Sewing Progress

Last weekend I was able to piece together my Material Girl Signature Blocks.  I also pinned my finished top to the batting and the backing.  Now I am ready to quilt.  I would like to have this done before next weekend so I can finish the binding.  I also finished two baby quilts for two new family babies in Texas, my husband's family.  We are planning a visit to see them soon.

I haven't posted over this last week because I was having problems with my password.  Today I decided to try again and the password I used last worked.  The real problem is me.  I cannot for the life of me remember what password I used.  I know that it is 9 characters long.  I need to change it, but cannot, because I am required to verify the old password in order to establish a new password.  What to do?  I will have to e-mail Google to ask for my password.  A dear friend of mine advised me to always write down on paper a password for this very reason.  Barbara is so right about this.

Me and My Friends at Pacific International

Last weekend was great fun at Pacific International Quilt Show  in Santa Clara. I traveled to the show with Diane, Debbie, and Barbara.  We will all be attending Road to California in January and are all taking David Taylor's class.  We always have fun being the crazy quilters that we are.

SEWING DAY!

I woke up at 7 am and began thinking about this very special day 41 years ago. Today is my son Rodney's Birthday. It is so hard to believe that 41 years has gone by so fast. I started my day very early with my water breaking, then a call to the doc, then waiting for those labor pains to start, then a quick ride to the hospital. Labor had to be induced and I endured the pains until 7:30 pm. Then the doc decided to perform a c-section and I had my boy at 7:37 pm. And he was a big little man at 21 inches and 9 pounds and the only boy in the nursery. All of the nurses had fun referring to the nursery as his harem. I know every Mother goes thur the birthing process of every child on their birthdays. It is a special experience. And later today when I take Rodney and Georgia for his Birthday lunch he will hear the story one more time, but I will probably note more of the details.

I just finished my cinnamon toast and am taking my coffee with to my sewing room. I will open all of the windows and enjoy this fall air. Today is a little cool and overcast and reminds of the climate in Cambria.

Pacific International Quilt Show was very fun. I looked at so many quilts and came home inspired to sew, sew, sew. I purchased two Robyn Pandolph 5"x5" Rue Saint Germain square packs and 2 of Moda's 5"x5" Gobble Gobble square packs, bamboo batting for my Posh king size quilt, and a purple Tutto travel bag for my sewing machine. I also purchased three patterns from Fig Tree Designs, a dress pattern for Georgia,a Jelly Girl pattern, and Dancing Dollies Samples pattern.

Do I have to add these new patterns to my "Waiting For Kathy" list? I don't have fabric for them yet, so will add to my list when that happens.

Pacific International Quilt Show

Looking forward to this fabulous quilt show. This show has a different flavor, I thinks it's more Asian and Northwestern types of quilts. Last time I attended a quilter from Japan showed a quilt with thousands of very small flower garden hand pieced parts. She spent many years working on this quilt. Her dedication to complete her quilt was simply amazing. So I'm off for a fun time with some of my Material Girlfriends.

Clothespin Bat!

Here is the picture of the clothespin bat.  My Mom always made these around Halloween.  She gave me a bat about 10 years ago and I still have it.  This year my Granddaughter Georgia was old enough to help cut them out of Fun Foam and glue to black painted clothes pins.  She took two home and I kept two for myself.  The next project we will make for Halloween will be Jack-o-lantern cans.  We will be painting some cans with orange paint and making a jack-o-lantern face by punching the can with a nail and then adding a wire handle to carry.  We will then put a candle inside to light at night.  Georgia was practicing her hammering of nails last night with her Grampa supervising. So she should be ready to make holes in the cans on Monday.

Georgia's Birthday Quilt #3 - May 5, 2009

I am finally able to start posting pictures on my blog. Georgia is my one and only Grandchild. I started making a Birthday Quilt on her first Birthday. And yes I do have pictures of the four quilts I've made so far and I will post soon. I have been know to say that I will make a quilt for each of her birthdays until she is 21. The 21st quilt will probably have a Margarita theme, since her birthday is an Cinco de Mayo. I will post this year's birthday quilt tomorrow when I have a picture ready. Birthday Quilt #4 was named "You can never have enough Flip Flops".

Georgia was with me tonight and we made clothespin bats for Halloween. We cut out 2 bat shapes and punched out eyes using black fun foam. Then we painted our clothespins black. Next we hot glued a bat to each side of the clothespin. When you are done you can clip your bat anywhere you like, on a hat, a curtain, your hair, anywhere you want. I will take a picture to show the finished bat.

LOVING THE FALL WEATHER!

It is Saturday morning and I'm getting a lazy start to the weekend. Since I was at Pismo Beach last weekend and the weekend before at my nephew's wedding,I have to catch up on life's duties like washing the accumulation of dirty clothing. Thank goodness I have a good housekeeper every three weeks. She keeps me pretty neat and tidy. I would probably let things go too long if it was up to me to be the house cleaner. I would certainly pick sewing or gardening before cleaning. I wonder if there is clothes washing person that comes to your house?

I finished my Nephew Josh's wedding quilt and will begin posting quilt pictures soon. I need to have time at my business computer to post pictures, since the posting of pictures to a blog on my iPad is very involved. I would love to prepare my newly finished king size Chez Moi quilt top for quilting today, but the washing is first since my hubby and I are off to a Elk's Lodge State President's dinner this evening. Semi-formal dress is required. So there goes most of Saturday to the Elks. Tomorrow I have plans to be home and make the day mine alone. Steve will be laying some new entry tiles at Our business, Morrison's Silkscreen and Embroidery.

I am pretty jazzed about a ruffled quilt pattern I found via Jodie Bisigg's Blog. She is involved with vintage sheet quilts, which brought my curiosity to this pattern. When I saw the quilt I was immediately drawn to make it for my Grandaughter, Georgia. I have been making her a quilt for each of her birthdays. Georgia turned four this last May 5th. Yes, I will certainly post pictures very soon. I purchased the pattern on line and have been reviewing this morning while laying in bed. The author suggests taking your time and allowing up to 4 months to complete. This will allow you to work on it a bit at a time. So now I will be off to shop for sheets at the thrift stores and looking into my own sheet collection.

Gotta go start my have-to-dos so I can play tomorrow.

Feeling Better!

Being sick was not in my plans during September, but I made it to being well again. Doc said I did not have pneunomia, but acute bronchitis. He gave me a pneunomia shot and said chest xray was good and my lungs sounded clear.

I attended my nephews wedding last weekend and had a great time and this weekend I am in Pismo Beach with my girl friends for a quilting retreat. We had fish and chips for dinner and did a little sewing and we are off to bed to rest for a big sewing day tomorrow.