Goodbye Michigan

These four days went so fast. Isn't that the way it goes? You get so excited while you wait for your time off of work and then when it finally arrives, it is done and over with before you know it.
Alot of projects got done, and alot of learning.

This is a reversable tote I made. It went together fairly fast and you can never have enough totes, right?
We spent friday at a class to learn how to knit socks. No picture here, not really that proud of it. I dropped some stitches and I might of pulled the yarn too tight which made it really tight and small. I am in the process of starting another one.

This table topper caused a bit of a problem for me. My sister was trying to explain the 45 degree cuts on this topper. I am the type of person that needs to be shown how to do something, so she finally ended up haveing to make the first cut for me and after that I was fine. It's kinda hard to see, but this fabric has the cutes bunnies on it, and the green blender material I used is just the most richest green.

My sister runs her business from her home. All her embroidery machines fill one of her rooms in her house. So as long as I was there, I had her make me a patch for my newly done quilt. It will be a surprise for my daughter in june for her 33rd birthday.

And here is the quilt! I got the binding put on it and it is now ready for the handi work.

But right now, sitting here in front of the TV and relaxing on my recliner...............I think I will just sit here and do nothing.

Michigan, here I come!

Ok here I go! Off to Michigan to do my yearly visit with my sister. Nothing but sewing for the next 4 days. We have a class scheduled for friday to learn how to knit.
(One of my prior projects that I tried to do on my own and failed)
And the rest of the days will center around piece and quiet and sewing. Oh my goodness, I am still at my office counting out the hours till I leave that's how excited I am.

Laid back weekend

This weekend I had the long arm reserved in Green Bay for the afternoon on saturday to finish up my thimbleberries quilt. It has been quite awile since I did this, and I found it still alot of fun.

I spent the entire weekend in Green Bay with my youngest daughter and her husband. We spent alot of time playing on the Wii. She has the fitness Wii. I certainly got a good work out. I left today with sore arms and hips. My poor old bones.
Later this afternoon I was able to obtain a second hand Baby lock serger. It is pretty old, and I will need to get the manual online somewhere... but this machine was quite a deal and it came from a sewing fix it shop.
I got it all threaded and practiced a bit on it but I promised myself that I wouldn't use it till I was able to get a manual and had a chance to read it.
I now need to focus my attention on my yearly trip to Michigan. I will be leaving this thursday and staying until sunday with my sister. And she has our days filled with projects. I am looking forward to the bonding time with sis and the much needed time off of work.

Olivia Ann

This is Olivia Ann. My great niece. She was born on February 15, 2010 and is still hospitalized at Children's Hospital in Milwaukee, WI.

Olivia has a few problems and continues to get stronger everyday.

She has already had one surgery at three days old to construct a esophagus for her so she could eat. She still has a feeding tube in while she is learning how to swallow.

And the future will bring another surgery for little Olivia, she was born with a hole in her heart and will need open heart surgery. My nephew and his wife are staying close by to Olivia, thanks to the Ronald McDonald house. The medical bills just keep mounting and ore in the future

My brother is very proud of his first grandchild and is busy working on a money raising event to help offset the medical bills for my nephew and his wife. I and my sisters and other brother are doing what we can to help.

We are excepting donations right now for a raffle that will be held soon. I will keep you posted on this event.

Please keep little Olivia Ann in your prayers.

Quilt-a-thon Weekend

It began on saturday morning at 9 am and didn't end till 5pm sunday. I am exausted. First I made this pillowcase for my grandson Nickolas. He will be three in a month and needed a big boy pillow case.

Next I needed to comple blocks out of the free fat quarter I received from the Thimbleberries club for February.

And I needed to complete the February Block of the Month, which was three house blocks. This will be an adorable Thimbleberries quilt. I am so excited to be working on this.

And my biggest accomplishment this weekend was the Thimbleberries quilt from the 2009 Block of the Month.

I am so proud of this quilt. This is the most difficult quilt I have ever made, And if you look careful enough you can see all my mistakes. At least I can. But my goodness I am still looking at this and thinking I can'f believe I did this. Thanks to my girlfriend for giving up her time this weekend to watch me put all the blocks together. What I lack in confidence I make up for in the number of my friends that believe in me.

Happy Valentine's Day

My weekend started with good intentions. The plans were that I was going to spend the whole weekend in my sewing room working on the buggy barn quilt that was started with the class last weekend.
And then my sister called to ask if I would join her for lunch. She was visiting her daughter who lives about 76 miles from me. So I agreed to meet her half way. We had a great lunch and then after we ended up at a quilt shop. Well there went the budget. As if I don't have enough projects started I ended up buying some more. Primitive gatherings, what a wonderful shop.

So that kind of used up some of my time, seeing as I got home around 4 in the afternoon.

And today, I needed to get the weekly grocery shopping done. And I couldn't seem to get myself going this morning. I spent more time with my coffee then I should of, but I did manage to get going.

Later when I got home I made my DH a homemade coconut cream pie for his valentine's day surprise. Not much of a surprise since he requested it.

So it was after one before I got to sit down at the sewing machine to get any of those buggy barn squares done.

Out of 25 needed for the quilt, I got 13 done. Wish it would of been more, but I won't complain. It is 8:45 in the evening, and I am tired. Enough, bed early and work tomorrow....

Super fast weekend

Another one of those weekends where I seem to burn the candle at both ends.
This weekend was nothing but a blur, Saturday I spent the day at our local quilt shop taking a class on making buggy barn quilts. It takes alot of prep work to get to the point of sewing the pieces together. Our instructor said that alot of women find it so much fun that they do only buggy barn quilts. Working from 10 in the morning till 3:30 in the afternoon and all I got done was this one square. Which actually needs to be squared off yet. And on sunday, don't you think I should of picked it up and continued with it? Yeah, that would of been the thing to do.

Instead I worked on the blocks made from my free fat quarter from the January quilt club meeting. Seeing as the next one is tomorrow nite, I knew I have to get these done.

And the block of the month for January blocks. Ok, so I put it off a couple of weeks, I at least got it done in time. So many projects and so little time.

I also made a couple of pillow case for one of my son in laws. Long story, but the guy doesn't throw nothing away. He tried to give me a pillow case that he had years ago in his college dorm room. He needed me to patch it up for him. I threw it out and made these for him instead.

And I got my table runner finally done. Alot of applique, but it was fun.

With all that to do it is no wonder my weekend just rushed by. And I did manage to get the wash and grocery shopping done too. That's about it for the housework.

And now it's time to settle down by my honey in the livingroom and pretend I am interested in the Superbowl. Oh you laugh, but your doing the same thing aren't you?