Whoop-Whoop Friday!!! 1-31-14

Another WHOOP-WHOOP Friday and I am super excited to show off what I FINIALLY got done this week!!!

Re-worked from Candamar Designs' Police Officer'

Here is the second to the 2 designs I re-worked off of Candamar Designs' 'Police Officer' chart. This block, and the one below, was stitched for LoveQuilts and will go to a 9 year old boy who is sick and in need of some comfort. I re-worked these two because another stitcher signed up to stitch the same chart. Usually LoveQuilts doesn't allow this, but because we were coming up short with military and police designs they said it would be okay. I wanted to make the blocks look as different from one another as possible, so I re-arranged the lay-out. I think it worked pretty good:)

Both re-worked from Candamar Designs' Police Officer

And here the two of them are together. I have to tell you that I am always excited when I sign up to stitch a block for a kid in need, always excited when I start stitching the block, and ALWAYS ready to pull my hair out as I'm finishing up the block!! Since the designs are usually more detailed and of a subject matter that I wouldn't stitch for myself, I'm usually ready to be DONE with the block by the end of it!! :) Though I will say that the 2nd block was really easy since it just had the words.

These have both been signed and mailed off and will join other blocks to be made into a quilt. So, now, I won't have to blog about these two again!!

If you are interested in joining in on WHOOP-WHOOP Fridays, visit Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

1st IHSW of the Year!!!

I made sure to plant my hinny down and take advantage of the 1st International Hermit and Stitch Weekend of the year!!! Hosted by Joysze of Random Ramblings, this is a real fun stitch-a-long to give us an excuse (as if we need one:), to take a weekend and stitch to our heart's content. Since my hubby had today off work, I decided that I would count today as part of the weekend as well. :0)

Of course, I would have been stitching away this weekend anyway because I am still needing to get the blocks for LoveQuilts done that I've been working on for what seems like forever!!! I did make some real progress on one of them this weekend and am almost done with it now. Hoping to have it and the second one done by Friday.

 

This is re-arranged from Candamar Designs' 'Police Officer'. The second block I am doing will also be re-arranged from that same design, but will just use the words from the design and will look completely different:) 

 

Okay, almost midnight, so I really need to get off here and go to bed!! I was up super late last night because I couldn't put a book down. Thankfully I was able to sleep in this morning, but we will need to be out and about tomorrow morning, so no sleeping in tomorrow!!! Have a good night!!

January 2014 WIPocalypse

Whew!!! Just getting this posted on time!!! This is the first WIPocalypse post of the year and I didn't want to miss it. If you want to learn more about it or want to join in, visit Measi at Measi's Musings and get in on the fun!!

I've been working on my hubby's friend's baby blanket and then I started feeling a bit under the weather this week, so my stitching time has been little-to-none lately. I wanted to have a bit more done on this from last month's posting!! So between doing school with dd, taking a nap and trying to catch up on the dishes (I failed that one!!), I stitched and stitched today. It was nice to get back to it after a little over a month of working on Christmas gifts and crocheting the baby blanket.

This is my current progress on Candamar Designs 'Police Officer.' This is a block for LoveQuilts and will go to a young man who's father is a police officer, and had been in the military before. The young man requested anything military or having to do with police officers:)

 

I really need to stitch quick on this one and the next as well. They are both due in on Feb 1st!!! ACK!!! But I'm almost done with the motorcycle which is the hardest part and the next one I'm doing only has words, no pictures so it should be real quick. So I guess you know what I'll be stitching on for the next couple of weeks:) 

Finally - A Finish!!



 You've seen the 'Girl in Blue with Flowers and Butterflies' before - okay, I'm made up the name, not sure what it was originally named. :)  It was one I did for the Flower Blog hop. The second one I changed the colors on a bit as the girl had on a red dress, but I wanted her to match so I made it blue. I think these are very sweet!! Still need to make a needle case out of them, but I'm glad the stitching is done!!

And I finally found where one of the patterns for these are!! I found a finished pic of the other too, but can't find the pattern for it. Not a surprise as Frimousse has over 600 freebies on her site. And it's in French, so umm, yea - I can't read it. My internet connection speed (and the connection itself) is hugely flaky, so using the translator doesn't work well either. I looked for it for hours, but no luck. I'm sure it's there though, so if you really want the pattern you can look around for it:) Here is a link to the girl in the veggie garden. And HERE is a link to the picture of the girl with the butterflies.

I may have another finish in a few days!!! Actually it's not all my stitching, but my part of it should be done:) It's the last section of a round robin I've been part of this year. So hopefully I'll have that to show off in a few days. I'm also waiting on a pattern to come in the mail for a couple blocks I will be doing for Love Quilts. It's been a while since I have stitched for them and I'm pretty excited to get back to it!!

WOW!!! I finally got this one finished!! I really can't blame anything other than being distracted with lots of other projects that kept calling my name. I love this block, so far it's has been my favorite of the few that I've done for LoveQuilts. 

 

So now that this one is done, what do you think I went and did? Well, if you read a few days ago I said that I would kit up a couple new projects and that is just what I am working on:) I have the next LoveQuilt block kitted up, two exchange projects almost kitted up, and am looking at kitting up a new one for me:) I also need to get started on my next ornament, though it may need put off until April, and I am waiting on the next person's Round Robin piece to come in so I can work on that:) Lots of stitchy busy-ness!!! Now I am off to finish kitting those projects up and maybe put my needle in one of them:)

February's WIPocalypse Progress

Finally showing off my WIPocalypse progress for the month. I really had hoped to be able to show off a finish tonight, but alas, this is the project without end!! :) I even had all kinds of time on my hands with the 2nd snowstorm to blow through in the last 2 weeks. I always find it hard to get into my routine when my hubby is home though, so instead of stitching away, hubby and I watched movies and talked and I even got a nap in today.

 

The picture above is from the last time I posted it, about a week ago during the IHSW.

 

 

And this is my progress as of this afternoon. All the stitching is done now and some of the outlining. Just a bit more outlining and I'll be finished with this one. I really like how it has turned out and I think the little 5 year old boy whom this will go to - via LoveQuilts - will like it too.