Dream Catchers

Well I have finished yet another one of my projects from my list of unfinished stuff.

With it being a rainy day and being sore from a back injury last week thanks to one of my dogs, I figured it was a good day to work on some of my unfinished stuff. Yesterday I managed to weave the centers while taking breaks between homework assignments that I had to get done. Not feeling like doing much because of the rain, what better activity then to do something simple.

The top dream catcher is for my daughter's friend and the bottom one is for my oldest daughter. They were the two who started the chicken crazy at my house. Since my puppy did not take to kindly to the chickens and killed all but one. We saved some of the feathers from the two that started the craze. The dream catchers are a way for them to still keep something from the chickens since they are not going to have any more for a while. Yes I said they, it is funny but the chickens belonged to both my oldest daughter and her friend, can you tell why we call her one of my other daughters.

I hope that they like them. I have my daughter's hung up in the family room not far from her bedroom door. I decided that I am going to wait and see how long it takes for her to notice that it is there.   

Plaid Skirt

After I made the dress form of my daughter I started playing around with some fabric to make a skirt. I was kind of thinking it could be more of a pattern than anything. Until now the skirt has been half finished on the dress form, so I am pleased to say that it is now finished. Now I just have to see wants it. My daughter who it is actually sized to does not like it and from the moment I started playing with the fabric has said she will not wear it. I am thinking it will go to one of her friends, who has said that they liked the skirt and would wear it. Luckily for me she fits my daughters clothes so I should not have to worry much about altering it to fit her. 

Initial Pillows

Another one of my projects can be checked off my list of things that I need to complete before starting anything new. About four years ago I start making initial pillows to go with my bird pillows in my formal living room. One pillow for everyone in the family. Well something happened to my computer so I was not able to get the embroidery pattern for the letters W and Z for my name and my youngest sons name. So the other pillows got put away and never finished. I have decided it is high time that they got finished. I will just have to wait to get the last two letters done until my hubby can either find a fix for the box to write my pattern on my disk for my machine to read or he buys me a new box. At least these ones are done though so no more sitting in the unfinished pile of things.

These pillows are mirror images of the initial. I used two colors, a blue for the boys in the family and kind of greener color for the girls. They are done on a creamy yellow colored fabric which was used as the backing for the bird pillows that I did. Making them match enough to go in my formal living room together very nicely.  

New QR Code Pillow - Sarah

I finished a new QR code pillow, this one is for one of my oldest daughters close friends. (aka one of my other daughters) To be honest I had cut out the parts for it last year but never got them put together. From the time that I picked the fabric to use the pillow changed from going to one friend then another, to my daughter and then back to the first friend. This one says 'Sarah' and I think is fitting for her since the fabric is tie-dyed and she wears a lot of tie-dyed shirts. To me this picture does not due it justice because how bright the colors really are.

That is one project off my list of unfinished projects from 2012. Should be about seven more before I start any more new projects. I am hoping that I will be able to go get the missing items that I need so that I can finish my daughter's dream catcher and a quilt. I have not decided if I want to machine or hand quilt my quilt piece yet though. At least right now I have a cross stitch to work on when I am not working on homework.

Final project of 2012 and the start of my new year

To finish off 2012 I finished this cross stitch that I was working on. My family let my relax in the living room for the most part by myself while I finished off the project. It felt good to end the last day of the year by finishing off a project. It was just in time for me to start a new cross stitch as we watched all the celebrations of ringing in the new year on television. The new cross stitch is a kit that my husband asked me to make for him of a golden retriever sleeping on a quilt. 

With it being the being of the year I decided to took a moment to pull out all my unfinished projects to see how much I have to complete. Then made a list of all of the projects and what all I need to get or do to finish each of them. To my amazement I only have about ten unfinished projects currently and that includes the new cross stitch that I started on New Year's Eve/Day. Though it does seem that the projects I need to complete are large or have a lot to them. There are two quilts, one king size top is complete the other is a partially pieced full size top. Then there is a QR code pillow that is cut and ready to sew, a set of six pillows that just need filled (counted as one item on my list), a dream catcher using the feathers from my daughter's chickens, and a skirt that needs a zipper and hemmed. Plus my new cross stitch and of course the cross stitch of my mother-in-law and her dad. Even getting a few projects framed and so they can be hung and not ruined by my kids or animals. 

So I plan on finishing off all those projects as soon as I can and hopefully before starting any new projects, unless hired for something. They will have to be worked into my schedule of kids activities and my school work because I start back to school on Monday. Not to mention the house projects that must get finished because they are already started but have been sitting half done, driving me crazy. So basically I am going to have a busy start to the year but it should be a great year. Just take me a little time to get myself a schedule figured out to be able to get a little of everything done each week or how ever I manage to work it out. Wish me luck as I get it all started and work out my schedule.