frigid bitch's stitches: Hello Again, Hello!

Hello Again!

(and yes, that is a reference to a Neil Diamond song...just love him and his music!)

I am going to give this blogging thing another try, lol. I can't believe it's been almost two years since my last post! A lot has gone on...changing jobs, heart cath for hubby (he received a stent in August and is doing well), rescuing an abandoned pit bull, trying to kayak and hang more with my friends, births, deaths, and traveling to NY to spend time with my brother and nephews. All the time trying to squeeze crafts in there and kayaking too. Whew...writing it down, it's an awful lot.

This is Gabbi, short for Gabbiano...yes, she's named after a bottle of wine, lol. She was left in a garage for 7 days with no food nor water when a friend of my son's broke her out. Gabbi is an absolute love, but hogs all the attention from Slash and Fiona. She also loves to chase cats. Sooo, we keep her on a leash and in the harness. We've found she doesn't like to be without her harness. It's her security blanket.

On to the crafting front: I recently finished this table runner:

I found this kit on my latest shop hop with my friend Gayle. This is last year's all Florida Shop Hop fabric,,,the kit was precut, so it was a quick stitch. I'm trying to work on my quilting skills as I have two Quilts of Valor to make this year for a couple of guys near and dear to my heart. I probably won't do the quilting, I have a friend at the guild who has a long arm and does great work. Betty did the quilting for the first one I did for a friend of a friend.

This was fun to do, when it wasn't frustrating, lol. But when I saw Gary's reaction to the quilt I made for him, it was all worth it. I also arranged for Tim's friend Diego to receive a QOV through the guild. Whild I didn't make it, I'm so happy to have helped in his receiving one:

I was finally able to meet Diego's mom, Carolina, who is my FB friend and big supporter of my boys. She's an absolute delight and I'm very happy to have met her in person.

I was able to finish at least one crochet project; my crochet cable wrap that I began 13 years ago, lol. I had ripped it out and started over, but here it is finally finished:

It's super warm and I love it. A friend asked me to make her one in white. That one is in progress; it will not take me 13 years to finish it, lol.

Oh and I did make one other quilt I wanted to show you. I made this for a dear sweet daughter of another mother of mine for Hanukkah/Christmas, as she celebrates both:

This was fun to do and even more special because Meghan is a sweetie.

That's it for now. I will post more of my adventures over the past two years with pictures. Let me leave you with our DiBiasio family Christmas picture. The theme was GWAR, thanks to my son Tim.