Rug started

The mailman brought me my rug cording. The one on the right is what I received. The one on the left is what I've been used to using.


The fabric is going to be a lot different for me too. The one on the right is what should be cut to use this frame. The one on the left is what I've been using on my own homemade frame.



I couldn't wait to get started even though I probably won't have time to do anything else until after the Christmas rush. I only got the small frame strung and then worked a couple of rows. It's definitely a different feel to the work. Larger than I'm used to working with. I think the fabric I chose is much too stiff. I will try some different fabric before continuing.


One of my customers (Rusty) helped me with my computer. He showed me how to move pictures off my computer onto disks. YEAH!! I had a cd burner drive installed several months ago but I never could get it to work. I didn't know there was special software on my computer for burning cds. I wonder why the computer person who installed the drive didn't tell me that. This is one more helpful thing I can use in my January reorganizing. I have several years worth of pictures on the computer that I can now store on disks and speed up my computer.

I'm late getting started this morning. I didn't sleep well last night. Someone was hanging around near the house which made the furkids start barking. Just when I would drift off to sleep the barking would wake me up. I will be dragging around most of the day so I best get started.

Had a ME day

Yesterday I went to see the eye doctor again. He checked my glasses against the prescription he gave me. It seems the people who grind the glass made a math error. Instead of a positive they ground the glass to a negative. In other words what was supposed to be moved toward my eyes is actually moved away when looking through the lens. So now the correction is being made and I should have them by early next week.

When I got home I didn't want to work on the quilting machine so I did some ME projects. I updated my quilt project log book. I took out some of the columns and streamlined it a bit. Yes, I know I could put all this on the computer. I don't trust my computer. I trust paper. Besides, my computer is in another room. It only gets turned on early in the morning so I'm not tempted to be looking at eye candy quilts instead of working. This paper log stays in the quilting studio.


Then I added the quilts that are still in the works and I added in a couple that I want to make for my grandkids. I will start making the kits up as soon as the Christmas rush is over.


Then I worked on these a while.


Worked on these a bit too. I have the blocks almost all made. I should be able to get the top finished on the next ME day.


Then I worked on these. Finished putting the blocks together and started on the sashing.


Today I'm back on the quilting machine and dreaming while I work. Dreaming of even more quilts I'd like to make....after the rush.

Technology irritates me!

This is today's finished quilt. I still don't know what I'm doing wrong with my camera. I don't have any time right now for sitting and reading the booklet. Too many commitments with too many looming deadlines.

This was taken with the flash on. See the dark area?


This was taken with the flash off and only the overhead lights. No dark but the sickly green cast.


This is the back of the quilt. It's actually a bright white backing but looks so yellow green here.


Same problem with this picture. An ugly yellow green cast. But the pictures do show the stitching designs I used.


I had a few minutes last night after I finished that quilt and loaded another one for today. I worked on the lady's hat. I wanted to see the peacock feather in it. Nope! Can't use that. The feather doesn't look right because it's too dark next to the white feathers. I will try another one using maybe a lighter color feather from the fabric. If I can find a lighter color one.



Here is another one of those dogs running loose in my neighborhood. He looks kind of friendly but I won't take the chance on getting bitten. I don't know if he has had shots or not. The angle on the photo comes from a white porch post in the picture.

Things just happen

Yesterday was a day away from home with my daughter. It was her birthday so we spent the whole day together. We went baby stuff shopping. We didn't buy much but it was just fun going and being together. We don't spend much time together anymore. When kids grow up they lead different lives.

Sometimes things just happen to let me know I'm headed in the right direction. A couple of years ago when I created a unicorn quilt things just kind of happened along the way to it's creation. It won best of show at the state fair. My best quilt ever.

It's happening again. If you look at the drawing I posted yesterday. Look at the hat on the lady. I had in mind to have a peacock feather in the hat center. I don't have any peacock feather type fabric so I thought I would shop to see if I could find some. We couldn't find any. Well look what the fabric fairies left on my porch yesterday. That fabric was just kind of peaking out of the bag.

The lady is going to be dressed in purple. I had been thinking about buying thread to match all that purple. Look what arrived in the mail. Two cones of purple that are a perfect match to the fabrics for the dress. (thank you Kathi!) It's hard to tell in the photo but it's does match perfectly.


And my rug frames are put together. I have a small one and a large one.


I don't have the cording for stringing it yet but I can start cutting up fabrics to get ready for when it arrives. There was a whole box of fabric left by the fabric fairies yesterday that is just right for cutting into rug strips. You think I'm heading in the right direction now? Hmmm....you think the fabric fairies could leave me some brick fabric for the house in the charity quilt? Ok, fairies, I'm making a wish for brick fabric.

Time to get into the studio for a bit of cleaning and putting things away before doing some 'me' things today. Hopefully to work on the charity quilt and possibly cut up some fabric strips for rugs.

A charity quilt

The quilt I have on the machine is going to take more than one day to complete so no finished quilt pictures today.

I thought I would share a picture or two of my current quilt project. It's for a charity auction next April during the Louisville Mayor's Derby Brunch. Lots of out of town guests will be there. Sorry about the darkness of the picture. It was late and my overhead lights need replacing.




I stopped working on the machine for the day but wasn't ready to go to bed yet so I started on this. I did the face but I may do it over before it's finished. I'm not happy with her eyes even though she is supposed to be looking back and up.

Why a Victorian couple? Because it's to benefit Farnsley-Moorman House and Landing. An old house and steamboat dock from the 1800's that has been restored and put on the historic register. These are just the characters to be in the quilt. I still have the house to work on and some type of background. A friend took digital pictures of the Farnsley-Moorman House for me to use in the drawing of templates. I'm not sure I will be able to do the house because I can't find any fabric that looks like bricks.

I may try to paint some brick fabric myself but only if I have the time after the Christmas rush is over. There is a very short time I will be able to finish the quilt. Pictures of the finished quilt are supposed to be taken in February to use for publicity purposes.

Ok, short post today. It's my daughter's birthday so we are going shopping and later out for dinner. I want to work on the machine a while before she picks me up.