On the Search

I had a great time at my friends house and I made the stuffed porkchops from Judy's recipe. My husband loved it. I thought it was a little bit salty, but very tasty. I got busy on my UFO challenge and have been working on one of the blocks. Maybe I will get them all finished this month (fingers crossed). I need to rush to get ready for work. I have been blog hopping and finding wonderful new sites. I will update later of some new finds. I am also on the lookout for one or two new BOM's for this year. Time to go to work. Hope you have a wonderful day.

GLORIOUS SUNDAY

I love Sunday's. They are meant to relax and enjoy. We go to church every Sunday. Rarely miss one. Yes, I don't always want to go, but once I am there, I am blessed by someone, a song, the sermon, or something. Then I am so glad I went. Today, started as one of those days. I havc tommorrow off, so I just wanted to stay home and sew all day, and it is cold outside. I don't do cold too well. But after there, I was so glad I went. I enjoyed the sermon, Salt of the Earth and it gave me a renewed perspective of what I should be as a Christian. Now at home, I am listening to one of my many CD's (contempary Christian) and just happy as can be. I found the layout for the I Believe quilt and rearranged the blocks on the designwall. I have two blocks to applique, two fillers to applique, and two blocks that need some embroidery on them. After looking at them, a few more might get some embroidery to give them a more finished look.

Tommorrow I am going to a friends house to sew. I plan on getting there around 9:30 and spending most of the day. Wonder what all I will get accomplished???

January Challenge for UFO

Wouldn't you know that #6 was drawn. I think that is the oldest thing on my list. I will have to swap #5 and #6. Can't put it together until I am finished with the applique. So I will start working on it. I dug it out of the UFO box and put it on the design wall. I can't remember where the finishing part is for the layout. I will look for that this weekend. A few blocks have embroidery to be done and two need applique done. I think there is only one more filler piece. This pattern is from Village Classics and is the I Believe BOM.

That means I have several things to do this weekend. I need to do a craft for a program later this month and I started working on my Santa Stick that I did not put on the UFO list. Lots of fun! I can't believe that I have so many UFO's. I did put together a clutch today, I can see a few things that I need to watch on making another one. It went together fairly quickly. Makes a cute small clutch to carry just the basic necessities. I will leave out the divider piece on future bags. I think it just gets in the way. You can find it here.

I have done some great things so far this morning. I started a batch in the new yogurt maker that I got for Christmas. I used wild blueberry jam for the flavoring and the culture was organic plain yogurt. Tonight (after 9 hours in the "incubator") I will put the lids on and enjoy the yogurt with the homemade granola I make. YUM! Hope it all sets up and taste great. I can see I will be experimenting with the flavors and subtle changes.

New Year! Welcome 2011

A new year begins. I don't really DO resolutions, but here they are anyway. First there are the standards: get organized, lose weight by eating healthy and exercising. Then the carryovers from last year (I poop out after awhile and don't get all my resolutions completed): learn to use the embroidery machine, and EQ5. I did take a class on sergers and learned several new things, but I didn't keep using the serger so I sorta forgot some things. But, I have a good book or two and I do use it for clothing construction. I bought 30+ yards of fabric from my favorite online store Thousands of Bolts and must SEW, SEW, SEW! Here is my fabric purchase:

Don't you just love it. New fabric! I love fabric. Will happily put it on my shelf where I can see it so that I can use it. I love looking at all the pieces of fabric...the colors, patterns, prints. Oh what JOY!

The guys are out shooting fireworks right now. The dog is hiding under the computer desk. I am inside where it is warm...dreaming of what I am going to so this weekend with 3 days off from work. Have a Happy and Safe New Year's Day.

UFO Challenge 2011

I am going to do the UFO challenge at Patchwork Times. Here is my list of projects:

1. Quilt Mystery Quilt
2. Plan and prepare applique for Log Cabin Baskets
3. Attach all applique's for Log Cabin Baskets
4. Quilt Log Cabin Baskets
5. Finish applique for Christmas Block of the Month
6. Finish putting Christmas Block of the Month together
7. Sew civil war table runner
8. Put my sister's antique quilt together
9. Put Amy's antique quilt together
10. Quilt the two class sampler quilts.
11. Finish the two machine quilting class samples
12. Finish the reindeer games pillows.

I will post some pics. This is what I remember off hand and hope to get them done. Some I have been working or or cut out for five or more years. This will be great!! Thanks Judy. It may be just the motivation I need to get it all done. And, it should keep my blog running. Helps in more ways than one.

I'm Back!

I hate computer problems! The internet quite working on my computer. My son works on computers and he could not fix it. We figured that part of the internal components went out again. Then all of a sudden, it started working again. HURRAY!! It is Christmas Eve. I have had a problem getting in the Christmas spirit. Today I am baking, staring at my Christmas tree and plan on listening to Christmas music. Tonight we will go to chruch for the Christmas Eve service. I love having time off from work.



Sorry, I don't know how to rotate the picture yet.

Boy was I bad yesterday. I ordered 35 yards of fabric. I had better be busy sewing next year. Don't know how to sneak this in the house. Superman is off for two weeks and would surely notice the package before me. Maybe I'll be lucky and the UPS man will give to me at the office.

I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! And no, I didn't finish the Santa I was working on. I hope to finish over the holidays. I will post a pic when it is done.

Houston

The trip to Houston was great! We went to the show on Friday. I only bought some things for making a crazy quilt. The turtle quilt was displayed so nicely. I walked around a corner and there it was, center on the wall (the largest on wall) with spotlights on it. The tourquoise color "popped" out and the quilting looked really good. There is gold metallic in the fabric for the turtles and the light made them sparkle. A kind lady took a picture of me and Laurie in front of the quilt.


We did so much sewing on Saturday. Her daughter is expecting her second baby (looks like anytime now, the baby has dropped and she is dilating). I had so much fun sewing baby items. Laurie bought robes and other items at the goodwill store and we cut them up to make diaper pads, diaper covers, and pants. I have a HUGE supply of lace, so everything we could put lace on, we did! I have all boys, so no lace there. I also took my serger and had some "bonding" time with it. Here is a picure of Laurie doing some cutting:


And finally, here is my first post on Design Wall Monday:




I purchased a kit to finish it. It is a Santa Stick. I am not using the fusible interfacing to lay it out, just cutting the squares and sewing them together. I don't know if the fusible would be easier or not. Keep an eye out for the final result.