My first quilting project

Introducing "The Princess Cape"

It was like "Fiddler on the Roof"

We have a new addition. I have so many projects in my head. I have to wite them down or forget them.

I patched some jeans. I played around with an embroidery stitch. I'm going to make a princess cape for a little girl that invited my son to her 5th birthday party. Quilting is on my agenda, as well as recovering the couch.

Knitting

This is a hat and booties that I finished this past weekend. I'm really happy with the results. This is my first baby project.

Seeds ordered and the competence project

I sent in my seed and potato order on December 31. Now I'm just waiting for everything to arrive.

I've been knitting. Sharon (link to her blog over on the left) put out a competence project. She thought that people do not do things that they can't be good at immediately so they don't learn skills that could be really useful after the apocolypse. My project was to learn how to knit socks. Well I did it. I knitted a sock. For practice I first knitted a Christmas stocking for the boy. Then I knitted the sock using an easy pattern that my friend Susanne gave me. Now I'm working on a pair of baby booties and hat for a family I know. Then I'll make the second sock. After that, who knows. I may knit a rug.

Pictures later.

First one of the season

The first of the seed catalogs has arrived. Just like Christmas music and decorations, they come earlier every year.

The election

What is a liberal with a serious interest in keeping her Second Amendment rights supposed to do? I voted 3rd party.

Let me explain.

I have never been so conflicted by an election before. Obama stands for most of my core beliefs. Education, choice, taking care of people that need help, ending the war in Iraq, all those warm fuzzy things. He even has hinted at the need for lots of us to make sacrifices in order to pull the economy out of it's freefall. John McCain I found to be erratic and really dangerous, except where my 2nd Amendment rights are concerned. And his choice for VP really made me question his judgement. I thought back in 2000 that he was all that and a bag of chips.

I'm still angry that the country had to suffer through 8 years of GWB. I thought it was apparent in 2000 that GWB was an idiot. In 2004 I thought everyone would see through him and get him the hell out. But no. So now, we have huge deficits and a costly war that is sucking the life out of our economy. Because of the lamest.president.ever I get to sound like a nut.

I don't want to sound like a nut. If I can't defend myself, all my other rights are useless.