One down....

Happy Scrappy Houses from quiltville.com ***DONE**** Now back to Amish Diamonds I forgot! :0)

Not about me Monday 7/31

Letsee here....I did remember NAMM, but I forgot that I was to help out at the humane society...so I did something right.

What I did manage to do was some more spiral scraps blocks for a donation kids quilt and I finally mailed out 5 quilts to Wrap a Smile contact Bev in Maine. So maybe I dont get the gold star for today, but I still earned a little sumpthin!

Unconscious Mutterings 7/30

1. Italy :: Boot


2. Honk :: Goose


3. Shades :: Lamps


4. Tool :: Men


5. Modern :: Art


6. Tension :: Sewing machine


7. Conservative ::Greyhound


8. Weight :: Goal


9. Insurance :: claim


10. Political :: affiliation

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Too much to do

Listening to Nirvana Heart Shaped Box Can you tell the boys are home?

• 8/1 Five lotto blocks Amish Diamonds done in brights on black from www.quilterscache.com
• 9/1 Happy Scrappy Houses for swap in sets of 2 from www.quiltville.com
• 9/10 Retreat challenge, completed project using a panel we received last year at retreat. I have designed a 72x98" quilt, it might have to shrink.
• 9/10 NYBeauty blocks started last year at retreat from a class taught by Judy. I pulled them out only a couple of times throughout the year, I really want to take a completed something back to show her.
• 9/15 Box Quilt blocks for swap, done in sets of two from quilterscache.com
• 9/15 Carol's challenge blocks are due from the 5 packets I received.
• 10/1 WWC Weird and Wonderful Challenge from Sandra is due, we all received a FQ with a "weird" fabric (Which I think is gorgeous!) and we're to use our creative juices to make something wonderful.

Now, I wouldnt normally be concerned with such a full quilty plate but school and HS football is starting and fantasy football and college football and NFL football.....man! I had better get a move on!

Quilt show buy Too cute!

My new t-shirt in honor of DH.....

Not about me Monday 7/25

I received some challenge packets from Carol E. on Sunshine. The premis is, we send her $1, she sends us packets of fabrics, we add from our stash and send back as many kid related blocks for her to use in Sunshine quilts. I received 5 packets from Carol, some were pretty darn challenging, some not so much.

This was Monday's charitable project. I added the half yard of school bus yellow from my stash. The floral, greens and red were sent to me from Carol. This is one of the not very challenging packets, I thought I'd start off slow.

Unconscious Mutterings 7/23

Requirements :: tests
Pizza :: tomato
Dating :: game
Issue :: new
Sharp :: sharpie
Distinguish :: gentleman
Remote :: sensor
Felony :: jail
Exercise :: machine
Choose :: life



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6" Patriotic stars swap

My blocks for the mailblocks swap that Brenda is hostessing. I sure hope I remembered to square those up before I sent!

Appleseed Quilt Show/ Confessions of a Quilt Whore

I went to my first quilt show yesterday in Ft Wayne, and I had a great time! My first taste and now I want more, so I'm going to start looking for other shows! Of course I must remember to take the camera next time.

Initially Ellen and Monica were supposed to come with, but Ellen had to take advantage of the pretty day to transport some furniture that she could not allow to be damagaed, and poor Monica had some sort of stomach flu. I was left by myself, and after working all night Friday night, I was really hoping for a co-pilot to help keep me awake on the way home. My bad-boy Q said he'd tag along! And he was the perfect gentleman! Looking at all the quilts with his plastic glove, helping me to pick out fabric, carrying my loot bags for me, he didnt balk much when we were told that Q could enter the show for free because he was my "husband," I was very impressed with the maturity he showed and that would have made my day in itself but there's more....

We got to spend the day with Susan and Liz! Q and I drove to Susan's house, met Liz and Susan's husband Perry. (Q would have been glad to hang around with Perry and his Camar-moo all day! I could have stayed and played on Susan's longarm!) Susan drove us to Ft Wayne where we had a wonderful lunch and on to the show! I really enjoy both of those ladies! They're funny, witty and the shared loves of quilting, swapping and internet quilt lists makes them all the more "in synch" with me. Plus they are so knowledgable about quilting, I learn so much from both of them. While at the show we ran into Janet and her DH John, I was glad to meet John, I had heard lots of great things about him from the Miniretreat that I had missed, I was happy to put a face to the stories. Janet and John were on "chick patrol" hoping to find a hottie for Q! The fact they all took time to make a connection with my son and to tell him stories of their own lives and children's lives meant more to me than I could ever explain. I am very fortunate to have friends like these.
Of course there was more...THE QUILTS AND THE VENDORS!

The quilts were incredible, there were works of art there I could never even dream of let alone put fabric and thread to the dream and make a reality. I always thought of myself as a fan of traditional quilts, pieced in reproduction prints or country colors. By the time I was half way through, I realized I have no loyalty. I was oohing and aahhing over every method and style imaginable. I was loving the primitive style one second and a modern looking artistic the next....Our dog loves to have her chest rubbed, she will postition herself so her chest is close and sits for hours and lets anyone rub it...we lovingly call her a "Booby Rubbing Whore"...not caring who, what or where, just getting her chest rubbed anywhere she can by as many who are willing. I realize now that she comes by that trait honestly, bacuse her mom is a "quilt whore!" Every quilt was my favorite until I saw the next, I crawled over every inch of each vendor's booth, I spent way too much money....I feel myself falling into the seedy quilting depths...and I am in ecstasy!

Not about me Monday

Listening to the Beatles I Wanna Hold Your Hand


I have decided to start a new theme for myself, its Not About Me Mondays. Maybe its my offer to start volunteering a couple of hours Monday afternoons at HSJC. Maybe its my renewed interest in making charity quilts for organizations like Project Linus, Wrap Them in Love and Wrap a Smile through Sunshinequilts. But I have decided that I will commit to doing something charitable on Monday. Its my day off, family is at school and work, the dogs sleep through the day anyway, why not do something good with my day? Something that might touch someone else and help to make their lives a little better in some small way.

So, I pieced a charity quilt top using swapped blocks, around 53x45" and started piecing some more spiral log cabins for a kids quilt. I have a roll of poly batting from Joanns that is 48"x10 yards. What I'd like to do is set it up on the frame along with 10 yards of backing, probably muslin, and just line up my charity tops, quilt, advance a little and quilt the next, etc. I'm not completely sure it will work this way, but what the heck its worth a try.