Yes, I know this is late.
Katie, Lauren and I spent our Labor Day weekend at our own annual Tomato Fest.
This year we canned tomatoes and sauce. The sauce takes forever!
Lauren had so much '”fun” she bought 8 more bushels of tomatoes and did her own canning. If I am nice to her, she might let me have some. Yum!
Two interesting things occurred last weekend.
The fun thing was my fortieth (Yes, that is 40th!) high school reunion. I was a little apprehensive about going but I had a great time. I thought we all looked pretty good after all these years.
Below is my very, very best friend Paula and her husband, Richard. I met her my very first day. I was new at school (as a junior) and that dreaded time came I had to choose a seat to eat my lunch. I looked around the cafeteria-her table was laughing the loudest so I sat there. It was one of my best decisions!
The second thing that happened was not so great. A storm blew through on Saturday and our neighbor’s tree fell down on our pool fence.
(That is Buddy doing some investigating)
Luckily my husband and Dave were able to fix the fence so things are back to normal.
And we are quite pleased with the results!
I never realized just how hard it was to gut a room an completely rebuild it (OK-the shower stayed). I am not a good decision maker normally, so picking out everything was a little bit daunting. But it is done. Yay!!
I am working on this quilt. I did not take a picture before I put it on the frame but it is a Double Irish Chain (Eleanor Burns).
I did not want to do an all over meander and I felt each block should be quilted separately. But the blocks are 10” and I can quilt up to about 7” in width with each pass.
This is the quilt pattern that I want to use. I had the block resized to the correct size (@ Staples) and then I went to work.
Now some people are very talented and can do simple marking and do beautiful quilting. I am not some people. I ended up tracing each half of the block pattern onto long strips of tissue (Golden Threads).
I will pin each strip to the quilt and then sew through the paper. I traced out 10 pattern strips for the body of the quilt, 4 for the border and 4 corners.
Interesting. I just compared the little picture of the quilting design and my templates and they are not the same. Hmmm…Evidently I traced my pattern from a different variation of the design…
I will keep you updated.
Two pair have been completed.
A new pair started...with one sock done.
I love this pattern! And I love knitting socks!
Hey! I found a great new sight. It is called New Stitch a Day and if you sign up for e-mail, you will be sent a new knit and crochet stitch to learn each day. The sight also gives you each pattern in a written version.
At first, I thought the crochet videos looked a little clunky, but then I remembered I am left handed. Duh!!
Go check it out!
(And yes, I know it has been over two months since I posted!)
We are redoing the downstairs bathroom. There have been a couple glitches but things are going well.
After peeling wallpaper for two days, we decided to just go with new wall board.
After 31 years, we will have an actual working fan!
Below is a picture of the ceramic tile I picked out. The 6” square (on top) will be a majority of the floor and the mosaic (in 3 x 3 squares) will be interspersed.
More updates as the job progresses!
Pretty, pretty this week. I have some sashiko to show you. I never realized there were so many designs.
I think I will get out my little sampler and finish it up…
Enjoy!
That was bad, I know. And if you are old enough to remember that line, good for you!
I an learning to make socks. Here is my progress so far:
I am working on this pair of socks on my own. I am a little disappointed because the second sock has a different stripe pattern. But I will still wear them!
These are the socks that I am doing in my class. I will pick up the stitches to finish them in my next class. This pattern is different from the blue socks above. The blue socks have the wrap and turn thing going on.
I already have the next couple of pair planned.
Oh dear! More projects!
And here we are in June!
I decided that we all need a little Eleanor Burns in our lives. As a beginning quilter many years ago, I remember that watching her videos always made me feel that I could be a quilter! (My daughter says that we should make the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay watch-they will talk in 5 minutes!)
Anyway, here is a cute quilt idea:
I have actually been very busy-just lazy about posting.
Here is a new product at the shop. The idea is old-in fact, this was my second project as a new quilter. I am sure anyone who quilted in the 80’s made at least one of these:
Only I made this:
The pattern is neat-very similar to paper piecing:
I will definitely be making more of these!
I also made a sample for Mission Rose. It is called the Izzy Bag.
It has a cute pocket for your cell phone-and I even put a zipper in it!
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It uses just 4 fat quarters and even comes with the swivel hooks for the straps.
It is a great purse for a busy day of fabric shopping!
…pictures from Adrienne’s visit! This post is loaded with pictures but I hope you all (family and friends) enjoy them!
This next picture shows the one-and only –time Leonard let me hold him!
Scott, Karen and Maddie came for pizza on Wednesday.
Isn’t Maddie a cutie?
Leonard’s favorite breakfast- a honey bun for my honey!
I can’t wait to see them again!
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