tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:05:50 +0000Stitching, Quilting, Crochet... my little hobby worldhttp://www.doodle-head.com/blog/noreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)Blogger800125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-2104253080266533434Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:48:00 +00002008-08-28T05:50:22.664-05:00Three sides of binding on the Double Wedding Ring are now complete. If I can keep up the pace, I might just be able to get it finished this weekend!http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/08/i-think-i-can-i-think-i-can.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-8903403383759236449Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:41:00 +00002008-08-25T12:46:13.329-05:00Snow Puzzle quiltLast week was the last time the AQS Quilt Expo will be held here in Nashville (for at least the next three years because they are moving it to Knoxville), so I definitely wanted to attend it at least a day or two. I also volunteered through my quilt guild to work on Thursday afternoon, and my "payment" was that day's entrance into the show for free. Thursday morning when the show opened, I http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/08/aqs-quilt-expo-nashville.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-8777402333293676119Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:48:00 +00002008-08-16T19:19:35.351-05:00Finished cross stitchSnow Puzzle quiltOver the last few days I've been in the sewing room working away on Delaney's Snow Puzzle quilt. I figure, especially since I am going to quilt it myself, and since Christmas is getting closer and closer (it feels like it's barreling towards me), I should really get moving on it. So today I finally finished piecing the quilt top. Now I just need to find a nice backing fabric and get to http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/08/few-updates-and-new-start.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-4476939698802515705Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:18:00 +00002008-08-09T21:55:41.031-05:00Today is the second Saturday of the month, and so I present the SSS 2008 block for August, Martha Washington Star: It's not as striking as last month's, but then I guess not every block can be a "superstar" (groan, I know, but I couldn't resist). We bought a new digital camera today (Sony Cyber-shot), and I finally got the battery charged so I could play with it a little bit. I love having http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/08/new-month-new-block.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-4959075381597194780Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:36:00 +00002008-08-06T18:40:21.553-05:00Finished cross stitchI've been slowly plugging away, and it has finally paid off. The last time I updated was back in May, so here is the result of several months more stitching: Maidens of the Seasons I and II are finished!!!!!!!!!! I'm slowly recovering from my strep throat, mostly trying to get my energy back now. This means that I'm officially down to 14 cross stitch WIPs. Happy Dance with me everyone!!!http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/08/huge-happy-dance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-6833212711474126653Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:41:00 +00002008-08-03T15:57:43.061-05:00I finally got my Double Wedding Ring quilt binding made, and I spent several afternoons working on attaching it to the top of the quilt. That was a pretty long process, because of all of the inside and outside corners. Friday night I finally got to start stitching the binding down to the back (and stitching up those inside corners so that my points aren't floppy). I didn't make it very far http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/08/sidelined.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-8576788965087028232Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:36:00 +00002008-07-29T11:41:27.726-05:00I played around and played around with the layout last night and finally came up with something I like. I liked the idea of making it like Nova, but since the squares were not using unique fabrics, I wasn't sure how well I could pull that off. Here is the bottom half of the quilt laid out, and the top half will mirror it, so there will be light fabrics in the corners darkening to the center. http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/07/snow-puzzle-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-7922008346863034704Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:31:00 +00002008-07-28T20:44:55.639-05:00 Here it is, finally, the Retro Rib Sock (first of the pair). And today I finally finished stitching down the curved bias edges of all of the blocks for Delaney's Snow Puzzle. Now I just have to figure out how I want to arrange them. Should I just let it be random? Should I somehow arrange them by value? By color? Suggestions anyone? Here is exactly one quarter of all of the blocks - one of http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/07/retro-rib-sock-and-delaneys-snow-puzzle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-7417112949741783543Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:33:00 +00002008-07-25T16:04:27.483-05:00Work has been super-busy once again, but I just finished two really big projects, so I'm feeling a good sense of accomplishment right now. I've gotten great feedback on both of them, which also makes me feel good about all the work I put into them. I've gotten pretty good at multi-tasking lately. :) On the knitting front, I've finished the first sock and started on the second, photo to be http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/07/ramblings-and-updates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-2767456076776126934Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:03:00 +00002008-07-15T16:29:20.529-05:00I've been asked about how I made the t-shirt blocks, so I thought I'd share here. Major disclaimer - these are my own instructions, and I am not a professional, so they are just from my notes. I hope they aren't too difficult to understand! :) So the t-shirts themselves were 12½ inches square once they were fused (woven fusible interfacing) and trimmed. They would be 12 inches square http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/07/more-on-t-shirt-quilt.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-4905621626377115690Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:21:00 +00002008-07-12T17:18:38.565-05:00Today is Super Second Saturday, so we went and picked up my block kit for July. I think this is my favorite so far this year - Card Basket Block. We also ran by the local office supply store and picked up a package of sheet protectors. I have been stacking up the quilting magazines for over a year now, and it is well past time to go through them and put my favorites in my quilt patterns binderhttp://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/07/quilts-in-progress.