The Last Design Wall Monday of the year...

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Well, it's all over... the presents are unwrapped and you have leftovers falling out of the refrigerator..  Now comes the fun part!  You get to reclaim your sewing room!  Mine turned into wrapping central and a warehouse of wrapped presents..along with storage for the extra table and chairs and at one point two bicycles were parked in there..

So here is my design wall today...

That wrapping paper needs to be put away for another eleven months..  On the right is a charity baby quilt...Sometime in the last few weeks I put the blocks together so now it needs quilting..  And the blocks on the left are part of a quilt that I started back in September at a sew-in.  The pattern is by  Kristy who is president of our Modern Quilt Guild in St Louis... It was featured on Moda Bake Shop..

It always takes me awhile to get back into the pattern once I have left it for awhile..So far I have pulled the finished blocks out and separated the other pieces I have.  Today I hope to get back into the pattern and figure out where I left off...lol  

So I will leave you with a photo of the tree right before we had to wake up the son and his girlfriend so they could open presents...it was 9 am and even though we had turned up the sound on the TV...Opened his bedroom door and let the dog in...there still was no sign of life...  Finally I went in and said "Merry Christmas, get up!!"...lol  Then I let him go to her room and wake her up...(yes, we are a PG family, no co-inhabiting til married) ...  Everything was a hit..

Ha...see that big red plastic bag on the right side?  Have you ever tried to wrap a body pillow?  I could not find a gift bag or box big enough, so I just stuffed it right back into the target bag and tied it shut!!  The son opened the body pillow cover and could not figure out what it was... I finally told him that the other part was in the bag...  He liked it then... lol

I of course was spoiled by Santa...A bird feeder to hang outside the sewing room window, a GC to a great local quilt shop, a Garmin. new wallet and a Flat Screen TV for the sewing room...which I have decided to return.. I have a perfectly good TV and I would love to have a DVD player...Now that I have a real library I plan on utilizing it to borrow some good movies to watch while I sew...

The grandkids gave us a selection of games they enjoy to keep at our house...We got Jinga, Sorry and Phase 10.    Can't wait to have a game night! 

And I think the grandkids all loved their presents... They were all here on Christmas Eve...I decided that this year we would have a Mexican food buffet... We would eat and then open gifts... Then we realized "someone" had forgotten to put the chicken enchiladas in the oven! LOL  So we popped them into the oven for 40 minutes and changed the plans...we opened WHILE dinner was cooking...

And we had Birthday Cake for a special grandson who turned NINE!! on Christmas Eve...Chocolate cake, chocolate icing and sprinkles baked by his Great Aunt Cupcake..  

So that's it for 2011...no more design walls this year... On to 2012!!

Nancy

Design Wall Monday...

This is all sitting in front of my design wall..

I have done some sewing, but nothing I can show here...yet...  All of those are Christmas presents except one...that little bag sitting on top of the big green box is for a special birthday.  One of our grandsons was born on Christmas Eve.  We really, really try to separate the birthday present opening from the Christmas present opening...and there might be a birthday cake coming...

I finally finished shopping yesterday..that husband of mine is so hard to buy for...but with the help of some elves at his favorite store I managed to get'er done...  Now to wrap the last few...

I am already starting to think of Christmas next year...and what I can make for everyone.. I might challenge myself to make a few each month and sock them away...

See all the Design Wall Monday posts here at Judy's...

Nancy

YEA!! Design Wall Monday...

Finally I have a design wall AND something on it! 

Actually three "somethings"..  First up is my BOM through a local guild.  It's called "School House" (and here I would usually link to the pattern, but it's full of bad directions and bad measurements so I won't) and the block is a school house and each month a different 6 inch block is used as an insert in the block..although as you can see I didn't make anything close to a school house.  I decided instead to use a "Hole in Barn Door" pattern from Quilters Cache and then use the inserts... And then some of the inserts weren't to my liking so I did some substitution there too.  I guess I'm not much of a pattern follower?  lol  Anyway.. I have Sept/Oct/Nov and Dec finished so am caught up until February..
We changed the format of our guild meetings and now have a "business meeting" every other month and will have a sew day the alternate month.  Such a great idea... Kudo's to Linda for thinking that one up.  She's brilliant... no really!  She's a math professor so she must be smart...

So then I have the baby quilt.  I started this last March at retreat.  We have no babies coming up in our family (that I am aware of) so this will become a charity quilt. 

And my little twister top.  This might become the front of a tote bag. 

I did squeeze in some sewing this weekend.  In between Thanksgiving food shopping, hanging drapes in the master bedroom, holding the ladder while Rich put pipe up for the wood stove in the shop and making some iron on labels for my Mom's clothes.  I am working on some pillow shams for my bed. I really would like them finished by Thanksgiving...which is here...for 15..(I need to find some chairs..)
I would like to have the bed runner finished also, but that's just not realistic...

