A Little More Sewing

I had a wonderful time with my sister spending the night last night. I am 13 yrs older than she is but we are just as close you could possibly get! She brought out her little poodle with her so Zoey (her dog), Smokey and Donkey had a blast too. I was just too busy to get photos.

Last night as we were sitting around talking, watching tv and playing with the dogs....I got all of the Pink Bargello strip sets cut up! Here they are stacked in a shoebox. :) Now, I just have to sew them into blocks. I had to laugh to myself because she kept talking about how pretty it would be with all that pink! I'm not a big pink fan, I do use it in my quilts but it is not one of my favorites unless it is 1800's pink. She didn't have a clue that it is for her. Mom told me that I should wait until Christmas to give it to her, but I will probably give it to her as soon as it gets quilted....which at my rate it may be Christmas! :)

So we all got up this morning and I fixed a big breakfast for us all. We had Sausage, Bacon, Eggs, Biscuits, Hash Browns, Fried Apples, and Gravy! A very nice family breakfast!

I played around sorting scraps and things like that for a while. I did prep 3 more basket blocks. That is a total of 4. Now I just need to do the applique on them.

Not sure how much sewing that I will get done tomorrow. I have to go to Paintsville for mom and I will probably stop by the bookstore while I am up that way. I have a bag of books to trade-in for more. Speaking of mom, I talked to her a few times today and she said she was feeling okay, just very tired.
Kristie

Quilting Right Along...

I woke up sick this morning! :( I guess I have what Hunter had last week. I feel like "poo" but I have been taking some cold/flu medicine. I'm sure I will live! :) It has been a little cool here today and right now it is snowing. Richard made me stay inside all day! He is such a good hubby! I straightened up the house a little and then piddled around with my quilting stuff.

I have called mom a million times today checking on her. I'm sure I am driving her crazy but I just worry about her and worry that she may have gone back to work too soon.

I ironed all of my strip sets for my Pink Bargello that I have been making.

They I had to sew them all into "Tubes" and as you can see here, Donkey wanted to help me! :)

Then he finally tired out! :)


I now have them all sewn into "tubes" and I will spend the evening cutting them into strips again and they will be ready to be sewn into blocks. As I said before this quilt is for my sister, Chantal. She is coming out to my house tonight to spend the night! She doesn't quilt....yet but I will cut them up while she is here. She doesn't know that this quilt is for her but she'll never realize that it is until I tell her. She is so used to seeing me work on quilts that she will not think anything about it. But I am excited about spending some good "sissy time" with her too.

I have been sorting more scraps too! I think I will start making some of them into these little "primitive baskets" they are only 6 inch block so the actual basket is very small. Again this is one that I am in no big hurry finishing, just work on it as I have the scraps just like my 1/2 square triangles.

And after I get my "Pink Bargello" finished my friend Lisa and I plan on making this beautiful quilt! I have wanted to make it for a few years now. It is called "Burgoyne Surrounded" This is the photo of the antique quilt in the book. If you look real close you will see a mistake in the second block of the second row. Anyway, I have some Navy and cream poka dot fabric that I want to use for it and I guess the cream in the quilt, I will just use muslin. I have quiet a bit of muslin and that will save me from having to by any.
Well, it is about time for Chantal to come so I will leave you with another photo of Donkey....

I promise he has a head in there somewhere! :)

Kristie

A Rough Couple Of Days!

It has sure been a stressful couple of days! First off let me "Thank You" all for your thoughts and prayers about my mom. She is doing GREAT!!! So let me start you with my weekend...

Andrew turned 16 on Tuesday, so we had him a birthday party over the weekend. I planned the party for Saturday but then some of the boys came home with him on the bus Friday and the rest came Saturday morning. They stayed ALL weekend!! I had a total of 6 teenage boys plus Hunter and the rest of us! Let me tell you they sure can EAT! Seems like all I did was cook! Anyway they had a wonderful time and it is hard to believe that Andrew is 16. We had him a cake made with a fishing theme on it and then I baked him a Red Velvet Cake on Tuesday, that is his favorite.

Saturday Hunter was playing around with the boys and all of a sudden he came to me and said that he did not feel well. I checked his temp and it was 104. So he was sick the rest of the weekend. I took him to the doctor first thing Monday morning.

While I had Hunter at the doctor, which is also where my sister works, I called mom to tell her what the doctor said about Hunter. I called the house and there was no answer so I called her cell phone. I asked her where she was and that is when she told me she was at the ER! Naturally I flipped out. So long story short....after several days of testing they said she would be fine!! Thank the Lord! They did put her on some medication and said that she should not really have any long term problems. But they did also say that she needs her gallbladder taken out. Which is a very simple surgery, I had it done a few years ago and I was running around the next day. I am still worried about her but the doctor cleared her to go back to work on the boat tomorrow! I wanted her to wait a few more days but she said that she really could not afford to miss work.

Yesterday, I took mom back down to the hospital for more testing and on the way home we came up on a terrible scene. Here is the news article on it. Right at the end of my road there was a sweet elderly couple that lived there. They were actually distant kin to me but I remember them always coming to my grandparents house when I was a little girl and I often talked to them. They were very sweet people. They lived right beside the blacktop and had a gravel driveway which is about a mile away from my house. They had turned their truck over in the pond and they both died! They were in their 80's and it was a very sad thing. When we got there the police and all the officials were there, they had pulled the truck up out of the pond and had the bodies laying beside it covered up. It really upset me. I told mom that I had just talked to her on the phone a few days before and she was telling me that she could not walk at all without her walker, so I don't think that she could have gotten out. And he was not in good health either. So sad but after being married as long as they had been.....they died together. The police still are not sure exactly why they rolled backwards into the pond. I just can't seem to get it off of my mind.

So now on to more cheery things.... Here are a couple of photos of the animals, Hunter and Richard.

Here is a link to a blog of a really nice lady and quilter! If you have time take a look she just started her blog this year! Very talented and friendly lady! jackyosews.wordpress.com

Kristie