Big Move

    I sold my house last month.  I have moved into my daughter's home.  We combined the front two bedrooms by opening up the connecting wall and I have a craft room and a bedroom.  It's a lovely space.  I'm slowly getting organized so I can find things.

    Last week I took time to make curtains for one of my closets.   I ordered 15 yards of lovely green cotton from connecting threads.  I hemmed three panels of 44/45" wide to make them.  I put them on a tension rod.  The curtains work well.  I still have to make the curtains for the other closet. That space needs more organization so I'm not ready to make those curtains just yet.  

   I haven't done any other crafting or sewing.  I think I'll be settled in about another month.  I had to make address changes and fill out forms.  Its all so time consuming.  Days fly by.  

Crochet Scrunchie

   I found a pretty crochet scrunchie pattern on youtube.  Link here.  MJ's Off The Hook Designs.  I used a 4.0 mm bamboo hook and the same brand of yarn used in the tutorial.   The yarn is a cotton/acrylic blend, fingering weight.

    I made two of these.  One for dear daughter and one for me.  Each scrunchie took me about 4 hours to finish.  It was a fun pattern to crochet and the instructions were very easy to follow.

First Row Of Hexagon Quilt Is Complete

 I finished the first row of the hexagon quilt.  I'm busy basting more white hexagons for the next 5 rows.  I believe I may need 400 more white hexagons.  Fun.

Working On The Hexagon Quilt

 I finally got my house on the market and I picked up my hexagon quilt to start putting my flowers into rows.  I got the white hexies on the first two flowers of the first row.  I have 34 more full flowers and 6 half flowers to get the quilt top together.   It will take awhile.  

A Little Sewing, Lots Of Yard Work

    I've been busy working in my yard.  I had to dig up six old posts from the deck that disintegrated a few years back.  They were cemented in and I had to dislodge them, then my daughter and I had to hire some guys to pull them out of the ground.  They had a lot of cement attached.  Then I had to fill in the holes so I could get a new stair built from the dining room sliding glass door.  I'm also raking and bagging all the oak leaves and pinestraw left from the winter.  

    I'm getting ready to sell the house that's why I had stairs built from the dining room door.  The raking I do every year.  I've filled 79 bags of yard waste in the last two weeks and I'm not finished.  

  I did do some sewing.  I made curtains for my daughter's kitchen and laundry room.  Basic rectangles with a casing for a curtain rod.  

   I also made some kiss clasp frame change purses.  These were fun to make.

     

Knitting Project

    In January I bought some lovely straight knitting needles from Knitpicks so I could knit scarves.  They are size 13 (9.0 mm).  I'm really enjoying knitting with these needles.

    I also bought a collection of small skeins of acrlic yarn from Amazon in pinks and purple tones.  I'm using 9 of these skeins to knit a scarf.  I'm using up each skein and knitting 4 rows in between each color with a color I found in my stash.  I'm calling this the ugliest scarf I've ever seen, but I think when I wear it next winter I'll love it. 

    Here's a picture of the first three colors and the start of the fourth.