Christi's Creative Corner: Catching Up Again!!!

I can't believe it has been so long since I have posted! I have been busy with many different projects and just didn't seem to get around to it. Also, there are so many vacation photos that it was a little overwhelming trying to decide what to share, so I'm still putting it off until another post.

First off, let me say that I have been in the sewing room a little. I did some straightening and organizing, and looked over my UFO list for 2017. I'm proud to say that when I show my Civil War quilt at our December meeting I will have completed everything on the list. My New Year's Resolution for the year was to finish more quilt projects than I start. With that UFO list being complete, you'd think I had achieved that. But when I starting finding projects and listing them on my 2018 list, I have almost twice as many UFO's to put on the list as last year! How did this happen????

Well...........

Here are the blocks I completed as part 1 of Bonnie Hunter's new On Ringo Lake mystery project. However I'm way behind on the second clue. I have all of the pieces cut, but have only had time this week to sew one seam! And the next clue comes out tomorrow!

And here is the Bonnie Hunter leader/ender project I started in July. I just need to get the blocks sewn together and then add borders. I need to purchase a little fabric for the first border and then I plan to add a scrappy border. I had these blocks all laid out nicely, but Cici has had a week or more to romp through them, so it will take some work to get them ready to sew together again.

Speaking of Cici, she is working her way through the varying stages of Christmas..........

Putting up decorations...........

Taking down decorations.............

And then she moved on to simply rolling around on the quilted tree skirt and getting it all wadded up. (It is quilted, so she just can't pass up any opportunity to get on or under a quilt!) Then, she started removing decorations from the big tree. The hubs told me that if I'd just get some packages under the tree, she'd probably leave everything alone! (ok, great idea, but first I had to SHOP, then make tags, then make fabric bags to wrap stuff in, etc.) So, last night I handed him several gifts in boxes with the tags made out and said put these in a fabric (reusable!) gift bag, tie it closed, and tie on the tag. He did. NOW Cici is entertaining herself by eating the curling ribbon! (We've experienced this before and know that it takes about a week for ribbon to "pass".)

We did have 2 wonderful Thanksgiving dinners. Our neighbors invited us to their house on Thanksgiving night for turkey dinner. It was great since we had just arrived home from Florida in the early afternoon. I made pies that afternoon, squash, pecan, cherry and