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?

No Response???

Just finished up cleaning all the supplies, totes, and yes even products from the table show in Wisconsin Dells. Not real please with the organizers of the event. The set up was very bad and no accomodations were set up for the what if's.

Like what will happen if it rains and half of the booths in the tent are on the down slop of the pavement? And what will happen if it rains and we didn't check the tent out for leaks? Hmmm. Well as you can imagine, we arrive to out booth sunday morning to find that our booth was sitting in a water hole and the tent above us had a leak, and guess what? It was raining. Now we are cold, wet, in the dark and selling damaged goods.

Yes we packed up and left, no sales for sunday. So now I have been trying to contact the organizers of the event to register my complaint. I guess they are busy with all the other people who want to register a complaint. I have left three messages so far, and still no response.

Sometimes you just have to call it a day and move on. Nothing was ruined beyond repair, everything cleaned up well. And I am not the worst for wear. So it's done, move on.

Out of Flake Out

Well if you put aside the fact of how crowed it was, or the fact that it was freezeing and the heater didn't work very well in this huge tent...............

Or the fact that the lightening was horrible, and left most of the venders in the dark with no electricity...........it wasn't so bad.......
I met some interesting people, and made some new friends. I did hand out quite a bit of business cards for my sister, however I only sold a few things.

But the snow scultures were unbelievable! This was one of the many many scultures in the compitition. Tomorrow is the judging and we will see who the winner is.

The hotel room is lovely, and very cozy. My sister is pretty sick with a bad cold and spent most of the time in the hotel room rather that with me in the booth.

I just came back from the gas station to get her some Ben and Jerry's. Hopefully she will feel better soon, I think the Ben and Jerry's helps.

Back again to the booth tomorrow morning. The craft show runs until 2:00pm. I should be home by supper tommorrow.

2010 Wisconsin Dells Flake Out Festival

Just a quick note before I leave for the weekend in Wisconsin Dells, WI. The 20th annual Flake Out Festival is set to begin at 6pm tonight. And I am meeting my sister there to get a booth set up for her embroidery. There will be a huge art and craft sale that will run for two days.
They also will have snow and ice sculting competition and bands and plenty of activities for all ages.
Should be a fun weekend.
Hope to have some exciting news to tell you when I get back.

Nothing much, what's new with you?

Well I didn't have an entire weekend to myself. And the one coming up doesn't look good either. But I did manage to get some things done in mysewing room.



These are 4 inch squares that I got together for my girlfriend. This whittles away at my stash turning them into useful pieces that she can enjoy. I gave her a pattern some months ago. And from time to time send her a squishy package in the mail to keep adding blocks to her scrap quilt. She is not a quilter, but I am slowing working on her and she should be one soon.

And this panel in my stash, well I finally figured out what I am was going to do with it. It made a very nice table topper. My DH fell in love with it and asked for it to go on the table. Machine quilting on it was fun, and I needed the practice.

That was the extent of my sewing this past weekend. I have another table runner cut out and ready to go, so hopefully amoung all the other things I got going this coming weekend, I will get to it.

I would love to join Judy over at patchworktimes.com and her quiltathon going on for the weekend. Maybe I will be able to catch some of it.