All Day Sew, & Linus Quilt

 Friday afternoon, I attended a local, All Day Sew, for most of the afternoon.  While the wind was howling and blowing and threatening to be a blizzard, about 12 of us were able to enjoy each other's company, warmth, lunch, snacks, and sew with no interruptions for many hours.  Delightful!!  Thank you Gene and Nancy for arranging this gathering.

The blizzard only threatened, but didn’t materialize.

Above, is my mess and Linus "I Spy" Quilt in Progress, with a friend in the background.  I tried machine quilting with my small travel machine, a small, 11 lb. Janome.  While the spiral stitches were good, my hand area was just too small and limited movement.

 Isn't that backing incredible????

Here are some of the cute motifs from Keepsake quilting - these are all 5 inch squares, 50 come in the order, I deleted a few and added several of my own.  They are all EXCELLENT quality, contemporary motifs -- saved me time.  I would definitely recommend using them -- they are called Kids something or other.  This is the 4th or 5th quilt I've made using these squares from Keepsake Quilting. I'll do it again!

Yeppers, that's snow on the ground. Yeppers, it's DONE!!!

I'm Still Here!

I'm hangin' on!  Wow - time flies when you're having fun - is that how it goes? 

I've been called back to my job again, until my replacement recovers from medical issues.  I AM getting some quilting done -- hope you haven't given up on me!!!  I truly am honored to be able to help out -- these adjustments DO take some getting used to!  Mostly, I'm wishing for recovery for my September replacement.

Scrappy Split 9-Patch, Christmas 2012

 

Current project on my Design Floor - LOL

I am working on yet another Split 9-Patch.  That red in the HSTs was the only fabric I purchased for this project.  55 blocks done so far - the goal is 80.  It was looking somewhat blah, until I added those light "sparkles" of lavender, pink and a few yellows.  I realized too late the dark area could have been arranged in a better pattern.  That's OK. 

No pattern - blocks are 6 inches, finished.  It's looking good to me.

My crazy knitted blingy scarves have found homes for Christmas, and several Christmas Banners have also found homes.  I still have a few surprises hidden from DH, who has a birthday on the dreaded 12/21, end-of-Mayan-Calendar-date.  Perhaps I should give them 12/20???  He  asks only for my Lasagna each Birthday - it always turns out delicious.

Christmas Projects

 What is that???  I actually knitted these - I am hearing they are "the latest thing" - scarves knitted with a ribbon yarn.  I'm not even a knitter and first efforts turned out really nice.  Then, they were like potato chips - couldn't stop!  They are soft around the neck, add some bling, and they squish nicely under a coat collar, etc.

Below is one of my Christmas Banners.  I just like looking at it.  I don't have wall space left, so it's hanging over my favorite rocking chair.

Here is another Christmas Banner - no, you can't simply copy this one - you NEED the instruction - so easy to misplace pieces - I know!  This is a Terry Adkinson design from many years ago.  I have 2 or 3 more in the planning stage.  The back has those vintage Santas posted on an earlier post.

Working, concentrating, fixing, considering, focusing

My To-Do list included: 

     Spend one hour (only) on blog, and try to figure out this photo truncated in Google Reader. 

So, after one hour, I made unrelated changes to my blog: 

1. Comment moderation is turned ON,
2. Verification is turned OFF - we'll see if that makes it easier to comment and less likely to receive the dratted SPAM. 

But, when using Internet Explorer, I am still working on including photos in my Google Reader, in IE.  There is a line I've just seen on my Reader, called of all things, "READER - What's new in Reader"   Then I click on that, I finally see all the truncated photos of new posts.  Ah hah, just what I was wanting, but there is no option to SAVE that visual appearance.  Perhaps it's something I need to sign up for - oh yes, there is MORE to Google, than I ever dreamed of - "just sign up"!!!  

No, not yet, my hour of contrating is almost UP.  I am  NOT going to sign up for anything more at this time, but there is great temptation! 

Surprisingly, when using Mozilla Firefox, there are all your truncated photos in Google Reader, just like I wanted.  So, that's what I need to use.  Duhhhh ... and I didn't have to do a thing! 

Success for now.  All this thinking has worn me out! 

Where are ?

I seem to have been living under a cabbage leaf during these last few months!  In Google Reader, why are all the blog photos no longer seen?  Is there a trick to turn somethng back "on" so I don't have to click on each person's blog to see the photos?  Or do I have to subscribe to a higher level of Google Reader or ????