No batteries

I was so excited to snap a picture of my completed step 3 on the Bonnie Hunter mystery. But the camera is out of juice. I will take a picture after I get some fresh batteries. It has been a good weekend. It always is when the Thimble gang is involved. We had our bring a thing in a thing day and ate some pretty great food. As Gretch says-no friut or veggies were present! We were all working on different projects this month. Gretch was working on Bonnie mystery. Kristi worked on our swap project and shorted herself 2 little squares..not bad because she did cut 846 of them. Cindi worked on an old project called plaid goose. As I recall-I finished one block on that and now haven't got a clue what happened to the rest of it. Somewhere in the sewing room? Becky was working on scrappy nines. We were all quite productive!

I am seeking members for my support group. Next month begins comfort and joy(?) I probably will rename this baby after it is completed I asked Pat if I could use a glue gun or maybe staples on all that durned applique.

Today I ventured into Laurie's kitchen to make her birthday breakfast..french toast and bacon. Kris and Alice joined us.

And now it is almost time to wind down the weekend....how sad

Winter-my least favorite season

And it is not officially winter yet. We have been dealing with unseasonably cold weather for the ATL for many days now-seems like forever. And now we have sleet and ice. While Northerners can deal with this, here in the South not so much. Would you believe the city of Atlanta has 8 salt trucks. I have to go to work this morning but I am waiting until it is light so I can see the ice!

I have not done any sewing on the Bonnie mystery this week. All I do is come home and get under quilts and hibernate until it is time to go to bed. Hopefully the temperature will moderate soon

It's cold!!!

Probably not as cold as it is in the north but way too cold for me. Flurries all day yesterday and I guess this morning and temps in the teens right now. After delivering Sarah and Emma to the Christmas pageant, meeting Laurie for breakfast and picking up my new Kindle (!!!!!!!!) I headed home to the couch and hibernated the rest of the day and evening.

My garage door opener died on Saturday so I need to get that replaced. Will have to see about that today (if the state doesn't come).

Didn't do much sewing this weekend. In fact, didn't do much of anything this weekend.

roll.roll cotton boll....part 4

Bonnie published the next step today. I have not finished part 3 yet! That step is 60 of those suckers on the top. So far, I have 29. My dilemma..finish step 3 or do step 4. The committee decided that I should proceed to the next step and then work more on the strip blocks. And now I have another week to finish the other 31 blocks!

Heading out to Bad Melisa tomorrow with Cindi and Becky to check out the happenings. And then Sarah and Emma are coming over for a sleepover. I think I am in deep trouble as Christmas is approaching but there is hardly a sign of it in my house...no tree, no outside stuff, no nothing. Just not in the mood to drag all the stuff out (and then have to put it away again in a couple of weeks). I was scolded by Sue because I said I didn't think I would do Christmas cards either. Just call me Ms. Scrooge!

4 down...56 to go..

I noticed on the yahoo group there are already posted pictures of this step. And m y friends Cindi and Gretch call me an overachiever? I actually now have 6 made!! My goal for this weekend is to have 15 done. Only time will tell on that one.

This morning bright and early, we headed out to Sweet Home for Groovy Girls. Yeah..no applique this month. I was bad. But it is partly Sarah-no blog's fault. She picks out things that I need to have. She did show me one item-a mini portable Ott light. Unfortunately, I need to get batteries for it but I sure could use it this evening. I also got a few zippers for the project demo today and a few pieces of fabric. Then I headed home to wait for the Direct TV man to come.

I bought myself a new tv last week because the old one was doing funky things. Turns out, it wasn't the tv but the cable box was going bad. At any rate three and a half hours later, he was on his way. He had more roof time than Santa Claus. I had planned to hit Publix when he left but by then it was late and cold and I wanted only to sit on the couch under a quilt.

Sewing binding on the retreat quilt while I watch the Hallmark channel movies.

Wild Friday night

I lead quite the crazy life...not. This week at work was, in a word, horrible. It just went on and on. I felt like I was on a treadmill. All I want is to be able to keep up and it just isn't happening with the new assessment process.

But now it is the weekend and I don't plan on thinking about that place until Monday morning. Last night we won't even discuss what I ate for "supper". Let's just say....well nothing! I decided to get the laundry done last night instead of doing it today.
Bonnie's next step arrived this morning. I knew easy had to end and it did. This step is not hard but first I had to make 8.5 inch paper squares to do foundation piecing. Done. I had thought about another project some time ago and had printed on some Carol Doak paper. Reused for the squares. Also worked a little on the Thimble swap.


Today is Groovy Girls....please Melisa......NO APPLIQUE. I will report back later.

Latest Thimbles Swap

I am so excited-I have finished 8 of the blocks for the swap we did earl er in the Fall. I have not finished sewing all of the teeny pieces yet-I think there are still 100+ of those bad boys. I really do love scrappy quilts and this one is no exception. I wanted to do more last night but Henry made me sit on the couch to keep him warm!

Groovy girls in 2 days...yipee. Hope there is no applique involved!

Need to make a binding for the X Block quilt and I'm not sure if I already have the fabric for it.