Ramble ramble..... Create

Early am my brain tends to ramble away, listing ideas to try out for the day, to do lists.. Creative ideas, reflections on things past .

And then my feet hit the ground... Off to the races.. To do lists be dammed. Yesterday was beautiful in every way it could be. Few of it was burned into memory to savor later on. 

Lists of creativeness get written into two places into my notebook app.or the short list of things to do items to buy 

Make coffee. Must make coffee. I migrate to the love seat in the front room fire up my ipad. And set up my knitting. The day has officially begun.

Lists fly everywhere my notebook app the creative one is full of ideas with drawings along with photos. Not all of them will come to reality. But there they are written up challenging me to give it a try. Some I well some I won't.

The short list is as said more of a to do must buy list.

Quick check in at face book. Coffee done time to keep moving.

Knitting becomes the settle in peaceful thing I do. Like reading a book. I go on blindness adventures when knitting . That is if I am not watching tv lol.

My creative adventures for this day is not only knitting hats for Christmas. But finishing the yarn boxes made from cloth . I have one more to make. 

Quilters board idea

I have very limited room to put in a flannel board for viewing my quilt blocks . But i got an idea.

Use an old window  blind the kind that pulls up or down. Take the blind off the wooden dowel ,( most of the older ones do , some of the more recent ones don't have wooden dowels) replace this with your made to fit flannel quilters board. I would measure the area you plan to install this. Buy white flannel to fit and if you like some nice backing material , sew them together to fit the blind attach. Then hang where you want . This way when not in use you can just pull like any blind and poof rolled into storage . 

Mandypie quilts

I started quilting years ago when my son , now a father to a sweet baby girl, was small himself. I was so tired of the cheep blankets we bought from the corner store in seattle. Which is where i lived back then. And had walked into a beautiful quilt store on one of my many walks with the children.
I thought about those pretty quilts often. Then got the idea to take old dresses i could buy at the thrift store and turn them into quilts using the yummy blankets i dad as batting.
I had not one clue what i was doing back then , just cut make blocks sew sew sew. Of course the idea was good, they worked but the quilts were certainly not square, they were all over the place.
I put it all down for years . Much like i did my knitting when i first began.
 Years later hubby helped me get back into not just knitting but quilting as well. No matter where we lived i always have had a craft corner, stuffed with supplies for what ever kind of project i wanted to do. The major ones being knitting and quilting.

 Here i will share with you the ones i do have photos of that i have made through the yrs. starting with the most recent , this one was made for my sons daughter Zia, for this past christmas i wanted her to have a oart of her fathers culture so i used my grand mothers moccasin top patterns as boarders, and a devils club leaf at each corner. Which in our culture is used for a ton of medicinal purposes. Then in the center i added the family crest . Used flannel for the whole quilt front and back and good wool batting for the fill.