Happy New Year!

4 months ago

Happy New Year to all of you and your families. Now lets make those resolutions and goals and see just how many we can NOT do LOL. Seriously, my goal is just to get back to sewing some.

Jackie

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bkay2000
4 months ago
last modified: 4 months ago
My sewing plan is to make more "I Spy" quilts for donation.

My overall plan is to clean out a lot of the "stuff" in my house. I don't "do" lots of those things (like genealogy, sewing machine repair, and flower arrangements for the family cemetery) anymore, but I still have all the "stuff" to do it with.

I hope you all have a healthy new year.

bkay
msmeow
4 months ago
I’ll be cleaning out my sewing room, too, in preparation for moving soon (probably late March/early April). We are actually cleaning out the whole house. Mostly done, just have the kitchen, sewing room and garage which doubles as hubby’s woodworking space.

Donna
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Thank you. As I recall we had a record high of 80 last Sunday (1 January). Tonight and tomorrow night (6 and 7 /January) will get down to 24 and 26, then back up into the 60/70s after that. The ground is always workable. The lows are very short in duration. The day temps normally warm everything back up. This is a great time to garden. Weeds grow slow, and no mosquitoes. It is a gardeners paradise from oct to march. April, May and June starts to warm up. July, August and Sept are too hot and too many bugs. In the recent past, I tried a second tomato season in late fall. Looking back, it makes no sense to try to grow in July, Aug, Sept when it is so effortless now. Of course, I can't grow tomatoes now. I am thinking I will just grow extra tomatoes in the normal season and freeze the extra. The ones I froze from last summer did real good in Sauces. I don't have a lot of time to can/make sauce to freeze, but I can always make time to quarter tomatoes and throw them in a bag in the freezer. The sweet white turnips, hakerie (name is close to that), are one of the lesser cold hardy varieties. They are very tastee, especially roasted with the carrots. I have a small patch of them and few remain. I will cover them. Everything else is very hardy and remains uncovered: Kale,broccoli, collards,onions, carrots and Lettuce. I expect some Lettuce losses, as there are many varieties. I expect half to survive just fine. I watered real good yesterday getting ready for the cold snap.
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nannykins
4 months ago
Yes, let’s get back to sewing! it was not a good Christmas week for us here. sickness cancelled all family get togethers, some sickness for them and also for me. better now.

but yes, I must get back to the machine.

last year, I followed Karen Brown’s declutter challenge and did quite well. she has started a new one so I plan to jump on board with that and at least try to keep things relatively decluttered.

I do hope this new year is a good one for all.

Theresa
polardream
3 months ago
Get back to sewing for sure! Last year was not a good year for so many reasons, but this will be better.

I worked on cleaning up my sewing room because DH is having a birthday party for me on Saturday and we need the room for the kiddos coming to watch a movie in. On Sunday, it is full speed ahead putting it back to sewing and get going!

I have a dinosaur quilt top finished and sandwiched and started the quilting - baby is due on the 7th, so it will be late.

I have a Japanese fan quilt top ready to sandwich and quilt - it's a commissioned quilt so need to get it finished!

I need to make another baby quilt for friend's granddaughter due in March.

After that - need to work on using up some of the scraps I have. (boxes and boxes of!)

Looking forward to a new year with a lot less stress!

Sue
toolgranny
3 months ago
last modified: 3 months ago
This will be a New Years to remember. I flew to Denver and crashed my son's NYeve party at a hotel because he was celebrating his 50th birthday. Wonderful event and walking in to surprise him made up for all the effort to get us there at the last minute. Will never forget it. I should stay up to midnight more often.
jackier123
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3 months ago
Good for you LInda!
polardream
3 months ago
Way to go, Linda!!! I wish I had known and Tobey and I could have driven to Denver to see you!

Sue

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