Thoughtful Tuesdays. To Do Tuesday.

Thoughtful Tuesdays
I was going through my blog drafts and found some great ideas for Thoughtful Tuesdays!  Today's is from Gail @ Bible Love Notes.  November of 2016! I found it when I was in the throes of recovering from chemotherapy and simply forgot to write about her post.  (I'm more organized and clear-headed now.)

Gail of 1-Minute Bible Love Notes is an amazing writer who captures deep meaning from God's Word!  Each of her devotionals can be read in under a minute.  
The post I'm sharing today is a great study and ties nicely into Philippians 2:12 - 13.

I hope you take a minute - quite literally - to read this post and be blessed!  

To Do Tuesday

Last week's list was slightly put aside for grandbaby time!  

1) Finish my second Tumbling Blocks prototype.  Not done, but progress made!

2) Finish crocheting two more colors of Maria's Blue Crayon Spring Granny Afghan Crochet ! Almost there!

3) Make more CIL blocks. Nope - Instead I made a different charity project that I'll be sharing soon!  

4) Make progress on Prayer Shawl #7. Yes!

5) Pray my prayer and memorize Genesis 50:20a

 

This Week's List 

1) Even though I'm working more this week, I think I'll be able to finish the second Tumbling Blocks prototype. This one is going much better! 

2) Finish crocheting five blue and yellow flowers of the Maria's Blue Crayon Spring Granny Afghan Crochet ! I wonder if adding starting to join them is too much for my hands?  We'll see......

3) Use up the rest of the strings for the CIL blocks. 

4) Make progress on Prayer Shawl #7. This week our Cancer Care Group meets, so I'll be able to work on this one.  I usually reserve this project for this meeting night.  

5) Pray my prayer and memorize Genesis 50:20a  A friend at church recommended using Post-It notes all around the house to memorize Scripture.  I'm going to try that.  LORD knows I have enough of them!

 I hope you check out these fun link ups!  Please check back tomorrow as I'll be adding a few more interesting Wednesday link ups!  

Fiber Tuesday at

TheQuilting Room with Mel

and

Oui Crochet Community

To Do Tuesday @ Stitch All Things

Linky Tuesday @ Freemotion by the River

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Saturday's Song. Slow Stitching. Stash Report - More in the Red with Yarn,

Saturday's Song

I've shared this week's song, Reckless Love by Cory Asbury, recently, but I felt led to share it again because it is on my heart this morning.  Additionally, I felt led to do a bit of research on the background of this week's song and learned that his use of the word "reckless" to describe God's love caused a bit of a stir in the Christian community.  After listening to his response on this video after he sings, I can only humbly praise God for being so reckless in His love for me - for all of us.  


May we all learn to love recklessly.   Here is the link to the song's lyrics as well as another video with the lyrics showing.  Some have mentioned that they like to read the lyrics.  :)



Sunday Slow Stitching

Maria's Spring Flower Granny Square CAL from Maria's Blue Crayon) is moving along.  I have decided to work up a "bouquet" of flowers  first and then join them.  I love how they look all together!  I picked up a green and blue by Caron to finish this project.  

I cut out the final pieces of my grandbabies Felt Advent Calendar and made a bit of stitching progress!  I'm so excited as I know I have been working on it at least for a little more than a year!


One Year of Stitches.

Progress continues on my  #1yearofstitches.  Increasingly, I'm finding that it's a great way to begin my prayer and Bible study time.  You can follow my daily progress on my Instagram account.


Stash Report
I have gone deeper in the red with my yarn stash.  However, I may yet get in the black - as a good friend said, "Where there's life, there's hope!"  

Sadly, another brick and mortar locally owned shop is going out of business and has reduced their prices.  So, I paid them a visit - and here's my finds.  

This beautiful yarn by Uneek will go nicely with my bit of bling yarn!

 These will also go nicely together!  I love how this superwash by Elysian works up!

UPDATED:  2/11/18 to include new fabric purchases.

Here's my new fabric purchases this week.  I needed the off-white Bella solid for a project.  The other two?  I just liked - a lot!  :)

Fabric used this week	1.875
Previous total	22.525
To Date used	24.400
Fabric in this week	4.000
Previous total	14.500
To Date in	18.500
Net in the black or red?	5.900
Yarn used this week	0
Previous total	0
To Date used	0
Yarn in this week	(corrected) 38.00
Previous total	0
To Date in	13.00
Net in the black or red?	(corrected)-51 oz

Linking up to

Spiritual Sundays

SundayStash @ Quilt, Paint, Create

Sunday SlowStitching @ Kathy’s Quilts

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Saturday's Song. Sunday Slow Stitching. Stash Report.

Saturday's Song

Here's the lyrics.  

So many times we think our mistakes are "too bad", "too big", "too nasty", "too frequent" to merit God's forgiveness.  

Oh my dear reader!
Such lies from the defeated one keep us chained up in defeat.  

Read these lyrics from All You Ever Wanted by Casting Crowns:

"I was chasing healing

when I'd been made well

I was fighting battles

when You conquered hell
Living free but from a prison cell
Lord, I lay it down today

So I'll stop living off of how I feel 

and start standing on Your truth revealed
Jesus is my strength, my shield
And He will never fail me"

The battle, the war is over.

We won through Christ Jesus.

Remember, Loved One, 

Nothing.  

Nothing. 

Can. 

Separate. 

Us. 

From. 

The. 

Love. 

Of. 

God.

NOTHING.

Sunday Slow Stitching

Have you ever read a cute and fun blog by Maria at Maria's Blue Crayon?  In her first post, she writes about her rather cool blog name.  

I found her while pursuing the internet for crochet patterns.  Her Spring Granny Afghan CAL was too pretty to pass up plus I happen to have most of the colors needed!  Yea!  Double win!

I'm really trying to keep up.  One link up that is helping me is Christine's To Do Tuesdays at Stitch All Things.  This is a great link up that helps me keep my focus!  Thank you Christine!  

Here are my first set of flowers!  

I just need to add two more flowers and the borders.  Maria suggests using the join as you go technique to make the first row!  Hopefully, I can meet my To Do Tuesday goal!  

I also finished Days 19-21 of the Felt Advent Calendar!  

  Almost finished!

#1yearofstitches

I joined Sarah's of Brown Paper Bag #1yearofstitches project.  She started it in 2017.  I started in on November 26, 2017 - ten days after our world fell apart.  It required very little effort, helped me focus on getting through life's challenges with victory and to have a "written record" of lessons learned.  I post progress almost daily on my Instagram account.  

Kathy's (Sunday Slow Stitching) photo challenge this week was to share our hoops!  Mine is a plastic hoop in a cheerful peach color!  

Stash Report

Fiber Stash Report: 1/21/18
Fabric used/donated this week	8.525
Fabric used to date	8.525 yds
Fabric Added this week	0  yds
Fabric Added this year	6 yds
Net Fabric	5.875 yds
Yarn used this week	0 oz
Yarn used to date	0 oz
Yarn Added this week	13 oz
Yarn Added to date	0 oz
Net Yarn	-13 oz

The Covered In Love blocks sure helped with stash control!  Also I gave my daughter 2 yards of fabric.  As soon as she finishes her project, I'll share what she made with it!

I didn't have enough green yarn for Maria's Spring Granny Afghan CAL, so I chose to switch it out.  I also purchased the some blue yarn.  Looking at last year's numbers, I used 171 ounces of yarn in six months!  I bet I can do 200 ounces in 2018!  

Linking up to:

SundayStash @ Quilt, Paint, Create

Sunday Slow Stitching @ Kathy’s Quilts

Spiritual Sundays