there oughta be a song....

Put your right foot in,
Put your right foot out,
Put your right foot in
and swish the brush all around....

You do the Hokey Pokey and you get a clean floor

That's what it's all about....



Nancy

welcome....

Great Nephew Joseph arrived this morning at 3am. Mom and baby are fine...


Nancy

busy...busy...busy.....

Look how busy I have been... I got all these blocks done since last night. It might not seem like a lot to you, but I am just relearning how to paper-piece and I have spent a bit of time un-picking...sometimes more than once...on one seam... I'm just saying.

And in case you need proof, here are my socks....after I cleaned them off. What a mess this paper piecing makes. I really need a sewing room without carpet. Or maybe I need a new toilet bowl brush. What? You don't understand the connection? Well, see I read somewhere that you can use a new toilet brush and just brush it across the top of your carpet and it will pick up all the loose threads. I am going to try it tonight. We have to go get tires on the truck and will go out to eat and then I am getting a new toilet brush. I'll tell you how it works.




No baby news yet. I feel so sorry for my niece. She has been in the hospital since yesterday morning and finally her contractions seem to be picking up. I think she is looking at a long night, along with my sister.

Yesterday I realized I didn't have a gift for the baby when I go visit, so I hopped over to handmade by jill and used her tutorial to make a couple of burp rags. I only had enough Monkey flannel to use on one side, so I didn't do the fringe bit, but I like the way they turned out.
She has loads of tutorials on her side bar. Go check it out...



I guess I can show these. I'm pretty sure my niece has better things to do than check out my blog...

Nancy

retail therapy....

Really, it wasn't therapy, cause I don't need therapy...I just needed some more Civil War fabrics so Miss Nancy and I took off for our local quilt shop that has a whole wall of CW fabrics...

I just said .... Load me up with a stack....



and maybe another little stack...


and shoot, lets add these cuties to the bag...



I hope to get some more blocks done today...

Nancy

ps...think good thoughts today...my niece is being induced with her first child. Which will make my OLDER sister a GRANDMA!!! LOL I can't wait to call her Grandma Carolyn...

welcome mr sunshine ...

could you please stay awhile?

Nancy

Ingenui TEA

A new tea pot. This one was reviewed on Cooks Illustrated. You add boiling water and loose tea and after it has steeped, you set it over your cup and press down. It comes complete with a strainer and you just rinse it out. I need to work on adjusting the strength... Even though I use Splenda and creamer that first cup was a bit much for me...

It snowed yesterday so I made some soup....



I am out shopping for those CW prints today. Will show you tomorrow....

Nancy

design wall monday 1-25-10

More blocks from the book "The Civil War Love Letter Quilt". I will wait to make more until after Tuesday when Miss Nancy and I head back to Raspberry Patch to load up fill in our stash. I need some yellows, lights and maybe greens and purples. I am not very well versed in the Civil War Reproduction fabrics, so not quite sure what is out there.

The block names are (from left, first row) Enthusiasm, A Secession Ball, Healthful Region, March in the Mountains and (from left, second row) Sorrows of War, Liberal with Furlough and Severe Fighting.

I haven't started reading the letters that accompany the blocks. I am told that the letters and the blocks have no significance together, but that the author just picked blocks to go with the letters...

Hubby is working furiously on his piece of furniture. No photo, but the back is on and the shelves are in. He will start working on the drawers next.

Want to see more Design Wall Monday? Head over to Judy's and check out the list...and read about her chickens....

Happy 4th Birthday to my little Ava.... She is getting to be such a big girl....



Nancy