Show and Tell

Stacey, Dawn and Nancy were over yesterday for a quilty get together. There was lots of food and lots of show and tell. First off here's Dawn with a quilt center she finished yesterday. My picture does not do the colors in this quilt justice.
Stacey, Dawn and Nancy recently took a class together. Nancy and Stacey finished adding the borders to their quilt.
Quilts with feet. hehehe

Dawn thought Fred had lost some weight...
What do you think?

Dawn and Stacey recently participated in a triangle swap. Here is Stacey's quilt.
I loved how her border fabric brought out all the blues in the center. Dawn took a totally different route.
So much triangle fun! I want to make both.

Ta Da! The civil war quilt is done!
Almost. If I can find the right fabric, the consensus of the group was that I should add a small containment border.

Fun, food and friends. Great combination.

Bloggers Quilt Festival

I haven't participated in Amy's Blogger Quilt Festival in a while. I've missed everyone visiting and visiting the other participants blogs. This time I'm not missing out.

I made this quilt several years ago from a Bali Pop and my stash. The pattern was from one of my magazines but I don't remember which one and I didn't exactly follow it.

There is an embarrassingly funny story about this quilt. I used to hang my quilt flimsies in a spare closet until it was time to take to the quilters. When I was unemployed I had quite a few hanging in there. I reserved time at local shop to rent their long arm, when it was time I couldn't find the quilt. I looked in every nook and cranny in this house. I knew it had to here. I had taken it with me to quilt shop in Vacaville to show a friend and I thought maybe I had left it there. I was broken hearted. I love how the quilt turned out then to lose it was very disappointing. I told everyone my sad lost quilt story. I spent over a month trying to decide if I was going to remake it or not. In the mean time I decide to quilt one of my other quilts....can you guess what happened? Yup, right there in the closet where it was suppose to be.

Siddi

Good thing I don't need my sewing machine case...

Lately Siddi thinks it's an excellent place to take a nap.

So Much Fun

Finally the nine patches are sewn and ironed, they are even cut in half. I promise not to show the civil war blocks again until the top is done.

Just before I left for Idaho I hit a few of the Renegade Run quilt shops, one of the shops was Sew Katie Jean. Lucky me, I won the shop giveaway.

Woo Hoo! Ten quilting books! Thank you s0 much, Sew Katie Jean! I'm going to have sew much fun with these.



So my week off turn out to be the week from H e double hockey sticks. I spent Sunday clearing out the sewing room, my bedroom and the family room.  Can you say tired? How about sore? The carpet cleaner was here first thing Monday morning, he was very nice and did a great job (gave me a 20% discount for having an "vacant" house). Since I couldn't put anything back for 8-12 hours I tried to sew. With the attention span of a nat I didn't get much done.

Tuesday my new refrigerator was delivered. Tuesday night it died. Wednesday I called the company I purchased it from, they replaced the refrigerator on Thursdays. In the mean time most of the stuff in freezer had dethawed and I tossed most of the stuff in the refrigerator.  Not a happy camper.

Tuesday and Wednesday I moved all the furniture and stuff back into the sewing room, family room and my bedroom.  Wrestling with the mattress and box spring was not fun, but I won. Note for next time: do not but the mattress and box spring in a bathroom with the same dimensions.  Can you say tired? Sore?

Friday I made an unplanned trip to Boise, Id. I just got back this afternoon. Can you say tired? Sore?

So what do you when you have a 10 hour drive and you are not the driver and don't have any handwork of any sort to work on? Crochet!



I made a quick trip to a local junk shop where I had seen skeins of batik rayon fabric strips. A few weeks ago I saw a tutorial for a crocheted purse - it was bookmarked on my old computer which I took down when I emptied the sewing room and didn't re-set up.  So this is from memory, I didn't like how the handle was turning out so I stopped about 4 hours into the trip home.  Not too bad considering I haven't crocheted in over 20 years.

Tomorrow it's back to work. Hopefully it will be nice, peaceful and uneventful.



Can You Tell the Difference?

I am typing this blog post on my fancy-schancy new laptop computer.

Ain't it purdy? My wonderful friend Stephanie came up yesterday to help me get it set up, connected the wireless every things that I have, loaded software, and got me started on creating my system recovery disks (which finally finished up about 11:30 p.m.).

Thank you Stephanie!

Okay, she didn't come up just to help with the computer (she lives about 150 miles aways). Stephanie, Nancy and I also went to the Foothill Quilter's Quilt Show yesterday in Auburn. Alex Anderson was a guest speaker although we did not see her lecture.

We did see lots of beautiful quilts. I love scrappy quilts. Below are a few of my favorites...
Easy, easy strip quilt with Asian fabrics.

Bazillion half square triangles...right up my alley.

And a cheerful floral strip quilt...again easy, easy!

I'm taking the next week off of work but I have a to-do list a mile long. I'm hoping to get lots of quilting and sewing done but the first thing on the list is having the carpets cleaned, including the carpet in the sewing room which means I have to empty it today....wish me luck on that.

Lots of Pretty Flowers

WooHoo! The sun was out today! Should have done some yard work, but I didn't. I did take some pictures of the flowers growing in the back yard.

I really liked Pat's idea to make pillows with my silk ribbon blocks.

The colors in each block varied but I wanted to tied them together. I think the red works.