FNSI and Don King?

I'm sure most of you are thinking...Don King??? Well what do you think? Do you see a resemblance? LOL! This is my little Smokey and he needs a haircut in the worst way! We thought he looked like Don King, a troll or maybe one of those old pencil toppers that had the hair. What do you think? Do we have a celebrity lookalike??? LOL!

Last night was Friday Night Sew-In and I got a couple of things accomplished. I did get the binding finished on this HUGE quilt for mom. She was very happy to get it and it was finally finished. It has the softest muslin on the back and is so soft.

I also got this little wall hanging loaded on the frame. I thought I would get it quilted last night because it was so small but I was wrong. First I tried to use invisible thread and that was a mess. I couldn't see to thread my machine and then I needed to adjust my tension for that and I really didn't want to mess with that last night, so I just changed the thread!!! Now the purple thread looks great but it is a different weight than I usually use and the bobbin is not perfect. So today I will adjust it a little and hopefully get it done!!!

And not to leave out Jazz and Donkey....Jazz all clean and brushed after his bath.
And my precious Donkey....as you can see he can't get comfortable. He has a tube on both sides so it makes it hard for him to lay. He is still fevered but not as bad as he was. He is eating good so that makes me happy. He goes back to the vet on Monday to have it flushed out again.
Have to go to the grocery store. :( Richard will be taking me since our road is soooooo slick and it makes me too nervous to drive when it is like this. But I also don't like him going to the store with me. When he does we end up getting very little on my list, more junk food and he is always in a hurry! Anyone else have a husband like this????

Kristie

Puttering Along...

Thanks for all of the well wishes for Donkey! I'm sure if he could talk he would thank you all. He seems to be feeling a little better today. Yesterday was the first time the he had used the litter box for several days and that had me worried. He is still draining a lot but the worst part is the actual bite. The skin had rotted at that site and he to be cut out around it and cut down to his backbone. It is now stitched and looks a little odd shaped back there but the hair will grow back and I think he will be fine.

I haven't been sewing a lot lately. Just so much going on with Donkey and having to hand feed him. And then the weather makes me stiff and achy. My right hip and leg is giving me fits, so I have been spending some time in bed reading.

A few days ago I did get these two blocks made. This is for a new quilt that I am working on. I will post a link to the pattern when I can, for some reason I can't get my little link thing to work today. Anyway, I fell in love with the pattern when she posted it. I did have to change some of the fabric coloring around since I had to work with the fabric yardage that I had on hand. I had been saving this Civil War Reproduction fabric for some time now just waiting for the perfect pattern to use it on. Anyway, these were my sample blocks. Most of the time I try to make a sample block before I cut out the whole quilt to make sure the dimensions are correct.

I'm ashamed to say that I am just now working on the binding on Mom's quilt that I gave her for Christmas! Shame on me!!!! This thing is huge and that is why I kept putting off the binding, I think it measures somewhere around 96x122 if I remember correctly. As of right now, I am somewhere around the half way mark on sewing it down on the back. (See my little Smokey buried in the quilt)

We got more snow last night! No school today!!! There was school on Tuesday, Wednesday and it dismissed 2 hours early on Thursday.

I'm off to take care of Donkey and get this binding done!

Kristie

Here are the 21 that left!

Well, during the Christmas holiday I sold and gave away a total of 21 quilts!! 7 were gifts and the other 14 where sold. I just thank God that I had the quilts to sell, it sure helped out during Christmas.

I could not find photos of all of them. Some had been done for a year or so but others had to be pieced or quilted. So here we go...

This was sold to a co-worker of my sisters, this lady bought 3 quilts.
Sorry this one came out so small, not sure what happened there. Anyway this one was bought for their boss's wife.

My sister bought this one for her boyfriend's parents.
This one she wanted made for a co-worker. They exchanged names and Jennifer is a big University of Kentucky fan.
This is a Coat Of Many Colors that my SIL had made for her babysitter.

My SIL really liked the above quilt that she bought as a gift so my brother called and asked me to make another one for her. I think it was a gift from their small kids to their mommy! So here is hers.My SIL also bought a few other quilts. This one was for her co-worker that they exchanged names.
This one she bought for her mother.
This one was a gift for her special aunt.
This one they all went together and bought for their boss's birthday!

