Schnibbling...

All my quilting buds have been Schnibbling lately and I needed to jump on the bandwagon. The pattern is from Schnibbles Times Two by Carrie Nelson and the pattern is called Imagine. It is made with my new fav..Maison de Garance....gotta luv that French General who ever he is and of course, Moda!
I won a giveaway from Nancy of Blogging Near Philadelphia fame and I have incorporated some of the pieces she sent me. If you see Nancy, thank her again for me.

I feel the need to make a run to Sweet Home tomorrow. Bad Melisa is having a sale. Gotta check out what is happening. Hope to be there at the same time as some of my Thimble buddies but I need to be there early. Big plans for the afternoon. Birthday party for Sweet Alice. I can't believe she will be a year old on Monday.

Relieved to have made it thru another week of MDS assessment insanity..but it does seem to be getting a little smoother.

Heinous applique?

All of my friends know how I feel about applique! There will NEVER be a Baltimore Album quilt in this house. So this month's Groovy Girls included a demo on machine applique. Nope-not gona' do it.....I sat and rolled my eyes. BUT..

If I bring a project back to the next meeting, I get my card punched.....

Yesterday was Thimbles. I decided with my "support group" close at hand, I would try. And I did it. I thought Pat was going to hyperventilate when I showed her what I had done. The placement was incorrect on the bag and I was not happy with how it looked. But Pat gave me some tips and when I got home I tried again.

I will be sending this one up to Kathy in NY. Hope she finds a use for it. First I will take it to Sweet Home and get my card punched!

(But I hope there is no applique involved in the next month's project.)

Finally a finish..

The September block from the Quilt Room BOM gave me a bit of trouble. I kept putting it down because I could not figure out the colors. I finally decided to start at the center and work outward. I finally got it done before the November block is published! (Notice the toes in the right hand corner-they are in need of a pedi!) Maybe this weekend after THIMBLES!!!!!!!!

3 more work days...I can make it, yes I can. But I sure would like to talk to the powers that be at the medicare./medicaid branch of govt. and ask them, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING????? But that is another story for another day

A little productive..

Maybe getting up early to get to Honda was the reason.

When I got back home, I tackled some of the projects on the list that I made while I was sitting at Honda!

I finished the owl bag for Alice. Her first birthday is in a couple of weeks. How did that happen already?

Also finished the little Halloween bags for the Daisy troop. And I worked on the little quilt top. It just needs it's border on it. I have no plans for this little quilt but I loved the fabrics!

I have some more things on the "to do" list and we'll see what gets done today.

The boys enjoyed the open back door yesterday..good bird watching!

MIA??

Houston, I think we have a problem. Pat, Most Exalted Head Thimble noted on a previous blog that she hoped that Moda Man and Fat Quarter would behave this weekend so that I could rest. As you can see, when I checked the love nest, they were no where to be found! OMG..what next?? I blame it all on Fat Quarter. She is a very bad influence on him! Maybe they are out "camping" again.

I will be sewing this weekend-recovering from the week that was. Am I glad it is over. Lots of stuff that needs to be finished. So no new projects. I am working on my project for Alice's first birthday. Also have a few more Halloween bags to finish for Emma's daisy troop.

First thing tomorrow morning is an appointment at Honda for a recall. Hope it doesn't take too long!

This blog interrupted by..work

I was hoping to be able to play in the evening this week but I don't think it is going to happen. Today was a 10 hour day and it will probably be the same for the rest of the week. The government, in it's infinite wisdom, has begun the new assessment process. This upgrade has been in the works for literally years but Oct. 1 it went live. As a result, we have to complete 66 assessments this week. 66 assessments divided by 3 people divided by 5 days. It doesn't sound like a lot until you look at the volume of each assessment. I was able to completely finish one today. By the time I got home, ate something and sat down to relax...asleep on the couch

Ergo..probably won't get anything done until next weekend.

Blurry week-no sewing

A whole week and no blogging-work got in the way!!
But today was a good day. Groovy Girls out at Sweet Home. This month's assignment includes the "A" word. AHHHHHHHHHH
Gretchen and Melisa say I can do it. I have a whole month.
I did finish the binding on Scrappy scrappy nines last evening. Today I finished sewing the gaggle of geese for Homeward Bound. I think this month's Thimbles is a project I have elected not to do (applique)-so I can work on finishing this up then.
I am behind on the Quilt Room BOM. so this afternoon, I tackled that project. I finished the Oct. block but still have to figure out September-ergo the pile o' strips above.
I made a list of my UFOs....it makes me want to escape to the couch!

Gretch had a great bag that she made after last month's Groovy Girls. I picked up the pattern and the cardboard on a roll (Cindi's description). I want to make one of those bags. Gretchen is calling it the new Bad Melisa bag. It holds more!!!!


I am just worn out from my busy day.