North Star Block #2

I just finished up my North Star block! This is block #2 for the Civil War Quilt Block a Week! Check out the blog such interesting History to go along with it! I'm loving this!!

Early this morning I went to the dreaded grocery store! :( That drives me crazy but I guess that is a part of life. And the worst part is putting it all away when you get home. Anyway it is done, my block is done and now it is nap time! LOL! Just a little nap and then I will be back up and clean the house some before we settle down for our movie night. Well, Hunter and Richard watch a movie and I will sit here and do a little bit of sewing but at least I will be in the same room. :)

Kristie

A Day Of Sewing...

I have spent most of the day sewing! I started out sewing because I was stressed out over the school bus driver that did not come up here to pick up Hunter this morning. Last night we got a light dusting of snow, actually it looked more like a frost. Anyway Hunter was waiting on the bus and it never came. I called the bus garage to see why and he said that the bus ran on every road in the county except ours!!! He said that the bus driver called in and said that the road was too bad with snow!!! Here is one of the photos that Richard took of the road as he took Hunter to school! Do you see snow on our little old dirt road????? NOPE! If you look close you can see a little bit of snow on the main road at the bottom of the hill but not our road! And yes, I know Richard needs to clean his windshield!!! LOL! This is his old truck that he does everything with. This is not the first time this has happened. This has gone on for a few years now and what it boils down to, is that Hunter is the only kid on this road and he doesn't want to come back here for one kid! I called everyone that I could think of this morning and we plan on taking these photos to the next Board of Education meeting!!!
Okay, I'm done complaining now! On to the sewing!!!! In my last post I mentioned that I needed to make a million pot holders. I wanted a few for myself, Chantal wanted 50! LOL! and Crystal (her bestfriend) wanted a couple of sets. I already had 6 finished so today I string pieced 22 blocks to be used as pot holders! That will be 4 for Crystal, 12 for Chantal and 12 for me.....right??? I think my math is right! LOL!

Now I just need to trim up the blocks, get them layered and get ready for the binding! This will be my take along project as I take mom for her physical therapy and doctor appointments. I know it would be faster to do the bindings by machine but I so enjoy the hand work.

I have this large wooden crate/box thing that I have my strings and narrow strips in, this is what I found as I returned from putting a load of laundry in the washer! Silly Donkey!!!! He thought the box was all for him! LOL!

I'm tired and I need to clean my mess up! I moved my sewing machine to one of those tv table things and put it in front of the couch so that I could sit on the couch and sew. I found that is much easier on my hip, if I plan on sewing for a while. So now I have threads all over the couch!!! Off to clean and then on to bed!

Kristie

Not as productive as yesterday...

Today was not as productive as yesterday but I did get a little bit of sewing done. Mom had physical therapy this morning and let's just say she didn't want to go! But while she was having her physical therapy I went upstairs to visit my sister at her work (it is in the same medical building) then I went out to the car which was parked directly in front of the physical therapy office, and sewed the binding down on these 4 pot holders! I know it would be much faster and easier to do them by machine because they are JUST pot holders but I really do enjoy sewing binding.

Speaking of pot holders.....a few nights ago I called mom and the conversation went like this....

Me: Hi mom, whatcha doin?

Mom: (laughing) taking orders!

Me: What????

Mom: Well.....Chantal and Crystal (her best friend) want some pot holders and rice bags.

Me: Okay....why? and how many?

Mom: Crystal wants 2 sets of pot holders and 2 LARGE rice bags and Chantal wants a small rice bag, a LARGE rice bag and 50 pot holders! (laughing)

Me: WHAT????????? 50?????

So anyway, I don't' guess she wants 50 but she does want a bunch of them! :) I guess she plans on having her own place someday...maybe soon. (She and boyfriend getting pretty serious)

I had planned on making some for me too, so I guess for now I will just start sewing up a few at a time for us all! I already gave mom 4 of them, she seemed to like them too. So I guess you will see plenty of them on my blog in the months to come!

It is snowing her right now, just started about 20 minutes ago. It looks soooo pretty! I just hope that we don't get very much because Richard has to drive up to Prestonsburg to get his books for this semester! It starts on Monday!! :)

Hunter came in from school, ate and fell asleep within about 15 minutes! He is sooooo tired! He did the same thing yesterday. I think it is catching up with him where he was staying up so late during Christmas break. At least I hope that is why...

Kristie