Craftacular Room

We moved 3 months ago and for the last 4 months I haven't been able to find a single crafting item. Why is it the thing we love is always the last to get our attention?
Well no more, yesterday I removed ever single item, yes you heard me right, every ball of yarn, stay needle, piece of felt and scrap of paper with an idea on it and got organized. The result: my very own Craftacular Room! Yipee! Crafting here I come

Sheep! Wool! Maryland!

A

Katy's surprise yarn for me

B
mega sale cherry hill yarn

C

Cotton with black threads

At the beginning of May Mary loaded Molly, Katy and I into her car and trucked us off to the wonderful land of Sheep, Wool and Maryland: AKA Maryland Sheep and Wool festival. We all desperately needed some good girl time and some and had a blast. Now for those who don't know it the Maryland Sheep and Wool is the Big Bertha of sheep and wool festivals. It is huge! and on that May weekend it was also really hot. I admit that touching yarn in 90 plus weather is just no fun. Somehow we all gravitated to fine wool, go figure.

Above is some of my bootee. I am happy to report that I have several projects going with various sheep and wool yarns.

My favorite is A Katy's surprise yarn for me. At breakfast of the second day Katy and I decided to exchange $20 and see what yarn the other picked out for them. We had a few things in the mix for example I hate knitting mohair so no 100% mohair for me. What I got was the lovely hand dyed, hand spun yarn above. Currently the yarn and I are in conference about what it is suppose to become. It isn't a ton of yardage. At first I thought leg warmers but I would have to add another yarn. Fingerless gloves for a overly AC office? I am not sure but will keep you all posted on the plan. Any ideas are always welcome.

Been Gone for Awhile

Life has been a little too much of too much lately which has meant it is hard to keep up with my blog. But rest assured I am still making lots of stuff! And i might even managed to tell you all about it now that my camera cable is permanently living in my office drawer.
In the mean time...I got a package in this box and when I went to recycle it this little note is what I found- I love it! and it pretty much sums up how I feel right now

Home Is Where Your Bernina Is

Last weekend my guy and I went to the Brooklyn Guild's quilt show. My guys mother is the president, thank you very much, so we got the special tour.
What can I say I was inspired. I realized just how much i missed spending time with Tim Gunn (the sewing machine). My sewing/craft room is far from being operational so with special household permission bestowed on me by my guy Tim and I hit the dinning room table. And as you can see we had some fun.
This is a quilt for Ms. Chloe who was born last August so I really need to get a move on! I am in a bit of a quilter's debtors prison so I need to get a move on here so I can start the next two!

The Great Outdoors

In New York City any outdoor space is good, a fire escape or access to a roof but a porch well that is prime real estate! And our new apartment has not one but TWO yes two porches. Of course they came with the mess that the previous tenant left in the rest of the house. Below is the back porch minus 25 garbage bags of you name it.

And this is the porch before my guy made it his mission in life to clean it up...

After a few more garbage days we should have the back porch entirely cleared out and ready for spring. My guy simply can't choose between the convenience of a gas grill or the quality of a charcoal grill and so he has chosen to have both.

The plan is to try to start planting in two weeks- and the first of many bbq...soon to come

One Room at a Time

Things are coming together. This weekend we continued our battle against the box. We now have a dinning room and as it is the room you first enter into the apartment having it come together has done a lot for our sanity.

This weekend was beautiful so my guy spent a good portion of it doing his best to clear out the back porch from the previous tenants crazy plantings and such. We also battled a good 60 lbs of laundry to the laundry mat. Thank goodness we have a car!! and I have a strong guy.I don't think I have done that much laundry in one big batch since my college days.

So we are now clean and have a lovely dinning room and bedroom (I have pictures of that too but it is on the other camera so you will all have to wait)

Next up the living room.

New Living Arrangement

This is my life right now. We moved in last Saturday post blizzard and my guy had to leave for a trip on Monday so i have been roughing it for the last few days. It isn't too bad. A couple nights ago I dug around and found some key items: a plate, a bowl, a small pot and my underwear. We are sleeping in the dinning room right now and the bed is my safe haven and really only surface to sit on.

This weekend we are hoping to get a rug for the bedroom so we can move the bed into there- I think it will give us a much needed sense of normalcy.