Moda Man, Polly Pockets and dragons..

This has been a good weekend-but Thimbles weekends always are! More about that later

Sarah and Emma came over for a sleepover and actually did! We had our picnic. Spooky and Henry don't quite know what to make of it but Wild Willie enjoys the french fries! We watched movies and I got caught up on Hannah Montana

Moda Man was in the thick of things as well-entertaining the Polly Pocket girls. He played in the castle. I wonder if Marc Dunn has a carriage? I know he does not have dragons like Moda Man.

I need to get the girls some breakfast and take them to church. Then some more sewing to do.

Starting on the latest Thimble girls swap

Well actually I had already started it-cut out all those little one and a half inch squares. I decided I would play with it in the hotel last evening. I figured I would need to fondle some fabric after a day at the home office. I had it all planned and took my little box of stuff with me, plus a little mat and my rotary cutter. I forgot the ruler. BUT I improvised with the directory in the room. Okay-so now it is not quite the way it was before I began-it now has a few raggedy edges. Please don't tell!

When I got home this afternoon-thankfully we got out early and I was able to drive down 85 in daylight, I made 2 blocks. I think I have 22 more to go. I have to check with the girls to see what size we are making as I can not remember. Yet another senior moment!!

So looking forward to Thimbles tomorrow. I wish I could go tonight as well but I am just too tired. all I really want to do is put on my jammiies, get on the couch with the guys and under a quilt!

Back to quilting stuff

I don't seem to be able to get any sewing/play time in during the week. Just too tired after toiling at "the home". I try to use the weekends to accomplish stuff. I made a list on Friday but promptly lost it. I don't remember what I had planned.

I finally finished constructing the back for the Twister quilt using the schnibble as a center. I had planned on using a lighter fabric to surround it but ended up with the yummylicious chocolate brown print. I also finished up a "10 minute" table runner. I have yet to make one of these bad boys in 10 minutes. And I got caught up on the BOM from the Quilt Room.

Today i decided I needed to tackle the background fabric for our latest swap. 848 squares-one and a half inches and other pieces. I grumbled the whole time I whacked off those bad boys. This is not going to be a quickly quilt

Henry is insisting on sitting on my lap right now. He keeps looking up and I swear he is thinking "when is she moving over to the couch." I think he is feeling chilly today. I put the flannel sheets on the bed yesterday and last night he was in his usual under the covers position.

Need to go find another project-I have some Dr. Seuss fabric for pillowcases for the little girls.

Postscript to yesterday's blog down memory lane..

I spent part of the evening with Laurie last night. I guess I failed in part of my mother duties...She informed me that she never got to see the tree at Rockefeller Center when she was little because I never took her. Truth of the matter is-she is right BUT Mahopac was smack dab in the middle of the 2 Metro North lines and we lived further north than where I grew up in Southern Westchester county,
But I say to her-go fly up to NY and see the darn tree. I would like to see it but I no longer go north after the middle of September. I'm cold down here now and I can't imagine dealing with cold in Mahopac! By the way Mahopac is an Indian name but I can't remember which tribe lived in the area. There was a joke that it was named after someone boating on the lake who was having a cigarette and said my-ho-pac fell in the lake. Dumb!!

Just sayin'

When checking facebook last evening, Kris mentioned that the big tree at Rockefeller Center is from our hometown this year. Go Mahopac, New York. Yes I live in Ga now but deep down I am still a New Yorker and proud of it!! It got me to thinking about Christmas when I was much, much younger.
I remember going into the "city" with my Mom. We would take the train-NY Central line, now part of Metro North. It was a treat. I remember a little apprehension when the train entered the tunnel in northern Manhattan and looking out the window and not being able to see a thing. And then, getting onto the platform and walking into Grand Central Station. It was awesome to a little kid. We would walk over to Macy's Herald Square and see Santa and then walk around and see the store windows all animated and decorated. I remember going into the big dime store-Woolworth's. It seemed huge at the time. Good memories.
Then when I was in nursing school in Manhattan, I remember going to watch them light up the tree. You couldn't really get close to the entertainment but you could hear it and then they lit the tree!! Somethings you never forget.

Just sayin' that things are different these days-decorations up and ready to go at Halloween. Some how it loses something when you start so early.


At any rate, I am anxiously awaiting the 2010 tree. The family that donated the tree this year has a story as well. He is a NYC firefighter. Their tree was selected on 9-11 this year.

Relaxing with Henry, Spooky and Wild Willie

The boys in assigned spots-relaxing for some early evening tv!

Groovy Girls weekend meeting

I did get my card punched for last month's project and now I can send Kathy her bag.

Heinous applique first and now I need to be thinking kitchen? What is wrong with this picture??

This month's project was napkins. Now I don't buy paper napkins anymore. They come with the take out I buy. Or I can use a paper towel if need be. So here I am making napkins..and then practicing fancy folds!! I have managed to make one. Also I did finish the 10 minute table runner for which I bought the same fabric twice!

The first one I made took slightly more than minutes..well more than slightly.

Now I am ready for my next punch. What's next, Melisa??