Over the weekend

This weekend I devoted my time to getting stuff done! I amde my block for the Saturday Square class at Quilter's Corner on the 31st. I made the block of the month for my guild project and caught up the blocks I had fallen behind on. Then, I opened a box that I knew had fabric in it. What was really in there I wondered. I found a quilt I started 10 years ago--maybe longer. I had received a quilt calendar--one of those that has a quilt pattern for every day of the month--all year long. I can't even imagine what I was thinking, but I began making the quilt blocks for each day in January. Then I stopped and there it has sat since I put it away. Some of it was put together. I obviously began making four patches. There was no picture, no calendar (I'm sure I threw it away years ago), no idea of what I was thinking ten years ago. So, I just began putting squares together. I have a 64x68" quilt top. I used pinks, grays, blues, turquoise, whites, purples and lavenders. It is interesting to say the least. What I am most impresed with is that the entire thing fit in a shoe box! I can't even think that I have made one thing that didn't require at least a 12x12 box and possibly a second one also. I think I have decided to give my guild quilt to my nephew in Iowa. He has only one quilt--a baby quilt that he probably doesn't own any longer knowing my brother and his penchant for getting rid of things. This could be a way of getting to know him better. This quilt has fabric with fish and lots of color. I have 12 squares with orange friendship stars. Still thinking.....

"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with." Quote by Jim Rohn This was a quote used in the 8th grade English classroom I work in. The students wrote about how they were similar to the five people they chose. I decided that I am not necessarily the average. I decided that my friends and I compliment each other. It was just such an interesting thought. I apent my lunch with a student catching up on an assignment. He is such a funny kid. He told me he was humorous. It's true!!

Projects that I have worked on: Yellow and Blue quilt complete top with borders (Bolero postcard) Thimbleberries Flying Geese (size wrong; stopped to reconsider) High Hand (ran out of fabric in cream--Opps!) Opps, there is the bell. Got to run.

Saturday Night

What to do on a Saturday night?  Catch up on my blog.

Under the finished catagory
    blue and white "Too Colors, Too Easy":  finished the top on Friday!  Hurrah. Finally Done.   The finished top is 92.5 by 112.5 inches.
    Snowman pillow:  the pattern and kit was a gift from my friend Imelda.  She finished hers and I felt bad that mine was still sitting in the original packaging, so there you have it.
    embroidered Thimbleberries pattern made into a pillow:  pattern and embroidery thread given as gift to club members by Pam of Quilter's Corner, my local quilt shop.
    embroidered Thimbleberries quilt from 2012:  Aunt Arlene called and said I could bring a quilt over to quilt on the long-arm machine.  I had to be there by 7am because we were in the middle of a heat wave and it gets really hot where the machine is.  I got there at 6:50am after telling my husband that I would be home around 10am.  Aunt Arlene ironed the backing.  We walked across the street to where the machine is.  We quilted it and were finished in time for me to attend mass with my in-laws, go out to breakfast and stop at a lighting store to look at a possible new light for my in-laws dining room.  I was home by 10am!
    binding for hand quilted pieces:  I have taken three hand quilting classes and I have hated every one of them equally.  It isn't the teacher, I just hate hand quilting.  I had two pieces that were just lying around being moved here and there over the past years and I noticed the oldest one was getting straggly at the edges; the binding was beginning to come apart.  Brilliant idea!  put binding on them to stop the progression of age.  I bound the oldest one and all was well.  When I started binding the green piece, I found that the blue markings were still on it.  I am here to attest to the truth that the blue markings do not come off all the way after three years.  Now both pieces are bound.  Is anyone wondering why only two pieces when I distinctly said I took three classes???   The truth there is that the second class was the Aunt Becky method of hand quilting.  I still have the tools, but hated that method so much that I threw the piece in the trash because there was no way I was ever going to finish that nasty thing......
    Black White and Bright:  block of the month/Saturday Square from Quilter's Corner--2011.   Have only the top finished.  Next quilt to be done when Aunt Arlene calls again.

hello......

Hi.  I am giving up on my laptop.  It has taken a while to become familiar with this tablet.  While I have been away, I have finished a embroidery quilt from last years Thimbleberries club book, put together pink hearts, completed the middle of a quiltc called two colors...too easy.  I have been spending some time being helpful andcooking.


I will try not to be gone so long again!

Did you feel the earth move???

I have been avidly watching the stories about the destruction in Moore, Oklahoma.  I can't even imagine the horror of living where there are tornados.  Scary suckers!  After all, we only have earthquakes.  No big deal.  So last night there was a 5.9 earthquake in Greenville--off of highway 89 towards Susanville (north up toward Oregon).  The couch moved as I was pouring through magazines.  The chair opposite me was occupied by Valerie.  She was staring at the chair as if it had sprouted wings.  She thought the dog (sweet Katie) had bumped into her from behind.  Nope!

We spent so much time last night talking during my Thursday Night group that I got nothing done.  But I entertained everyone with this little tidbit:  We are having to teach family life.  I heard before class that we would be talking about the fallopian tubes.  Just the most exciting.  So, the math teacher has one science class that I help out in and he started talking about how he was going to teach this through interpretive dance!  Then he showed us.  I wish I had a video.  It was so darn funny!

I am going home to take a nap so I can babysit for Jelly tonight.  Jelly is three years old and is the daughter of my darling daughter's roommate.  

So have a great evening!

Everyday I fuss and fume because my fabric is in such disarray.  I so want to make this quilt with a white background featuring 9-patches and square in a square using my left over brights from the Saturday square quilt I am finishing up. 

More fussing:  I am finding that I started a lot of things this month, but have not finished any to show on Saturday at the Saturday Square class!  I can't belive I have NOTHING!

I began two embroidery projects this week.  There is very little time left at school this year, so there should be down time when I can embroider.  Aha!  There is my problem.  I start things, but do I finish them?????

Yesterday a student had two packages of gum.  A classmate asked for a piece and she threw it across the room.  This prompted me to take her gum away.  I put it on my desk and forgot about it because she fell asleep in her next class and went home after she woke up complaining of a tooth ache.  This morning she sent her friend to ask me for the gum.  I told the friend she couldn't have it.  I never said I wouldn't give it back to the student it belongs to, but I think she should have to ask herself.  She has 8 days to ask..........

I am mkaing a pear tart to take tonight when I go sew with three friends.  It is really delicious.  I only need pears and pie crust.  So off to the store I go....

I told a kid that he was such a boy and he turned around and said, "Im not a boy, I'm a man."  He's a boy.

Have a lovely afternoon,
Julie