Sparrow In Flight: February 2012

Friday, February 24, 2012

Finishes-2012-W8: "Chilling Like a Baby Villain..."

My husband likes to ask our one-week old daughter, "Are you Chilling like a baby villain?" Now I have no idea what it means but its the cutest thing! We are delighted to announce that I have completed my greatest project for 2012, the birth of my daughter, Ziona! After about 24 hours of labor, 1 hour of pushing I still ended up with a c-section because she came out 1oz shy of 8lbs, not bad for two weeks "early" I'd say! I took the picture to the right to represent my 39th week of pregnancy.

Needless to day with my restrictions after surgery my project count is low, although I did complete my 12 Wonky house blocks, 20 wonky green tree blocks and a million signature blocks (I will have extras for other projects for sure!) just 2 days before I went to the hospital, so I am pleased. You can find the pictures for the rest of these blocks HERE on my flickr page!

Linking up this week to:
TGIFF hosted this week by Rhonda @Quilter In The Gap
Finish It Up Friday hosted by Amanda Jean@Crazy Mom Quilts
& This Week hosted by Sunni @Love Affair With My Brother!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

SR/WIP-2012-W7: Coffee, Tea, & Me!

(I had this post ready but forgot to hit "Publish" button before we left for doctor's visit which then led to the hospital! Read Friday February 24th's post for more news!)

I have been sitting here for weeks flooding my pinterest boards with pins, ideas, and inspirations! I like to first check out my friends' ins, then strangers' pins, and then I spend random time scouring the internet for more ideas. With all these pins people often say to me, "Will you ever use or make anything from those links?" I can already say yes to that! I have goals of doing more of course, but I honestly haven't the ability at the moment. With knowing that we have now scheduled to move at the end of May (Just need to find a new place!), I hesitate to start many new projects. Plus with the unknown of Motherhood just around the corner, I am not sure how much I will actually be able to accomplish.

Wonky House Block Swap
I have been have fun with the Wonky House Block Swap-round one! I have finally completed my wonky igloos and my signature blocks. I was super excited to hear that round Two would be Wonky trees! I kind of got a little mixed up on my counting when I started making them though and ended up with 21 trees instead of 12. I decided I will keep one and then mail the other 20 off for the swapping. This round is still open for sign-up, so even if you did not get a chance to be a part of the Wonky House Block Swap, there is is time to make trees for the swap in round two! You can see all of my finished Wonky houses and tree on my flickr page (I posted one of my tree blocks down below as well).

Tea Pot Cross-stitch
I have been working on my teapot cross-stitch as well; my husband has been a real help to me on this one. I have goals of getting this finished by Christmas, one has to think ahead and not get to crazy on one's goals, lol. It is supposed to be a table runner, but I am not sure if I am going to go that route yet.

My Goals for this week:

1) Finish/Mail Wonky & Siggy Blocks
2) Cowboy Table Runner

3) Mending for husband

4) Cross Stitch

5) Continue to grow Ziona.

Projects:

Started in the past week: 20

On WIP List this week: 15

On UFO List this week 11

Completed past week: 00

Completed this year: 12

Fabric: (Does not include wonky blocks yet)

Busted the past week: 0.0

Busted this year: 11.75

Stashed the past week: 0.0

Stashed this year: 26.0

Net Busted for 2012: -14.25

Linking up this week to:

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

SR/WIP-2012-W5: Something New to do...

Oh My What an interesting week it has been! I am still having contractions that are not doing anything and so I have to stay laying down or resting or they start back up. I have had 3 Visits to the hospital and finally today an Ultrasound check-up to see how Ziona is doing! She has healthy heart, her breathing is good, and she still looks very much like her daddy! We have a few more weeks I am hoping to keep her incubating!

I am hoping to do some smaller projects around our place, the first is completing my Wonky House swap Blocks and signature blocks in time to mail for the deadline! You can see the 5 I have completed on my Flickr account. I miss-measured cutting the outside strips for the other 8 blocks, but I am hoping to get that ripped out, measured, cut and sewn in place tonight. I am hoping to tackle the signature blocks and my mending tomorrow (3 pairs of pants need buttons replaced and hems augmented for my husband). When those things are done & mailed off, I will be resting, watching Netflix, and working on my Tea Pot Cross Stitch (My husband is teaching me to cross stitch; of course I had to pick a large colorful runner to start with!).

My Goals for this week:

1) Work on Wonky House & Signature Blocks

2) Mending for husband

3) Cross Stitch

4) Continue to grow Ziona.

Projects:

Started in the past week: 02