http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/
This one has triangles and hexagons too for paper piecing that hexagon quilt you always wanted to do. Now you can make multiple hexagons on one sheet of paper. Really a great idea.
Showing posts with label quilting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quilting. Show all posts
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
I been quilting
No I didn't do this top but I bought it on Ebay and then put it together. I just fell in love with the background fabric. Here is the back I put with it:
It's just a lap size quilt.
This is a table runner I made using precuts, 2 1/2 inch ones and 5 inch ones. I didn't even buy them together and they are from different manufacturers but the look good together don't they?
Here is the back:
I had this piece for a while. I thought I could flip the table runner and use this side for Christmas if I wanted to. Here is a close up of some fancy stitching I did on my machine for it:
It's just the feather stitch. I used a variegated thread. It goes from off white to a light brownish color.
Here is another table topper. I now have this backed, pinned and ready to quilt. And I did iron it after this pic was taken ;)
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Long time no see
Yep I'm back again. I've been busy just doing day to day things. I've been selling things on Ebay and getting rid of other things just to get ready for the cabin adventure. I've been sewing a lot and knitting a lot too. Here are some pics:
Some socks for me.
Thought I better start making some socks as ours are getting rather hard to mend anymore what with all the holes :) Next on the needles are some socks for hubby. I also have on the needles a sweater for hubby and another one for myself. Yes I multitask LOL.
Don't know if you can see this but I wanted to show you how to piece batting on something you are quilting. You line up the pieces and sew them together.
It's an excellent way to use up scrap batting for small wallhangings or table toppers.
This is the batting all sewed up and ready for my table topper.
And here's the top of the table topper. I have since finished this. Need to get a pic of the finished topper for you. To make this topper you need 5" squares and 2 1/2" squares. Place the smaller squares on opposite sides and sew from corner to corner (you can mark them on the back but I just winged it). Cut off the excess triangles. (Don't throw these triangles away. I have an idea I'll share in a later post) I squared them up to measure 5" and then tried out the placement on the table to see how they looked the best and then sew them together. I used a 5" border. I used two packages of precuts for this and had plenty left over to make another one plus. The squares I used weren't even from the same designer but I think they look great together.
Some socks for me.
Thought I better start making some socks as ours are getting rather hard to mend anymore what with all the holes :) Next on the needles are some socks for hubby. I also have on the needles a sweater for hubby and another one for myself. Yes I multitask LOL.
Don't know if you can see this but I wanted to show you how to piece batting on something you are quilting. You line up the pieces and sew them together. 
It's an excellent way to use up scrap batting for small wallhangings or table toppers.
This is the batting all sewed up and ready for my table topper.
And here's the top of the table topper. I have since finished this. Need to get a pic of the finished topper for you. To make this topper you need 5" squares and 2 1/2" squares. Place the smaller squares on opposite sides and sew from corner to corner (you can mark them on the back but I just winged it). Cut off the excess triangles. (Don't throw these triangles away. I have an idea I'll share in a later post) I squared them up to measure 5" and then tried out the placement on the table to see how they looked the best and then sew them together. I used a 5" border. I used two packages of precuts for this and had plenty left over to make another one plus. The squares I used weren't even from the same designer but I think they look great together.
On the home front, our chickens have started laying again. Boy did we ever miss our home grown eggs. We were getting them from an Amish farm but their eggs just didn't even compare to ours. They keep their chickens penned up and ours have access to fresh grass - big taste difference! We've been juicing and drinking our green juice every chance we get. I give the pulp to the chickens. They do not like carrots and their run is looking a little orange ;) but they do like the greens. I even had some chard and parsley growing in the garden so pulled some chard leaves for the chickens and juiced some of them for us too. I picked a little bit of the parsley (left some to grow) and dried it. mmmm parsley potatoes mmmm.
I started some seeds and the plants are up and just waiting to get bigger and the weather to cooperate so I can plant them. The weather today is pretty yucky. It's turning colder and it's raining. Last week we were over two inches above normal for the year. Hope it keeps up and we have no drought this year. I have to wait for a sunny day to hang my clothes out on the line so I did them yesterday since it was so beautiful out but the week before I had almost two weeks worth of laundry. No fun doing that much laundry. Took me all day.
Cabin News- We burned a lot of brush and small twigs. We pulled up some rotten tree stumps but need to take our saw with us next time so we can cut some of them out. The wet weather does help with this kind of job. It would have been so much harder if the ground would have been really dry.
