Life On Friday

Here are my latest two blocks that I did this evening. Only 44 more to go!!!!! I know by the time that I get this quilt finish I will not care if I ever see another piece of Pink or Brown fabric!!!! Just kidding, I love brown and I think it looks great with pink but after making this many pink and brown blocks they are really getting to me... :)




A few weeks ago on the Civil War Diary quilt yahoo group, a lady named Mary had finished all of her blocks! What an accomplishment!!! Anyway she offered to give her scraps away! I have come to realize that quilters are some of the most unselfish people in the world. So yesterday I recieved the fabrics! I was amazed with the selection and they were all nice usable pieces! Most I can get several blocks out of them. As far as I know Mary does not have a blog, but here she is a complete stranger but was so nice to offer her fabrics. I will have so many nice memories in these quilts. I have recieved fabrics for them from...Toni, Carla, Cathi, Lisa, and Mary! I counted and there were 70 different repro fabrics and I only had one of them! How wonderful is that!


Other than my two blocks not alot going on here tonight. Hubby is kicked back in the recliner watching tv, Hunter fell asleep in the chair and Andrew went to a football game and went home with a friend. Me....I am bored! I made my two blocks and just can't bring myself to do another tonight, so now I am looking through quilt magazines and digging around on the internet!

Not sure what I will get done tomorrow. Hubby has to go help my uncle fix his sawmill. After that we are going to Richard's brothers house to pick up a truck! Several weeks ago Richard and his brother had a little trade and got me a truck! Now I say ME because several months ago we were going to buy a new car and I couldn't decide on what I wanted, then his brother ended up with an OLD truck, I told Richard that I wanted it. So they traded around on a few things and "I" got the truck!!! No cash, just trade!!!! Now this truck does run but I will not be driving it for a long time!!! See it is a 1951 GMC, needs lots of work to restore it and right now it looks like a crayon box, it is so many differnt colors! :) But it will be our "when we get old truck" Or as I like to say our "Mammy and Pappy truck" It is so old that the truck starts by hitting a switch and pushing a pedal/button on the floor! How cool is that? I will post photos of it after we get it. Of course it will be parked and tore apart to rebuild it piece by piece!
Kristie

A Little Bit Closer!

Here are a few more blocks that I have done today! I now have a total of 75 blocks done! Only....46 blocks left to go! I am getting anxious to get these blocks done, I just hope that my energy doesn't run out before I can finish them! :) I can finally see the end in sight!






I took all of my blocks out to mom's house today. She has "cream" colored carpet so we layed them all out on the floor to get a good idea of how they will all look together and decided on a border fabric! Of course, I ran off and left my camera at home so no photos of our little bit of fun. But it was exciting to see my blocks layed out.

Speaking of my mom...she is leaving in the morning. :( My Mom is my best friend and I miss her so much while she is gone. So you have 28 days to hear me whine over my mother! :) She has a great job but the worst part of it is that she is gone for 28 days at a time. But I know that it is probably harder on her being gone than it is on us. We have the rest of the family with us, she doesn't...

Anyway...Richard will be home all day tomorrow and the rest of the weekend...3 days...so who knows how much sewing that I will be able to get done...
Kristie

Only 49 more to go!

72 down and 49 more to go!!! Yipee!!!! With these three latest blocks I only have 49 more to go! I feel like I am finally seeing the end of this baby! I know I still need to do the other 49 blocks, sashings for 121 blocks, add borders, and quilt it but at least I know the end is closer than it was... :)





I also finished my bag today for the stitchery bag swap! I forgot to get a photo of it before I packaged it up! But it is finished and that makes me happy.

Other than a little bit of sewing not alot going on here. I have been very tired and sleepy the past few days...just stress I think. So I am back to napping everyday.

Hunter joined Cub Scouts a few weeks ago! He had his fisrt meeting on Monday. He really seems to like it. They have meetings every Monday at 5:30pm in town. Gives him something to do and it is good for him. Andrew has a field trip tomorrow with FFA (Future Farmers Of America) I have to take him to school early, the bus will be leaving before school starts and they will be going to Morehead. School started in August and I think he this will make him 3 field trips already! Oh and Hunter got is mid-term today! He is in 1st grade and has all A's!!! :) Andrew should be getting his mid-term within the next few days! He is also a great kid! Andrew has never made anything lower than a B. I am very proud of both of them.

Opppps! I just realized that I only put 3 block photos on here, I actually made 4, I will load it on the next post, but I still have 72 blocks finished!!!

I guess that is all for tonight, I need to finish some laundry and try to go to bed.
Kristie