Kathy's Orange Crush Top is Together!

Kathy got to sewing on her Orange Crush Mystery Quilt this evening! This pic is her taking a break for Jade who was insisting we attend to her all throughout the event. We listened to "The Stolen Child" on audiobook while we worked and it was fun, fun, fun!
This is how it looks without borders..it is time to make some steak and potatoes for dinner and then Kathy can try to figure out what she wants to do for borders...maybe I can get her sewing again tomorrow...I like how her top came out. By the way, I was the official pinner which made it much easier to sew than my own when I had no pinner! We turned a few of the blocks as we went, but ah life goes on! WHEW on getting this one done to this point! We now have four quilts to go to the longarmer and I need to see if my new online friend in Kingman has time for four (do ya Steph?) or if I should mail them back to Jen in Wisconsin...

Kathy's OC on the Design Wall!

I managed to hang a flannel tablecloth up on my new quilting studio wall and immediately got to play with it since my second ABC block exchange arrived! You may remember that I sent in the N is for nurses squares and I got back all of these very cool squares. I can't wait to mix and match with the other swap and make two quilts up!
We got wild and laid out Kathy's OC quilt on the design wall too. We discovered that somehow despite all our counting she is short two blocks! We have plenty of smaller units left over to whip them up later on and get this all sewn together. There is a great ceiling fan up there and many of the squares have fallen down as the day went on today. I either have to turn it off or devise some kind of thing I can pin on! I love it though...so nice to play with the blocks in a place the animals can't immediately lay on!
This is all the broken glass that happened in the move when poor Buck fell off the truck carrying not one but two boxes of my most fragile items. I am most heartbroken to have lost the large blue glass bottle that had a flower on it that was my grandma Char's..the ball top survived and I do have pictures of it thankfully somewhere...it was a gorgesou piece. The other green glass is all replaceable though I am quite bummed about the Norway dishes that I splurged on when I visited Norway in 2004. I can get more though I really liked this design and it wasn't too expensive. Only one cup survived, I will try to glue some of the other cups, but one was in a zillion pieces. Sigh. I guess if that is all we lost we are luckier than many and I will be thankful for all the pieces that made it intact, and that Buck was not seriously hurt on his fall....smile.
Took a quick picture of my redwork progress. This is my first attempt at this and all done in the car so not the greatest, but I enjoy it and I will hang it in the quilting studio eventually. It will always remind me of this move to AZ! I worked on getting my yahoo groups moved over to my new email address....such a pain to get it all coordinated. Randy went home today and we will miss him terribly. My daughter and her bf are with us til Saturday and have been a big help with things...going to miss her away at college in Wisconsin while I am way out here in hot country!

Kathy's OC, Moving to AZ, Hannah's Award and a Job Interview

First off thanks to those of you who tried to help me figure out why I could no longer see my pictures as I was composing. Today I finally pushed the right button (Compose at the top on the right) and it went out of "edit Html" mode which I had accidently pushed and apparently allows me to edit Html which I really don't need to do! So YAY I learned something new. Next thing I want to learn is how to write on my pictures...I love the blogs that do that but haven't figured that out yet either.


I finally took a picture of Kathy's fabrics for the Orange Crush. We used stash for the brown and red, she is sharing my indigo because I am pretty sure I bought too much since I could not decide between the two different ones, and we finally picked out her orange fabric which I love! She has 6 and a half of the step four blocks done...we have been busy and not much sewing has been happening but I am hoping she has time soon, or I will be helping her since we would like this step done and possibly the next one (I can dream) before we load of the van and she is off to Arizona on the 29th! Speaking of the van...
We decided to go with Penske after hearing several horror stories about recent UHaul trips people had taken. I have moved a million times and mostly have used UHaul without any problems (though one trip with my parents we had no AC in the van moving to AZ in May and it was HOT!) but just to be on the safe side we called Penske...turns out with our AAA discount they are cheaper anyway. So off we went to look at the 26 foot truck Kathy thought we would need (see her in the truck) and we decided it is TOO big! We downgraded to the 22 foot truck since she is going to be towing her car and her nephew will be keeping her company on the trip since I have to stay here for 10 more days for Hannah's graduation and orientation to college. They are bringing three of the dogs with them, and I will have one dog and one cat with me. We are nuts!

Kathy came to town with me on Friday for my last teaching class and we had time between things to grab lunch from Ray's (the BEST hot beefs and I never get there unless my favorite (and only) sister comes to town) and we stopped off at Carson Park for an impromtu picnic. The sun was shining and it was so quiet there. We took a few pictures of ourselves, and this was as good as it got. SMILE.
My daughter Hannah (in tan shirt on stage) got her Honors Cord from Chi Hi last Wed. night too. I am so proud of her. She does well in schoool and she works hard at Subway too. They decided to give her her nine foot party sub (for Grad party) for free as a graduation gift! I am pretty impressed with that as is she.
We went to the casino with Randy yesterday afternoon after packing a ton of stuff for moving....we actually all came out ahead! Not alot ahead, but we were there about four hours, entertained in style and left with money in our pockets! It was fun and we will miss hitting the casino now and then with Randy. When we got home I had a message on my machine (left on a Sat. at 5 PM) asking me for a phone interview for teaching ASL at a nearby high school in Arizona! I am really excited about it and think it could be a great job...different from teaching at a University (which I have done for the past six years) because there is more time with the students, they meet every day as opposed to once or twice a week and there is prep time and conference time built into my schedule! So cross your fingers they like my interview, and I like theirs!