Getting Some Control---- Off the Wall Fridays

Have I told you lately how thankful I am that  you all show up every week for Off  the Wall Fridays?  Well I am!  I mean, normally in past years, I've had a habit of being creative from about March through the fall.  Then somewhere  - when the days start to shorten, darkness seems to descend on my creative spirit.  It take spring to bring me back to life.  But this year, since it would be pathetic for the host not be doing something, I've kept creating.  So thank you!

This week I only managed to sew a couple of hours to get together the crosses.  They've been baking up on my design wall for the last couple of weeks.  I've really fallen in love with the complex piecing - well it looks complex doesn't it? Only you and I know that they are improve blocks and just flew together with scraps of each block making it look so complex.  Still next time I do this - I'm going to have my husband make plexi-glass template of the size block I cut them down to.  Gosh with all the piecing it was hard to get the blocks to measure out right at the end.  So when I put them together they were all a little off.  (Not that I have control issues or anything).

I did use my handy-dandy little dot stickers to help me keep them in order.  I mean - it looks like I just threw the blocks together any ole way - but I didn't.  I took a lot of time to get them just in the order I wanted them in and I didn't want to screw that up not sewing them together right.  With the dot method - I just numbered each row as I sewed (reusing the dots till they lost their stickyness).  The dots are always oriented in the same way on each block so that not only do I know what order they go in - but also which way is up.  All that control for only a buck!  What more could a girl ask for??
 (I get them cheapie at the Dollar General)

So the crosses are together and just need layered and quilted.  Since all my shopping is done and one tree is up - I might just managed to get that done this week.  Then again - I have another tree that needs dressed and a good cleaning to this house.  I mean - there must be a house somewhere under all these Christmas boxes and fabric scraps!  OMG - not only do I need a wife - now I need a ELF!

So what have you been up to creatively??