Going around in CIRCLES...in a good way! These circles are meant to be--and here is how they are shaping up! This is the pattern for a quilted Christmas tree skirt that I am in the process of making. This pic is from the free tutorial online at http://www.sewwequilt.com/2011/12/comfort-and-joy-guest-from-us-annies.html My daughter - in - law chose this pattern from three possibilities I offered her. These were free p atterns online  (budget friendly) that I thought I could technically tackle. I am so happy to be able to make them something that they actually need,  will use, and hopefully LOVE!  To start, she chose about 1/3 of the fabrics from my existing red, green and gold fabric stash. Hurray for using stash! Then we went shopping and she helped me pick out the other 2/3 of them at the fabric store. FUN! She is so good with colors, she picked some beauties.  I had to laugh when I got ho me and noticed the main fabric is from a known scrapbo...

Am I running in circles?? Do you ever feel like that? I was feeling a bit overwhelmed the last few days with so many outstanding creative projects and not sure which way to turn to get ANY of them done. Where to start first? After talking to my wonderful daughter about it, she pointed out something I often say to others... Start with the things that are the MOST IMPORTANT to get done first. Whether that is by priority of importance or by deadline of time, make a decision and get moving on that thing that really needs to get done first. Brilliant and somewhat obvious, right? Good call, daughter dear. So I got off my tushy yesterday afternoon and decided the Lone Star quilt for my son needs to get done by Christmas which by the way is less than 90 days away!!! That is a Reality Check right? In order to work on the quilt I needed to make room on my work table for the sewing machine. Which meant I had to clear off the games I had stacked there instead of putting them away. W...