TUSAL....

Totally Useless Stitch Along....the new one for 2019 is up and running. 

Hop over to It's Daffycat to check out all the folks joining in.

This is my 2018 jar of ort's.  The little pile of threads is my January so far.

I HAVE A TA-DA......

I have a ta-da today.  I started a Giant Granny Square Afghan a couple of years ago.  I was using all my left over yarn, you know the ones, the little balls of yarn that accumulate after working on a project.  There's not enough to do anything with.......so my Granny Square kept growing.  This is what it looked like the last time I worked on it.

This is the finished Afghan......

I've also neglected to post my TAST (Take A Stitch Tuesday) stitches.  You can see all the stitches at Sharon's place Pintangle.  Sharon has a Stitch Dictionary full of stitches.  With definitions and illustrations of how to do the stitch.  Just click on the link and you will go straight to the Stitch Dictionary. 

Week 12 - Sheaf Stitch

You often see Sheaf Stitch used as a light, filling stitch with single stitches spaced evenly over an area, but it is often underestimated, as it is far more interesting than just an area filler. 









Week 13 - Buttonhole Wheel Stitch

These are often used to form small floral sprays making them useful stitches for crazy quilting and surface embroidery, but you can also use them in a contemporary manner too. 









Week 14 - Arrowhead Stitch

It is very versatile and you can use it for stylish projects on the one hand, and children’s stitching projects on the other.











Week 15 - Rice Stitch

 
 Rice stitch is also known as Crossed Corners and William and Mary stitch. This is thought of as a canvas stitch. 












I've also got my TUSAL (Totally Useless Stitch A Long).  Do you keep all those snips of treads and yarn?  If so, you should join Sharon for the TUSAL.  She posts every New Moon. 
April TUSAL....

Year to Date TUSAL

I'll be linking up with.......

Heather at Books and Quilts
Sharon at Pintangle 
Sharon at Daffycat

BOOK REPORT AND TUSAL......

Whisper of Evil - Kay Hooper

Product Description(Amazon.com)
Someone is stalking the little town of Silence. Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community—yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder. Were their deaths the ultimate punishment for those secrets? Or something even more sinister? Nell Gallagher has come home to Silence more than a decade after leaving one dark night with her own painful secrets. Forced now by family duty to return, she has also come home to settle with the past. But past and present tangle in a murderer’s vicious attacks, and to find the answers she needs, Nell must call on the psychic skills that drove her away years before. She must risk her own life and sanity, and regain the trust of the man she left behind so long ago. For the killer she seeks is seeking her, watching her every move, preying upon her every vulnerability—and already so close she’ll never see death coming . 
Series: Bishop/Special Crimes Unit (Book 5) 
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages 
Publisher: Bantam; Reissue edition (June 25, 2002) 
Language: English 
ISBN-10: 0553583468 
ISBN-13: 978-0553583465

MY THOUGHTS: New author and series for me.  But as usual I've started in the middle of the series.  So I'll be adding this series to my list.  This was a really awesome book.  Kept me reading, I just couldn't figure out who was doing this, so of course I had to keep reading to find out.  The person doing this wasn't even a known person so it was a surprise.  I give this book 5....

This book is for 2 of my reading challenges....
52 Books in 52 Weeks Challenge
Monthly Keyword Challenge

On another note, I've been working on my circle quilt.  I've got February almost done. 

January is all done, even got the embroidery done on the gray circles.  Love those little happy faces.

I was blog hopping one day and found this place that is awesome.  You have to check out Daffy Cat's blog.  She has some great stuff going on at her place.  One thing I am doing it the TUSAL.  What is this....Totally Useless Stitch Along.... You can find more answers about this here. Or you can click on the TUSAL picture in my side bar. 

 Basically you save all your thread snipping, pieces of cut fabric, thread spools, embroidery floss, lace or what ever you have pieces that are too small for anything.  Keep them in a pretty jar or bowl and when the New Moon rolls around make a post and tell about it.  This is my May TUSAL.

I've got some embroidery floss from my red work, some ribbon and lace from my crazy quilt and thread snipping, also an empty thread spool.  Also some fabric I had to trim off my circles.