Oh Nuts

The beginning of the month marked the end of the 40 Week Photography challenge , though I ended up spreading it out more because I skipped a couple weeks. When I originally started writing this post in my head there was more than I wanted to say about doing the challenge, which it was some weeks, but now I don't remember what it was that I was going to say, which was going to be a lot more than this, but that's beside the point. Since I can't remember what else I was going to say here is a list of all 40 weeks. taken by me in Jamestown, RI Week 1 -  10:36 Week 2 -  Books Week 3 -  Black and White Week 4 -  Favorite Color Week 5 -  Street Week 6 -  Feet Week 7 -  Forks Week 8 -  Green Week 9 -  Key Week 10 -  One Thing You Can't Live Without Week 11 -  Pattern Week 12 -  Shoes Week 13 -  Smile Week 14 - Something Up Close Week 15 -  Something in Your Fridge Week 16 - Something Old Week ...

This is one of the easiest projects that I have done, but it is also one of the longest that I have taken to finish. This project started out as a blanket for my sister to take with her to college, but I didn’t finish it before she left (one of the squares still isn’t finished yet). Since I still wanted to use the four squares that I had already made my other sister suggested that I turn them into pillows. It took me a little while to get around to it, but I finally sewed the four completed squares together and made two small pillows for my sister and her fiancee to use in their home once they are married. I am planning on using the last two squares, one of which is still unfinished, to make either one more small pillow, with each square being a different color, or making two super small pillows out of each square, I still haven't decided yet but I will get to that eventually. They were pretty easy to make since each square used an entire skein of Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Den...