Things Did Not Go As Planned

***Warning*** Gross injury description below.

Good day, my friends.

I sure hope you had a great weekend.  Mine didn’t quite go as planned.

Hubby and I did get our Friday night pizza.  And I made the peach crisp. Then this happened…

As soon as I took the crisp out of the oven, a flying ant got into the house.  He landed above a window. I removed the cushion from the chair below the window so I wouldn’t slip. I killed the ant. As I was stepping down, my hand slipped off the arm of the chair and I fell. I was shocked to see my ring finger on my left hand was at a 45-degree angle, sideways.  I quickly snapped it back into place and called for my husband to remove the bug remains from the wall.

Since the last place I wanted to be on a Friday night (or any night, really) is an emergency room, I waited until Saturday to go to urgent care.  The X-rays showed a possible chip close to the knuckle. And one of the physical tests indicated I may have torn some soft tissue. They put the finger in a splint, buddy-taped it to another finger and referred me to an orthopedic specialist, which I will see this morning.

I’m not in any pain, unless it is touched.

Saturday was rainy and pretty much a bust. But I did receive a bit of happy mail.

Do you remember Sinta? She used to blog at Pink Pincushion.

I think her last post there was in 2019. Well, we can find her these days under the same name on Instagram.  She is still making the most beautiful quilts and recently made one from Fig Tree’s Strawberry Garden book. The book is published by It’s Sew Emma, which is owned by the Fat Quarter Shop. Since Sinta was a model quilter for the book, she was allowed to give away a copy of the book on her IG.

I was the lucky winner! This book is chock full of beautiful quilts using Fig Tree fabrics, which I love.  I enjoyed looking through the book while resting, icing and doing all the things I was told to do.

By Sunday, I was getting pretty bored. Since there was no way I was going to take my chances with a rotary cutter, I decided to stitch.

Liberty House got quite a few stitches added to it.

I’m hoping for good results from the doctor’s this morning. And I’m leaving the bugs to my hubby from now own.

Enjoy your day and week ahead.

Missed FNSI and Progress

Happy Monday!

I fully intended to participate in Wendy’s Friday Night Sew-In on February 17^th but something came up, something good. I’ll share more on that later.

 

I did make good progress on my cross stitch and sewing projects, though.

 

Here is where I am currently on Red Bird Sampler by With Thy Needle and Thread.  You can see where I left off here.

 

Since I finished my oldest cross stitch WIP Irony, I picked up the next oldest which is Sew She Did by Lori Holt of Bee In My Bonnet.  

I forgot to take a beginning photo but here is where I am now…

 

I am current on Sewcialites 2

 

Block #16 Christmas Star designed by Corey Yoder of Coriander Quilts

 

And #17 Simplicity designed by Vanessa Goertzen of Lella Boutique

I am also current on the Scrappiness is Happiness quilt-along. 

 

Week 17’s block is Blossom

Today’s block, week 18, is Large Checkerboard block.

Fat Quarter Shop had a giveaway on Instagram a few weeks ago. You just needed to post your most current Scrappiness is Happiness block and tag them. Well, I played and won. I received three Lori Holt binders, her office bundle and a signed copy of the Scrappiness is Happiness book.  The photo isn’t great ☹

Today’s plan is to finish a big project for work and see what I've missed in blogland.

 

Hope you have a great week!

 

 

100th Blog Post Giveaway Winner

First I want to thank everyone that commented on my last blog post for their encouragement and feedback.  You’ve given me just what I asked for J  I wish I had a gift certificate for all of you!

Counting people, twenty-one followers commented so I let the random number generator do its thing…

The lucky number today is 15!  

Congratulations to Needled Mom

Mary will receive the $25 Fat Quarter gift certificate.

Thank you all again!

Hope everyone has a wonderful day J

100th Blog Post and Giveaway

When I started my blog on June 6, 2013, the intent was to share progress on my craft projects - and maybe a little of my life - on a weekly basis.  Now that would mean today should be my 179^th post.  I’m a little off from my original goal J

I’ve made so many new blog friends but it seems like we are more likely to post on Instagram or Facebook these days.  It’s like an instant post without much effort.  Honestly, I do not really post much on the Slammin’ the Screen Door Facebook page, I’m mostly on Instagram and I see so many of my favorite blog friends are there as well.

I am not quite ready to abandon the blog.  I do have hopes of reviving it along with my creative activity.  I have been in such a slump lately with regard to sewing or much of anything crafty.  I’m going to shake myself out of this slump because I have so many projects waiting to be completed.

And because it is somewhat of a miracle – that I have completed 100 blog posts – I will celebrate by offering a giveaway.  The prize?  How about a $25.00 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop?

To enter, leave a comment on this post to let me know if you are a regular follower of my blog. And if so, let me know how you follow…  Google +, Bloglovin’, email or some other way.  Do you follow me on Instagram too?

