Karrin's Crazy World

Monday, November 18, 2024

Gnome For Thanksgiving Blog Hop Challenge, My Day

The Gnome For Thanksgiving started Monday hosted by the fantastic Joan @Moosestash Quilting.

The Challenge this time: To "Gnome" Them is to love them! Throw a little Thanksgiving twist into your Gnomie" project"

Many thanks to Joan for all the great blog hops which I have had a pleasure to participate in all these years.

I was really excited about this one, gnomes are one of my favorites. I generally have them for every season.

I made several things. On Facebook several months ago, I had noticed a site that was offering vinyl iron-ons and they had a number of gnomes. I ordered some and ironed them on fabric and made some new pillows for Fall/Thanksgiving.

I went out to a cupboard where I have decorator fabrics that I have had for years, and found this one which I used to back the cushions.

While out in that cupboard, I found that I had enough of this fabric to make a long tablecloth for the Thanksgiving table. I serged the edges with a rolled hem. I have had these two fabrics for years, and glad I finally completed what I purchased them for.

I had also bought this fabric. It was already hemmed on both sides, I think for tea towels, but I bought a length of it to make a table runner for my kitchen counter at Thanksgiving. I just hemmed the ends.

Finally, I spent most of the week last week embroidering motifs. I found some with some cute gnomes. I have made others table runners, but never any for myself, and I wanted a Thanksgiving table runner.

The first two motifs I bought from Tattered Stitch Embroideries. The Grateful Heart I purchased from OESD, and the rest from Embroidery Designs.com.

I had some leftover fall themed 3 inch squares that I bordered the table runner with.

Be sure and visit the other blogger/designers. The entire schedule is listed below.

Monday Nov 18

Tuesday Nov 19

Wednesday Nov 20

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilted Snail

Selina Quilts

Thursday Nov 21

Just Let Me Quilt

Patchouli Moon Studio

Songbird Designs

Thanks for stopping by!

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been another busy couple of weeks with back to back activities.

Something weird has been happening on Blogger. Everyone who comments is coming up anonymous, even people who are not ordinarily anonymous. Has anyone else had this problem or know how to fix it?

Last weekend I went with some guild friends to a sister guild's show. They had some beautiful quilts.

Last week daughter Katie, granddaughter Klara and I went to see a high school production of Les Miserables which was an excellent production.

I've been busy working on my Gnome For Thanksgiving project, and spent the week embroidering a bunch of motifs on my embroidery machine.

I got more done on granddaughter Kyleigh's poncho. I need 56 inches, and I am at 24 inches. I will be working on this for Slow Sunday Stitching.

Saturday was bittersweet for me. It would have been my 49th anniversary.

My girls, son-in-laws and two of my grandchildren took me to dinner at a favorite Mexican restaurant.

I will be linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.

Thanks for stopping by!

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Gnome For Thanksgiving Blog Hop Challenge Coming Next Week

The Gnome For Thanksgiving starts on Monday, hosted by the fantastic Joan @Moosestash Quilting.

The Challenge this time: To "Gnome" Them is to love them! Throw a little Thanksgiving twist into your Gnomie" project"

I have been busy working on my project. See you in a couple of days!

Monday Nov 18

Tuesday Nov 19

Wednesday Nov 20

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilted Snail

Selina Quilts

Thursday Nov 21

Just Let Me Quilt

Patchouli Moon Studio

Songbird Designs

Thanks for stopping by!

Sunday, November 03, 2024

Slow Sunday Stitching

Last Sunday I participated in the Breast Cancer Walk with daughter Kristen and her coworkers.

This past week was a bonus week for me, there was no 5th Wednesday workday, so my week was mine to do as I wished. I am not sure I used my time wisely, as I spent 2 days just reading.

I tried to get my knitting machine to work, which I haven't used in at least 25 years. I watched You Tube videos, read the manuals and tried multiple times to cast on. What I ended up doing was breaking some wheels on the carriage. They were rubber and apparently brittle. I ordered some more, but they are coming from Japan, the only place I could find the part.

I decided to sell both my machines, I am just not interested enough to figure out how to use them anymore. I am more into quilting, stitching and my garden. When I get the parts I will put them up for sale. I have a lot of attachments for both machines, and I have seen them for sale on eBay and other places.