I guess that catches you up on my life, how's yours been?
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Sewers/sewists looking for fabric? Here you go
I thought you might be interested in a sale that is going on at CraftConn.com. They are retiring and closing their store. Almost everything has been discounted 25%. I have always been pleased with the cloth I have gotten from them. Hate to see anyone closing though but at least it's because they are retiring. They have a full selection of cloth, sewing notions, etc.
http://www.craftconn.com/
PS: I'm not being paid to tell you this, just wanted to pass on a bargain.
http://www.craftconn.com/
PS: I'm not being paid to tell you this, just wanted to pass on a bargain.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Crafty things going on...
Isn't this a wonderful quilt top. No I didn't make it. I got it on Ebay. The seller did an excellent job. I had to have it for the appliqued black kitties. Most of it was paper pieced. At least I think so because those little squares inside the baskets I can't imagine trying to actually sew those without paper piecing them. It will make a nice wall hanging I think. I have it all ready to start quilting. See the pins?
And just to show that I haven't been neglecting my knitting, here are some little projects I finished last week. Two hats and one cowl. When I went to the yarn tasting at the local yarn store, they gave us a couple of small skeins of yarn along with patterns to complete the cowl. I got the other two skeins to do the hats and had enough to do two hats. It was Cascade wool yarn and it was soooo soft. Very nice to knit with. All the yarn in the pic was double knitting weight.Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Some fabulous fabric
Don't you just love this fabric? It's on sale until the 30th at $5.17 a length at Craftconn.com. Wish I wasn't on a fabric fast...maybe...no I'd better not but...no just look away :)
OOh some more.
and cats...All right now I'm bummed. But if you happen to buy some post a pic on your blog so I can be jealous.
I'm on a yarn fast too. I'm going to a yarn tasting this weekend...now I'm just torturing myself aren't I?
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Look at what I won!
I entered a contest on Quiltmaker's magazine site and actually won four quilt blocks that were featured in their 100 blocks magazine and won the magazine that they were featured in. How cool is that?
This one has beading on it.
If you get the chance to pick up one of their 100 block magazines, do because they are wonderful and have such variety in the blocks that they feature. I enter a lot of contests but never thought I would win this one. Now what should I make with them?
P.S - They have freebies on their site too.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Little update
GARDEN/HOUSE:
We finally got rain. I could hear the plants and trees sighing, no actually I could, really. The seeds we planted while waiting for rain all came up so looks like we might be having some cukes and beans after all. DH has off this week and we are going to do some work around the house. We want to finish the floors in the living room and two small bedrooms. And we are going to tear out the carpeting in our bedroom and put down laminate in that room as well. We also have to do all the closet floors. Then DH is going to till the garden again and we are going to plant some more seeds for our fall garden. We have never planted a fall garden so this is all new to us. With the drought, there was one nice thing. Not very many bugs. But then there weren't very many plants either LOL.
I have been getting a lot of little peppers and tomatoes off the garden. I have been freezing them until I have enough to can up some sketti sauce. I found a recipe for hot sauce I want to try since the peppers that survived are all hot ones.
KITCHEN:
I actually canned some plum preserves the other day. DH saw them and decided to buy them. We brought them home, he tasted one and said they are sour and hard as a rock. Yep he was right they are sour and hard as rocks. After spending a couple of hours pitting and chopping them up, I told him do not EVER get these again. My fingers were sore until the next day. But and here's the thing, they made wonderful preserves. I had to taste test them before they were canned LOL. I put them in the slow cooker and let them go on high for about four hours. That softened them up. I still didn't use all of them either so I was thinking maybe I could put them with another fruit (blueberries or boysenberries since I have lots in the freezer) and make some jam. Has anyone done this before? I think they are Damson plums but I'm not sure.
I got some green peppers from the Amish last week and cut those up and put them in the freezer so I can make my grandma's pepper relish since we are on the last jar of that. When I make up a batch it usually lasts a couple of years. At this rate I won't have to make up any relish or jellies/jams/preserves for at least 2-3 years.
I also have all those potatoes I got from the garden. I'm thinking of canning most of those up. I had canned some store bought potatoes in the fall and those were real handy to make some hashbrowns for breakfast. I also have a bunch of hamburger I want to can up too. I don't want to wait until we loose electricity and then say I should have canned it up.
