Today was Dogwood Quilters Guild meeting in Siloam Spring Arkansas. Even tho I live in Oklahoma I am very close to Siloam Springs which happens to have a very active guild. I haven't been to a meeting in months but this one I just happen to attend was having a class on making the Migrating Geese. Here is a link to a good tutorial of her plus Deb Tuckers. Over at Soscrappy I'm joining in on this month's color of brown with an accent of pink. I had this so cute Eggs and Bacon with cubby Pigs fabric and figure this would be perfect for this month's baby quilt. What do you think...... adorable isn't is Our teacher for the day was a member and shop owner of the local Quilt shop Sager Creek, Pam Goggans. Excellent teacher and if you are in the area you need to drop by her shop. She has a quilt in the Jan,/Feb. issue of Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting. That is just her latest published pattern. I took my Featherweight to use c
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First I want to thank you all for the well wishes on my eye surgery, Want you to know it all went well and I am writing this without glasses. A little fuzzy but will get better with each passing day. It's funny tho cause I find myself trying to reach for the top of my head as though my glasses are there. I am so pleased so far with getting the multi-focal lenses in place of the mono-focal lenses. I think it was a good choice for me. Now I wanted to show how much the layout in my Bullet Journal has change in the month of January. Been only doing this Bullet Journal setup for tasks and planning since November. Loving it and the fun part is finding the layout that works the best. To see each week improving. I started the year out with my daily spread looking like this, I've blurred it so nothing too personal can be read. Hope you still can get the idea. tasks on one side and journaling on the other. This is why I like the bullet journal, the flexibility to ha
Yesterday I was in Tulsa again to see the eye doctor. Today I went in for my left eyes surgery and looking it forward to it. Last week it went so well, so far it has been pretty good. By the time I got back yesterday I was only able to work on catching up on January Quilty 365. I'm not quite done with them but here is what I have completed so far. I had started this last night to have posted but the battery went dead and now I'm finishing it. Vision is not my best but I will not let that stop me from finishing this, it just be short.
It was so nice today that I had to take time outside and didn't get to sewing until later on today. Since I hadn't finished organizing the garage that is what I did. When I did get around to getting some sewing in I worked on this month's RSC. I had all the fabric cut and now it's just a matter of sewing the pieces together and trimming. Started putting a few on the wall to see what it would look like. Like it. Then this evening I have been trying my best to get the boarder done. I have little over one side left to do and will no way to have it completed by today. Pretty close tho. Maybe by the end of the week. Linking up with So Scrappy
Have you heard the Whole30 challenge. I hadn't until last month during our stitch group. Pam had told me about how she and her husband have been doing this Whole30 challenge. messageofhope.com It's based on a book written by Dallas and Melissa Hartwig, called It Starts With Food and then an additional book that they written called The Whole30 Being that my major in college ( 20 years ago) was Nutritional Science, anything that have to do with food and nutrition just perks my ears right up. I had not heard of this challenge before and of course my curiosity got the best of me. Pam was speaking of the positive benefits she had been experiencing while doing this eating plan. While researching this I realize that it really wasn't a far-fetched, way out there type of diet. I do not believe that diets like that are beneficial or a long term healthy lifestyle. My first thought was Atkins, Paleo or South Beach It's what I would call a
My Five on Friday is a list of books that I had read and the last one I just started. My list of books look like a list of self-improvement and in some way they are. Maybe it had something to do with it being the start of a new year. But that didn't last long, I'm ending the month with two books of fiction. The Miracle Morning by Hal Enrod. This book is about how something as simple as a small routine each morning can make a change in one's life. He uses the letters SAVERS to use as the reminder of what to do each day. A time of S ilence. A ffirmation. V isualization. E xercise. R ead. S crip or write. The book itself was boring and like a sell pitch for himself. But the idea is a good one. It Starts With Food by Dallas and Melissa Hartwig. I would recommend this book. At times has some very technical nutritional information but they do explain it where it's understandable. At first I wasn't sure if I could do this for 30 days but I am an
I am at the halfway mark of having the cataracts removed and replaced with new lenses. This was right afterwards, tape still on Had the right eye done and next Tuesday it is the left eyes. I had spent 3 out of 5 days last week visiting doctors and again the first 3 days of this week. With being gone so much I had very little to share as far as what I've been working on. I could get a little cutting in on a couple days but that's about it. I am so amazed how quickly my eye has adjusted to the new lense. I can see so well in just 24 hours, so today I spent the day sewing and cutting. Was able to get these block done today and it felt so good. Been cutting blue fabric for this months RSC 16. I had decided that a would make a small quilt each month using that months color instead of a rainbow quilt. My thought is to have some quilts completed to give away, basically speaking baby quilts, I'm using Metro Twist by Sew Kind of Wonderfu