office.

He said he needed more space to corral his books and things.

We took that over there on Monday evening.

Now my niece is planning on coming over this coming weekend and help

me set up the two tables I bought and do some organizing so I can

get back to sewing more easily.

My niece is anxious to sew with me again.

I am anxious to be decluttered in the sewing room.

So....What have you been working on???

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~Linnea~

Whatcha Working onWednesday!

I can see it has been over a month since I last posted here. I keep hoping I would post something,but sometimes I just find myself too tired to do anything.

My energy level is starting to pick up in the evenings now.

Maybe the longer daylight hours help.

I do have a few things to show you,

but first I want to thank Leslie at My Country Home who continues to do a great job

hosting these meme.

I made this card for a physical therapy assistant student

who was doing her internship with our rehab department.

She was thrilled to get the handmade card.

The above is the picture I shared on the Stitchalong Blog I belong too.

This project is going very slowly. I think the

18-count size is slowing me down. Harder to work on the smaller size.

The other day I did some more work in my sewing closet.

Decided to label my boxes with my labeler.

I think it looks so much better than the green cards I still have on some

of them.

Found 3 more pieces of fabric to iron and add to this stack!

These shoe box size storage boxes I was using in the other closet.

I reorganized those and labeled them as well.

This is another cross stitch project I am working on.

I have made some progress on this one since I last posted a picture of it.

And just this morning before work,

I made this card for a co-worker whose birthday

is today.

Two more co-worker birthdays are

coming up this next week.

Gotta get busy and make two more cards as well

as a 50th anniversary card I want to make.

So, that is where I am for now.

What have you been working on these days?

~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

Time for Whatcha Working on Wednesday.
Thank you to Leslie at My Country Home
for hosting each week.

I am using the larger font because I am finding it hard to read the normal font. Hope it helps for some you who also have a hard time.

So what have I been up besides being sick?

More on my sick stuff on my main blog if you want to find out more.

Last week I posted that I had painted the shelves for the sewing closet. Well, guess what I am posting about this week?

Yep, they are in the closet now. Yippee!

See? I, I mean B-Daddy, put up the shelves where I wanted them.

The spacing is strange looking, but that is how I wanted the spacing to be to accommodate my stuff.

I have the shelves partially organized here. I am still not finished with putting things away. But it is a start. Since I am staying home sick on Wednesday. I am hoping that I am starting to feel like doing something around the house. Today I did load the dishwasher and ran that. Not much of anything else though. Now that I am on antibiotics perhaps some of my energy will come back.

I did manage to do some stitching on my teddy bear picture, not a lot, but I am nearly done with the green leaves. Only have a little more to do on that part. Here is the picture.

That is all I have for this week. I hope to have more to show you for next week. I am really hoping to have my energy level get better so that I feel like tackling some of my projects.

I have too many to do and not enough energy or time.

Hope you all have a good Wednesday.

~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

I have fallen way behind in posting these days.

More on that in my main blog. But here I want to show you a few

things that I have been up to.

Besides working a lot and being very tired.

Thank you to Leslie at My Country Home for hosting

every Wednesday.

I have also slowed down on my sewing and crafting.

Hoping to get in the mood to tackle my projects again

with gusto. Hope it happens soon too.

I have so much to do!

We were able to get to The Container Store and

get 3 more rows of shelves.

Here they are up with another row of books added up there.

There! I added more stuff to the new shelves!

Looking pretty good so far.

Here is a close up of the pattern boxes.

This may not be their final resting place.

But I needed to empty the bookcase they are sitting on.

No, the bookcase is not empty yet.

I am getting there though.

I covered these boxes is gift wrap and made the labels.

I think it is prettier than the boxes that way.

I may somehow cover that Bee Sweetees box too.

Right now it is holding some of my card making supplies.

This is the update on my Stitch Along project week before last.

Did not do an update this week.

That is what I mean about getting back to my projects.

I did make more progress on this one though compared

to the last time I posted.

Hope all is well with everyone.

Happy Wednesday!

~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

It is that time again. I know I have not been posting as much lately on either of my blogs. I hope to get back to that more often now. But I have been busy with different things and work. The dark days make me tired early. But wanted to get this posted anyway.

Thank you to Leslie at My Country Home for being the ever gracious host for Whatcha Working on Wednesday. So let's see....what I have I been working on.....

My niece stayed with us last weekend to finish her project. Here it is all finished. She had broken her wrist after the last time we were together. So this time I had to help her finish sewing the pillows closed. Her name is Elyssa and her sister is Annika. Annika does not know yet what the project is. The girls share a room and these pillows will be on their beds. I think Elyssa did a great job sewing these together. Elyssa has already picked out the next project, but we will wait until she can cut the fabric out herself since it is her project.

B-Daddy and I finally got this shelf hung up. Well, B-Daddy did most of it. I just helped hold it in place. We have had this since the middle of November. I am glad to have it up. We hung it in the laundry room which is where we come and go. This shelf with the hooks comes in very handy as a place to hang our jacket. Before we were draping them whereever. We place our lunch boxes on top of the shelf. Works great. We got this shelf at IKEA. We had to hang it high enough so that a tall person would not hit their head.

I have a start on this piece I was preparing last week. Not much of a start, but a start. I did not post a picture on the stitchalong blog I am a part of. Hope to do one this weekend though. I have Saturday off and should be able to get to some projects that day. I hope so anyway.

So, what are you working on?

~Linnea~

Whatcha Working on Wednesday

Here it is Wednesday again and time for

Whatcha Working on Wednesday.

Thank you to Leslie at

My Country Home for being the gracious host.

So what have I been up to lately?

Not posting much that is for sure.

But I do have some projects in the works.

I have written about teaching my niece to sew.

Well, she was over here New Year's weekend to

work on a new project.

Here she is pinning down the pattern pieces.

A close up of one of the fabrics.

It is a flannel.

And another of the other fabric she chose.

And of course Helmi had to get in on the act.

She likes to check out what us girls are up to.

And get in the middle of it all.

Can't blame her though because

she doesn't want to miss out on the fun.

Then my niece came to spend the weekend with us last weekend.

Now comes the sewing part.

Oh, and look, there is Helmi barging in again.

Meanwhile I did some work on these.

Both my current picture for the Stitch Along Blog

and started gridding for another project I am starting.

Helmi watches while my niece turns her

project right side out.

Some of her finished letters.

Had you figured out by now that she was making letters?

Then it was time to stuff them.

There are more pictures.

But I left my camera at my mother's last night when

we met there to work on it some more.

And this is the picture I posted on the Stitch Along Blog.

Moving slowly on it, but moving.

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This was my first time to use the new updated blogger for uploading pictures and

composing your post. Worked great!

What have you been working on lately?

~Linnea~