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I seem to be on an "every two weeks I will blog" schedule.  So sorry...not a lot going on here so not much to talk about.  We go out to the other house every weekend and work our butts off and then I am too tired to do anything during the week..


I have done a few quilty things...

I went to the my guild meeting a couple of weeks ago where I won these...

No plans yet...

Moda donated enough of these for the entire guild...and NO CHALLENGE...

Picked up these challenge fabrics, Habitat by Jay McCarroll for Free Spirit... This IS a challenge...we can add solids only.. I have one block done and so far I like it...we shall see.

I played with a tutorial I found at Mary Claires blog...  I have had this finished for a while now..

Doesn't look like much yet..

My stitching lines are 3/4 inch's apart.  1 inch would have been better.. they are kind of pulling up at the edges..

Wal-mart has all their school supplies out and mine was selling the composition notebooks for 40 cents each.  Get them now and stash them away for when you make your gifts.  Normally they are over a dollar each...  Or Dollar General stores have them in their school supplies for $1.00 each,..

This is a gift for a neighbors daughter.  They are having a new baby in September and the baby quilt is in the works ( I will be hand sewing the binding on tomorrow while riding to Kansas City to see Kenny Chesney in concert with my sister and one daughter)  So I will show you that next week.. hopefully...  don't hold your breath...   Mary Claire has a wonderful, easy to follow tutorial on her blog. Just click that link up there..  My granddaughter, who is 9, spotted it on the ironing board and immediately fell in love with it..  Tried to talk me out of it...I guess I will be making some Christmas Presents this year..  She said the boys would like them too, if I didn't use such "girly" fabric.  LOL
Typically when I use online tutorials, I follow them exactly the first time.  Then I might tweak them a bit for me.   I am not a crayon lover for a couple of reasons.  They tend to break and they melt.  I wanted the little girl to be able to use this in the car so I made more stitching lines and added colored pencils..  A little problem...  Did you know you can't buy short colored pencils anymore?  I looked everywhere!!  So I pulled out this little machine...

Well, Ok...I didn't actually "pull it out"..  It's always set up the shop... It's a band saw.  And hubby took the long pencils and shortened them for me.   I kept the short pieces...There must be something I can do with them..

And I have this to work on next...

The blocks were all made by members of the guild and I volunteered to put one top together and get it quilted.  I think it might be due the second Saturday of next month...I'm not sure though...so I better get it done just in case..   Half of the quilts will go to Project Linus and half will be sent to Joplin, Mo for the people that lost everything in a recent tornado..  These are the pink/orange blocks...the other colorway was aqua/green...  I need to get them sewn together and search my stash for a backing...


Let's see....anything else?  Nope...I think that's it..  If you actually read this, thanks for sticking with me... I hope to get better at updating later..but I can't promise anything..


Nancy

Every baby deserves their own....

Remember the challenge quilt?  When my second daughter saw it she thought it was perfect for her friends baby.  He's a year old and cute as a button.  He even has his own FB page.  I told her sure, get me her address and I will send it off.  Then I had second thoughts.  I didn't want to send it anywhere. I wanted to keep it. I wanted to hang it in the sewing room and see it everyday.  I had also written all over the backing in Pigma Pen...which doesn't come out...  So....what to do?  Make him his own quilt.  Somewhere on a blog I saw a quilt made with solid jelly roll strips and white... I loved it...and remembered it...but of course now I can't find it.  So out came the Kona Solid jelly roll and I pulled some blues and purples...10 colored strips and 9 white strips later and this is what we have...

The photo I saw was turned the other way....

And I couldn't stop....I hand embroidered his name...

I think every baby deserves his own quilt...certainly this little boy does...

Nancy

LOVE....

Dear Samsung,

I love you. I was drawn to your beautiful silver skin and clean keyboard and was happy to be told that you possessed all the inner goodies that were necessary.    I was surprised last night to be driven to Best Buy where we met.  I hadn't planned on getting a new computer, but I guess my husband couldn't figure out anything else to get me.  I sent you off this morning with the son and he taught you all kinds of new tricks.  You now know all my bookmarks and you learned to download email and you made room for all my pictures.  That's a lot for one so young.

So far you have done a wonderful job.  Your keys are a bit different so please excuse me while I get used to them and sometimes I might hit the wrong one...but it's nothing personal.  I will learn. Even at my age. You do speak a different language but lucky for you I have a son that speaks it very well, so he will help me.  .I do hope you won't leave a brown spot on my left thigh like your predecessor did.  He was such a hot head. HP's have that reputation you know..

Here's to a long friendship.

Hugs and kisses,
Nancy

Technical difficulties

Blogging should resume tomorrow. Lucky for me the SON is a great computer geek.

Nancy

Did you know...

that I drove 142 miles yesterday...

that there is no charge if you break off the same tooth within 3 months...

that my birthday is today...

that if you eat lunch at a nursing home you will crave Imo's for dinner...

and that said lunch will give you heartburn...

that the temperature was 100 here today...

and then it got dark and windy and the temperature dropped 20 degrees..

that my dog will bark at the wind...

that a nearby city just banned low slung pants... oh yes...$100 fine for the first offense...

$300 fine and 40 hours of community service for the second offense...

that I think that is wrong...  they didn't ban girls from wearing men's boxers and tanks with no bra...

and if you don't know any better but to wear your pants around your butt crack you probably don't have $100 anyway...

that I can't answer questions when you are no-reply... 

That THIS LINK will help you fix that

Nancy

knock....knock...

Is that an echo I hear?  I wouldn't be surprised if most of you have given up on me.  I am still here...everything is fine...just very busy with some family stuff...  I did manage to take a "me" day last week and packed up a lunch and drove a bit over a mile to a friends house where we set up in her sewing room and sewed...  It was so relaxing...I could have just stayed all day...oh wait...I did!! lol  Thank you so much friend for asking..it was just what I needed...

This is what I worked on...

I had all the blocks made so it didn't take long to lay it out and sew up those rows..  I decided not to worry if some of the fabrics touched each other..  sometimes with this pattern it's almost impossible to do that..  and once it is quilted no one will be able to tell where one block stops and the next block starts.  This is for my neighbor who is due in September.  The fabric is Pure by Sweetwater.  I won a fq bundle quite a while ago...  It sure pays to follow blogs..and comment.

And then I worked on this...

Just a sneak peak as I can't finish it until the hubby gets home tonight. I need the use of a power tool...  This will be for the sister of that same baby... and maybe I will make more for the grandkids for Christmas this year.  We will see...  Isn't that fabric cute?  I won the fq from Anina at  Twiddletails a while back.  Perfect for this project..I just have scraps left..

Last night was a fun night out to dinner with a friend (you know who you are!) who picked up the tab for my birthday at Joe's Crab Shack..  Such good food... I had Pecan Seared Barramundi with Onion Strings and grilled veggies...

Today I will visit my Mom (I'm taking some homemade brownies with me!), do a bit of shopping for new PJ's as I have mislaid a pair somewhere, visit the post office to mail out seven books, and I have a dentist appt this afternoon to get a broken tooth fixed.  This is the third time this tooth has broken and I am hoping they can fix it without too much trouble.  I fear I will need some kind of veneer this time...

Nancy

PS Birthday isn't until tomorrow...but thanks for all the good wishes...lol