Great Mail Day

It was a banner mail day *VBG* !!! My friend Jeanne sent not one but two moda charm packs to play with inklingo with- thank you so much Jeanne. My god daughter sent the little butterfly embroidery kit cause she knows I love butterflies and didn't think I wanted to wait for Christmas :) Hubby bought the stack of 30's flower prints fqs ( what a guy , and also not in the pic I got the newest yoyo maker the mini one and the book they were talking about on Stashbusters, Slash your Stash from Claudia's Quiltshop.

It was a well needed pick me up after dealing with the personal injury claims person, another adjuster about the car etc etc. Hubby and I each have a different "take" on what the personal injury offer was so I need to call the nice woman back and get it in writing and have it looked at. It's not alot but it's something and the kids will have a little extra spending money. Seriously it's that little. Could I ask for more ??? Probably BUT I can just say I am so thankful they weren't seriously hurt. So if they get a small token from the other guys insurance - it's a bonus for them. Just give me a fair price for the car and pay the medical bills and I will be thrilled.

I did manage to keep the sewing area clean, finish piecing the third row of pineapple blossom blocks and the sashings. I even have it all pinned and ready to sew that seam and it's half done. Woo! Hoo!

After the adjuster left my frame finally arrived!!! But hubby still needs to put the nails in :( So how long do you think that will take???? I'm thinking maybe Sunday afternoon I better start doing the nails myself. What do you think??? LOL- men seriously -







The question of the week seems to be What's on Your Bed????
This a fall quilt I made hubby last year for Christmas in all fall hand dyes and batiks. He loves it, me I'm not sure it's how I wanted to come out -oh well. So tell me, What's on YOUR bed??????

Did you miss me????? :-D

Granda was afraid I'd lose a pin or needle at her apartment, so cathedral windows was not happening. Luckily I brought along a moda tin and the large yoyo maker. :)
I had told Leah that I store all my yoyo's in a quart mason jar so here's the jar after this weekend's addition. There are close to 100 of them in the jar. I saw a HUGE gallon jar at the container store a few weeks ago and I think that would be a great storage size for yoyos.


DS,Dad and I had a great visit with grandma this weekend. I think her health is failing. She seemed so much more frail since I was up in September with DD and dad before I went to Cooperstown. She will be 88 next March. I pray she makes it that long. But she's having problems catching her breath doing simple things and talking how tired she is.





Here was our clue that ds was bored at each meal..


Don't you love the print of his sweatshirt??? All gasmasks in a camo design! The hood even had eye holes in it-lol!

Other than dealing with the insurance companies over dd's car I've done next to nothing since I got back Sunday. In having Allstate for almost 30 years we are getting screwed BIG TIME and it's time to hire some outside help. I mean one of the guys from the other drivers insurance had me in tears by 9:05 am yesterday. And it takes alot to make me cry. But talk about putting a damper on your day . I always thought that your insurance company would fight for you but this so isn't the case. I think they are both working together to get the smallest amount they can to settle with us with is 30% less than the car is worth.blah......

Any how I did manage to make the pinepple blocks as a mindless sewing of pieces. Out of three jelly rolls I managed to make 21 blocks and have all the sashings to join the blocks except 6 long pieces to join the rows together. Hubby sweetie, he is ordered more :P cause I can't buy fabric till next fall-lol. I did the 12" blocks and finished 42 of them. With all the sashings it's going to make a HUGE queensized ( closer to king)quilt. So Mel will have something to do this winter unless I really do hand quilt it over the winter. One never knows. But I guess we'll wait till after the holidays and figure it out. My job today is to clean the sewing area up and clear the table to start trimming the king sized quilt Mel quilted for me and get the binding sewn on. A quilt of nothing but 2 1/2" squares- 45x50 of them. GASP!
Well I need to start thinking of a prize for my 100th post......I'm sure something will come to mind. Especially since I need to dye more fabric soon. Hopefully next week after the confirmation is all over.

Squishy Day :)

Don't you love getting packages in the mail??? I ordered the books on Amazon and the clover yoyo makers from one of my fav sellers on Ebay *VBG* I got both the flowers and the hearts in both sizes. I'll try them out later while watching baseball, it's old timers day at the stadium :)
I'm prepping another SBS for appliquing down, and broke out my tumbling blocks- plan is to do 10 a week- should only take a couple of years to finish them all that way *wink* That's what I get for starting all these hand sewing/quilting projects at once.......


Here's DD's cat, Cyd, trying to be my new best friend since Chat is gone.
She would NEVER go on my bed if he were here to protect the quilts.



Have a great Saturday, going to be a hot one here today...

Still Sewing and gardening

Look!!!! Almost 2 cups of yoyos!!! What I'm going to go with them, I'm not sure but they look so cute in the canning jar :)
And the SB Sues from Christmas hell-lol. On retreat last fall a friend ( what friend would pass on such ugly Christmas Sues, especially since it was a 20+ year UFO for them? I ask you who would do that to a friend???) Gave me these "lovelys to finish. And just when I had the top pieced of 12 , she sends 8 more! grrrrrrrrrrr
So now I found them under my bed and started them again today and ripping the borders off to use as sashing AGAIN. And wait for more ugly Christmas fabric to come to the stores- needs that gold in it to be true to the original Sues....sigh. I have 2 more appiqued down and 5 to go- the last one I"m going to keep for a sampler quilt.
***rolls eyes***** since the last sample quilt I made, DD "borrowed" and never returned-







and my first callas of the year are blooming, *VBG* my favorite flower




there are just so many colors and types of lilies this year, FINALLY :)






Isn't this a HUGE flower??? I have to remember to dry some for a wreath this year.

Quilting A.D.D.

I'm supposed to be working on my son's graduation quilt

But instead I'm doing all kinds of other things .....
Like finally finishing my NYE Mystery that Ann did on alot of groups last New Years Eve


Or making yoyo's with the new Clover toy with Moda tin charms:


I need to turn off the computer and buckle down and get this grad quilt bordered, pice the backing and load it on the frame. My goal is to quilt it tomorrow night and do the binding ( already made) this weekend...that's my story and I'm sticking with it-lol