Are we there yet?

I don’t think I’ve completely packed, but I’m ready to go. Been a stressful week from all directions. I feel badly leaving my hubby alone, but I’m sure he’ll be golfing all 4 days

Whewwww………..I haven’t hosted a swap in over a year and being the swap I’m hosting isn’t a centralized swap – where ya can just send the same-one email to a group of 30+ people – this was a lot of work! But now it should be easy to manage from here on out. I’m very excited we have 32 folks in the swap.

I haven’t had time to “play” on my day off…bills, laundry, swapping stuff….I am going to do a few 9 patch blocks for my sunflower quilt before I leave today.

I’m going to Orlando, Florida this afternoon and considering hitting a few quilt shops in the area, when I’m down there. I love seeing other shops – I don’t necessarily purchase stuff, but love seeing/feeling out how other shops are set up and if they are friendly. Any recommendations for me?

Wow….a post without pictures? mmmmm, let me find something to entertain you….Michael the Cat & Glory enjoying a morning watching the birdies…

Pictures!!!

Wow, apparently I’ve been holding out….lots of fun pictures!

First non-quilty pictures and involves animals….meet Mr. Robin. He is one of many robins who have arrived this spring in my yard fighting for a mate and dominance in the yard. Well, apparently he thinks his reflection is a big threat and proceeded to peck the heck out of my poor van’s window to show who’s boss. This wasn’t the last time I’ve seen him do this —I caught him in the act again the next morning on the front of the van fighting with his reflection!

Next picture is another spring related picture…my kitties enjoy the view from the back door when it’s open. I have had to install a “lock” so the kitties don’t open the screen door.

One more non-quilty picture and this one involves my Aerogarden….I can’t say enough, this is just the coolest thing ever!! It’s been 3 weeks now and I have lots of green! It’s almost harvest time:

More pictures…..can you stand it? Now for quilty images.

I signed up for a mini birthday block swap back in February and being my birthday is in April I have already received my first block from Linda Schultn. I asked for pink and white blocks to add to the Quilt Pink project I’m still working on (unfortunately those tops won’t make it into this years auctions, but definitely for next year):

Completed another quilt and presented it to the new owner yesterday. I love getting such a warm fuzzy reaction when folks see my quilts. This is Tara’s Comfort Knot Again the crazy color fabric represents the chaos of the world and the knot (being Celtic and mom/dad have irish in them) represents the calm, love and comfort of the family to protect Tara. The backing with dragons is to represent her daddy – he goes by the name of Dragon at our local Ren Faire. It is 48″ square.

And finally, MORE BINDING! I finished cutting the remaining tops bindings last night and going to be sewing/ironing them today….I’ll post my final total later on, but I love taking pictures and look how cool this is:

I do have one more series of pictures to share, but I need to retake them — they were blurry. My husband finally put up my mini quilt wire hanger that runs the width of my sewing area about 12 feet.

Off I go to sew, sew, sew.

Picture pages. . . .

ok, I have a lot to share….see it doesn’t pay to play hookie from your blog.

Where to start? Well, I got (finally) my fabric for my new curtains and the images I previously saw DID NOT DO it justice at all!!!! I am so much more excited to have gotten this. I’m not too crazy about the “pukey” green, but the turquoise is PERFECT! I did order a little of the pink, but it’s back order and I’ll have to wait on it–but I got 10 yards (yes, 10) to make 3 window treatments. I only got 3 yards of the green and pink to make matching “things” in my sewing studio.

Next, I got brave and finally embroidered on a new pair of jeans. Even had to trim off about 6″ in length. This was FUN. I order a gem hot fix stix to add “bling” to my finish project. I’ll be making more of these, especially for my girls. The large design is on the front of the left leg and the smaller one is on the back of the right leg.

You wanna see more? Ok, let’s see what else I can share.

I’m working on a UFO, a kit I acquired when I went on a retreat last Spring. Keep in mind, I don’t like Flying Geese. I’m highly embarressed to even share this. These flying geese were 16″ x 8″. And I followed the directions, instead of using half square triangles. If you look too closely you can see the errors of my ways. I was so disappointed in how this turned out I had decided to “toss it” to charity. My youngest, who also loves purple, claimed it as hers. So, I’m whipping up a border to enlarge it a bit (it’s only 48″ right now) and passing it on to her. She’s excited and expects it done asap……well, I should have the top done by end of today.

Wanna see a silly kitty…..her new place to “lounge” is on my little sewing table for my extra machine…but when there’s a basket in her way, she makes due. . .silly Glory

Kids sure did enjoy the lunear eclispe last night. They even tried to use my camera to take pictures of it.

Plans in the works for a mini-get-away to the Outer Banks for a long weekend. Bringing a sewing machine, chocolate, movies, wine and a few friends. Renting an apartment for 3 nights with room for 5, but thinking 4 tops. There might be room for two more peoples. Looking at March 14 – 17th. Ocean side on the water—we aren’t going to be skinny dipping, but enjoying no responsibilities of a home and family.

That’s enough pictures, I’m sure I have more, but don’t want to bore you too much. I’m actually taking today easy. Had to cancel a sew day with friends due to not feeling 100%. And laying around is boring.

Mid-Week….

and it’s my day off, so I’ve been playing around doing taxes this morning and pondering on what I want to sew today. I really need to work on 2 projects for work, but I’m holding them off until this weekend. I want to do something for me.

I have a batik sunflower print I have designed a very simple pattern to use with and want it for my bedroom. So, I think I’ll cut that out and maybe cut out a few more projects.

I don’t have any quilty pictures this morning to share, but here’s my puppy (well, he’s 18 months old) Cap’t Jack.