A Shopping We Will Go...

I went to Pat's Calico Cottage (a Gammill Dealer) and picked up some machine quilting thread to see if I can get some things quilted this weekend....well it hasn't happened yet.  Back has been giving me issues...apparently it is from stress...haha...none of that around here.  It is definitely feeling better today, but not 100%.  Hope to see if something will get done.  Will let you know if it does. ;o)  k

Civil War Blocks

I realized that I have not posted any of the Civil War blocks of the week...so here are the ones I have done.  Hope you enjoy ;o)

Updating

I've been slowly updating the UFO page.  I might actually get things finished this year!  I am off to do the 3rd Civil War block and organize some more in the "woman cave" as Sir Quilt Dude calls them. Sir Quilt Dude is the DH of the Thimbles' Queen, Pat Wys.  I actually had to email her and see if we had Thimbles on Friday...silly me, I had the wrong weekend...something to look forward to next week.  k

Bonnie Hunter RRCB...sort of ;o)

I finished this last night and "cleaned" up the threads this morning...was all ready to take a picture and realized I did not have the space to do it on the floor.  So I will wait until Thimbles where someone there can take one for me.  Here is a sampling of it...oh and I part of Gretchen in it...see it Gretch?  

 

I also have been trying to take pictures of the before UFO's so people can see I am making progress!  Putting these on the UFO page.

I know my dogs will be happy when the kids go back to school...probably tomorrow...When they go sledding, there is a screamer and she is driving them nuts!  DH loves to have me home...he has been home also working.  Cool that he can do it from home also unlike teachers.  k

Yet another snow day for Thursday!

I guess this is what it is like to retire...I get to quilt, quilt, quilt and do things around the house...like cook great dinners and hang out with the DH....although I don't like being "cooped up".  

Working on my RRCB and almost done...1 more border and the corners!  Yippy!  I am a little worried about when it is quilted and the pieced border...no room for error.

I was also wondering if I am "cheating" on the UFO challenge working on a different month!  I don't think so ;o)  k

Another day with the snow!  We are off again tomorrow (Wed) and I wonder what trouble I can get into.  I don't mind having the days out, but I hate the make up days and I'm running out of Starbucks!  Our driveway isn't bad now, but the street is horrible with ice....and of course it is on an incline.  I don't think it helps with the kids sledding down it...packing the snow into ice...wait, let me go out and help them, they are having so much fun!

I was able to sew on the first skinny border for RRCB....and I finished assembling the outer border, but only sewed one on...I will finish tomorrow.  I haven't posted pictures because I changed the colors and I'm pretty sure I like the combo....want to see the big picture before I post.  k

January's UFO

Well I got the borders on the Christmas Lights...the UFO for January.  Now just to "quilt as desired and bind"!

I was also able to get the first and second block of the Barbara Brackman's Civil War "quilt along" done using scraps!  Yippy...better Bonnie Hunter quilts and the Civil War one, I hope to deplete some of these piles.

Since school was closed today, I was able to put up 7 more window blinds and fix the bird feeder.  With my "chores" done I went into the sewing room and worked on RRCB....oh my gosh...I think that thing grew while I was sewing it....it is HUGE!!!  I just finished sewing all the rows together and will work on the borders tomorrow because school is out again.  I am also thinking I am not going to be able to quilt it on my machine due to its size.  Yes it is that big!  Happy shoveling & sewing.  k

Ribbbbbbbbit...

I must say there must have been those little green things around me today.  I finally was able to get the book club's t-shirts for the competition in Feb....went to Big Frog in Snellville and the minute you open the door you hear frogs.

Then all sewers know that sound is when one has to rip out your sewing...did lots of that today.  I sewed my Christmas Lights blocks together one day this week and was going to sew the rest of the rows together today, when I noticed something wasn't right.  Ha!  It wasn't a small something either.  I had to ribbbbit out all of the rows I put together and most of the blocks that were sewn together.  I would have left the blocks I put in sideways instead of up and down alone, but it really changed the design and I didn't like it.  The quilt is all better now and has 1 1/2 borders on it...finishing the others tomorrow.

I think I might also do the Civil War block of the week...remember ladies when it gets to the block of the day...my DH coined that phrase!  k

The kids are back

Wow it was quite funny how some students were not awake this morning and others were hyped up!  I was very tired at the end of the day and was not sure I would quilt some, but said "just a little".  

You see below the Bonnie Hunter Christmas Lights UFO #6 for the challenge. The blocks are made, but need to be sewn together and borders added.  I was able to sew the rows tonight...making some progress on something I put away...yippy. 

Also I included a very dark photo I took of Smudge (a pug).  I was cutting and he sat up and I thought it looked like he wanted to learn how to sew....sorry the picture of him is hard to see....he's on a dark blue chair and he's a black pug!  I still thought it was cute.  

Oh, by the way he likes to sit in back of me while I am sitting in the chair sewing...yes I know, it doesn't sound comfortable.  We I don't need lumbar (sp?) support...I have pug support.  He takes up so much room in the back that I sit on the front edge of the chair and very straight.  I just wish he was a little higher on the back...hmmmm.....maybe I should strap him to the back like the supports!  Nah, don't think he would like that.  k

UFO #6

Smudge at the Sewing Machine!

UFO....last day of vacation

Well as today was my last day of vacation for awhile, I planned to sleep in and sew. 

Yesterday DH and I hung blinds on many windows.  Still thinking of what to do with a few "odd" windows and others I did not want anything on them now.  We did 11 windows yesterday...looking much better than the temporary paper ones ;o)

Sewing is going strong!  I am really loving how my Bonnie Hunter RRCB blocks are coming out.  I finished the ones with the 600 half square triangles, and I also did the string ones.  One word of caution on the working with the string blocks...bias! 

I also was able to cut the "border" fabric for the Morning Star Swap we did. I bought two fabrics at Bad Melisa's...purple and a black one.  I went with the black one for this.  I love the purple one too and will definitely use it soon.

My UFO for the UFO Challenge 2011 is:  Bonnie Hunter's Christmas Lights Mystery . Yesterday I had to have DH reach up on a shelf to find it.  We had to go thru a few storage containers with other projects.  Alright...it was 12 projects we went thru before finding it...and that wasn't all of them.  I planned to see where I was on that today...but alas it will have to wait until tomorrow. k

Happy New Year