My First Finish for 2K9

I hope that every one's New Year is off to a great start.

Looking around blogland many of you are getting projects finished up that were left over from last year. I love to see what everyone is working on and that so many of you are already off and crafting on new projects for this year.

One of my favorite things is to see the same project being worked on by several people and just, even though the project is the same, how very different each one is, depending on the creators likes and preferences. There's so much inspiration to be had out there.

My daughters/daughters-in-law and I have started a new challenge this year...we will be doing one craft per month and one quilt block per month. Three of us quilt and three don't, so for those that don't we will be starting off with the basics, in hopes of not overwhelming them and inspiring them to do more.

Our January craft project is a pincushion. I chose to use May Britt's Pincushion Tutorial on her blog, abyquilts...you know the rest... Her directions and pictures made this a very quick and easy project.

Here are a few pictures...

Sitting in the snow...

...could it be a snow star or snow flower???...

The snow really throws the color off...

...the color here is much better...

The button is abalone and just a little smaller than a quarter...

...and a side view...

I hope that you are all enjoying you Winter/Summer whatever it may be where ever you may be;)