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I belong to a UFO group and once a month we take one full day to sew. It's a Friday one month and Saturday the next. We start sewing at 9 (or is it 10) in the morning and sew till 6pm. We take a picture of what we're working on and post it. We check in periodically ro show where we are at. Friday I worked on a fall quilt attempting to get all the blocks done. I got them 2/3's of the way done so will try to work on them a little more today.
The first is the Lovely Lady Award -
The rules are simple -
1. Thank the person who gave the award
2. Copy the award
3. Post it on your blog
4. Tell seven things about yourself that your readers don't know.
5. Link seven new bloggers as recipients
6. Notify the winners with comments on their blogs
7. Keep being awesome!
Hmmm, lets see 7 things that my readers don't know -
1. I owned and operated a Cermic Arts and Crafts Shop for a number of years.
2. I'm afraid of heights. (Empire State Building was a real challenge! lol)
3. My hair froze when we were in New York!
4. I'm a notemaker nut.
5. We have two storage units, one here and one in KC. It's time to start hauling off.
6.I'm the worlds WORST procrastinator
7. I eat peanut butter with a spoon out of the jar. lol
And the Second award is - the Lemonade Stand award is awarded for being a blogger who shows great attititude and gratitude.
The rules are simple:
1. Do a quick post about the person that tagged you saying thanks.
2. Answer the 10 questions.
3. Tag 6 people
4. Follow 3 new blogs and list them.
5. Challenge one person to do something new or crazy.
Moira is one of the kindest, most generous and loving people that I know. I'm grateful to have you in my life. Thank you for thinking of me when you passed out the award:)
The 10 questions -
1. Have you ever been to a rodeo? yes
2. Have you ever tried to ride a cow? Nope
3. Have you ever milked a cow or goat? yes
4. Have you ever been to a Demolition Derby? yes
5. What is your favorite Country song, the artist? Don't know
6. Do you like to hunt? No, and don't care for wild meat
7. Have you ever cooked your breakfast over an open fire in your backyard? yes, we used to have a picnic area when we lived in Colfas and the whole bottom section was a huge and there was a giant fire pit there. We cooked down there a number of times.!
8. Have you ever thought that the muck was shallow and when you stepped in it you sank knee-deep? Not literally.....but metaphorically I have (agree)
9. What is the hardest thing you've ever done? Accepting the loss of my brother.
10. (This question is optional) What is one of your most embarrassing moments? When I discovered (after the fact) that you could see my undies through an outfit I had on. arrrrrrrrrgh it was awful
And because it's late at night ( or more acurately very early morning) I nomiate the following for these of these awards:
1. Pat Wintershttp://gatherings100.blogspot.com/
2. Karrinhttp://karrinscrazyworld.blogspot.com/
3. Susanhttp://cq4fun.livejournal.com/
4 Courtneyhttp://cajunhillbilly.blogspot.com/
5. Renginhttp://renginscolors.blogspot.com/
Well, we went to New York the 14th through the 21st of Dec. and what an incredible trip it was. My brother Frank, my sister Loretta, my daughter Jo and a dear friend of ours Dianna all went. We stayed in an apartment in Manhattan which was really nice because it gave us so much more freedom. We all took different pictures of the various places we went so I have some and the others have the rest. Soon we'll be able to get them all together. We saw the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, went to see In The Heights at the Richard Rogers Theater, went to the Empire State Bldg, Central Park, Times Square and on and on and on. We even got caught in a blizzard. When we went to the theater it was snowing, but when we came out it was a blizzard! lol We had a ball. We hiked to a restaurant and had a late dinner, then hiked down to the subway and took it to within two blocks of where we were staying. The snow was absolutely gorgeous, a dream come true when you're in NY this time of year. Here are a couple of pic's one from the Empire State Bldg. (it was foggy so visibility was low) and the other of the Plaza Hotel. The first one is Times Square, which is always packed with people!!
