I have 4 more baskets to add to my pile. I now have 45 finished and a million more to go! :) I am enjoying them. They give me something to keep my hands busy while I'm not at the machine. I think one reason that I always like to keep my hands busy is stress! I know we all have it, but sometimes it just feels like it is overwhelming for me. I can't even sit down and watch tv without having something else to do, even if it is looking at a magazine, doing handwork or just anything to keep me busy.
I haven't accomplished a whole lot the past few days but some progress is better than none. I have also been prepping more baskets. I'm trying to get several of them prepped because we are going on a little overnight trip in a week or so and I am starting to panic on how to stay busy in the car and at the hotel. Crazy, I know but that is just how I am.
Richard finally got his NCLEX scheduled!!!! He will be taking the exam in Johnson City, TN, which is about 4 hours from here. After passing that it will be about 2 weeks before he is issued his license for Nursing. I am so excited and nervous at the same time. After being out of work since December 2009, this has been a long time coming. I am so proud of him, he has worked so hard for this. He lost his job 2 weeks before Christmas 2009 and enrolled in college 3 weeks later! He is 42 and going back to college was hard for him, so much has changed since we were in school....
Anyway, his exam is scheduled for 8am, so we will be going down the night before. I thought he might want to go alone but he insisted that the kids and I go with him. It will just be a little overnight trip nothing big. So we plan on leaving straight after Church that Sunday.
I want to prep several basket blocks to take with me in the car and I also got one of the panels ready to embroidery for my "Over the hills" quilt. I'm hoping to get this started that weekend too. It has been a while since I have done any embroidery, I just hope it turns out nicely. It is only done with the "backstitch" and I think some "french knots" I will probably have to brush up on the french knots because I wasn't that good at them before. :)
This week will be spent cleaning the house and such. I still have quilts and books to mail out before we go. We are down to one vehicle now and Richard always has the truck all day and I'm left here with nothing. By the time he gets home the post office is closed. :(
Oh and my precious mother will be home late tonight!!! I think she said her flight was at 4:30pm, but by the time all is said and done she should be home around 11pm. Of course, I will not go visit with her tonight but I will walk to her house in the morning. I can't see her house from mine but sorta like the above quilt, she is "over the hill and through the woods" LOL! It is faster if I walk to her house through the woods instead of walking the roadway. :) Oh, I just love country life. I have so many Blessings that I just can't count them all....
Kristie
Just a quick little post to show you my new project! I know, I know, I don't need another one but I'm doing it anyway! :) Terry over at Terry's Treasures is doing a sew-along. These are my blocks for the Scrappy Stars Sew-Along. Only 2 blocks a month, so hopefully I can keep up with that. It just started for the month of August and you just make as many blocks as you want.
I first saw this on Michelle's blog and knew I had to join in. I have lots of 2.5" squares that I am tired of looking at them and some other scraps, so I figure the only way to get rid of them is to use them!
I wanted to make sure that I didn't use the same fabric twice in any block but look what I did in the first block! Oh well, once it is all put together hopefully I will never notice it.
Here is my second block. I have several 2.5" blocks and 3.5" blocks precut from scraps and leftover from other projects so this was perfect. And I also get to use up some background yardage that I was tired of looking at too.
I also have another star quilt that I want to start soon, but I need to make sure that I have enough white on my bolt before I start it.
I made one more basket, which takes me to 41 of them. I also found my cheddar bowties for some reason in my tote of 2.5" squares. So I got those out and made a few as I was piecing the star blocks.
Over the next few days my posts will probably be short. I have a visitor for a few days, so that will take up a lot of my time....see you soon....
Have a wonderful and Blessed day
Kristie
LOL! You will figure the title out to this post once you read it. :) A little more progress on my baskets! I am up to 40 now!!!! 40 finished and 10 more prepped and ready to go! Not sure if I will get anymore finished this weekend or not, but I sure hope so.
I was sorting through some of my fabric and found some Hot Wheels yardage. I think mom may have picked this up for Hunter. Anyway, you know how rough little boys are on quilts, so I don't really want to do anything major with it. Since there is 3 yards of it, I cut it in half and planned on just quickly sewing those two pieces together, throwing a border on it and have it ready to be quilted but then I had second thoughts...
I did plan on just cutting the part of the brick wall off of the bottom of the top one so that all of the brick wall pieces would be the same size, but after stepping back and looking at it, I should really line up those cars, shouldn't I? I wanted this to be a twin size and I'm thinking that if I trim the sides up so that all the cars are even and add a small black inner border and then the outer border it should measure out to be twin. So, I really should line those cars up....right? I'm thinking that if I don't then I will always wish that I had. LOL! I also found some green yardage that I will use for the outer border.
A few posts back, I mentioned that I had a can of compressed air that exploded upstairs because it was sooooo hot up there. Well on and off, I keep hearing something exploding in my sewing room but every time I would go up there I couldn't find anything. Yesterday during the heat of the day, I was up there getting some thread for a basket block that I was working on and I head the "exploding" sound while I was up there. I found out what it was all of this time...batteries! These are the laser lights that I use on my quilting machine. I have several and lots of batteries. I usually just throw the batteries in this little container when they get low and need to be changed and keep them because sometimes I have to reuse them.
Not sure if you can tell by this photo but if you look close you can see where several of them have exploded. See why I keep complaining about the heat upstairs?? I would love to be able to stay up there most of the day and sew at times but it is just unbearable up there.
Anyway, this will be a busy weekend. Tomorrow morning we will be going to a yard sale starting in the next county over. It is an annual yard sale that goes 100+ miles, the first weekend in August. I used to go every year but haven't been able to go for the past few years. This year I've saved a little back and we are going!!!! We never make it all of the way through but we always have fun. My sister is going too but not riding with us, she has to leave early. I just talked to her on the phone earlier and she said she hadn't slept good for days, just excited about the yard sale! LOL! Anyway, I have plans to look for stuff for the house. Of course, Hunter wants to look for toys and Richard wants to look for tools, since a lot of his were stolen back in May. He has since replaced several of them but not all of them. So Saturday will be a long and tiresome day and then we have Church on Sunday. I will have to rest up the first of the week! LOL!
Have a wonderful and Blessed day
Kristie
