Six or So Stitchy Projects

 Here is my kitchen window very peaceful winter view as it will look pretty much now until April. The light is from the big garage and you can see the snow curtain we have from the snow sliding down the roof. 

My bigger bunny is still here. Though he spends time under the feeders, he also munches on the left over garden growth which I purposely leave till spring to clean out. What exactly he is finding to eat there, I'm not sure. 

 He'd better be careful though as a Barred Owl flew low over my head one morning as I walked to the garage. He'd been eyeing the feeders. I was disappointed I hadn't spotted him from the window to get a photo. 

Lately I've been knitting in the evenings in front of the tv. My afghan is this long now. 

Using this stitch combo means it looks the same on the back as the front and it's good for an afghan to be reversable. I'm planning to crochet an edging around it when I get it to a certain length. The wool is from a special project by the Yorkshire Spinners. One pound is donated to the Breast Cancer Society for each ball sold. I'm alarmed by the numbers of young women being diagnosed with this awful disease. 

I've stitched more quarter Dresden blocks using blues for backgrounds. These are so enjoyable to hand stitch and work up very quickly. 

And there are several possible ways to join them. I have plenty of time to give that a good think.

Today I'm devoting my sewing room time to finishing the Christmas Tablecloth. I'm very close and I'd love to have it off the plate for now. Here is a photo of the right side still being organized. As usual I have a couple orphan blocks that I used in it too. 

  I have plans to try another patchwork block that could work with the RSC, one that doesn't involve hand stitching. My scraps are alarming me again and I need a project that could use just them. I have one in mind that I'll share next time. 

 I wound up enjoying the hand quilting on the Christmas Presents quilt in the end. I laid it out on the kitchen island to check if I'd missed a spot. 

 I haven't bound it yet but I'm pleased to have the quilting on it all done. I have a number of very old projects that I'd love to get to the finish line so I'm going to layer up another flimsie to have all ready in my rotation to hand quilt. 

I like the idea of the Daily Devotional Stitching project. Choosing a small item to stitch by hand certainly is right up my alley. The point is to use the stitching process as an intentional meditation or a prayer. Being such a loner and living with a partner who is not talkative- never was, not even in the best of times, I spend a lot of time in my own head as it were. But I can always be more intentional about those ramblings, that's for sure. You can read more here at  Sibyl's Journal.

I'm just in from my morning walkabout with the dogs. It is invigorating and being able to use more of the trails with them being flattened by the snowmobile is wonderful. It's all good here at the Wooden House these first few weeks of the brand new year. I hope you all are finding it the same.

 P.S. I will speak to LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color's prompt about calendar usage in the next post.