Having to replace a border...

First off, thanks so much for your votes on my Dakota Log Cabin quilt at the quilting gallery! Last I checked I was in 4th place and the voting stops Sunday night. There are so many beautiful quilts posted that it is hard for me to find a favorite.

I have spent today jumping from project to project and nothing really to show for my time. Don't you just hate when that happens? I have cut a few more strips for my Courthouse Steps that I have in progress. I also pinned a backing on the frame but have not loaded the batting or the top yet. I hope to start quilting on it tomorrow if it is not too hot upstairs. I also worked on ripping apart an old antique quilt top that is in pretty bad shape, I am trying to salvage enough blocks to make a table runner, wall hanging or a lap quilt. Now I am working on this mess...

I have a couple of drawers in an old wardrobe that I store some quilt tops in. I pull those drawers out all of the time and get in there, but I did not realize that I had a quilt top border that was stuck in there and every time that I pulled the drawer out it was ripping a hole in a quilt top!!! :( So the other day I decided that I would get a certain quilt top out and maybe quilt it in a few weeks. It was stuck and I had to take the whole drawer out to get it. And look what it did.....Thank goodness that this was only in the border. So while we were out shopping yesterday for Richard's school shoes and scrubs I picked up some fabric to replace that border. I was only one side. Then when I got it home this is what I found...

The first fabric is the border that I took off the second is what I bought! So now I have to take off the whole border all the way around and replace it!! :( Right now I have the top and half of the side border taken off. I'll probably try to finish taking the rest of them off tonight while watching tv.

Now on to some family stuff...Friday my mom was babysitting two of my brothers kids, his daughter was in school. Anyway I just love these two little guys they are so precious! The oldest is Zeph, he will be 5 in a couple of weeks. The little one is Gabe and he is 3. They are wonderful little boys and just like all little boys, they certainly keep you on your toes! :)
Snapped this one of Richard working on his old tractor. He always stays busy and very seldom just sits down. I think doing nothing makes him very nervous. LOL! As you can see in the background, Hunter has his tent set up and plays in it.
And I ran on to this paper that Hunter brought home for Mother's Day when he was in 2nd grade. It makes me smile every time that I read it.

It says...

My mom is special because....she makes quilts for me and dad and bub and her.

I like it when my mom... plays with me.

My mom can do many things! I think she's best at... quilting and work.

My mom has a pretty smile. I like to make her smile by... coming home and hugging her.

My mom is as pretty as a... rose.

My mom is smart. She even knows... every step to quilting.

I'll have to remind him of this stuff when he is a teenage and thinks that he knows it all and that I am weird! LOL!

I guess I'll get back to working on my few projects.

Kristie

Guild Meeting Monday

I had a guild meeting this morning at 10am. Not alot went on just mostly show-and-tell and planning projects. I took my Bargello top in for show-and-tell, it is the first quilt that I have taken in there so I was a little bit nervous. I am my own worst critic, I get so paranoid when another quilter looks at my work in person. Anyway all went well, I got lots of nice comments.

My Aunt Deb went with me today. She is thinking of joining the guild so she went today, I think she enjoyed it. We will be doing a Mystery Quilt in April so I'm excited about that. I have actually never done a mystery quilt, so this should be exciting.

After the meeting, I stopped by Pamida. It is like a generic Walmart with NO fabric. They do have a few threads, needles and scissors but that is about it. They were having a going out of business sale. Right now things are only 10%-30% off. The only thing that I bought was this set of needles and measuring tape. I'm sure the needles probably are not that good but what I wanted was the 120" measuring tape. It only cost me 99 cents.

Here are some of the scraps that I cut up last night. It will be a slow process but I will eventually get them done.....maybe! I didn't have big enough pieces for any strips so I just cut squares of different sizes. The smallest that I went was 2 inches and the largest was 5 inch charm sqaures. I still have tons more to do but if I do a little bit at a time maybe it won't be so overwhelming.

Oh and as you can see Donkey is all comfy in his new home. I can't believe how attached that I have gotten to this cat in the few days that he has been here.
He has found a favorite place to sleep....on my end table. When he jumps up there he scoots my table topper, I'm just waiting for the lamp to hit the floor.

Oh and you all were right, they do love fabric and quilts. He kept trying to play while I was cutting my scraps. Mom and Chantal finally came out this evening to see him. I think they were trying to wait until he calmed down a little first.

Kristie

Bargello Top!!!!!!

Here is my Bargello! Now all I have to do is add the borders and quilt it. I will pick up the border fabric on Friday. I am so glad to get it done. I had strips hanging all over the house, so I was glad to get the mess up. I still had it on the bed when Richard came home. He loved it. He is ready for me to make another one. I told him, I would have to wait a while. I don't think I could stand to do two Bargellos back to back.

Anyway, I finished this up this morning. I had an extra strip set leftover, so I will add borders to it to make a baby quilt. I started working on another SBS block, then Richard came home from work and I had to help him with his tractor. His tractor brokedown over in one of the horse lots. So I had to take his truck and pull him up to the fence so he could work on it close to the house. There was so many trees, we had to cut a road with the chainsaw to get to it and get it out.

After the boys got home from school, Richard headed to bed and we headed to Walmart. Walmart opened up today here in Louisa. Which is 20 minutes from here. It is a super Walmart, but they don't have any fabric. :o( They have tons of sewing machines, thread, mats, rotary cutters and all of that, but no fabric. The only thing that I bought was "Quilter's World" magazine. I usually don't buy this one, but it had a quilt on the cover that I liked. It has horses on it!! Can't pass up a pattern with horses!!!!
Kristie