The Mint Needle

Hello sunshine! Well that cute little runner I started has been completed and it came out delightful! It is smaller than I had anticipated but I guess it's okay considering I've never done blocks on a diagonal. Just take a look! I lined the back with pastel, pink satin. As I began folding it, I realized it would make a really cute bag! But for now, I kept it a mini runner:) And..... this other piece was screaming "finish me!" all the way from last year. So that's just what I did. Pretty cute, huh? It seems to brighten the kitchen table even though the views still consist of snow and cold, cold skies. I apologize for my lack of St. Patrick's day projects. I just haven't been feeling very 'green'. I am planning, however, to take a try at some Irish Soda Bread and will upload it to clementine & clove:) Until then, enjoy the changes Spring is to bring. Daylight savings time is Sunday, March 9th! Here'...

And the snow shall continue..... March 1st seemed to be a little tease from Mother Nature. Weather in the 40's and spurts of sunshine gave us a slight break, one that even made the buds on our peach tree look a tiny bit bigger. And from what I'm gathering from the blogs I follow, all you are going through quite the same thing. The truth, I really don't mind the snow. It's the cold polar vortex that's slowly doing me in. And according to the Farmers Almanac, it's not going away anytime soon. Do you know how they predict the weather patterns? By solar outbursts in the sun & the way that it reflects back to our earth, along with current weather movements. Pretty neat, huh? Maybe, just maybe, that statistical 20% of being wrong will kick in this Spring. Let's keep our fingers crossed! Until then, the living room window shall serve a delightful purpose for house plants on sunny mornings. So if it's still freeeeeezzing outside, what have we been do...

I'm pretty sure all of you can see by now, I love to sew.  And.... I love to have a bazillion projects going on at once. Anyone who checks out the Etsy shop will notice a couple new items, plus whatever's featured on this blog. Maybe, they think to themselves, "how much time does she have?" But, the truth is, I start 500 things and work on them a little at a time, so sometimes I'm able to finish 3 projects in one day. I wanted to post this mini table runner, for one, how cute it is, and two, how fast it was to create. It literally took all of an hour and couple minutes to make. When everything is pre-cut, projects move very fast. (Meanwhile, I know you all have read about my scrappy quilt and yes, I'm still working on it. Maybe subconsciously this was a preliminary - "let's see how it goes thing".) Still.... I had so many remnants of beautiful fabrics, I didn't want to use them as 'scraps'. I made a bunch of 5" squares ins...