A Saint Powered Life

Wow!  The days and weeks have flown by since the holidays!  Work is great and keeps me busy.

What I have been doing:
For Christmas, I gave all of my co-workers aprons.  For the 2 guys I made BBQ aprons with pockets.  (Pattern to follow) and for the ladies, I made cute aprons.  (Patterns to follow)  A cool dozen aprons, all my own patterns.

I made a pillowcase for our Grand Daughter.  She latched onto a piece of fabric, so I made her the pillowcase!

My youngest son's "23" quilt is cut out.  I made the half-square triangles using the X and + method - they were sooo easy!

I cut out a dozen flannel baby blankets.  I am going to use the remaining fabric for a flanel quilt or two. 

I have organized my fabric and notions, and gave my sister (in-law) a bunch of fabric, patterns, thread, and notions.  My mom's stash of fabric, patterns, thread, and notions is slightly less now, I would have sent more, but I was afraid I would scare her if I send too much!

I spent the Valentine’s Day weekend with hubby.  It was lots of fun!  We toured the Iowa with my brother's family and my cousin and her infant son.  On Sunday, we had lunch with our nephew and his new girl friend.  The best time was just spending a couple of days with hubby!

Things starting soon...
The 23 quilt piecing.
Another quilt for the grand baby.  Something pink with princesses.  And coordinating sheets and pillowcases.
A skirt for me.
Baby blankets - does it seem like everyone is having babies?  Maybe I will do some burp clothes and coordinating changing pads.
Aprons for my guys.  I will perfect the pattern, post pictures, and maybe do a tutorial.
I bought a couple of 100% wool sweaters at the local thrift store and felted them.  I think I will make a purse and a couple zipper bags out of them.
I am thinking hard about the garden lay out for this year.  I thought I would start stuff indoors, but maybe not.  I know that snow peas will go in the garden soon.  The compost is ready to roto-till.
I need to order a coupe yards of mulch.  All of the flowerbeds are in dire need of refreshing.
Dig up and replant my mutant irises.  I started out with irises of varying colors, which are all now white.  I did not think they would change color from the color they were breed to be, but there must be something about the soil that turned them all white.  Oh well, I had mutant irises in Colorado too, they would bloom in late summer.  I read somewhere in the past year or so that you can buy certain strains that will bloom later in the season.  The Colorado ones were not hybrids - they were some from my mom's garden that bloomed in late spring, hers still did, but mine bloomed much later.

That is all for now.