My first rose bush.
All the pretty flowers before they were planted.
Enchinacea (purple coneflower)
Ornamental Pepper
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Just a few quilts from the quilt show...
I took this picture for inspiration on making my cousins quilt. I have a few pieces cut and sewn. Forgot where I put the material for her quilt. That's bad. I saw it the other day and forget where I saw it. LOL!!! I was going to blame it on getting older, but right now I have so many things going on. Plus, my work schedule is so crazy. I don't know if I'm coming or going. grrrr!!! One of these days things will settle down. Ha!
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| What eye candy this quilt was in person! |
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| Loved this one...saw hummingbird checking out my purple irises the other day. Made some sugar water for the birds and got the feeder hung today. Can't wait to see the hummers come. |
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| Another pretty Oriental quilt. |
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| I thought this one was cute. Notice the headline on the quilt. LOL!!! |
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| How funny! |
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| I just love seeing all the pretty birds. On a closer view this one looked like the birds were done in needlepoint. |
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| A quilt inspector. :~) |
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| A lovely batik quilt with enchinacea flowers. |
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| Pretty flowers |
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| Another cat quilt. |
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| Here kitty, kitty... |
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| There were so many beautiful quilts at the show. I forgot to bring my camera, so, I ended up taking some pictures with my phone. I loved the Oriental quilt because it had some added embellishments on it. The person who made added beads to make it pop. |
Baby Afghan
A pretty baby afghan for a cute little girl.
The varigated yarn for babies used to be pink, blue, and white when my kids were little. Now it has green and yellow added to it.
I love the pretty scalloped edge that you put around the blanket for the border. It adds something to it.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
So many projects....so little time!!!
Look at the cute quilt that I have started working on. This quilt is raw appliqued. Hooray for Steam a Seam Lite! It looked like a fun quilt when I saw it at a local quilt shop. This something that I take with me when I go to another local quilt shop at a Sit and Sew. I have all the parts traced out on the SSL. One of the little piggies is all cut out. I may have to retrace a couple of the little parts again and leave a little extra fabric around it until I get it all pressed down on the background fabric. The parts are way too small. LOL!!!
Here is another quilt that I found just for my grandson. It is going to be fun to do too. Not sure when I will start that one. Still have other quilts to finish....like the CW quilt that has been taking forever for me to do. LOL!!!
I'm in the process of working on this afghan for a girl that I used to work with. She just had a little girl. The star shell shows up better if you use the different colors like the pattern suggests. I have a king sized one that I started on several years ago. It's been over 7 years that I know of and to think that I just thought of taking it apart and redoing it. My stitches on that afghan were a little bit loose. It's because I tend to crochet a loose stitch. My king sized one is about a third of the way done. It is composed of all of the the yarns that I have from past projects and then some....kind of like a scrappy quilt. LOL!!! The little girls afghan is nearing its completion. I used a lot smaller hook than what was required. The stitches are tighter. The afghan is being done in a multi colored baby yarn. It still looks pretty even though all of the rows are the same color. I'll post a picture when I am finished with it.
It's time for spring cleaning and working out in the yard. The master bedroom and bath are done. Tomorrow it will be the front room and the kitchen. Next week it will be the laundry room and the computer room. Then it will be time to clean the windows. Ceiling fans are dusted, carpets are cleaned around the edges with the vaccum hose, and the house is sprayed for bugs. No, I don't care to use the spray, but I don't want to put down boric acid with a cat running around the house. I can handle the ants, millipedes, and spiders as long as they play nice. It's the roaches and centipedes that I don't like being on the loose.
I cleaned out the flower beds a couple of weeks ago. The smaller beds were cleaned and mulched. The upper bed was rearranged and some other flowers and plants were added. I planted some bulbs and plants in a couple of beds by the mailbox and added another small bed. Planted some grass in it that will get tall. I'll get some pics of it as soon as I can.