CHICKENS:
The girls are doing fine. We had been giving them watermelon and had a fan on them during the heatwave. Maybe we were giving them a little too much watermelon cause they kind of got the squirts, poor things. We have two that we are going to have to clean their butts up. This is something that we always look forward to...next flock we get will be handled more cause chasing chickens is not a lot of fun.
CATS:
The cats are doing great except Roxy who seems to be feeling his age lately. Penny is loving the outdoors and in all that heat she wanted to go out but she wouldn't come in when you called. Crazy girl! And she crawls under the door to the chickens fenced in area and stays with them. I don't know maybe they have a girl get together :) Tikki has been his lazy self but has been jumping up on the bed after DH leaves in the morning so I can make a fuss over him.
QUILTING:
I worked on a small quilt and got most of the quilting done on it. I just have to bind it and it will be done. I also started quilting on another one and almost have that done except the binding. I knitted up a little pair of footies for me. I only had one little ball of yarn in this particular colorway and thought I would try to make a pair. I even had a little bit left over. The ball only had about 200 yards in it which isn't quite enough to make a decent pair of socks. I have a couple of more 200 yard balls in my stash so I think I will be making some more.
READING:
Right now I'm reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. It's not bad and really interesting that it was written before the Civil War. If you haven't read it, it's about slavery. Some parts kind of slow down the narrative but when you think that the author actually lived during this time and saw these things going on it really makes you think. I have a lot more to read after I get done with this one. I checked my Kindle and I have 7 pages of books on there. Each page is 10 books so that's 70 I have to read. Like I don't have other things that have to get done...
NEW PLACE:
We called around to see how much it would be to put in a water well. The two places we called it was going to be over $6000. Crazy. Of course, it was just a guesstimate because they really don't know how far down they have to drill but that price was the minimum. We have a couple more places to call. Hopefully we can find someone more reasonable. We have decided to get a little cabin. We looked at a few and really liked them. DH is saying now maybe we should have bought a piece of land with a house and well already on it. I could say I told him so but I won't ;) He thought it would be cheaper to get a piece of property and put a cabin on it...ummm NO. We went to Marvin's (a building supply store) today to look around. And we kept saying we need one of those and a few of those and....you get the picture. This cabin is just the shell. If we have extra windows we want to be put in they will put them in for $50 extra but we have to buy the windows. Marvin's has excellent prices but I told DH that we should check at Home Depot and Lowe's because they have returns and scratched and dented things that they put on sale. Now of course I know that windows and doors can't be too dented. You have to be able to open and close them but a few cosmetic scratches doesn't hurt the operation of them and I have seen some pretty good deals before in those stores. Oh and the well situation, we asked about whether they douse (you know when someone goes around with a stick or two metal rods and locates water) and the one driller just laughed. Hey if someone can find water and there is less ground to drill through I think we might try it. Jeez Louise we all aren't made of money. Anyway I remembered that one of my books in the Foxfire set had something about wells in it so I looked and yes in volume #4 there is all about dowsing and well digging. So DH and I decided that we will try to douse. We're not going to dig however. That can be dangerous. Wish us luck! I'll let you know what we find if anything.
Well I think I caught you up on everything for now. I hope to get some pics up soon.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
We finally got rain. I could hear the plants and trees sighing, no actually I could, really. The seeds we planted while waiting for rain all came up so looks like we might be having some cukes and beans after all. DH has off this week and we are going to do some work around the house. We want to finish the floors in the living room and two small bedrooms. And we are going to tear out the carpeting in our bedroom and put down laminate in that room as well. We also have to do all the closet floors. Then DH is going to till the garden again and we are going to plant some more seeds for our fall garden. We have never planted a fall garden so this is all new to us. With the drought, there was one nice thing. Not very many bugs. But then there weren't very many plants either LOL.
I have been getting a lot of little peppers and tomatoes off the garden. I have been freezing them until I have enough to can up some sketti sauce. I found a recipe for hot sauce I want to try since the peppers that survived are all hot ones.
KITCHEN:
I actually canned some plum preserves the other day. DH saw them and decided to buy them. We brought them home, he tasted one and said they are sour and hard as a rock. Yep he was right they are sour and hard as rocks. After spending a couple of hours pitting and chopping them up, I told him do not EVER get these again. My fingers were sore until the next day. But and here's the thing, they made wonderful preserves. I had to taste test them before they were canned LOL. I put them in the slow cooker and let them go on high for about four hours. That softened them up. I still didn't use all of them either so I was thinking maybe I could put them with another fruit (blueberries or boysenberries since I have lots in the freezer) and make some jam. Has anyone done this before? I think they are Damson plums but I'm not sure.
