GO cutter play date....and a shout out to LINDA!

Today was a fun day. I went to a meeting of the "minis". We are a small group of long armers. We made our own group (and we are keeping it small on purpose) and we take turns hosting. It is all about fun and no rules...no blocks to bring, no strips to bring, no food to bring (but we always DO anyway), no kitty...you get the picture.

We always try to come up with something fun to do. We all have long arms so sometimes we just have a muslin on and play around but for the most part we try to come up with a "theme" per se. Today was GO cutter day! There were 7 of us there, three with GO cutters and only three with projects to cut. Boy it was fun. I cut lots and lots of 1.5" strips for a new string quilt I have been wanting to make. Here are my strings. You can't tell in the picture but there are a LOT of strips on there. That would have taken me a LONG TIME to cut them by hand.



Also I had help with pressing and prepping so we got a lot done. Linda cut out oodles of squares for a quilt she is doing. Here she is cutting...




and here is her stack of blocks....IMPRESSIVE HUH?




Here the girls are just hanging out and trying Gails's long arm. You have L to R, Lea, Lou and Nancy H. Lea and Lou don't have long arms...YET.





It is a long drive out to Gail's (2.5 hrs total driving for me (I met Nancy at her house and she drove to Gail's) and almost an hour for nancy to drive there and back. A lot of driving because we are all spread out. It's worth it tho.



Oh and this is a special hello to my friend Linda...HI THERE!

I want cake!

In this case, a Tranquility layer cake. Green Fairy Quilts is celebrating her baby's first birthday and giving away a layer cake. Check it out!

Design Wall Monday

This is the same thing that has been on my design wall for a week now. I'll add the borders after I finish quilting a few quilts. This is my I wanna Be Like Ronda quilt!

Now it's just hot!

As I suspected, I couldn't sleep last night. I finally gave up the fight and went to bed at around 3am but didn't fall asleep until around 5:30 and woke up a few times before I got up at 9. I will NOT sleep during the day anymore no matter how tired I get.
Started quilting today doing lots of SID and I had a heck of a time pulling the thread up using the Madiera Monolon and Bottom line in the bobbin. I know, I know....I should use a cotton thread in the bobbin but I don't have any and I didn't want to wait. I got it to work so far. It's so dang hot though, I am not getting much quilting done....hmmm, maybe at midnight it will be cooler :-)

What a wasted day!

I slept almost ALL day today. I don't know why except I just wasn't feeling like doing anything and I was tired. I woke up late and fiddled around on the internet and had a bologna sandwich for lunch. Then I laid on the sofa and fell sound asleep until my dog went bazerk because the mailman was here with a delivery.
It was a big box from Ronda with a quilt EZ template I will be needing for my new quilt (she is loaning it to me) and some batting and marking tools...she is just too good to me and I don't know why cause I don't deserve it....well I sure appreciate it though.....I called her to let her know it all arrived safely and to thank her in person.
I then went back to my room and laid down in front of the fan and fell back asleep. I didn't wake up until after 7 and Mark had dinner almost ready. Now it is midnight and I am wide awake and feel like cleaning. I have a load of laundry in and cleaned the kitchen already. I am going to attempt to go to bed in an hour or so and get up around 5am. I have to break this bad habit!
It is hell being home all day. I don't know what to do with myself!

Sewing on IWBLR quilt Aug 7, 2009

Well I just spent a couple frustrating days looking for work and there just isn't anything out there. Very few postings that I qualify for AND would maybe be able to do and/or like it. I am looking at clerical positions now because my computer skills and my personality are all I have going for me. Of course everyone wants a person with 5 years experiance and a degree.....to answer a phone and file papers? HELLO! I'm not knocking those who work in an office...I know there is a lot more to it than than but come on...it's not rocket science (or robot programming...I know how to do that, LOL). Anyway, I'm gonna work on my quilt now. I have all my strips cut out and ready to go. I WAS going to just cut half of them out and sew them and get some laid out quicker buit I am so anal about how I do things....I always do all the cutting and assembly line sew. Sometimes you just can't (or don't want to) change your ways.

1PM and ready to assembly line sew the rest of the blocks.Here is the layout of squares how Ronda thought I should lay theym out with more of the white and black. I don't know...I like more of the green I think. We will see...............

Aprons!

Who doesn't love them? I certainly do and this is my blatant attempt at winning yet another one from Lizzie Jo. Go on and go over and put your name in the hat.....Lizzie Jo is giving away not ONE, but TWO aprons. Ain't that great?