Again I have my hands in too many pots at the moment. First I'd like to share what I did take down from the design wall this morning and that was the UFO I found. the split nine patch. It wasn't much to put together seeing how I had all the fabric and I just need to cut out that setting triangles and the sashing, just needed to assemble. Did that yesterday and it stayed up on the wall until this morning, then I took it down. Then I put up another UFO. I would like to get done before the end of the year and that is my chicken scratch blocks that I have been working on since I believe 1990. I have had them completed for at least a couple years but just put them away and hadn't done anything with them it's about time I do something with them. I want to put them on point but the stars are not a perfect square so when I first attempt at it a while back I wasn't happy with what I was looking at. But time has passed and yo
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It's Sunday so that means it's time to share what it is we are working on today and sharing this at Kathy's Quilts . "The man of the Place" went deer hunting so I had the house to myself. Did some machine work which was attaching the binding to the lap quilt that is going to go to my oldest daughter for Christmas. So that is what I have been stitching on this afternoon and will try to get it finished this evening.
I have been able to scratch that sewing itch. Yesterday I was able to assemble all the blocks for the Mystery Christmas quilt. I was fortunate enough to have all the fabric that was required to assemble this quilt. But I did not and could not find what the finished quilt was supposed to look like in the stuff I had. So I went online, went to a past post of mine, followed the links to try to find out what the last clue was. I tried and tried to until I decided well I can't find the last clue, maybe I can find a picture of the finished quilt. With a little more digging and 30 or 40 minutes later I found a picture of what I believe is what it's supposed to look like and so that's what I duplicated on the wall and it worked. So now it's just a matter of putting the blocks together. Then I can have that one checked off my list. I have done a few more circles for the I-spy quilt, made from the Quilty 365 circles. I'm having a talk wi
Being that it is Thanksgiving here in the United States, it's the time for us to reflect on the things that we are thankful for. So it made me start to think yesterday about gratitude, and how I use it in my life. So my Five on Friday will be about gratitude. 1. I believe it started mainly with Opera TV show and her introduction for herself of her daily five things she's thankful for. I believe that was back in the late 90s And I had read the book, being that it was one of Oprah's book club, about gratitude and thankfulness. 2. Keeping a journal. I have always kept a journal since I was a very young girl. But after watching Oprah back in the late 90's I started adding five things that I was grateful for in with my daily writing.. 3. As time went along I was writing less in my journal and writing down what I was thankful for was one of those particular habit I was get
Today was a very busy and active day for me. I started out by doing the usual, which was to go out and let the chickens out of the hen house. Well there was the buzzard sitting on top of the hen house. Had my camera with me so I was able to snap a shot of him up there. It stretched its wings out but did not take off and fly. Never did see it leave. Then had to go to the quilt shop to pick up the next two sets of blocks for the Farmer's wife Sampler. Went by the store get a couple things. Then I went by the church and help decorate the Christmas tree which I have to say look very stunning this year. Sometimes one color can look really pretty. We did the tree only in red ornament, bows and Poinsettias this year. Came home, fed the cows and straightened up a little bit because didn't have a chance to get to that this morning before I left. I was able to get a couple hours of sewing in which I proceeded to work
Yesterday my plan was to finish cleaning and then try to get a little sewing in. Well it started out pretty good I straightened up, did a little cleaning, and then proceeded to straighten up my sewing room. Hello how easily I can get distracted. Got the cutting table cleared off, was thinking about projects I wanted to finish before the end of the year, and started a list. As you can tell I'm a list person. Then I was thinking what if there that I can get done off of my 2015 list. Looked at it, decided how I can add this and this and so went looking for these projects. If you're following along you're probably already ahead of the game and realized, oh I know where this is going. That's right I started searching for one thing and found another. And another. And another. Then there was a project I thought oh I haven't seen them in ages, and start wrestling through it, and realized where are the blocks I had already made for this
Friday I arrived home after dark, so "the man of the place" locked up the chickens in the hen house. He said when he went to do that he found a buzzard in the hen house. He was able to scoot the buzzard out the house. It just hopped over to peach tree in the chicken yard and perched on it. I asked him if something were dead in the hen house like a chicken or something else. so strange, that would be the only reason for a buzzard to fly into a hen house He said he could not find anything, nothing was out of place and just thought it was a strange happening Heaven knows.... I have had various creatures in with the poor girls, like the time I had a hawk with them. When I went out the next morning to let the chickens out, I did not see no sign of the buzzard and just figured it flew away. But it was Monday, and "the man of the place" told me that the buzzard was back out there. Sure enough there it was hopping along the side of