This week has been a lot cooler weather and I have had a chance to work on my new garden. I planted most of my naked lady bulbs, moved some things from pots including succulents, a peony and some lambs ears I had dug up from the prior garden.

This week I was able to finish the little Flora Supply Case by Clover and Violet. This is a gift for my secret sewing sister for Christmas. I have procrastinated about putting in the zipper for 2 weeks but finally got it in and finished up. So glad it is finished.

The next project I plan to tackle is this for my granddaughter Klara for Christmas. She likes to sketch and is actually a very good artist. I have the all of the materials except for some clear vinyl.

Klara turned 11 this week. We plan to have a family lunch on Sunday to celebrate.

Because I had hopes of getting my knitting machine working, I hadn't worked on my hand knitting of granddaughter Kyleigh's poncho. I had about 8 inches done. When I picked it up again last night, I discovered a dropped stitch about 4 inches back, so I ripped back and started again.

This is what I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching. I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been another busy couple of weeks. Last weekend daughter Kristen and I went on another walk, this time for suicide prevention. This Sunday we are going on the Breast Cancer Walk. John's mother had breast cancer. We usually go somewhere after these walks for a nice lunch. I am enjoying visiting all sorts of new restaurants I have never eaten at.

In the posting of my birthday at Half Moon Bay, and other things, I forgot to show what my brother Bill made for my birthday. Jaeger, my grandson had originally cut out this design on his Cricut, which I applied to a Dollar Tree plastic sign that warped and turned from red to pin. I asked Bill if he would put it on a piece of wood for me, and he had a slice of olive wood that he could do it on. This was my birthday present from Bill and Char.

Bill does the most beautiful woodwork, and I am always so thrilled to receive one of his pieces.

This past week was spent getting ready for workday at my house. We received about 10 quilt tops at the last meeting that I needed to find backs for prior to workday when we cut the batting and binding.

Out in the yard, I continued hauling in soil for my new garden. I also took down my trumpet vine. It involved a lot of cutting with the reciprocal saw,. I have filled two two green cans, and still need to wait to empty it again. The trumpet vine was beautiful, and provided shade for my living room and kitchen, but it was falling over. Friday some sprinkler guys came by and laid down pipe for drip irrigation for my new garden. When I figure out where things will be planted, I will put in the irrigation emitters. I have a lot of room to plant things, my naked lady bulbs I dug up before, and a lot of things in pots around the yard.

Sprinkler guys also laid some irrigation pipe in the side yard, and I planted some lettuce and some lettuce seeds. We are coming into cooler weather at long last and I have a lot of things I want to get done in the yard.

Last week was the Something Wicked Blog Hop. I showed my Witch Hazel stitchery.

I finished my October Woven Wreaths.

I have gotten about 8 inches out of 56 of my knitting, but I decided to get out my knitting machine, which I haven't used probably for 25 years, and see if I could figure out how to use it again, and I could finish this project in a couple of hours.

What I will be doing for Slow Sunday Stitching, after my Breast Cancer Walk is work on this redwork.

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching. Thanks for stopping by!

Monday, October 21, 2024

Something Wicked Blog Hop Challenge, My Day

The Something Wicked Blog Hop Challenge started Monday, hosted by the amazing Carol @Just Let Me Quilt. Many thanks to Carol for another wonderful challenge!

Carol says about the challenge: "Your idea of "wicked" might be completely different than mine, so take this where you want to. Of course, it is Halloween-related, so include that in your wicked creations."

I get my Halloween decorations out the first part of October, and always love getting them out. Here are some of the things I have made or collected in prior years.

What I decided to work on for this challenge was my Witch Hazel stitchery. This was a primitive stitchery by I Done My Best. It has been prepped and ready to stitch probably 20 years or more, sitting in a pile I came across again, and was determined to finish it finally. I was thinking to myself I wish my husband was still alive and could make me a primitive frame, and I came across one in my craft room that he had made. I painted it black and painted the moon and stars on it.

Witch Hazel looks good above my gnome witch.

I had hoped to work on this other project, but didn't get too far due to other activities this month. I made some of the star blocks, but the applique middle needs 420 inches of bias tape, which isn't completed yet. Maybe next year.