WIP...

...I'm not sure what DAY it is!  Does that ever happen to you?!  Way too often, maybe?!

I made a few really cute Halloween cards~I'd show you a picture but I, er, mailed them without a glamour shot.  :(

I made a few Thank You cards for the FAB's.  Er, they got mailed without a glamour shot, too.  :(

I made another Thank You for Great Grandma. 

Here is it's glamour shot.  :)

I did shop.  More blues and w.o.w.'s.

+6 yards.

DD hurt her Achilles tendon about 10 days ago. It was still hurting so it was a trip to the orthopedic doctor today.  She came away with a boot and a *no gym* note good until November 14th!  Let's hope her soft tissue injury heals by then!

Daisy dog has been holding her left front paw off the ground and not putting any weight on it.  Since it is her 6 month *old lady* check up time...off we went to the vet today, too.  Diagnosis~soft tissue injury...just like DD!  She came away with a *no gym* note good until November 7th and potty on a leash.  We normally just let her wander around the yard to *find a spot* but since we have wild animals close~the doctor doesn't want her chasing the deer, rabbits or squirrels and re-injure her leg.  No boot for Daisy Dog.  :)

Hopefully some sewing will be happening in the new future.  :) 

That's my story and I am sticking to it! :)

My FAB-ulous Birthday PAR-ty

This year, my online sewing group, The FAB's,gather for FAB-ulous Birthday PAR-ties and sewing!   We meet close to each member's birthday online where the birthday FAB opens gifts we have given to her and sew a pattern of her choice.  (or sometimes, one is *pardoned* from the group pattern as *she* might have something else *she* needs to sew!) 

Last Saturday was MY DAY!  :)

My gifts:

From Cher: this wonderful winter wall hanging!  I'm going to add a sleeve and hang it in my family room in a new spot for quilts just this size.  And it co-ordinates beautifully with the winter wall hanging for my kitchen.  Come January~I'll show them both.  Cher also sent a ton of other goodies in her box that I didn't take pictures of...a cool tote bag, a baggie full of candy bars to share, cathedral windows notecards, fabric and two shop samples for me to practice my quilting on!  Thanks, Cher!  It all is wonderful!

From Linda: this awesome wall hanging!  with all the elements Linda LOVES and I appreciate! (ie: applique!)  November 1st it will be hanging in my family room!  Linda also sent my some yellow scraps as I mentioned the yellow was running low ?!  She also sent a bin full of trail mix with M&M's, nuts and candy corn.  yes! candy.corn!  soon the trail mix will only have M&M's and the nuts!  lol

From Norma:  are you ready?!  this tote bag! made out of FAB purples and the batiks Norma loves.  My guild notebooks will be traveling in style now.  to the right~a bag of coffee crisp nuggets.  talk about yummy!  sinful! I need to be careful or my weight will be off the charts at my Doctor's appointment next week!  but watch out after...lol

From Pam:  my glamour shot...not!  Pam's gifts were cupcake theme.  This adorable apron~check out the ric rac and a cupcake hot pad.  Pam also sent some cupcake sprinkles and liners in her package.

The pattern we worked on is the Minnesota Hot Dish, shown here.




Thanks my FAB-ulous friends for a FAB-ulous Birthday PAR-ty!  Miss Norma is next in November!

A Patriotic Give Away

Joanne at Everyone Deserves a Quilt is hosting a Patriotic Give Away!

If you are interested in making a QOV to donate~this prize package would be a great jump off point! 

Need more inspiration for QOV's? Check out Joanne's 15 Honor Flight quilts she donated.  Totally Awesome!

Design Wall Monday

Started a new quilt at the sew-in with my FAB friends on Saturday to celebrate my birthday!

Minnesota Hot Dish by Atkinson Designs.  One source here, here or here.  I didn't see it on the Atkinson Designs website.

Stash Update Week #43

Fabric added this week:  +4 yards
Fabric added this year: +210 yards

Fabric used this week:  -9 yards
Fabric used this year: -240 yards

Net fabric for the year: -30 yards (used)

What I accomplished this week:

finished Halloween place mats and tablerunner
quilt and bound Kitty Staggered Bricks~a NICU quilt
quilt and bound Balloon Pinwheel w/ Ribbon border~a NICU quilt

Goals for next week:

continue piecing blocks for Minnesota Hot Dish

note:  the +4 yards was background for the Minnesota Hot Dish but it didn't *play nicely* with the border fabric.  :(    but I will find another home (or maybe homes!) for the yardage...

A Couple of NICU Quilts

I finished the two NICU quilts just in time to be donated tonight!

The first one, orginally blogged about here, used the *ugly* fabric of the green.  Right?!  I didn't think it was ugly at all.  I did change the border out~trying for more of a contrast. The pattern is Staggered Bricks from my friend, LindaJ's blog.

The curly heart panto.

The next one...ummm...I was going to rip out the inner border and put *something with more contrast* but DS said that he liked it the way it is.  He liked that the border flowed into the quit center. :) 
My goal in this quilt was to use the balloon fabric~given to me at guild~ and try the ribbon border.  Tutorial found here.  I originally blogged about it way back in June, here.

One more time, practicing the curly heart panto.  :)

My Halloween Finish

and Halloween is 13 days away!

The place mats inspiration found here.

The table runner pattern:  Frame Up from Pieced Tree Patterns.

Design Wall Monday

Not exactly a design wall but this is what I am currently working on, My Halloween place mats.  I finished the straight line quilting today and made/applied the binding.  Now to do the hand sewing!

Pattern inspiration found here.

Stash Update Week #42

whew! just had a finish late last night while I was listening to the Milwaukee Admirals hockey game! yeah~the Pesky Ads won in a shoot out!  :)   3 wins and 0 losses in this young season!

fabric added this week:  0 yards
fabric added this year: +206 yards

fabric used this week: -6 yards
fabric used this year: -231 yards

net fabric for the year: -25 yards

What I accomplished this week:

completed Simba's Rainbow

Goals for next week:

continue working on Halloween place mats
quilt and bind NICU/Ugly fabric quilt

Hop on over to JudyL's Patchwork Times to check out other bloggers' Stash Updates.

A Quilt for Simba

Just in time for this week's stash report.  A quilt for Simba to, ahem, be on instead of the carpet when out of his cage.

I'm making a dent in the scrap bins...orange and purple are low while the reds are boring~more of the same fabrics~if you  *know* what I mean!  :) The yellows are more gold than yellow.  Tons of blues and greens. Moderate amounts of black, grey, white, brown and beige.

The popcorn quilting.

The buck-a-yard backing.  fungly in it's glory...the fabric is kinda growing on me...  :)