Too Blessed to be stressed!

 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  I have been thinking about my new word or motto for this year and I found it!  "Too Blessed to be stressed"  I have so much to be thankful for to stay stressed out like I always am.  The Lord has Blessed me in so many ways.  I need to realize that I can't control every little thing in my life and life is too short to stress so much over the small things.  

So here is what is currently going on in my sewing world right now.  I worked on this stuff a little yesterday.  First off, I cut up some tiny polka dots for a new baby quilt. 

 As I was working on my mystery quilt, I would run one or two of these paper through the machine, just to get them started.  I printed out 30 of these. 

 This is my own design and I made a purple one a while back.  I gave it as a gift to Crystal, my sister's best friend.  Here is a pic of it. 

 For some reason I didn't get a photo of the mystery work that I was working on.  I will post that next time.  I was hoping to be close to caught up before she releases the next step tomorrow but that isn't going to happen.  

My sewing and cutting tables are just one big horrible mess.  Things get piled up really fast.  This started when I was doing my Christmas sewing and gift wrapping in the same area.  My leader/ender project is buried somewhere under it all so I just ran some small 4 patches through the machine.  I ended up with 20 more of these that makes a total of 159 of them.  I'm not even sure what these are going to go into but I will find something. 

 I also found one of these and ran it through the machine.  :)  This windmill block makes me 70 of them. 

 That's all for now!  Have a wonderful and Blessed day and New Year!  I hope to get some sewing in today!
Kristie

The New Year and Other Ramblings...

I whipped up a few hairbows for the new baby!  They are made with leftover fabrics from the 4 Patch Flip baby quilt that I made a few days ago.  They have little clips on the back so if she doesn't have hair we can clip them on some headbands.  :)

 Andrew sent me another photo last night.  He is way down south on the Mississippi River they are pushing tow right now.  He said it measures 900ft long and 108ft wide.  I sure miss him.  He called me around 5:30am this morning and it was so good to hear his voice.  He told me that he has lost 13lbs!  :(  That makes the mother in my worry because he is away from home but he assures me that he is eating really well but he hasn't been drinking his Coke and Mountain Dew. 

 Hunter spent the night with my mom last night so that left Richard and I home alone.  We just kicked back and watched a movie.  It just didn't seem right not having at least one of the boys home.  

Richard was on call today and we figured he would get called out with it being New Year's Eve.  Sure enough the phone rang at 5am!  I was a little sad at first but then he reminded me that this is 12 hours of overtime!!!!  I got over my sadness really fast!  LOL!  He will be home around 8pm so I can deal with that.  :)

I hope that everyone has a wonderful and Blessed New Year!  We never do anything for New Year's Eve other than stay home and watch tv.  Hunter always wants us to stay up until midnight with him so we do try to do that. 

 I got all of my Christmas decor down and boxed up but it still needs to go to the attic.  I planned on doing that yesterday but it never happened....maybe today?  
Kristie

Pink Baby 4 Patch Flip!

 Last night I finished up my blocks for the pink modern 4 patch flip.  I'm pretty pleased with it. 

 These modern quilts are way out of my box but I am pleased with it.  This is for my new niece coming in April.  My sister decorates her home in warm, traditional tones of beige and browns BUT I've noticed that she has been buying some boutique baby clothes and they are all made out of modern type fabric so I thought this would be nice. 

 I sent a photo to my sister of the quilt last night and she loved it or at least said she did.  LOL! 

 Later today I hope to work on my Grand Illusion quilt.  I am behind on the steps so I hope to get caught up a little on it.  Sometime this morning I need to go to the grocery store.  :(  I hate going but it is needed.  One of the doctor's that Richard works with gave him 8 GALLONS of gourmet popcorn so I need to get something else to snack on other than this!  LOL!  Right now I am munching on the chocolate swirl.
Kristie