Travel

Travel

 Along with holidays comes travel. I (Harmony) have spent the past few days traveling to spend Christmas with both my family and my boyfriend's family. As lovely as it is to see and help them out, it feels WONDERFUL to be home. Meanwhile, Pieceful has packed up the car and heading south! Keep her in your thoughts for safe travels, please.

The List

My to-do list for this blog during this vacation week is as follows:

• Make a blog about the gift I gave to my Aunts and Uncles.
• Give a tutorial on a hanging charging station for an iPod.
• Write up a review of a One Yard Wonder book.

A Crafty Gift

Once I complete the blogs on my to-do list I am going to attempt to make my first quilt! I am going to photo document and share with it you. Even my blunders, which I am sure there will be plenty. For Christmas Mum got me a Turning Twenty pattern and 20 fat quarters in blues and browns. I'm very excited (though a little nervous) to get started. Step one will be choosing just which style I want and then it is on to the part I dread the most. Cutting...

Stay Tuned!

More to come later!

Respectfully,
Harmony

 

  

Procrastination

Time is marching on and I still have many things to do before Christmas and our departure for Florida on the 26th. Time for the procrastination gene to kick into full gear. Instead of packing and wrapping I am checking out blogs! Quilting blogs to be precise. Carol at Carol's Crafty Creations has given permission for others to use the following idea. She is  proposing to spend one day a month creating Christmas presents for 2012. Her day will be the first Saturday of the month. I am planning on joining her but think that my day will probably the second Sunday of the month. Hopefully, next year I will be all done before the eve of Christmas Eve and my computer time will not be chocked up as procrastination! Now to get to Florida and set up a sewing space to begin...

Piecing it together,
Pieceful


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Making a list...

Making my list and checking it twice but not necessarily to find out who is naughty or nice. I am the "Pieceful" part of Pieceful Harmony . Checking my lists before heading south for the winter is a very important part of my life right now. And introducing myself on the blog is at the top of my list today! I am a recently retired elementary educator living in Maine. Mr. Pieceful and I have been married for 35 years . Our son and his family live in Texas and our daughter is the Harmony part of this blog. I have been an avid reader for all my life and learned to knit and sew from mother. I have been quilting for the last fifteen and hope to do more of it now that I am retired! I am ready to learn new things, read new books and look forward to posting my adventures here!

                                                                               Feeding my soul with needle and thread,
                                                                                                 Pieceful

Family Christmas

Family Christmas

This weekend will be when we get to celebrate Christmas with Pieceful's side of the family. I am very excited to share with you a fun idea that I have come up with for my aunts and uncles this year. You will have to tune in again early next week to get details though, as one of my aunts is a follower and I do not want to spoil the surprise! I will, however, share with you what I have made for my cousins.

Crate Covers

 

Nine years ago I bought this Simplicity pattern. I was a senior in high school and wanted to give my friends something unique for graduation presents. I made them (all nine or ten of them!) the crate cover from this pattern. You can see it in the picture on the floor in front of the chair. Many of my high school friends are still using them today! In fact, mine is sitting right next to the couch as I type this blog. The covers slide over plastic file crates that you can find at any big box store and with the extra pockets on the outside, they can hold a lot. Extremely handy for moving in and out of the dorms. Now, my cousins who are seniors are getting their very own! I have made a few adjustments to the pattern but it's a very practical project for learning how to make pleats. The project can be completed start to finish in an afternoon. Inside the crate I slipped a few college essentials; a pop-up hamper, bed raisers and a coffee mug. I have gotten more than my (okay, my Mum's) money's worth! I will post pictures of my finished projects this weekend :)

Respectfully,

Harmony