Weekend with the grandkids.....

I have two grandkids this weekend. Mommy is on an all girl float trip and daddy is ?, I don't remember what daddy is doing...probably in a fishing tournament. We have already had two problems and they have been here for 2 hours. First, daddy forgot to leave the car seats and I will NOT be stuck here without them....then grandson opened the door and let the dog out. He (the dog, not the grandkid) trotted off up the street and I had to go running (well, more like a fast walk) up the hill all the while hollering "STAY OLIVER"..... After paging daddy at Bass Pro Shop (no cell phone and at least he told me where he was going first), we finally have the car seats installed and as soon as granddaughter wakes up from her nap, we will head to the LQS to pick up Christmas quilt #3....I will have to lie to the grandkids and tell them it is Pop-Pop's so they don't know it is really the other grandsons.... Gotta keep those Christmas secrets. I hope to get the binding on next week and then will post a photo... Winfiled had another levee breach last night so most of the east side of town will be under water by tonight. They have closed off the highway north of us. We are seeing lots of Red Cross and National Guard units. Helicopters flying over head and media trucks everywhere. We are 7 miles west and not directly affected. Hopefully my video uploads soon so I can do dishes....yea right!!

Well, I sat here for an hour and my video still hasn't uploaded. Not sure if it is too big or I was doing something wrong...oh well, now no one will see how cute granddaughter is..lol

Happy Sewing,
Nancy

Can you spell T-I-R-E-D???

It's barely 3 days into the week and I am TIRED!! Monday was spent with daughter #2 and grandchild #3 in Forest Park. We went to the Planetarium, the Science Center and had a picnic in the park... What a fun day we had!!






Tuesday I watched Biddy Baby all day. Did we have fun?? We walked, we sat on the front porch and gurgled at the grass, we(she) napped, we ate and then all too soon, mommy, daddy, sister and brother came home. They were wiped out. They spent all day at the zoo doing anything and everything....

Today will be housework and SEWING!!! YEA!!! Have some pressing, some mending and then will work on the next Christmas quilt. Yep, I have all the blocks ready to sew together and Friday I get to pick up CQ #3 from the quilter and hopefully get the binding on this weekend. Oh no, I just remembered we have grandkid #3 and grandkid #4 Friday to Sunday....seems that grandkid visits come in spurts!! lol

Happy Sewing,
Nancy

Biddy Baby and a Giveaway Alert.....

There will be no blogging (or reading) for me today. I have biddy baby, AKA Abbie all day today while the rest of the family goes off on a vacation day to the Science Center, the Zoo and a picnic lunch....sound familiar?? lol

Brenda is having a GREAT giveaway. A complete quilt kit for the cutest sandcastle wall hanging....

Run over there and join in.....

Happy Sewing,
Nancy

Fresh Cut in Fresh Air.....

Daughter, grandson and I are off to the St Louis Science Center, the Zoo and a picnic lunch today....Yesterday I finished the latest Christmas quilt top. It went together so fast. I think I have decided to make me one of these. Just have to decide the colors.

Any hints on photographing these quilts? They look better outside, but I need to know whether to have the sun behind me or behind the quilt or where??

Happy Sewing,
Nancy

Fresh Cut, Freshly Cut......

I got all the blocks put together yesterday. This pattern goes together so quickly. I love it. The pattern is called "Snapshots" and can be found in the book Happy Hour by Terry Atkinson. It is a smaller version of the cover quilt. (find the link in yesterdays post). I made 36 blocks from 12 FQ's and have very little scraps leftover. Terry really knows how to use all of the FQ's without waste. I found the fabric in Paducah during the quilt show and wasn't even aware of the line until a couple of weeks ago. Most of it is Fresh Cut by Heather Bailey for Free Spirit. There must be another line in there as I couldn't find all the prints at that link. I just picked some I liked together. This is Christmas quilt #4 of 6. Number 3 will be back from the quilter soon and this one will go to be quilted.

Tomorrow is a big day. Daughter #2 and her son are meeting me and we are headed to the St Louis Science Center. They have an Omnimax theater and Dinosaurs is showing, we will also see the zoo and have a picnic lunch. I'll be taking the camera, so be assured you will see pics....lol

Happy Sewing,
Nancy

I get to sew today......

Granddaughter is home again and happy to be back with Mom, Dad, sister and brother. On the way to meet mom yesterday, we stopped by the quilt shop to pick out the panto for my quilter to use on one of the Christmas quilts. We had to be very secretive as granddaughter was there and the quilt is for brother. Pat Two Borders said she will start the quilting this weekend so I need to get another one ready....

This weekend I will be making this pattern with those fabrics on my header....

Happy Sewing,
Nancy

Sweet P is at it again....

Sweet P has two blogs and over at Coffee Time at Home she is renovating her pantry. I left the comment that she wouldn't EVEN want to see my mess of a pantry and she challenged me to post it. Yesterday I gave the camera to the granddaughter and said "go take a picture of Grandma's pantry, please". Ok, first I had to explain what a pantry was and then show her where mine was. Her words "oh, the food closet".... HA HA...

um...only three people eat here and from the looks of this pantry we are set for a good while. What a mess. This is the first house we have lived in that has had a pantry and I love it. It's so nice to have all the packaged food in one place. Well, other than spices that closer to the prep area... I try to keep canned foods separate from boxed and cereal at the top and dog food and trash bags on the floor, but it looks like it needs a good cleaning and rearranging. Maybe next week.

Granddaughter got homesick last night and after talking to her mom on the phone, we have decided to meet halfway and let her go home. We got all of our projects done. Here are her pillowcase, finished quilt and sundress. The sundress has straps on it after running to Wal-mart early this morning for ribbon. We even found a "I miss you" present for her to give her brother. The binding was finished late last night and she was already in jammies by picture time.




Happy Sewing,
Nancy