Sadia, I will post something on the Dresden Plate that is being appliqued. I am having to take some of the backing off for it to work. This was after talking to a friend of mine who teaches quilting. I can't think offhand what kind of applique you call it. I'll be sure to get back to you on that when I post the pics of the DP.
BTW- I do read all of the comments even if I don't reply to them. I will try and do better in the future.
I have two more afghans to make for a couple more girls at work. Those patterns will be more simpler to do not that the above one isn't. I count the stitches and recount them so that I don't make too many mistakes. Ha! I like working with yarn just as well as I do working with fabric. It's the sense of accomplishing something by hand that makes me do happy dances.
It's time for the local quilt show. It's April 8, 9 at the Benton County fairgrounds. I'll be going and try to take a few pics to post.
April 23 is going to be a fun day for me. I normally work on Saturday. I took the day off for this. The calendar is marked and I'm raring to go. Shhhhh!!!! Don't tell the old man, but I have about $200 Bunny Bucks to spend! Teehee! Can't wait to see if I can find some goodies that will be wanting to hop into a bag and come home with me.
Here is another quilt that I found just for my grandson. It is going to be fun to do too. Not sure when I will start that one. Still have other quilts to finish....like the CW quilt that has been taking forever for me to do. LOL!!!
I'm in the process of working on this afghan for a girl that I used to work with. She just had a little girl. The star shell shows up better if you use the different colors like the pattern suggests. I have a king sized one that I started on several years ago. It's been over 7 years that I know of and to think that I just thought of taking it apart and redoing it. My stitches on that afghan were a little bit loose. It's because I tend to crochet a loose stitch. My king sized one is about a third of the way done. It is composed of all of the the yarns that I have from past projects and then some....kind of like a scrappy quilt. LOL!!! The little girls afghan is nearing its completion. I used a lot smaller hook than what was required. The stitches are tighter. The afghan is being done in a multi colored baby yarn. It still looks pretty even though all of the rows are the same color. I'll post a picture when I am finished with it.
It's time for spring cleaning and working out in the yard. The master bedroom and bath are done. Tomorrow it will be the front room and the kitchen. Next week it will be the laundry room and the computer room. Then it will be time to clean the windows. Ceiling fans are dusted, carpets are cleaned around the edges with the vaccum hose, and the house is sprayed for bugs. No, I don't care to use the spray, but I don't want to put down boric acid with a cat running around the house. I can handle the ants, millipedes, and spiders as long as they play nice. It's the roaches and centipedes that I don't like being on the loose.
I cleaned out the flower beds a couple of weeks ago. The smaller beds were cleaned and mulched. The upper bed was rearranged and some other flowers and plants were added. I planted some bulbs and plants in a couple of beds by the mailbox and added another small bed. Planted some grass in it that will get tall. I'll get some pics of it as soon as I can.
Sadia, I will post something on the Dresden Plate that is being appliqued. I am having to take some of the backing off for it to work. This was after talking to a friend of mine who teaches quilting. I can't think offhand what kind of applique you call it. I'll be sure to get back to you on that when I post the pics of the DP.
BTW- I do read all of the comments even if I don't reply to them. I will try and do better in the future.
I have two more afghans to make for a couple more girls at work. Those patterns will be more simpler to do not that the above one isn't. I count the stitches and recount them so that I don't make too many mistakes. Ha! I like working with yarn just as well as I do working with fabric. It's the sense of accomplishing something by hand that makes me do happy dances.
It's time for the local quilt show. It's April 8, 9 at the Benton County fairgrounds. I'll be going and try to take a few pics to post.
April 23 is going to be a fun day for me. I normally work on Saturday. I took the day off for this. The calendar is marked and I'm raring to go. Shhhhh!!!! Don't tell the old man, but I have about $200 Bunny Bucks to spend! Teehee! Can't wait to see if I can find some goodies that will be wanting to hop into a bag and come home with me.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Bird feeders....
....they're not just for bird seed anymore.
