A Few Quilts In The Que

 These first two are the oldest ones waiting to be quilted.  The scarecrow one Andrea and I started 2 years ago.  We were each making one after she bought the pattern at a Fall Shop Hop and we were hoping to have them done by last Fall.  Well, the top was done, but it is still waiting for quilting.  Maybe by 2011?  The blue and brown quilt is made of leftover blocks from the quilt I made for Jeremy O'Dwyer's wedding last October.  It has only been waiting for a year.

This one was started sometime in 2009 but put away several times because I didn't really know where I was going with it.  Finally this year I got a glimpse of what it could be.  It is just a top right now acting as a curtain to some messy book cases and that is fine with me... for now.

 These two Christmasy ones were made with some challenge cloth from quilt guild and NEED to be DONE (i.e. quilted and bound) by November 22nd to be displayed at our December luncheon.  I still need to add something to the triangles.  I am thinking of embroidering some pinecones in them.  We'll see.  The Santa Tree one, after quilting, will be cut with the scallop edge of the red border... at least, that is what I am thinking right now.

This one was a quilt guild project.  I still want to add some applique swags in the wide outer border.  That is the plan.  We shall see.  I seem I have a habit of making things without a pattern and then getting lost along the way.

This was a project made for quilt guild.  I am in charge of the "Round Tuits."  Every month we have a challenge for a certain number of ladies to complete a project that has been sitting around, just waiting for them to get around to it.  I come up with lottery handouts each month.  In September the theme was canning so I  passed out the pattern for the canning jar in the middle of this frame, then I made one to show.  I liked it so much that I bought some more food fabrics to make a wall hanging quilt for the kitchen.  I will be on the lookout for more of this type of fabrics.  Here are the ones I bought last month.

Okay, now for some quilts in the piecing stage:




This one is for Paul's new truck.  He, of course, needed all new bedding for his new truck. I hope to have it done by Christmas.

This is a block from a Christmas surprise for my sister.

I also have a pretty flannel quilt cut out but haven't started sewing on it yet.

Am I crazy, or what?

Ancestry

I signed up for Ancestry.com for one month again, so I've been very engaged in that pursuit in October.  I gathered enough new material to spend a couple of months adding it all to new.familysearch.com.  But first I need to finish the scrapbook for our soon-to-be 8 year old grandson. 

And somewhere in the next 2 months I need to find time to make a few quilts for Christmas.  hmmm - I'd like to buy a few more weeks, please.

Quick Trip

After my shift at the polls on Friday (22nd) I had the car already packed so just took off from there and headed east to Colorado, our old stomping grounds.  Dear friend, Katie had signed us up (and paid for me) to attend a CTMH (Close To My Heart) stamping convention - or whatever. It was a blast.  Some were making cards, many brought boxes of photos and were making scrap pages.  Many women hauled in cartloads of supplies for their day's entertainment. There were tables of product to buy (and we did!) and classes to take, some for $ and some free.  We arrived early, found our assigned tables, signed up for classes then sat down to CREATE.  fun fun fun

Sherri Vincent of Palisade was at our little pod of tables.  She was working on scrapbook pages but didn't bring photos.  The pages turned out beautiful, don't you think?

 

Here is Katie at the beginning of our day.  The table is relatively clean and organized at this point.  Ha Ha ~ You should have seen the table once we got into our first packet of papers.  #**#

This cute "pencil" holds a package of Rollos with a Kiss on top.   You could print a message on one side of the pencil or the name of a school or teacher.  CUTE idea.

This is a display of a card kit we purchased that made 16 cards and we have lots of leftover elements.

Here are the cards K and I made at a class.  They are acrylic cards with a scalloped front bottom that you can't really see.  Katie's is the tall one.  Mine has glitter glue snowballs on it that weren't dry when we took the picture.

 This is a fun kit we got that has 4 "milk cartons" in a carrier.  The one in this pic is cutsy but our kits were more elegant colors and decorations.  We didn't have time to finish K's kit and I thought mine might get smashed on the drive home.  I'll have fun putting it together later.  It will make cute VT gifts.

This kit makes up into a "purse" that is a card holder when you open it.  The kit also has supplies to make 8 cards and envys.  I am thinking I will take it to MD with me to play with the gals on a quiet day.

Feeling Remorse

I got in a funk earlier this year and deleted all my past posts and photos.  I didn't think anyone would care and besides, that part of my life was over.  Turned out that several people said they wished I hadn't.  Who would have guessed??
I didn't think anyone would really care to see all of my mundane activities or mindless hobbies so haven't posted for a long time.  Turns out, friends and family really do want to know what is going on in my life, so here we go again.
I would love to learn how to energize this site but don't have the time right now to spend on learning. Maybe this winter when the garden is sleeping and Christmas presents are all made and delivered, I will have time to sit down and study this new-age medium.  Maybe.  I have a stack of quilt tops to quilt!

Doing Our Patriotic Duty

We have a fun group of ladies that work the elections in Grantsville.  The new early voting scheduling is done by our County Clerk so we don't get to work together all day for 2 weeks straight like we used to. We've been cut to 1/2 day shifts.  We were told it was a budget cut.  Here is a snap of 3 of us at our stations.

  

We had 3 days of early voting this past week and will have 3 days this next week, then regular election day on November 2nd.  We had less than 200 voters the first week.  The ballot is FOREVER long this time but most voters are coming prepared.  Glad to see that.