As the old year winds down

I am thinking about and planning some projects for 2012

I saw lots of embroidered tops on a recent trip down to West Palm Beach,

especially at Anthropologie

so I dug out some of my vintage patterns and collected floss and fabric

I plan to make up several kits in the next few days for embroidering and sewing.

I will also be listing a bunch of my vintage patterns on etsy so stay tuned!

DH gave me a wonderful magazine for Christmas called Jane Austen Knits - I love it!

And here I am casting on the Theme scarf out of some Cherry Tree Hill yarn from my stash

the color is called Spring Frost and it is so beautiful!

I also started working on a quilt for DH's birthday this spring

The pattern is from the February 2009 issue of American Patchwork & quilting

which I picked up at the Used Book Store

I think he will like it (well, I hope so anyway).

He likes to have a small quilt down at the bottom of the bed

just in case his feet get cold!

Thanks for reading

and hope you have a fun weekend!

We are just staying home for New Year's Eve

but I am going to a painting party on New Year's Day

and we are attending a big birthday party on Jan 2-

should be fun!!

that's all for 2011 -

see you next year

Chris