Customer quilts, sucess sewing on-point quilt, SCCL quilt show

It seems Donald Trump is once again embodying his "Dozy Don" nickname.

On Monday, September 28, the 80-year-old president welcomed journalists into the White House to answer questions after announcing what he called the biggest steel facility in American history, which is scheduled for construction in Iowa.

(full article here: Donald Trump appears to 'fall asleep' on Fox News as viewers say 'call the nursing home')

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Michael headed out Friday morning (10/2) on a bunch of errands, and I got Paula’s quilt loaded up and basted:

and kicked off the quilting: 

While Paula’s quilt was stitching (mercifully, I had very little problems with thread breakage), I came up with a plan “B” for my sale charm packs.  Remember, this is what I had:

  but the charm pack had too many dark colors that didn’t work with the black/white HST’s, and once I eliminated them, I didn’t have enough to get a big enough quilt?  Well, I found less than a yard of a previously used background type fabric, that I thought looked nice with my charm pack….I cut it into 5’’ squares, and started to lay out the quilt alternating the new background with the charm packs: 

I had to piece some of the background to get all of the squares I needed, but finally I had a reasonably sized quilt….I’m sure I will have to add a border to get the dialysis size I want:

  I finished Paula’s quilt before 6 PM, and headed upstairs for dinner with my honey.

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I got another customer quilt loaded up Saturday morning (10/3):

and after setting up the program, I kicked off the quilting: 

While that was stitching out, I started to sew together my charm packs on point quilt:

Now, I have to tell you that I have never sewn together an ''on-point'' quilt without getting messed up in the middle and ending up doing a lot of ripping and re-sewing....so this time I decided to try something different and I am THRILLED to say that it worked and I didn't make any mistakes in sewing together. The first change I made was to only work on 4 rows at a time. Once I had each of those rows sewn, I sewed them together before moving onto the next 4 rows. The other critical change I made was to leave one of the middle rows un-sewn, and up on the design wall, to give me a frame of reference for the next 4 rows I was sewing together. That's the long one you see in the picture above going from bottom left to top right. I am sewing together the 2 rows on either side of it, but it was helping me to pick up the correct square for the next correct row. And you can see that the top left is all sewn together. Once I got those 4 middle rows together....I sewed that long row together all by itself....then sewed those 5 rows to each other....it worked like a charm and I can't wait to try this on a bigger on-point quilt. I might have to leave 2 ''unsewn'' rows for reference points, but that's OK!

I spent 1-1/2 hours in the afternoon, looking through my early blogs for pictures.  Someone we knew very well recently died here in SCCL.  He spent MANY evenings playing games in our kitchen, and his memorial is this Saturday.  I was trying to find pictures to take to the memorial for his kids, but I didn’t start my blog until 2011, and I didn’t find any pictures :~(.

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We started Sunday morning (10/4) with waffles:

that we haven’t made in FOR_E_VER!!!  They were yummy…then Michael left for errands (LOWE’s, CVS, Food Lion and a float) while I worked on my newest customer quilt and got it all finished….along with a label. 

I continued to sew together the on point charm pack quilt….and to look for pictures in my blog for the memorial this coming Saturday….and I finally found some good ones. I've gotta send them to CVS to get printed out.

I think I got off track with a few other things...and I have no idea when they happened, so I'm just going to post the pictures :~):

These are the HST's I've been cutting for the Sisterhood quilt....I got them all sewn together, and into a zip lock bag with the other cuttings for the quilt, and put it in my project box for future sewing.

We were totally out of bread, so I got some baked:

and Michael gave away the 2nd loaf (broken into halves) to 2 of our neighbors (who were surprised and pleased).

And Michael was wanting some banana bread....and the freezer definitely had enough frozen bananas in it, so I got 2 loaves made:

Do you do that for your banana bread? Michael gives me his bananas when he decides they are ''past it!'' and I peel them and put them into a zip lock bag in the freezer. When I get 6 of them, I have enough for 2 loaves of banana bread and I put them in a bowl to thaw overnight. They look absolutely disgusting in the morning (lots of brown/yellow liquid), but I just get out my potato masher and mash them all up before adding to my batter.

At this point I have no idea when any of this happened, but let's just say sometime over the last week!

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Terry stopped by on Monday morning (10/5) for some knitting help, and then I picked up Kathy and all three of us headed to the Lake House for the quilt show.  There were lots of beautiful quilts….here are just a few: 

We spent about an hour there, and after voting for our favorites, we all headed home.  I dropped off Kathy and spent the rest of the day working on sewing together the charm pack quilt. 

And 10 years ago....

-Food and Fiber Floozie: patriotic #2 on its way, rainbow rectangles - black gets better, BBQ chicken roll up for dinner

-Food and Fiber Floozie: binding pile, FMCP play, dinner with Pat & George

-Food and Fiber Floozie: squirrel!, rose, petunias, Rainbow Rectangles - black top done!, martini night

-Food and Fiber Floozie: bread, flowers, Cookie, Sandy D's quilt loaded

-Food and Fiber Floozie: gas housers, beau coup Elsie & Cookie, Favorite Things Party

-Food and Fiber Floozie: John Deere quilt at SCQ, Barrie Ann & Loree

-Food and Fiber Floozie: Sandy's quilt started, bunny, almond bars, Ruebenwich

*** Being retired means watching everyone celebrate Friday...while you're still trying to figure out what day it is. ***

*** It's finally October!!! Which means all of the cobwebs and dust in my house just became Halloween decorations! ***

*** No debt...perfect weight...8 hours of sleep....great mental health.....healthy food....no alcohol....that was my peak!!! I was 8 years old. ***