I'm off to link up with JudyL ....



Nancy

Design wall Monday...

This is still on my design wall from last week.  I hope to get the rows sewn together and made into a pillow cover.

Friday we crossed our fingers and put a For Sale sign on this house.  I have no idea what will happen in this market..and it's kind of scary..   Over the weekend we worked on the "other" house. And one of the rooms we are doing is the sewing room...  I could use some help picking a wall color and would love any ideas for the room.  If you could design a sewing room from scratch, what would you NEED? WANT?

Today is quilt guild and we are to take up to five UFO's.  We will show them and have a certain amount of time to finish them...if we do we are put into a drawing for prizes.  It hasn't motivated me yet, but I found two to take...

Have a great day everyone!!

Nancy

i'm tired....

I loved Blazing Saddles.. as politically incorrect as the movie is, I find it hilarious. This is my favorite song of the movie....

Like Madeline, I'm tired. Tired of sewing Civil War blocks.. So yesterday I decided to pull out a new pattern, a couple of charm packs and some Kona.

The pattern is Wild Thing by Camille Roskelley. I fell in love with it when she featured it on her blog way back when...



I had 2 charm packs of Moda Tranquility designed by Sandy Gervais. I guess it's an older line but I did google and found a few places on line with some charm packs. I think I bought this last year in Paducah. By the time you read this hopefully there are more than 3 blocks finished, but who knows...



On another note, a couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Sarah of Jewelry Art Designs and asked if I would like to receive a free piece of jewelry just for reviewing and blogging about it... um...let me think for a second...YEA!! I will...
After looking through her site, I finally settled on a pendant. This one in particular. It came a few days ago and I must say it is beautiful. Very well made and so pretty. I can't wait to wear it tomorrow to quilt guild and show it off. Thanks Sarah for finding my blog and giving me this great opportunity. I love it...



Nancy

design wall monday (March 8th)

The bedroom set is finally finished.. We (meaning DH and the son) lugged all
400 lbs of it up two flights of steps. They are now resting.

I give him a week before he tells me the next project. He has to have something going at all times. Otherwise he is bored.

Isn't it pretty? He even cleaned out his old dresser and put all his own clothes away.

Those are rugs underneath.. I am funny about the carpet and I didn't want to take any chances of any wet stain seeping. They aren't there anymore.





You can see the other bedroom furniture pieces here and here...

And my design wall isn't empty either.



These are the next two blocks in my First Saturday quilt at a LQS. I have one more block to make and two more Saturdays and this one will be finished.

And because I can, here is a photo of all five of my grandkids and one of Grace cheering for a basketball game at a local church.




Tomorrow I have a video for you... It's a good one...

Nancy

Design Wall Monday.....

Not much going on here...

Top left is a new pattern called Lilly Pilly. I want to do it in all greens, but won't even start it until after the first of the year.

That's the center panel for a quilt called Tweet D Pie...It's in This Book by Two Sisters at Squirrel Hollow.

Underneath that is part of our quilt guilds BOM with instructions.

Finally, a stitchery by Lynette Anderson. I am sorry, I can't remember the name, and I have no idea where the pattern is....

Hubby is out of town the next couple of days, so I will be busy cutting kits to take to retreat. I like to have all my projects at least cut and ready to start on....
Two friends and I are going to sew for a couple of days in a condo with no responsibility other than for ourselves... can't wait..

Nancy

Design Wall Monday....

It's that time again.

On my design wall this morning is the first block of First Saturday at Patches Sorry the photo is really washed out. The weather here is gloomy with rain in the forecast for all day. I had no thoughts to join this BOM until I saw that it was in 30's. I love 30's fabric. It just goes so well with any pattern. I paid $5 to join and got this block free. If I show up with my completed block between 8am-9am the first Saturday of each month, I will have a quilt top by next June for $5...Let's hope I can do it.



Also on my design wall is the beginning sketch of a quilt for the Rock Star. He asked if I would make him a black and white quilt for Christmas. Just black and just white. No prints. I bought black Kona last week and have it prewashed, now to get the Kona white. I will take this to retreat to work on so it will be somewhat of a surprise.


And another quick sneak peak...



Isn't that little ladybug button cute? Can you tell it's a Christmas ladybug? Yes, she is wearing red. Red is a Christmas color, right?? She's hiding presents under those wings...

Off to quilt guild this morning. Teaching a quick class, taking lemon pound cake for dessert and a couple of charity quilts to turn in...

Happy Sewing,
Nancy