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-6553579932194380102Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:39:00 +00002008-07-05T18:55:56.250-05:00knittingAnd it couldn't have come at a better time. Work has been non-stop busy with projects, and will be for the forseeable future, that I'm glad to have an extra day tacked on to the weekend where I can play. And play I have. I spent nearly the entire day yesterday playing Lego Star Wars. C has been racing Grid online, and we both stayed up past midnight last night - I can't remember the last timehttp://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/07/happy-holiday-weekend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-1787706333849139150Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:16:00 +00002008-06-24T22:23:39.453-05:00 I can't remember if I mentioned this about the t-shirt quilt before or not. I found a really unique t-shirt quilt online one day when I was just surfing around. The blocks in it were bordered with the same fabric and then an additional darker fabric so that it looked as if the blocks were sitting on top of the quilt, shadowed. I really liked that idea and decided to use it in Hollywood's http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/06/t-shirt-blocks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-7086946773073491571Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:19:00 +00002008-06-17T17:45:55.692-05:00Yesterday after work I went to one of my local yarn shops and purchased some Koigu (KPPPS) yarn in a yummy not-quite-chartreuse color (yes, it's true, I do not have a huge yarn stash, at least not for sock knitting, and given my huge cross stitch and quilting stashes, I'm trying to keep it that way for now - besides, some of these yarns are really expensive, yikes!). Before dinner, I got my sockhttp://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/06/learning-lessons-while-knitting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-3438527981450110879Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:07:00 +00002008-06-14T20:31:47.440-05:00SSS 2008 quiltFinally, I have finished my Cocoa Bling Kitty quilt and my second pair of knitted socks. Here it is, with the backing and a closeup of the quilt pattern - kitty paw prints! Once I finally got back to knitting the second sock, it went really quickly, and I finished it in just a few days. I really want to start another pair! I just have to find some sock yarn. I want to try a pattern this http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/06/quilting-and-knitting-projects-finished.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-565406853534686541Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:25:00 +00002008-06-07T19:49:39.321-05:00[Techie stuff start] ... especially when they stop working in the way they're supposed to... I mean, how useful is wireless internet if your laptop can't find the connection anymore? Looks like I'll have to get some tech support to help me out, because now it won't even connect with my wired network either. :( I'm stuck in "that room" in order to post this evening. Of course, that's just thehttp://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/06/sometimes-i-really-hate-computers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-436882928839498363Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:22:00 +00002008-06-03T16:53:24.049-05:00Because I don't pay attention to where I'm going, nor do I pick up my feet sufficiently as I'm trying to get there. And therefore, Sunday night, I paid for it in a very painful way... I broke my pinky toe. And because I never do anything halfway, the x-rays showed it was broken quite significantly in two pieces, diagonally down the bone. The best thing that I can say about it (because there http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/06/apparently-im-still-learning-how-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-1976817194376690088Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:31:00 +00002008-05-31T19:39:40.170-05:00May 31 - this month (heck, this year) has gone by so fast. This week will be busy with work, the quilt guild meeting, and a machine quilting class. For those of you who noticed, yes, that is a new picture of me. I haven't changed my glasses frames, but I have changed my hairstyle (and it's been that way for a while now), so I decided it was time for the update. It's one of those angled bobs (http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/05/another-month-come-and-gone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-803819033749101409Sat, 24 May 2008 19:43:00 +00002008-05-24T21:24:49.854-05:00gamesI bought Lego Star Wars the Complete Saga, and I'm having SO much fun with it! Quilts and cross stitch and everything else will just have to wait a few days. :) Edited to add: My WiiFit is on it's way! I just got the shipping notice, and I can't wait to "play" with all the yoga, balance, strength training, etc. I was lucky enough to find a deal online after everyone had stopped taking http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/05/addicted-to-new-video-game.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-5683209495468422179Mon, 19 May 2008 00:03:00 +00002008-05-18T19:22:25.323-05:00SSS 2008 quiltSolitaire Star This past week and weekend I've been playing mostly with quilts. I've pieced together a few more hexagons for my Grandmother's Flower Garden.I've been quilting on some of the outer circles of the Double Wedding Ring.I now have 13 t-shirts fused and cut into squares ready to start piecing into the t-shirt quilt (I got the backing fabric for the quilt - Oakland Raiders - this weekhttp://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/05/sss-2008-block-5.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-768676182626545490Sun, 11 May 2008 21:46:00 +00002008-05-11T16:52:21.237-05:00Here's the project I couldn't reveal until after I'd given them to my mom today. I made her a set of reversible placemats with that Cotton Theory technique. The front side is pinks and the back side is greens. http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/05/happy-mothers-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-1237044190234543984Thu, 08 May 2008 23:07:00 +00002008-05-08T18:14:38.845-05:00Thank you for all of your sweet comments on Middy. Instead of taking a break, I started a new project, and I'll be able to share that with you on Sunday. I also dove right into working on Winter Maiden, and I have a new progress pic to share. I've gotten a little more done since this picture, and she's almost halfway complete.http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/05/winter-maiden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-478655257054250365Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:01:00 +00002008-04-26T14:08:03.185-05:00Finished cross stitchI have no idea where I'm going to hang her when she's framed (wall space is becoming limited, who knew that could happen?), but here she is, finished today. Mirabilia's Midsummer Night's Fairyhttp://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/04/middy-is-finished.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-2058766929165116433Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:24:00 +00002008-04-23T16:34:43.145-05:00I'm taking off three days this week. I originally had intended on driving up to Paducah for the AQS Quilt Show, but changed my plans when I had to schedule some appointments here in town. So today my AC unit got a spring cleaning and my little Spice got new shoes (Michelin's this time, nice!). Mom stopped by for a nice visit (we saw the teeny tiny little ducklings for the first time walking http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/04/my-mini-vacation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060482.post-8353795194334838104Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:22:00 +00002008-04-22T18:51:17.606-05:00I've signed up for a machine quilting class, and I just can't wait, but I guess I'll have to... :) It's scheduled for June 4, and a fellow quilter is taking it with me, so we should have double the fun, right? The quilt shop employee who was scheduling me for the class said that she had taken the same class before she started working there, and that is was an excellent class with an excellent http://www.doodle-head.com/blog/2008/04/im-excited-but-i-have-to-wait-until.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (lissylaine)