A Whole Lot of Sewing and Quilting

 Gotta love a holiday weekend for getting in some sewing time!  I made up a spare Simple Gifts quilt top.  And quilted and bound the previous two.  These are for my co-worker Kelly's soon to be born twin grand-daughters.  Ellie and Luna.

 Here is a pic of those two and the one for Kathy's nephew Wyatt.  Will be mailing that off to Massachusetts soon.

The one below is for my co-worker Amy's little boy, Zack. I will see her this coming Saturday so done in the nick of time.

 I finally made and attached a binding on the butterfly tablerunner from several years ago.  I took an applique class...hated it and it just sat forever. Barb quilted it for me It will be gifted to someone, just not sure who yet.  Funny I do not even think it is cute anymore.  HAHA!

 I have NEVER fallen behind on a BOM until this year.  Life has just been so crazy and we have been out of town alot.  That with trying to exercise everyday (not at the moment as my knee is jacked) there just is not time.  So here are all the months...and would you believe yesterday was pick up day and we forgot.  Oy.  So September's isn't done because I don't have it.

 All of the blocks so far.  This will be a Quilt of Valor. 

Giraffes, Fixing the DD, Quilt History Block and Tablerunner of the Month Progress

The whole family went to the Wildlife Zoo last Sunday and the highlight was feeding the giraffes! Aren't they cute?

Here is my Country Lanes block from my quilt history class. This one went together extremely easily! Very happy with it!

Did some repair work on the Double Delight...turned that messed up block around...didn't find anymore so it is ready for borders. Last night we cut strips so I can make a cheddar border and then a nine patch border...thinking blue on the outside at this point.

At my tablerunner class I put together this butterfly April tablerunner.

I have only worked on the machine applique of one of the butterflies, but am liking it so far...a vast improvement from my last machine applique. The teacher helped me understand how to do it and I have lots to do before the next meeting!
Quilt Camp next weekend, so I am working on getting things assembled by project. So far I have my Double Delight borders all ready to go and a charm square bag for Suli (since I gave my mom the last one I made!). I have to get more stuff ready to go...decisions, decisions!

All Kinds of Stuff

Here is some of the applique I worked on the other night...it is for the Tablerunner of the month club I just joined..this is for April's pattern.

The binding for my other tablerunner...should get this thing done on Spring break this week.

We had a fender bender last Saturday as you can see. My girlfriend was driving and since the 101 was closed we had to take some other regular roads and they were all stop and go traffic...we were stuck in a non moving lane and she decided to pull into the slow lane since she wanted to make a right turn up at the lights. She checked in the mirror and turned around and it was clear (traffic was stopped in that lane ahead of us but not up to us) and she pulled out...the guy was going WAY TOO FAST for that kind of traffic but the speed limit there was 45...we could hear his brakes and all of us had time to grab our seats and hang on it took so long for him to hit us. I didn't even look in the mirror to see what was coming, just braced for one heck of an impact. Luckily he only got the back corner of the car and it wasn't near as bad as the 30 seconds leading up to the hit! Everyone was fine, we have insurance, pain in the rear but life goes on...smile.

We hung shelves in CJ's room last weekend and here is the picture of some of his junk (I mean treasures) up there. See the big green quilt, my grandma Nan made that years ago and my sister has a matching purple one. Gma passed them on to us a few years ago. They aren't super fancy, have thick batting and are tied, but a quilt is a quilt!

Here is Daisy checking out the tomatoes and peppers we bought. I need to take another picture in the light of them after we repotted them. We are hoping to get some veges!
And here are our new flowers and the pot..I LOVE THE POT. It wasn't in the budget but we went nuts and bought it anyway...figure we will have it for years and our back porch needs some color and excitement.

Here is the pot close up. The other side has a different design, but that sun is so COOL! (or should I say so HOT!) You can see the table and chair set my parents passed on to me that we painted too. They are comfortable chairs.

I applied for a job with some relay companies (sign language interpreting on video phone) and hope to be interviewing soon. I have heard some rumors that with all the budget cuts some of us newbies won't be back next year anyway so good thing I had already planned on doing something else! Oh and the girl that called me the expletive...administration sent me back her referral and told me to call her parents to tell them I gave her a 0. Sigh, no suport there which suprises me. I went down to talk to the head guy about it but he is tied up until after break so...onward and upward!

American Idol and a Tablerunner Class

Just finishing up American Idol here and I have three or four people I really like, but tonight Adam blew it out of the box. I would buy his album! I held my breath waiting for the judges to agree with me and they did. I hope he goes all the way--AMAZING!

Tonight I went to the tablerunner class at the Cutting Edge. I had trouble getting the book with the supply list before the class though I stopped in twice ahead of time. So I just went and met the teacher and got enough info for next month's class. She seems great and I think I will really like the class. I came home and got to work on tracing applique and cutting out some of it. I can do the Jan, Feb, and March tablerunners on my own and bring them in if I want...think if I do some at home I can end with the year's worth of runners even though I am starting late. Don't really know what I need them for or why I am making them, lol but I wanted to meet more quilters in the area and sounds like she will help me learn how to quilt them too! I haven't done much (in the ditch, cross the seams, etc.) so that is exciting to know. She said it is a small evening class so we get alot done! YIPPEE! Almost wish I would have been prepared to stay tonight but that is okay. I had a migraine earlier (mild) and it went away in time to go..yay to that too.

Have I mentioned Spring Break is next week. I CAN'T WAIT! Today one of my students called me a "F--ing B-I-T-C-H" because she was upset about her paper grade. My first and last year of teaching high school. Smile. Wrote her up but still have to deal with her tomorrow I am sure. Sigh. Her best bud is the duck throwing girl you may remember from an earlier post.