Help!

Somebody help me! I'm making aprons and I can't stop! One of my guild buddies showed us how to make aprons from tea towels and I'm on a roll now. I really need to stop and finish up some other projects - it's just to much fun to do these.

Busy, busy, busy.......

Well, I guess I have gotten a little accomplished in the last few days. Above is a tote bag that i made to take my Featherweight back and forth to classes. The black case that it came in is just not too trustworthy and the last thing I want is to have it come open and spill my baby on the ground.

This is a wall hanging that I found in Fons and Porters Easy Quilts. I've been looking it for a while and just decided I had to make it. Easy peasey!

This photo doesn't show the redwork very well but it doesn't look too bad.

This small table runner was made with leftover triangles from the snowball blocks below. These blocks are for a winter block exchange with my Frayed Edges group. The list of ten is getting shorter, I may have to move things up and add more to the bottom. Gosh, it feels good to be getting things done.

One More To Go

Well, I finished another Project Linus quilt which leaves just one more to go and it is at the machine quilters right now. The one above was made with fabric that was given to me and, of course, I ran out of the pansy fabric so I decided to substitute two blocks of the solid lavender. It is hard to see but some of the circles are lavender and white stripes.

I also made this hunter's star quilt for our church fund raiser. Since the colors for the Fighting Illini are blue and orange, and we have a lot of fans at the church, I thought it would be appropriate. The borders are Laurel Burch cat fabric.

I have had to go back to making a list of projects - my List of Ten - because if I don't I get too side-tracked and never get anything done. So I finished the Project Linus quilts and prepped for the Carol Doak classes at the end of the month. Gee, only eight more to go before I can make a new list. :-)

I have been following the Iraqi Bundles of Love blog and am astonished at the amount of bundles that have been sent. Even though the deadline for sending bundles has come and gone, if you still want to read about this awesome project you can go to http://ibol.wordpress.com/ and wander through the past blogs to see what it was all about. I can't say enough good things about this and I hope there is someone who can take over and do the same for Afganistan.

One of our guild members is going to give a lesson on how to clean and oil our Featherweight sewing machines in October. Since I have one for sale, I'm going to take it and get it all cleaned up. I bought it on eBay, thinking that someone in the guild might be looking for one, but haven't had any response to the e-mail I sent out about it so I guess I'll have to advertise in the local newspaper. Darn! I hate to see it go to a stranger.

Well, gotta get busy. Later, gator.

Bummer

I'm so bummed out. Just got an e-mail from my sister and the last "definitive" test that she had for rheumatoid arthritis came back positive. We both knew that with our mom having had it so bad, chances were good that one of us kids would get it. Even though it is not hereditary, it can be familial. Sis is 53 and that is about a year older than mom was when it attacked her. We'll have to see what kind of treatment the rheumatologist wants to start. Caught early, it isn't as awful as it once was. Right now, sis and her hubby are in California getting ready to get on a cruise ship but, of course, a hurricane is headed for the Baja peninsula so she doesn't know how that will affect the cruise. I kid you not. Some luck she has, eh?

On a lighter note, my DH and I are leaving on a camping trip in a couple of days - going to Iowa for the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion over Labor Day Weekend. We'll leave early and just relax for a couple of days. Seems like there hasn't been much time to camp this year and yet I'm not sure what we have been doing instead.

Well, I'm off to sew some more. Hope it doesn't rain in Iowa while we're there. :-)

Found fat quarters

I have to tell you - sometimes I am just lucky! My quilt guild has a spot for members to put items that they wish to give away. Sometimes it is fabric, sometimes patterns, sometimes orphan blocks or a few books; doesn't matter, if you want to get rid of it, put it on the 'free' table. Well, yesterday I happened to find 3 coordinating fat quarters and I knew I had some more fabric that might go with them at home and I could make a cute table runner with them. So, stay tuned and we'll see what I can come up with. Of course, I could always take a road trip just in case I can't find anything in my "resource center".

Only two more to go!

Woo hoo!! I got another one done for Project Linus! I have two more to go and then I will have all of the tops that I made this last winter quilted!! Wow, sure took me long enough, but I did have a few other things to do, you know. My Frayed Edges group made 75 neck coolers last week and I need to get them delivered tomorrow.



I have sent two bundles to Iraqi Bundles of Love in the last week. What a wonderful idea this is - sharing fabric and notions and yarn and needles with the women in Iraq. These women are living in conditions we can only imagine in our nightmares and I am honored to be able to help in some small way. You know, I have been involved in outreach programs here in the U. S. for years and it never occurred to me that I could help someone in a foreign country until I read about IBOL. I'm really happy to be a part of this effort.

Well, off to bed. See ya.

Project Linus quilts, finally

Man, it's about time I got some of these done. I brought them home from Florida in April and I'm finally getting them finished. So here they are (drum roll, please).