Looking out my front door.................that's about as far as I've been in our little snowstorm. It's quite beautiful to look at, the stillness of everything. I'm glad we got some snow finally so all the kiddies can go out and play and make snow angels and snowmen and ride sleds or trash can lids (as the case may be with my granddaughters). I've enjoyed the quiet time indoors with no reason nor way to have to go any place. And while indoors I've been busy as usual, creating, working on kits, stitching a bit and watching a little TV with hubby.
The February kits are ready for classes to begin.................
And almost finished with a new stitchery for the February classes...................
And got inspired to draw up a little something for the March classes...............who knows, maybe this should have been a block of the month.............................
I had to dye some pieces to go with the February recipe cards, so I decided to go ahead and dye some tags while I had the dye mixed up which lead me to dye some linen which turned brown instead of the tan I was hoping. Oh well, I'll need to design something to be brown now.
Made a bowl full of tomato pincushions. My friend Debbie gave me a sweet little tomato when I was there in August and I just got in the mood to make some more and more and more...............this would be a fun little class.
Even stamped and water colored a little trying to figure something out for a March class. Don't worry gals, this isn't going to be the project. This was my tester to see if I liked coloring with reinkers, something we haven't done before.
A little inspiration for the March recipe card. I think it will be fun and springy! Just what we need to get us out of our winter doldrums. I'm ready for the chirping birds again and beautiful spring flowers. Let's enjoy the snow while we have it but look forward to warmer, sunnier days. Happy snow time everyone!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATHY.........MY JANUARY SISTER!

After spending time working on tax stuff this morning, I needed to get away from that and play with wool. I decided to put together some turkey mat kits from a class this past fall. So kits are in progress and will be in the classroom later this week for anyone who is interested in getting a turkey mat done before Thanksgiving! Each one will turn out unique and different based on the wool I put together for the turkey. Can't wait to see them stitched up.

It's Tuesday already. How time flies when you're having fun. I had a test group of ladies on Sunday get together and make the mouse pincushion. Just wanted to see if it was feasible as a class. It took them four hours to get the pincushion done so I think it could be a class but maybe a longer class. They worked hard to get the pincushion complete and stay on task. Thanks for being my test mice ladies!

Look how sweet they turned out. Now they each have a sweet mouse to sit next to their sewing machines!

No blogging, just chicking....................................

Lots of classes this week and not one picture to show except my empty classroom. I kept forgetting to either take the camera or to take the pictures. What a terrible teacher I am!!

Thanks for a fun week anyway ladies! And all your creativity.

Once my class was over this afternoon I decided to make a couple of things to test as possible class projects. Sometimes things work out great but are just not feasible for teaching. That may be the case with this sweet little bunny pattern. I love the finished project but not sure if I can teach him. But he is so sweet and primitive. What do you think gals?
Also made some sweet little chicks this evening. We made a big chick last year and I decided to shrink the pattern which may accompany something else I'm working on for a spring class project. I would love to show you a picture of the chicks but I've been sitting here dinking around with this dumb computer for 20 minutes and the chicks just won't work. So imagine a chick picture here!!!!!!! Sweet little chicks!!!!!! Time for me to go to bed I do believe!!!!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVETTE!

What a nice group of ladies that met on Friday evening to create WINTER wool mats. Everyone had a good time and left with some beautiful projects. Unfortunately they will have to get them completed on their own so I won't see the finished mats. I love watching everyone choosing wools and color planning. Most people come in saying they can't do it and are surprised when they do!!! We enjoyed meeting Margie and Sharon, who was visiting from Pennsylvania. They were great fun and Sharon shared stories of her sheep and donkeys back home. What a lot of work she does for her animals. Thanks for a fun time ladies. Happy Stitching!