Doctor Who *bouncy bouncy*

I am so excited about these. So excited. I have been working on and off on these embroidery blocks for what seems like forever. And I realized that I don't have any photos of those blocks here. Bad AJ. But, of course, now I do!

Really, truly back

So over the past month, I have started and not finished quite a few posts about moving and trying to get back to quilting and all that jazz. Yah. It just didn't happen. I moved out of my old place, which was infested with mold, into a new, much brighter space that has, gasp, a craft room! It is still in a state of major mess, but this weekend I finally got to my sewing machine and was able to work on some sewing for the new Project of Doom Quilt Along.

I'm super excited and it has been a lot of fun to watch everyone work on their quilts. It started the first week of January, but I haven't been able to get working on the blocks until now! I have been working on designing patterns requested by other quilters, so I have been participating, just in a slightly different manner. I will be blogging about those in the days and weeks to come, so stay tuned! But, I do have pictures of some of what I was working on this weekend for you, but, as I have been writing this and fighting with the photos, they don't want to do things properly. I won't torture you with sideways pictures, so I will have to retake them tonight and add them later.

And so while this post is woefully lacking photos (the best part of blogging land in my opinion), I am glad to have gotten started back on these blocks and blogging. Can't wait to enjoy the process!

I think I'm back...

So, moving to Washington, trying to balance a variety of jobs, cultivating a relationship that up to this point was mostly long distance, getting my teaching license transferred, and taking care of my pup has kept me busy over the past almost year. On one hand, I feel bad that I haven't been updating everything, but at the same time, I haven't been doing a ton anyway. I have been keeping up with swaps, which has been good, but even then, it has taken a lot of time to get my place set up and even some sort of clean. And by clean, I mean I no longer have paths running from the front door to my bedroom and kitchen. I have really wanted to get my house to a place where I can have friends over, but I think I'm still a bit away from that.

New news, I am in the process of updating my website! Well, the one here. It's going to be slow going, but I think it will be good. I also think I will work to keep things updated on here, even if I feel like I don't have time, just because time will slip by so quickly and I will look back and want these memories.

Thanks for stopping by and sorry there aren't any pictures this time around. Maybe I will post some tomorrow.

AJ

Black and White and Read All Over!

Next up are the squares I have been working on for my black and white quilt through swaps. As I said in my previous post, I make sister squares to everything I send out. It's a great way to add to my black and white quilt.

I do think I am going to have to make sure I intersperse my squares with other ones so that I can break up the fact that I use a lot of the same fabrics. I mean, it makes sense. I have these and I don't go buy new fabric each time, but I should at least not put them right next to each other. 

Swapping time!

I have been really enjoying doing swaps with Swap-Bot. I haven't been taking pictures like I did when I first started, both blogging and swapping. Some of the funnest swaps have been my color your block (or your color my block, I can't remember) because I do a test run with my colors first, then I get to make the block for my partner. It's a good encouragement to keep working on blocks for my black and white quilt. My quilt will be made up of the blocks I make, as well as the blocks I receive from swaps. Below are the pictures of the blocks I sent. The blocks I made for myself will be another blog.

This in a full quilt would just be lovely. The recipient asked for purple, then an accent of yellow. I hope that she likes it. 

This one I liked because of all of the oranges. I still don't know though if I like the red as the trapezoids, or if I would have liked it more as yellow. The yellow is also really cool because it is a really awesome VeggieTales print. Made me smile :-)

Yes, this one is black and white. It's an extra for some of the black and white swaps that I do occasionally. It will be getting sent out as soon as there is another swap!

And that's it for today. Lots of pretty squares!

Aiming for Accuracy!

So, one of my summer projects has been the Aiming for Accuracy QAL. I'm excited with how it has been turning out. It is being hosted over at the Quilting Gallery. The link is over in my sidebar. This started out as a gift project, but has since been changed into just a fun quilt to make. It's also really helping my quilting in general. My accuracy has been improving, as well as I have been finding some pretty awesome tools that help with the whole accuracy thing. So, here we go! At the end is my digital design wall, which is wonderful for getting a sense of color balance and such.

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Design Wall

I haven't gotten around to the square for this week, but thankfully, I have until Friday to do so, which means I can take a few days. 

Catch Up Time!

Hey world,

I have been busy cleaning and packing and working and sewing. I have lots of pictures of everything I have been working on as well. I just haven't gotten around to posting about them. The next few days will have posts covering what I have been up to. Yay for getting caught up.

This is my personalized flask for the dance event that I help organize. I am pretty excited about getting this in. It's just one of those fun things that gets to stick around as I am traveling around. Also, it gives me a good place to stash a little something to keep me calm while working said event. 

In case you are curious about what 35 ears of corn looks like, here you go. Fourth of July baby! I was eating corn for two weeks after this. 

 And here is my little Jeep turning 90,000 miles. It's crazy just how many miles I put on this thing, even though I don't feel like I drive that much.

 I got a new cutting mat at Joann's for 50% off (which was awesome) so Lucky had to break it in for me. Just had to. I don't get why he likes laying on my mats, but he does.

And I got to teach a friend's daughter the basics of tee shirt quilts. More photos to come of the finished quilt. It was fun to work on for her and with her. 

And that's what has been going on with me, at least in a snap shot. There are plenty more posts planned in the next few days to cover all of the other things I have been working on. Enjoy!