Found my word for this year!

Discouragement........

 I have been quilting forever. Frank has been in the oil and gas industry for 40 years this year and I started quilting after we got married when he was in the Air Force. I made my very very first quilt for my mother and I have no idea what happened to it.

So I have a lot of stuff. And I mean a lot of stuff.

I spent the day yesterday pulling more stuff out of the corner of my room. You would think my room is  Donald Trump HUGE or at least the corners should take up most of the room. But unfortunately it was just a small corner piled high. I think I am down to no more quilts in the corner. (Cross your fingers)

But if you look at the sidebar  I have added a tremendous amount of work.

I do have a quilt that I would like to make for Frank for his birthday in April. But now I feel guilty about starting a new quilt!

All that pressure to get that stuff done is the one good reason not to clean out the corner of my room.

Carol noted I feel compelled to finish the unfinished.  I do!  I was told not to waste things so i am trying to finish these and maybe gift them to people I think deserve one.  

Use a whiney voice here:  I just can't throw them ooouuuut!

I  completed 22 or 23 quilts last year so I'm going to have to start and work pretty hard to get that much done so I can clear out some of those backlog.  I think this will also reduce a lot of my stash when I try to find backs for all of these things in the waiting line. And bindings for them as well.

So I guess as I go along this year my goal will be to to reduce two big things. First the backlog of quilts number and the number on my scale.

I think I have truly found my word for this year ----- REDUCTION!

Busy Busy Bone Day

Water Hyacinth

Met with the new Guild today.  40+ people were there, excellent group.  They even had a presentation about making strawberry pin cushions and put together and a kit for everyone to practice with!

Everyone brought stuff to trade and I came home with 3 sets of circular knitting needles and a knitting CD.  It has been 20 years or more since I knitted or crocheted anything.  but I was quite adept at it and made lots of place mats and doilies with the thin cotton thread as well as a cape and some purses and a few afghans.  I did make a sweater but it was too hot to wear, very heavy.  I am working on socks right now with 5 needles, and that is something new.

There were a lot of old quilting magazines from the early 90's in stacks someone was getting rid of.  I thought about taking them and doing a give away, but it gets so expensive sending out all those packages.  So I left them there and just traded for the knitting needles.