One Daisy Down

Here is the first flower for the purple afghan that I made.  It's a daisy.

I found the flower on the Red Heart yarn website under their free patterns.  The flower is from the April Flowers Wreath.  I used a bobble stitch for the center instead of attaching a button.  Wouldn't want the little one to choke on a button.

Lady of the Lake

 This is my Lady of the Lake block.  I'm so glad I got this block finished tonight.  What should have been easy was a pain in the butt to do.  Cut the hst's by the pattern and was off by 1".  I cannot sew scant 1/4" seam whether it be by hand or machine.  Cut some more out.  Had some what was I thinking moments when doing the cutting.  Cut out too many hst's for a second time.  More scraps.....sigh....

On a brighter note....I got started on making the flowers for the baby afghan plus I cut out the hst's for a Flyfoot block.  I cut them bigger than the pattern called for.  Lesson learned.  =)  

The picture below is the beginnings of a daisy.  I'll have to figure out something for all the centers of the flowers.  The pattern has buttons for centers.  I think they are cute.  Little ones don't need to get a hold of buttons.  I have an idea, but you will have to wait and see what I come up with.  =)

Almost Done!!!

Finished the border tonight.  The afghan measures approximately 44"x37".  Not exactly how I envisioned it.  I think it turned out good though.  Now all I need to do is find some crocheted flowers and crocheted leaf patterns that I saved on Pinterest.

Current Projects

This is the fabric that I'm going to use in the Lady of the Lake quilt block.  Got it all cut out before I had to be at work yesterday morning.  I didn't get to work on this during my lunch hour yesterday.  Had to run and get some yarn for the afghan that I am currently working on.

The lighter yarn is what I started with.  I had no idea what size I was going to make this afghan, so, I didn't buy two jumbo skeins of it.  Bad idea!!!  They discontinued the yarn at one Wal-Mart.  Went to another one.  They had some mauve.  Bought two of the jumbo skeins on clearance. 

Got another afghan started.  Decided that I didn't want to take forever in getting the afghan finished.  I'm already behind!  

Off I traipse to Hancock's Fabric for yet another shopping excursion.  This time I brought the afghan with me.  I had seen some purple yarn of the same kind and color as the first jumbo skein of yarn when I went to Hancock's on a previous shopping mission.  Alas, no match.  It was a shade different even though there was no dye lot. 

I had to hurry up and decide what shade of purple yarn I wanted to go with the lighter colored purple.  I was on lunch and had to hurry up and get back to work plus stop and get something to eat.  After a few minutes of walking back and forth, I chose a darker purple yarn for an ombre look. 

I came up with another idea as I am sitting here typing this up.  It will involve some frogging.  I'm going to make a border out of the dark purple instead of just continuing the way that I was doing. 

I'm thinking of crocheting some flowers and add to a corner of the afghan.  I might have to do a bit of embroidery too....we'll see.

Progress

After a couple of false starts I finished this quilt block today.

It's called Broken Dishes.

I then decided to handpiece another block.  This is a modern twist on an old pattern.

This one is the Sanitary Commission block.  

Now it's off to do a little bit of crocheting.

Old Desk Getting a New Makeover

My old desk is in sad shape.  

I've had it since I was 9 or 10.

I glued the crack in the side and fixed the drawer.

It's all sanded down to the bones.

Spring is well on it's way.....

 The Hyacinths are blooming.

The Flowering Quince has been blooming off and on for quite awhile.

I completely redid this bed today.  Spruced the color up a bit.  Cleaned out the bed.  Added some fresh dirt from my compost pile along with some cedar mulch on top.  The Bleeding Hearts that are planted in here should be coming up in no time.  They are putting on lots of sprouts....