Lecture

Live photo.

Bonnie Hunter

I am sitting in her lecture! Class was super!

Too hyper to sleep

It is 1:30 in the morning. I am getting up in 5 hours to get ready for my first day of three quilt classes with Bonnie Hunter.

So not ready. What's new?

Thrifty shopping

Thanksgiving turned out ok. We had a power outage from 8 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon. It wasn't so bad because we had ham that was already precooked and the other stuff only took an hour to make. (yams, corn, gravy, stovetop stuffing and brown and serve rolls). It wasn't so good for a neighbor of mine. She woke up at 7 and put her turkey in the oven, 1 hour later all the power was out. She was not to happy. She ended up having to wait for the transformer by our house to get repaired.

I ended up staying awake because I wanted to go shopping at 5am. I bought the two things I wanted at Bi-Mart then decided to go to Fred Meyers for free coffee and donuts. Of course I had to buy their 50 percent off socks for everybody in the house except for my poor daughter Shay, who has no socks. Isn't that the way it usually happens.

To keep up with the shopping fever, I went to a Goodwil outlet store. This is where all the things that don't sell at the regular stores will go to for final sale by the pound. I ended up getting forty mens 100% cotton shirts and a tall dresser for $27.00 total. I also bought this. A 35 x 52 wool crazy quilt. It is so cool. It was yelling at me, "over here, over here!". This is the 3rd quilt I have bought there. The dresser was $5 and the rest turned out to be about 50 cents each.
I am in the process of cutting up the shirts for quilts. My daughters boyfriend ended up getting 3 of them because he needed them for work and little David got one and a set of PJs that I found too. Olivia also received a little pink outfit. Again Poor Shay didn't get anything.
I am going to have to take her out for a shopping spree for her. She loves going there. First we will go though the closet to remove some before we bring more in.

I hope everyone had a nice holiday.

Friday night sew in

Boy did I have a much needed sewing marathon. I finished my "Lattice" quilt. I decided that it needed borders. If I would have used the center fabric on the outside corners, I would not had to adds corner blocks because I had more of that fabric than the corner fabric. I always make more work for myself. I think it turned out ok anyway.

It took me longer than I wanted, because I got sidetracked. I picked up a bunch of samples from my guild meeting. Of course since they were new I had to play with them. I cut the samples into two and a half inch wide strips. I then found not 1 but 2 patterns that I liked. So now I have 2 more UFOs cut out.

I think it makes me very happy to cut fabric almost a more than it does to make the quilt. I am also, at the same time, trimming my pile of 1 1/2 inch strips, that were gifted to me, into logs for a log cabin quilt. I'm not sure how big the blocks are going to be, but I am thinking it would go faster with bigger blocks than smaller ones. I do really enjoy the smaller ones though.

Time to get up and out of bed and start on todays sewing marathon.

Afterthought,. My friend is going to take me to see how my house is going. I haven't been there for over a week. Not having a car sucks!

FNSI November 2013

It is that time again. Head out to Wendy's blog sugarlanequilts.blogspot.com to join

Can't wait. I always have fun even if a sew alone at home. I always enjoy looking at everyone elses work afterwards. Feel free to join.

Hexie

Here is 2 more for my quilt.

Quilting

I am currently finishing a quilt that is going to be in The Northwest Quilters quilt show this week. Last minute of course.

Again HRH inspector 12 had to have a say in things. Time for a break.

I decided that I am going to put the binding on by machine. If I try it any other way, it will never get done.

Inspector 12

HRH MaryJane inspecting my work.
Gotta love her!