Wow, Christmas is less than a month away and I am trying to figure out where the time has gone! In a little over two weeks, my brother Frank, sister Loretta, daughtere Jo and friend Dianna are leaving for New York for a week. (We leave the 14th and return on the 21st!) That means I have to be sure everything is ready for Christmas before we leave. I have baking to do and freeze, quilts to quilt and a couple of gifts to buy yet. Then I'll be done. I can shop for groceries when I get back, there will plenty of time for that. Anyway, I'll try and stay on top of this a little better. I've had some kind of bug for almost four weeks now and it's just knocked me for a loop, so I'm way behind in what I wanted to have accomplished before we leave. Oh well, I guess if it gets done it does, if not it won't. lol Have a wonderful week.
Hey there:) I haven't been very productive these past few months. I did manage to get my Halloween Quilt finished and trying to get a fall quilt done as well. I'm not making much progress though. I've had this rotten case of the blah's and can't seem to get motivated to do much of anything. So I'm going to try and get some sewing in today on the quilt and if I can do a little each day I may get it completed! Wouldn't that be a shocker! lol Hope everyone is having this wonderful Fall weather we're having.
I've discovered a new quilt shop, The Dizzy Daisy Quilt Shoppe and boy does she have some great fabrics and goodies. Go check it out. She's also having a give away too.
Well, we had our online UFO group Saturday and I was able to get enough blocks sewn together for two and a half quilts. One and a half red & White and one Blue & White. All are AmHero quilts and the center block is white P&B fabric to have people sign them. They're (obviously) signature quilts:) I'd hoped to get more done, but I goofed up on the first one I was working on and had some frogging to do. I only posted one picture 'cause Blogger won't let me post the second:) Hope everyone is getting ready for fall. It's about 85 here in CA today down from 100 yesterday! and the days before that. This week is going to be cool and then it's supposed to stay in the mid to low 80's. I sure hope so. We've got a good chance of another triple digit day or two before fall actually really hits us:)
I know it's been a while since I've posted, in fact it's been a while since I've done much of anything. It's been so hot it's hard to get up the ambition to even sew. Usually I use that as an excuse to stay in the house and sew, but not lately. I've got several quilts going, and one blue Disappearing 9 Patch I'm determined to finish sewing on today. So with any luck I will get that done. Maybe that will give me the ambition to work on the others:) Ya think? I hope so. Have a great week or close to week end now.
I just had to share the beautiful goodies I received a couple of days ago from Rengin in Turkey. They are wonderful! The trims, the fabric, gorgeous pearl lace, incredible charms, ribbon, all of which are so exciting. I can't wait to use them, in fact I have a plan for one of the projects I have going now. You can also see the amazing crocheted doilies her mother made for me! They look so pretty on my glass coffee table:) I love everything! Thank you Rengin and many thanks to your mother!
That last picture isn't supposed to be in there, don't know how I managed that, but I can't get it out. Sorry about that:(
I finally got my machine working again and I'm elated! The first two (I should say the second two, the way the pic's posted.) quilts are for AmHero's and the third one is my neighbor Sonja Muenger with her Christmas Present in July! lol My machine went bonkers the first of Dec. so I never got it quilted, so finally getting the machine back in working condition after all this time I was able to finish it. She knew she had something coming, just didn't know what it was:) So we took it over to her the other day and she was very happy with it. I was very happy to have it done and able to give it to her! lol
In spite of a rotten cold and feeling like I'd been hit by a Mac Truck we went up to my sister's house yesterday. She and I played most of the day but then we got down to business and worked on this AmHero's quilt. The white blocks you see are only a few of the thirteen Signature blocks that will go in the quilt. Sonja named the quilt "Thirteen Stars and Stripes" for the thirteen signatures. I think it's going to come out pretty nice. It will have about a three inch border around it when done. You can tell I'm feeling great today, I've been up since four (couldn't breath laying down) and I'm out in the living room and now posting this! lol Oh well, the cold get's a little better every day. I'm sure glad we went up though.
OH!! The Stitch Regulator came home yesterday for my quilting machine! So as soon as I'm up to it I can connect that back up and I'll be set to go on my quilting machine/frame...once again!!! lol yaaaaaay!
