Ironing boards anyone?

Seems this morning reading through my google reader, there are lots of ironing boards–so doing what the cool kids do and visited Libby’s blog, I took a picture of mine. I don’t think I have ever done that.

Let me share some details. It was my grandmothers. It’s cast iron and HEAVY. The top is a metal mesh with a new snazzy iron board cover that is awsome in reflecting the heat, so you can turn down your iron – and won’t ever scorch. And I got my new lime iron from Target. It’s wonderful! I do want to get a “big” board one day = which might be sooner after reading Paula’s ironing board details.



I also play with my new addiction on my daughter’s TINY jeans…..ya know how hard it is to center a hoop on a size 7 girls pant leg? Oh well, she was tickled with the results. I put the heart on the back leg, which confused her LOL:



I’m off to get ready for work with my new hair do! Should take a new picture of myself!

So much to share…..

I will be posting a few times today, hope ya’l don’t mind.

First this post is all about me – next post is all about the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show.

I finished that purple thing for my daughter. Well, as I was taking the picture with my wonderful husband as a quilt hanger, I noticed the top border was put on upside-down…doh. So, I told my daughter I need to rip it out and reattach. She did not like that and said no, leave it and get it quilted. She’s very impatience. So, she’s away this morning and I’m going to sneakily rip it out and resew it on. Then I’m going to piece the backing and see if I can have it quilted at work. Here’s what it currently looks like:



Now, I’m SOOO hooked on using my embroidery machine on my jeans I did another pair just to wear on my road trip yesterday. I love celtic work and we are using it in our next month’s embroidery club. I’m not too happy with how the variegated thread worked, but live and learn. the tree again is the front left leg and the smaller design, moon is the back of the right leg. Here’s what I did:


I have one of 3, curtains done now. It was the big one and think it came out swell. Hope to finish one more today and wait for the pink skulls to show up so I can make one of a different color. Please ignore the cobwebs in the before picture. I haven’t washed/dusted since early fall and we get so much dust here. It definitely changes the atmosphere of this large room and makes me very happy!



I’m going to take a few more pictures of all my new things from the quilt show and prepare those pictures as well. Again, I’ll be posting more later today.