That was Fun!

I went over to a local quilt shop tonight after work to check out the goings-on for the first day of the Quilter's Run. The stores are open until 9:00 each night of the run.

Well, I'm standing by the counter and this really sweet lady said to me, "Are you Vicky? I'm a lurker!" It was Jan who reads my blog! My first thought was, "Oh, gosh, I really need to be careful what I say on there!" ROFLOL.

It was so much fun chatting with Jan for a few minutes! Jan, hope to see you again soon! Oh, and Daisy sends puppy hugs to Teddy!

1st Layout

I'm getting excited now about getting this quilt top together. I forgot to make the center square-in-a-square block, so I just plopped down the pattern on top of that empty space. I need to move around the pieced blocks. This was just a first lay-out.

I'm so tired these days. It's a combination of the heat and work and the fact that I'm just plain getting old. I went to bed early last night, and I probably need to do that again tonight. Or move to a cooler climate. Or retire. Or all of the above. :)

I haven't a thing else to blog about. I'm sure there will be lots of blogging fodder from the Quilter's Run that starts tomorrow. So stay tuned! LOL

Hooray!!!!

I met my holiday weekend goal of getting all the blocks made for the Patchwork Party quilt!!! I'm exhausted, but I did it! I really thought I had set too lofty a goal!

I'll lay it out and start assembling the top tomorrow.

Happy dancing here!

Star BOM Fabric Pull

First pull of fabric for Judy's Star BOM. I'm going to have to work on this a bit, but this is basically the direction I'm leaning. I'm just a bad stash diver; I doubt myself so badly. I'll just pretend I'm poking an order button on a BOM at The Fat Quarter Shop! LOL

Stash Report Week 27

I've been making great headway this holiday weekend on the Prairie Paisley Patchwork Party top. I'll finish up the appliqued berries in a couple of hours, all the flying geese are made, the 4-patches are made, and I just have to assemble the blocks with the 4-patches and the flying geese. This top will be finished by next weekend.

THEN I can bust the backing for it! LOL

I thought I hadn't ordered much this week (everyone who knows me knows this song!) but I went through the receipts and (insert second verse of song here) there was something I forgot came in. One package, some of it on sale, 9 yards, and the backing for the Merry Christmas to All BOM, 3.5 yards. So 12.5 yards purchased this week and I was trying (enter violins) to be SO good!

I'm so excited about sewing right now. I guess you could say I'm about to burst to bust! I really feel the rest of the year will be spent whittling down that yardage that I purchased this year in an attempt to help shore up the economy! (OMG, I hear "Stars & Stripes Forever" now!) The best I can hope for at this point is to end the year even.

So in the spirit of stash reporting, as ugly as it is:

Year-to-Date Totals:

Busted: 190.5 yards
Purchased: 458.5 yards
Net YTD: <267.75> yards busted

July 4th Applique

I appliqued the whole day on the Prairie Paisley blocks. I finished up the stars, the centers and the leaves. Just have the berries to do on seven blocks and these are done. I need to go back and redo one center because the placement is wonky - or maybe not. :) Oh, and a good pressing, too! LOL

Today I'm going to start piecing the rest of the setting blocks. It's all downhill from this point. I want this top finished by next weekend.

Two mornings in a row now that I'm up at 5:00, even with the alarm turned off. I guess I can't turn off the internal clock.

The TV was on all day while I was appliqueing. I hardly ever do that. I watched all three "Jaws" movies back to back, and then the complete "John Adams" series. I'd like to get the DVD set of this series. Also, "Songs of Praise for America" was playing all day on a Direct TV channel. Even though I didn't cook or go anywhere to celebrate the day, between the fabric and the events on TV, it was real patriotic around here! God bless America!

Off to clean up a bit around here. Jane may come over later to sew.

One thing I've been doing this year is about once a month I go back to my 2006 and 2007 blog entries to see what was going on in my life at that time. Well, around this time in 2006 I had just begun working on "Strawberries for Lisa," and in 2007 I had the body of the Giterdun together and was about 80% finished with the applique on All Things Christmas. It seems like just yesterday that I was working on all of those!

I'm So Excited!

The first package of the Merry Christmas to All BOM arrived today. Four blocks, plus the backing, and lots of adorable buttons and thread!

Every time I start thinking that things just can't get any better, then a project like this comes along! I love BOMs. I know there are those who criticize that, but let me just say that folks who are a whole lot smarter than me dream them up and pull them all together, and all I have to do is poke an order button! That's the part at which I excel! I get so excited when each shipment comes! A little bit of heaven spread out over the year! LOL

I can't wait to start this one, but I will. Priority to finish is my Prairie Paisley Patchwork Party! I'm about halfway done with the applique, and then I can really zoom on the piecing part of it! It's going to be beautiful!

I'm so motivated right now!!! I can't wait to get home each evening to sew or stitch. I can barely remember life before quilting, and I've only been at it almost seven years! Best decision I ever made!