Happy New Year

Well, I am still on a huge learning curve with my blog. Pictures have been problematic for me, but I hope to improve as I go. This is my first purse of the 52 I am planning to make this year. Hopefully I can stay on track with goal. I got up this morning and zipped out with a friend to have a fresh cinnamon roll at AuFond. That was a treat as she will return to work next week and that will be the end of that kind of spontaneous moment. I am still working on my BOM and hope to post pictures soon. It has taken me three days to make the bias vine and applique it. Will be working on the last of the border until it is done.

Block of the month quilting

Progress is finally being made. This is the 2010 Sue Spargo block of the month, Crimson Tweed. I started out pretty strong, but just sort of put it aside in June and that was that. I do this sort of thing every year. Then the end of the year comes and I have another UFO. Well I made a decision this year not to do another BOM and I think for now that is a wise idea for me. I am going to stretch myself to at least finish this top before the end of the month and will post progress as it occurs. I woke up at 4:00 a.m. and started putting the blocks I had finished together and was able to add in the flying geese. Hopefully tomorrow I will make some more progress.

I am new to sharing

Wow, for over a year I have been promising my friends that I would start a blog so that I could share what I am working on, where I am going and other special things. Now the time is come and I hope that everyone will be patient with my new endeavor. I am so excited that 2010 is just about done. It has been a tough year in a lot of ways and I plan to start 2011 on a very positive note. The first thing I have to say is I have made a goal to make a purse a week in 2011. I am hoping that the blog will help keep me honest and on track. Some will be complex taking more than a week to complete and some will be simple. Some will be very small and a few will be enormous. Since I committed to myself this year to wear only neutral colors, mostly black and white, this will be one of the ways I can add color and style to my wardrobe. Next week I will reveal my first purse with any technical hints. Today I am trying to work on finishing a Sue Spargo (my hero) quilt. On a personal note my son is leaving to go and stay with his new girlfriends family until he goes back to college. I am glad to reclaim my home, which had become a massive dorm room, but will miss him.