Do you remember when cram jar dying fabric was all the rage?  It's still my favorite way of dyeing when I want mottled fabric for quilting or cross stitch.  The dyes I used for this piece are indigo blue and dark grey.  I like it!  It just needs a little bath in a weak solution of grey dye, as the blues are a bit too bright.

Crescent Angel by The Primitive Needle has been a languishing FO since May, so it's time to get it finished.  It will live it's best life as a little wall hanging. There's no turning back now it's been cut out.   It'll be needle turn appliqued and echo quilted onto a piece of the dyed fabric.  I played about finding the perfect spot for it and snipped the edges of the fabric so I won't forget where to cut.  Found that one out from experience many years ago.  

Made a couple of pouches for cheater glasses from a couple of orphan blocks (Simple Pleasures by The Bird House) and a stash scrap of hand dyed fabric.  So, that's two more for the FFO pile.

I couldn't sleep last night, so the only sensible thing to do was more finishing.  The printer decided it was going to save on ink and print blank pages, which meant the stocking pattern for Stocking Of Love by La-D-Da (with a curly toe and wild curves) was changed for one I drew that didn't look like a left handed two year old had drawn it.  It's stitched on 32 count linen in DMC.  I can't remember the number.  It's 4 1/2 inches long.  The toe and back are in a dark green Civil War reproduction print.

The heel fo Winter Song by Blackbird Designs looked like a moon boot, so that had some surgery.  The stuffing opening is at the top....oops!  In a middle of the night "this is a good idea" mode ( it really wasn't) I decided to glue and hold the opening closed with a peg instead of sewing it with about four ladder stitches because middle of the night me decided that would take too long to do.  There's a peg mark at the top where the glue dried.  I'm calling it a design element.  lol  it's 1 3/4 inches on a scrap of coffee dyed 25 count evenweave.

I'm pretty sure all this happened because BEB was ignoring the buttons on Miss Mary Mack. I don't like sewing buttons on anything at the best of times and despise sewing those with shanks.  I need to put on my Big Girl Crafty Pants on, suck it up and get them sewn on!  lol

This is what the dining room table looked like about 2am.  lol  

This pattern has been pulled out, since I'm in a mood for winter crafting.  A set of penguin shelf sitters will be cute.  I don't particularly care for the hats and since I have no felt to make them with anyway, they'll be left off.

Now all the languishing FOs are finished, it's back to the string quilt.  Every April/May and September/October, I go through and reorganize the stash.  That's how all the strips ended up in the quilt fabric stash.  I may have been trying to hide them.  lol.  Part of that is trimming yardage that has chunks cut out of it.  Any trimmings will be feeding either the string quilt or the hexi/yoyo stash.  Same with anything that is smaller than a fat quarter.  Petting and refolding fabric is always fun, which is why it happens twice a year instead of once a decade.  Haha!

P.S.  Every single one of these projects was a squirrel.  It's what happens when I make a plan.  It was a BIG, fun plan to get 70 string blocks finished over two weeks.  Well, you see the results of my planning.....which is why I work on whatever I like, whenever I like.  lol. It was fun to have new starts and finishes.  Now, it's on to........