Waiting for a call and baby quilts.....

It's Monday...I should be working if I had a job.......I had an interview on Friday, I am qualified and it went well. He told me I was "perfect". That means I have the right background, working experience and I am current in my skills. It was with a recruiter though and he has to check to see if all positions have been filled. There were 4 openings and last he had checked only one was filled. This is a Ford job and only for about 3 months but that is better than 3 months of unemployment. I am waiting for a call today.

Let's see, my husband has decided he wants to make baby quilts and sell them....sigh....this will mean lots of work for me of course. He has made two quilts so far. One for his mother and one for a friend's new baby. He did a great job on both. He needs a refresher on piecing though since it has been a while. He also wants to learn to quilt...or so he says. AGAIN, a lot of work on my part. I don't think he realises how much work he will have to do for not a lot of profit. I don't make quilts to sell. I make them for gifts. We will see how it goes.

This is what I am quilting right now. Pretty boring..all blocks are the same...not my kind of quilt. This is a customer quilt and it would have benefitted from custom quilting but it was not to be as the customer wanted cheap edge to edge. Using square spiral panto and it is my new favorite panto. It doesn't hurt that this quilt is beautifully pieced. I haven't had such a flat, square quilt in a very long time. I need to make sure I tell this lady what a nice job she did piecing it.

Leg problems---Why I've been MIA

I've been away froom here for exactly a month. It could have been less and it felt like longer than that. I have had some problems with my legs and have done little of anything for weeks. Lots of pain and wraps on my legs meant I spent a lot of time on my butt w/ my legs up. No quilting or sewing to speak of and I am so behind right now. I have two customer quilts to do and two graduation quilts of my own to do so that means binding and all. One of them is due for June 6. Talk about procrastinating. I received my new Edgerider wheels but they haven't been put on yet. My friend is supposed to come over tomorrow to change them out for me. yippee! I am looking forward to it. So my todo list looks like this:

1. Quilt Martha's quilt (customer)
   
2. Quilt first grad quilt
3. Finish piecing 2nd grad quilt
4. Quilt Carol's quilt (customer)
5. Quilt 2nd grad quilt

I better get busy.

Smile and the world smiles with you!

Another day to myself

Well we are in the process of getting the snow. Doesn't look like much yet but from what I hear it is wet and heavy and the worst is yet to come. I was ready to go across the street to babysit but there is no school today and their dad decided to take the day off too, so I find myself with the day to myself. I was winding bobbins while waiting to go across the street so now I already have a cuppa in me and ready to go on this quilt. May as well get busy on it! Has to be done for tomorrow anyway and I have lots on my to do list. This is the list from the other day. I hope I make some progress today.

1. Quilt Baptist Fan on a round robin quilt (customer) DONE
   
2. Make blocks for Karen's hug quilt and mail
   
3. Finish my Bears in the Farmhouse top and make the binding
   
4. Finish log cabin top for my daughter
5. Cut two battings for up coming quilts (this is a pain to do because of lack of space here)
6. Cut 5" squares for a my Tuesday swap meeting
   
7. Possibly start quilting Jessica's quilt

Sunday Dinner

We had a szechwan Chicken stir fry tonight.....here are the veggies:

Plated up!

This was awesome!


This however was not so awesome:You guessed it....the border on a customer quilt. I give up!
I am NOT A MAGICIAN!