Tabbi is just one of the cats who thinks that it is a bed fit for a catnap. Makes me wonder if they really know what it is supposed to be used for. Sorry Tabbi, if you live here, you have to play nice. ;~)
Tabbi is just one of the cats who thinks that it is a bed fit for a catnap. Makes me wonder if they really know what it is supposed to be used for. Sorry Tabbi, if you live here, you have to play nice. ;~)
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Guess What???
I haven't been totally out of the loop. I actually got the Lost Ship Block finished tonight at work. See how I spend my lunch some of the time!
Sometimes I read... All it takes is a little bit here and a little bit there to accomplish big things....like sorting through my DS's old toys. We needed room in the shed so that we could move around. We cleared out all of the boxes of toys and some glassware that I had in there a week ago Friday. It took me until this last Friday to sort and go through all of the boxes. Not that there were that many boxes. I kept some of the toys so that my two year old grandson could have something to play with when he is here. The rest will probably be donated to the goodwill store after my DS goes through it. If he goes through it.
I also had time to cut out some blades for a Dresden Plate. Took six FQ's with me to work. Just enough to get a start on it. It will surely be interesting trying my hand at applique. :~) A friend of mine, who teaches quilting classes, showed me her way of doing applique. She recycles her used dryer sheets for the interfacing. It's recycled. It's lightweight. It doesn't appear to have a lot of bulk. That part I won't know for sure until I do my first blade. It should be interesting.
Tried my hand at applique a little while back. Was making a flower block. Can't of the name offhand. Anywho, I forgot to clip the edges of the petals before I turned them the right way. Put that project on the back burner for now. Gotta remember to do that this time. LOL!!!
Sometimes I read... All it takes is a little bit here and a little bit there to accomplish big things....like sorting through my DS's old toys. We needed room in the shed so that we could move around. We cleared out all of the boxes of toys and some glassware that I had in there a week ago Friday. It took me until this last Friday to sort and go through all of the boxes. Not that there were that many boxes. I kept some of the toys so that my two year old grandson could have something to play with when he is here. The rest will probably be donated to the goodwill store after my DS goes through it. If he goes through it.
I also had time to cut out some blades for a Dresden Plate. Took six FQ's with me to work. Just enough to get a start on it. It will surely be interesting trying my hand at applique. :~) A friend of mine, who teaches quilting classes, showed me her way of doing applique. She recycles her used dryer sheets for the interfacing. It's recycled. It's lightweight. It doesn't appear to have a lot of bulk. That part I won't know for sure until I do my first blade. It should be interesting.
Tried my hand at applique a little while back. Was making a flower block. Can't of the name offhand. Anywho, I forgot to clip the edges of the petals before I turned them the right way. Put that project on the back burner for now. Gotta remember to do that this time. LOL!!!
Saturday, October 16, 2010
The Purple Shelves
Whew!!! This part of the living room went from this....
to this.....
It took about a month to stain, sand, and build the shelves and the desk. Most of this was done on my days off. In the end, I started doing some staining before I went to work. Can you tell that I wanted to get done??? There is still a little bit more touch up work to do. I've got some cork board tiles that are going to be used for tacking up messages and posting pictures. They are going to be attached to the back wall. BTW...it's not all books that you see in the picture.
I took and packed up a lot of my knick knacks quite awhile back. Most of them will be put on the top shelves of the shelves. Some of them will be taken to one of the local thrift stores for resale. Most of the time we donate clothing, etc...to Helping Hands. Helping Hands is a church ran thrift store that benefits those in need. They used to help you with food and some of your utilities and rent. Not sure what all they help you with anymore. Had to use them once a long, long time ago, so, I have no problems in giving them donations for resale.
We've also taken things to the Salvation Army and another thrift store. The latter store benefits the local women's shelter. Found me a couple of snowmen there. I like snowmen. They had some arts and crafts things there. Found some fabric pieces for real cheap. Didn't buy any as I don't need anything but backings for now.
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