This one is not the actual quilt sold but the other one was just a larger version of it. This little topper was made from leftover blocks. The large quilt was bought by one of the drug representatives that come to their doctor's office.
This was a gift for my Great Nephew, Braxton.
This one was made for my nephew, Gabe.
This isn't quilted in this photo but I had added borders to this panel and it was for my other nephew, Zeph.This one was a gift for my 8 yr old niece, Madison. It was made with fabrics from her Great Grandmother that had passed away a few years ago.
Of course this big pink monster was a gift for my sister!
This was mom's! I got it quilted late on Christmas Eve but I didn't get the binding done. So I bought it back home and I will have to work on that. It measures something like 96x122! I don't have a clue what I was thinking when I made that.
This was a gift for my MIL.

And there was a Bear Paw quilt that was sold to one of her co-workers but I can't find the photo of it. :( Anyway, it was a little hard letting that many go but honestly what do I need with that many quilts. I still have somewhere around 125+

Kristie

Prayers have been answered!

Oh the holidays......I am soooooooo tired! :) Well not everything went as planned and this was probably one of the worst Christmas Day's that I have ever had! I really don't want to get real personal here but let's just say that this was the first Christmas that Andrew was not with me. I think I've cried until I have no more tears left. I've never had the first problem out of that child until the past 2 months and now he thinks he knows it all. So he was not here Christmas at all. I never knew that my heart could hurt like this. Anyway, I really can't handle talking anymore about it right now.

So on to other things...I finished up these rice bags about midnight on Christmas Eve, just in time to get them wrapped for Christmas morning. I didn't get mom's quilt completely finished either. I got it quilted but I didn't get the binding started. I gave it to her but brought it back home to work on the binding.
Here is Hunter when he got up Christmas morning, he can't even get his eyes all the way open! Look how dark it still is outside, it was very early!
I tried to hold myself together enough for Hunter. He was having a hard time too but we tried to ensure that he have the best Christmas that he could. He looks pretty happy here.

After we opened the gifts we headed to mom's for gifts and dinner. Here she is with her sling. Poor Momma.
I didn't get a photo of mom opening her quilt. :( And my brother and his family wasn't able to make it out either because of the snow. So there are 3 quilts for their kids to open. I did get one of Chantal with hers! She seemed to like it but she already knew about it anyway.
The girls didn't get to come down until the 26th. Here they are opening a few gifts. After that we headed to town to Richard's grandmother's house where the rest of his family was going to meet. It turned out nice.

Now some news on MOMMA! Thanks so much for the prayers! Just another example that Prayers do work!! Mom went back to the doctor today and it was good news!!! He said that he didn't think she would have to have the surgery done again!!!! See last time he thought it was completely torn loose. He gave her that shot in the shoulder and said there was a very slim chance that it was scar tissue against nerves but he really thought it was torn loose. He said the shot would determine it for sure. If the severe pain came back then she would have to have surgery! So at that time it didn't look good because he was convinced another surgery was needed. So......today she went back to the doctor and the pain had been better for a day or two so now he thinks she will be fine and no other surgery will be needed. She starts therapy soon. So thank you all so very much!!

I had been doing so much sewing this past month that after Christmas I wanted to take a BIG break! But now I am trying to figure out what I can work on that will keep my mind off of Andrew some. My house is a mess from all of the sewing that I had been doing and then also from the Christmas holiday. Maybe I can dig through and find something...

Kristie

Working up to the last minute!

Well here I am this morning trying to finish the quilting on Mom's quilt!!! I know I am cutting it very close. We exchange gifts on Christmas morning so I'm trying to get it done. I know there is no way that the binding will be even started so after I give her the quilt I will bring it back home and work on the binding within the next few days. The quilt measures 96x122! So that will take me a while to get the binding done on it. This is the largest quilt that I have ever had on my frame, so far it is working out great, no problems!

After I get this finished I need to quickly make the rice bags and finish some more of the hot pads!!!!!!!!!!

Last night I took a much needed break and we took Hunter to see the Christmas lights at the park. He loved it! It was cold and we decided to take our time and WALK around the park instead of driving around it. By the time we got finished my hip was killing me but it was worth it to see Hunter have so much fun. Lots of photos here, I tried to pick out some of our favorites!
They also had a section of the park that had large wooden cards setting up, this one measures somewhere around 6ft tall. It was by Marathon Oil, that is the company that my mom works for so I thought she might like to see it.

Also here in this area we have a lot of the quilt blocks on barns, Kentucky Quilt Trail, but here was one on a grade school right beside the park! I thought it was cute so I got a photo of it too!

Now I'm off and back to work before I settle down tonight and we watch THE NATIVITY STORY movie. We have watched it for the past several years on Christmas Eve. I hope everyone has a Blessed and Merry Christmas!!!

Kristie