The one where the power went out...

I had grand plans the other night to get a mess-load of homework done.

But then we got about 3 inches of snow.

And the power went out for a couple hours.

Really??!


It was pretty at first.

Then my house started to smell like Yankee Candle was burning down. And it was getting cold. Good thing I have lots of quilts hanging around! ;-)

At least I got some candlelight knitting done! I'm loving these new socks... So stoked for my feet :-)

By the way, I finished these socks forever ago. My first pair ever! It went much more smoothly than I thought, even if they're pretty lumpy. It can only get better from here, right? ;-)

Today, however, I had to study...

P.S. I figured out what was going on with my flickr... apparently there is some bug going on that won't allow embedding on some photos - some were fine, and some wouldn't let me. I had to opt out of the beta flickr and go back to the old one (which is way better, IMHO) and then it was fine. Frustrating in the meantime, though...

Am I an idiot?

Ok, peeps... what is going on with Flickr? I can't seem to imbed photos anymore. It's telling me to share photos publicly to get the embed code, but they are public already?!

Is this a problem anyone else is having, or is it just me?

Help!

Progress, or Lack Thereof

So I've been busy with lots of non-sewing-related life lately, namely overtime and school. I actually have my first exam later this week, for which I will be preparing madly. Or trying anyway.

The only sewing I've done since the August BOM blocks hasn't even been for me. A good friend came over and we worked on quilting a baby quilt that she's anxious to gift. I tried to start some of the Skill Builder BOM blocks that I've let pile up while she was working on it, but of course we ended up gabbing instead of being particularly productive. Which is fine by me :-)

So basically, all I've done in the sewing room in like a week has been to cut out eight 2 1/2 inch squares.

EIGHT.

I'm on fire, people. Try to keep up. ;-)

WIP-ness

Do you remember the EPP project I started at the beach? Well, I promise I've been working on it... I just had to set it aside for a moment out of frustration. If you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen this:

Hand piecing and seam rippers together do not a happy Meg make... I need to pay better attention next time!

BUT! The sad part is over, so now I'm back on the right track.

Here is what else I've been working on - I'm officially a grad student (again...) So my sewing might slow down a bit. Hopefully not too much, I've actually finished the Luxe in Bloom top, so I'll show that to you tomorrow!




What have you been up to?

You may have noticed that I've been MIA.... Not really.... But yeah.

I'm not complaining. (Even though there is no Internet here, hence my disappearing act)

Wile I'm doing a little handwork, reading a LOT, and trying not to get sunburnt, you guys should hop over to Bloglovin and follow me! Since google reader is going away and the world is coming to an end and all...

So hit me up, follow muh bloggyblog here, and check out some of the stuff I've been up to.

In return, I'll leave you with a little taste of what I've been working on down here...

I haven't disappeared...

Well, maybe I have... But just for a moment! I've been relaxing, and reading for fun, and eating and sleeping and swimming, and all those things that people do on vacation!

I have, however, NOT been sewing. I'll get back to being productive soon enough though!

I'm just going to enjoy this while I can ~

Close Call

I took this bobbin out of the machine yesterday, after quilting the Tears wall quilt.

Cutting it close much? Lol I got lucky on that one!

Ladies' weekend!

This past weekend my sisters and I checked out of real life and went to northern Virginia for the weekend. We had a fun weekend of shopping, eating out, and sitting in NoVa traffic.

The hotel we stayed in was swankypants :-)

I also talked them into letting me go to a quilt store. It was payback for me having to sit in the car for an hour and a half while they were in a teacher store, lol.

I got some low volume neutrals, and some stash builders. I also got some more Best Press, this time in a citrus scent. I also got a random spool of aurifil in my new fave color, a peachy coral. I'm going to have to do a whole quilt with that color...

Thundersnow day!

Is way better than a regular snow day, which I have very little patience for.

It would be a wonderful day for sewing, but instead of working on binding this -

I'll be doing this instead... aaaaalllllll day :-/

Design wall of the day

You know the saying "my cup runneth over"?

Quilters should have their own version - "my design wall is crowded". :-)

#notgoingtoquiltcon

So I'm not with all the cool kids in Austin at Quiltcon, but luckily I have my annual quilt show this weekend, so I'm definitely getting my fix. My mom and I have gone to this quilt show together for the last 6 years or so, so this year is difficult going without her. Understatement.

But anyway, recap and pictures to follow!

Best Instagram day ever!

So this happened today:

Yep. Kate Spain and Katy Jones on the same day. I feel so special :-P

Stash organization

In the midst of making the first few x-plus along blocks, I realized that I have no idea most of the time what my fabric 'inventory' is. This is the first truly scrappy quilt I've done, and I wanted to see what I had to work with. Which, of course, led to me reorganizing my stash.

I've seen a couple of tutorials about how to make mini bolts out of foam core, so I gave that a try. I essentially just used an exacto knife to cut them up after measuring and marking how big I wanted them to be. The ones I made are 10x7 I think.

I used the mini bolts to store yardage, and anything less than a yard I folded up. I put everything back on the shelf in color order, so I could see quickly what all I've got to wrk with. (That's when I realized I needed to stock up on yellow. Like a lot. )

The third shelf is collections that I want to keep together, and solids I haven't figured out where to put yet.

The boxes on the lower shelves hold pulls for projects that I'm currently working on, as well as some home dec fabrics.

The whole shebang is really pretty, if I do say so myself... I love being able to see my stash, it gets me really excited to make pretty things :-)

Shnow

It snowed! I typically hate snow. I don't have the kind of job where snow = no work, and every year for the last several I have ended up being stuck driving on the freeway during heavy snow, before plowing or salting have happened. So there is a little bit of a negative association there. But it snowed here last night - not much, thankfully - and the roads were cleared before I had to go anywhere this time. So I appreciated it a little bit more this time :-) Still doesn't need to happen too often, though...

Stash-tastic Sunday

I worked a lot this past week, so there isn't anything productive to show you. I did manage to finish quilting a secret project this afternoon, but no pictures of that yet.

Here are some pretties instead...

...I lied

So yesterday I was all like "I haven't bought fabric in ages" etc.

I apparently couldn't handle it. I went to my LQS just to look. Riiiight. Like that's realistic.

I ended up getting some more FQs for the two BOMs I'm doing, and I think the depth of those stacks has improved. I like how it's turning out.

Did you know they have Kona at Joann's?!? See those two bolts up there? Yeah, that happened.

A little bit

What's going on?

A little bit of this...

And a little bit of this...

And a little bit of this. Finally!