  

The winner will be selected from comments that are received on this post only by Sunday, November 6^th at 9:00 pm EST. 

~~~~Don’t forget to change your clocks this weekend~~~~

I will use the online random number generator to select the winner sometime after 9 pm.

Now, just so you know that I haven’t been completely lazy, I want to share the latest block in my Building Blocks adventure. 

This is block #5, a lesson on cables – and it is another one that I am going to re-do.  Why?  The block is so simple that I got complacent and knitted an entire 7 extra rows!  Now, the block in the photo is my 4^th or 5^th attempt.  I’m not kidding when I tell you that I got complacent.  There were times that I knitted when I was supposed to purl and vice versa.  It doesn’t help that I do this while watching sports too.

This is November 1st and I say it is as good a time as any to jump back into my projects.

Let’s see how it goes J

Slow Sunday Stitching and Selina's Giveaway

My knitting needles have been busy.

I made three helmet liners for this year’s Operation: Warm and Fuzzy campaign. 

My regular readers will remember this, an activity my former co-workers and I would do each year for the soldiers.  Even though I am no longer working with them, I’m still helping out this year as they lost quite a few knitters.

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This is block number 1 from the Building Blocks book that I told you about here.

Block 1 teaches simple knit and purl stitches.

This is the beginning of block number 2 which offers a lesson in reading charts.

I’m enjoying the book and will spend more time on this project now that I finished the helmet liners.  As a matter of fact, I am working on this today for my Slow Sunday Stitching project.  Check out Kathy’s link here to see what everyone else is up to.

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Do you know Selina?  She blogs at Selina Quilts and just recently offered a giveaway to celebrate her 300^th post.  I was the lucky winner of these…

Two cuts of some adorable red fabric, a pin cushion and zippered bag that Selina made.  You have to check out Selina’s post on how she made the bag…genious!

In my next post I will share the projects I made while attending the American Embroidery Conference last month.

Enjoy the remainder of your Sunday!

My New Book and Quilt Show Vendors

Look what I have…

Uncommonly Corduroy

by Stephanie Dunphy

Now don’t be jealous…you can possibly win your very own copy, well the ebook version anyway.  Go to Stephanie’s at Loft Creations and follow her links to all the wonderful bloggers offering you a chance to win this treasure.  Each of those quilters tested patterns for Stephanie and they are known as her Supremes.  I follow most of them and can tell you, they are fantastic!  You can bet that the patterns in this book are perfect!  Don't let the name fool you...Stephanie's patterns aren't just for corduroy, you can use your favorite quilter's cotton too.

I’ve read this book cover-to-cover twice, three a few times and have already chosen two bags that I will make.  I won’t get started on the quilts…yet J 

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In my last post, just over TWO weeks ago, I mentioned a quilt

show.  This is a small show that our local quilt guild hosts every other year.  The guild name is Port Saint Lucie Crazy Quilters…I know a couple of them and can see where they get their name J  (because they are Crazy Fun!!)

Since we always seem to take a gazillion (is that even a real word?) pictures, I split my recap into two posts.  Today I’ll share photos of a few vendor booths and later I’ll show you some of the amazing quilts our locals created.

I’ll start with my two favorite Sweethearts…

 
Laura 

Dave

They own Laura’s Sewing in Port Saint Lucie and in North Palm Beach.  Dave and Laura are our local Brother dealer…now you know why I love them.  I purchased my Quattro 3 from them back in December and they have been wonderful with their unlimited training, not only on how to use all of the machine’s features but also how to care for the machine. 

More vendors...

Fiber Art

 Who doesn't love a beach umbrella and flip flops?

Free motion quilting demo

Wool

More wool

Even more wool (which is different for south Florida)

Kits for small quilts

Fabric

Not a rag quilt...this was a product you attach to the seams

It ravels in the laundry

I love this Christmas Tree kit

Kits with templates for making cathedral window blocks

Always a Special

Eleanor made an appearance

So what did I bring home?

A Sweet Heart Quilt

I can see this hanging on the wall next February 14th

My first wool projects

Kits for small candle mats

One for July 4th, one for Halloween, one for Thanksgiving

and one for Christmas

And these needles because the candle mat vendor

told me I needed them :)

I think I demonstrated great restraint, don't you?

Have yourself a blessed week and don't forget to stop by Stephanie's.  Tell her I said Hi!

I've Got Mail and I'm a Winner!

I won Hooked on Needles 700 Facebook Likes Giveaway. 

Wow!  700 likes on your Facebook page?!?!  Yep, I’m one of them.  Mary Grace offered gifts to two winners if they were one of her 700 Facebook Likes.

My prize…one of Mary Grace’s beautiful "reversible" aprons!  I cannot tell you how over the top excited I am.  Her work is impeccable!

 

 

Hooked on Needles is always informative and showcases yummy recipes, crocheting, knitting and sewing projects.  What more could a girl ask for?

 
Thank you Mary Grace!  I love my apron…now I want to bake.

Speaking of baking…check out Candace’s blog.  She has some yummy goodness too!  She is sharing a photo of her Pear Gingerbread Crumb cake that she got from Sue at The View from Great Island.

It's getting that time of the year when I love to bake so winning Mary Grace's apron is most fortuitous J

Hope you all are having a wonderful week!