Coming back to life, slowly..

Hey Girls. I feel like I'm starting to come back to life after the NYC trip.  Went Krogering, put some laundry out to dry in the sun, and ate some lunch. 
Since I also got the bills paid , I think I'll take some time to show you a few more red and white quilts.

Enjoy!

New York City, And Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts

I'm exhausted girls.  I don't even know if I have the energy to tell you everything I saw and did.....so I'll post some photos for you and hopefully you will be able to get a sense of what I experienced.

Sunshine and Citrus

I was out and about with my friend Claudette last week.  Our travels took us to The Salvation Army, as it frequently does.  Claudette found a couple of denim skorts...her go-to summer wordrobe staple.  She needed to replace her well-worn (worn-out) skort that has seen her thru many good times and adventures.  I wish I had a pic of it to show....

Anyway,  my search took me to mens shirts and this is what I found.  This pic does not do them justice. The shirts are in the colors of sunshine and citrus and bellinis. I just love the madras plaid shirt.  The colors in it are beautiful and blend with all the other fabics I chose. 

And this is what I did with them.  I cut them up into random sized strips and just started free-piecing log cabin blocks. I added some of my scraps to the blocks and I think they fit in perfectly.  These blocks are 6 1/2 inches...because that is the size ruler I had on hand.  All the shirts I purchased were large, XL, or 2 XL, so the amount of fabric I got from each shirt was tremendous.  The 30 or so blocks I've made so far only used the fronts of the shirts....the backs and sleeves are still whole.

And these little guys are 3 1/2 inches.  Not sure how they will all end up together, but I was having a great time working on them.

So that's what I worked on this past weekend.  Not spending any time at the machine this week, but I'll be back at it next week.  I'll post more progress when I have it.

Talk to you chicks later!

Project Update

Just wanted to show you chicks that sometimes I do finish (sort-of) some of the things I've started.

(I'be been wanting to share this with you for some time but I lost the transfer cord to my camera)

This is a from a kit I bought in the fall of  2009 at a quilt show in Oxford.  I have the binding all set to go....the back required  some piecing....and some more piecing....and I might applique some "loops" on the back so that it looks like a ribbon on a gift. I need to look thru my stash to see if I have some batting.  I plan to quilt it myself.

This is my Just One Star blockng ...waiting for my siggie and an envelope.  Its on my To-Do list for tomorrow.

And girls, I wanted to show you that I got out our Material Girl Challenge blocks from Way Back When and I'm going to try to work out a setting that I like and I swear, As Bob Is My Witless, that I will get this turned into a top...and a quilt, by the end of the year.

There....I said it.  I put it out there.  So it will happen.

Thats all for now girls.  Talk to you later.

February Fun

This past weekend I got to enjoy some perfect snow and a long weekend of sewing at the farm.
That delightful Snow Woman was built with assistance from my friend Claudette, a.k.a. The Drama Mama, a.k.a. Silvia.  She added the anatomically correct details, while I was responsible for her fashions.
I would have been fun to build an entire Snow Woman family, but with nothing but dish and garden gloves for protection our fun had to be brief.

 You can see that Snow Woman is thinking about warmer weather, wine and gardening.......

This apron and pot holders are a little housewarning gift I made for one of my daughter's friends.  She just got her first place and I wanted to send her something.  Now I'm just waiting on an address.......

This is a terrible self-shot pic of the holly applique quilt that I finished and will hopefully be taking to the quilter this week......

That's all I have to show you for now......I showed you mine....now show me yours!!!

A Little Knitting

I'm showing Nik in the cowl I knit for Elle....it's been done for a while, but the weather and pure laziness have kept me from posting the photo and then sticking it in the box and mailing it.
It's just a simple seed stitch.  Cant remember how many stitches I cast on, and I don't remember what needles I used, but I'd like to make another one for Nik as well as one for myself so I'll have to go on a search for my notes.
Elle sent me this pic from her phone after she received her package yesterday at work.  She loves it, but could have used it when winter hit in NYC....Not sure why cant spin this pic around.....

That's all for now.....Have a great day!

A Post-Blizzard Post

Well Chicks, it looks like the BIG BLIZZARD turned out to be a BIG BUST....so I'm not going to bother showing any pics of my ruler in the snow or of the drifts and piles of snow. We had quite a bit but it certainly didn't break any records and I dont thing it merited the cancellation of school, but whatever....
Maybe what I should show you is my over-stuffed refrigerator? I let all the television news hype get me worked up and I actually went to 3 stores and stocked up on everything. Why? I dont know. I have no little children who will suffer if the milk runs out.
I did decide I better bake something, at the very least, since I purchased 2 different kinds of flour, so I made a small batch of peanut butter cookies (because I also bought peanut butter.....)

The week before the storm I spent several days out at the farm, sewing and watching the bird feeder.

This guy kept showing up at the feeder. Watching him run thru the yard was very comical....like something from a cartoon. Its been a very long time since Ive seen any pheasants this up-close....so it was fun to watch him.

I worked on a kit I bought at The Ice House in Grayling in 2005

(I think) when I went up to a Karen Stone class with The Chicks. I dont know why I waited so long to put it together, because it went together so fast (because it was so simple). Not sure where I'm going with it from here. I'll add a border or two to make it a little larger....use up some scraps on the back and maybe quilt it myself since it's not that large.

Thats it for now. I'm sitting in a nice sunny window, getting ready to work on my applique and sip my nice hot cup of tea.

Have a Great Day!