HEARTS AND THEN MORE HEARTS--

 I guess you could call me the heart girl as I seem to have been doing my share of heart projects the past couple years--

And this month is full of hearts--everywhere--

This is this year's Crabapple embroidery for the month of February--we get a heart to do each day during the month-- I will be doing heart #4 later today--

And this is this month's square on the Woven Wreath monthly stitch along with Kathy S.

I am so glad I decided to do mine in colors for each square--do like how this one came out--But now the first one looks washed out--

So--I may have to redo a bit of this one--time will tell???

And this is the latest counted cross stitching piece I did this past week--

This piece is one of Melisa's designs and did have a couple blue birds on it-but I just wanted it more plain and simple for Valentines Day--now to decide how to finish it???

And--

Yep--

And-- I started a new heart quilt on my own--

I am just appliqueing only pink hearts on 4" strips now--we will see where I am headed with this one of these days?????

And my heart loves all babies--and for a long time now I have wanted to make Baby quilts--but you know how it is--sometimes it just takes along time to finally do a project--but I have started off the new year with my first baby quilt--

Got this cute fat quarter bundle on sale the first of January from Missouri quilts--and it is all ready to give to a baby--our local quilt chapter is collecting them for our local hospital--I have gotten some more prints for future baby blankets too!!!!

And talking about--love-- I do love my new straight pins--

I guess they are designed to be able to iron over and not melt--but I love them cause I can pick them up easier and use them easier with these 'old' fingers of mine!!!

And here is a sweater knitted with some yarn from my 'mistake' on the size yarn I needed--

now to wash the sweater and see how it comes out--Hobbii company is in Demark and I can get an order from them in a week to 8 days--and it takes 2 weeks for an order from Missouri Quilts--Crazy???

 

Well the first NASCAR race was suppose to be today--but it was at a track in LA, CA--and because of that bad storm system hitting there today--the Pineapple Express-they did the race last night-no concerts and very few people in the grandstands--but the first race for 2024 is done--it was a non-points race!! I just hope that coast comes out with very little damage today!!!

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Non stitching news--Here is some Drama for you--on Friday everyone got a letter on their doors that they want to raise the food price daily for here--we now pay $5 a day and it is mandatory--whether you eat it or not--probably less than half of the tenants go down and get lunch--there is 167 apartments in this Senior building--well--they want to raise the price to $7 a day--that's an extra $60 each month out of every ones already tight budget--now I realize it may need to go up some--after all everything else has gone up--but the letter doesn't stop there--they want to raise it to $9 a day in 2025 and to $15 dollars a day by 2028---WHAT---??????????  of course this has not been approved by the top organization yet--so we will see what happens--so I now live with a whole bunch of very unhappy, scared, neighbors!!!

I AM SO GLAD I QUILT AND KNIT AND HAVE YOU OTHER BLOGGERS TO READ AND THINK ABOUT-OK AND NASCAR--SO LET'S KEEP THOSE NEEDLES AND DESIGNS FLYIN--AND KEEP SMILING--

HUGS AND BLESSINGS, DIANE