I SKYPE’d with Janice on Wednesday (3/19) then got bread started and set up my machine to finish the binding on the 5th quilt (you know, the one that I didn't cut enough binding strips for!) I got that all done and bread was out of the oven 5 minutes before my honey got home from golf (making the house smell FABULOUS):
We took 1/2 a loaf down to friends Kay & Pete, probably their last one before they move back to Ohio :~(, and 1/2 a loaf over to new neighbors just moving in. The husband Mike is a golfer, so Michael may be seeing more of him!
Michael had the rest of his potato pancakes for dinner while I had a bowl of popcorn and then we settled in to watch a DEATH IN PARADISE before bed.
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Thursday was all about quilting….I was a host for the morning so I got there early after Michael packed up the car.
I got lots done on my current Thursday project (a Beds=Dreams quilt that could go for a teenage boy) and we had 2 wonderful visitors…Nancy S:
who brought along lovely painted/pieced/quilted wall hanging:
and her beautiful cards which she made out of scraps...also painting on some of them:
Loree:
was our other very special guest....she stopped by with white cacti shoots for everyone and lots of hugs and news. They will be moving next week and will be glad to settle in and settle down!
We had great show and tell:
-remember this from last week???
-it is finished....and FABULOUS!!!! I LOVE those teeny, tiny straight lines...
-and some disappearing 9 patches from class....
I got home around 3 PM and I was pooped and just vegged in my chair….reading!
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Friday morning (3/21) we both had appointments at the foot doctor’s. We stopped for a breakfast sandwich at SUMO donuts and when we got home, I just had time to eat my half before getting back in the car for a hair appointment. I was home by 3 PM (again!) and Michael and I went over our excursions for our Paris cruise later this year.
I finally made it to the studio by 3 PM. Now, I saw a quilt pattern about a year ago that I just fell in love with. I kept wanting to start it, but there were always other things that needed to be completed until finally I made the hourglass blocks at the Fiber Floozie retreat in September. I also talked BG into doing them :~). They ended up being so much work (72 blocks, 288 HST’s) that both BG and I decided we were going to leave them as is and put them together into a quilt (which was NOT the original plan). So….I came home from retreat and of course they sat in my project box for awhile while I finished off other UFO’s and they sat on my sewing table for awhile while I finished off other things and got through the holidays. As I kept looking at them, I remembered how much I LOVED the original quilt, and decided that I was going to continue on with the project. When I told BG this, she told me that she had had similar thoughts and wanted to do the same thing. This is a disappearing block and it’s going to take me a lot of time to work on it as it is not easy for me to ‘’see’’ the pattern, and I had to develop a system so that I would sew each block back together correctly after cutting it. But, finally I made a start and I am SO VERY HAPPY that I decided to continue with it as I still LOVE IT!!! It’s probably (rightly so!) too frenetic for most people, but I love it…and the secondary pattern you get with 4 blocks together….so here it is:
That finished off the rest of my afternoon and early evening.
And 10 years ago....
-(rainbow quilt totally done!) Food and Fiber Floozie: rainbow quilt #2 is finished!
*** The biggest joke on humans is that computers have begun asking us to prove we aren't robots. ***
*** When a kid says "Daddy, I want mommy" that's the kid version of "I'd like to speak to your supervisor". ***
I absolutely love all of the Show and Tell, especially the guitarist quilt! Fabulous! The painted cards are beautiful!
From 10 years ago....having my head explode ....women talking......same as today!!!!!