Mid January Update

 I've reached the halfway point on my Blue Sky Full of Stars quilting. 

I am also halfway on my Mill Hill kit. Time to add all the beads...and there are a lot.

We made a trip to Las Vegas so I worked on a couple of Mill  Hill ornament kits which are my preferred travel projects. I got all of the cross stitches made on one kit and it just needs the backstitching and beads. I don't like to add the beads while on the road so I started a second ornament kit. 

Just a little about our Vegas trip. We stayed at the Park MGM...a budget friendly hotel. The entire hotel is smoke free!!! There were so many families at this hotel. It was the weekend with Martin Luther King Day so there were kids sports tournaments taking place...girls soccer and boys hockey. It was nice to walk around the casino and restaurants and see families as opposed to scantily clad ladies with loud folks who might have had a little too much to drink. During the football games some of the bars were loud but pretty normal sports fans. 

We like to attend Golden Knights hockey games and the arena is right outside the front door of the Park MGM so that's the main reason we stayed at this hotel. We saw two games and loved being able to just walk a few minutes to get to our seats.

Back to projects. I started the Noah's Ark Bucilla kit. 

And I started a hand embroidery project. Just six little blocks with a spring theme designed by Lynette Anderson. 

The next big event on my schedule is a quilt retreat the first weekend of February. Too many projects to pick from as I try to decide what to bring. I am hoping the first project of the retreat will be adding the binding to Blue Skyfull of Stars. 

I like to make kits...I just realized that a couple of years ago. I also like blue and white kits. Every year, Robert Kaufman fabrics releases a set of batik metallic blue fat quarters as part of their Christmas collection. I buy them every year. Many of those fat quarters were used for the Blue Sky Full of Stars. I still had many fat quarters It was finally time to start cutting and making some kits. I decided to make them into 2 1/2-inch strips. I have enough to make several quilts! 

My first plan is a pattern I've made before in autumn colors and loved...always wanted to make a winter version.

I'm also going to take at least one UFO...lots of those to pick from too! I think I will take two UFOs and two new projects. I will have four sewing days and I like to work on a different project every day.