I got some green peppers from the Amish last week and cut those up and put them in the freezer so I can make my grandma's pepper relish since we are on the last jar of that. When I make up a batch it usually lasts a couple of years. At this rate I won't have to make up any relish or jellies/jams/preserves for at least 2-3 years.
I also have all those potatoes I got from the garden. I'm thinking of canning most of those up. I had canned some store bought potatoes in the fall and those were real handy to make some hashbrowns for breakfast. I also have a bunch of hamburger I want to can up too. I don't want to wait until we loose electricity and then say I should have canned it up.
CHICKENS:
The girls are doing fine. We had been giving them watermelon and had a fan on them during the heatwave. Maybe we were giving them a little too much watermelon cause they kind of got the squirts, poor things. We have two that we are going to have to clean their butts up. This is something that we always look forward to...next flock we get will be handled more cause chasing chickens is not a lot of fun.
CATS:
The cats are doing great except Roxy who seems to be feeling his age lately. Penny is loving the outdoors and in all that heat she wanted to go out but she wouldn't come in when you called. Crazy girl! And she crawls under the door to the chickens fenced in area and stays with them. I don't know maybe they have a girl get together :) Tikki has been his lazy self but has been jumping up on the bed after DH leaves in the morning so I can make a fuss over him.
QUILTING:
I worked on a small quilt and got most of the quilting done on it. I just have to bind it and it will be done. I also started quilting on another one and almost have that done except the binding. I knitted up a little pair of footies for me. I only had one little ball of yarn in this particular colorway and thought I would try to make a pair. I even had a little bit left over. The ball only had about 200 yards in it which isn't quite enough to make a decent pair of socks. I have a couple of more 200 yard balls in my stash so I think I will be making some more.
READING:
Right now I'm reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. It's not bad and really interesting that it was written before the Civil War. If you haven't read it, it's about slavery. Some parts kind of slow down the narrative but when you think that the author actually lived during this time and saw these things going on it really makes you think. I have a lot more to read after I get done with this one. I checked my Kindle and I have 7 pages of books on there. Each page is 10 books so that's 70 I have to read. Like I don't have other things that have to get done...
NEW PLACE:
We called around to see how much it would be to put in a water well. The two places we called it was going to be over $6000. Crazy. Of course, it was just a guesstimate because they really don't know how far down they have to drill but that price was the minimum. We have a couple more places to call. Hopefully we can find someone more reasonable. We have decided to get a little cabin. We looked at a few and really liked them. DH is saying now maybe we should have bought a piece of land with a house and well already on it. I could say I told him so but I won't ;) He thought it would be cheaper to get a piece of property and put a cabin on it...ummm NO. We went to Marvin's (a building supply store) today to look around. And we kept saying we need one of those and a few of those and....you get the picture. This cabin is just the shell. If we have extra windows we want to be put in they will put them in for $50 extra but we have to buy the windows. Marvin's has excellent prices but I told DH that we should check at Home Depot and Lowe's because they have returns and scratched and dented things that they put on sale. Now of course I know that windows and doors can't be too dented. You have to be able to open and close them but a few cosmetic scratches doesn't hurt the operation of them and I have seen some pretty good deals before in those stores. Oh and the well situation, we asked about whether they douse (you know when someone goes around with a stick or two metal rods and locates water) and the one driller just laughed. Hey if someone can find water and there is less ground to drill through I think we might try it. Jeez Louise we all aren't made of money. Anyway I remembered that one of my books in the Foxfire set had something about wells in it so I looked and yes in volume #4 there is all about dowsing and well digging. So DH and I decided that we will try to douse. We're not going to dig however. That can be dangerous. Wish us luck! I'll let you know what we find if anything.
Well I think I caught you up on everything for now. I hope to get some pics up soon.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
Friday, June 15, 2012
Cute mug rug
Get the instructions to make this here:
http://wildolive.blogspot.com/2011/05/tea-time-mug-rug-with-embroidery.html
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Been away from the blog for a while...
To update everyone on how much I've been doing...and how exciting my life is...
The chickens are laying again...a lot. I have several dozen eggs in the fridge. We eat eggs almost every day for breakfast and I even made some egg salad the other day for lunch. I really don't want to eat them for supper too, really I don't.
We planted cabbages, peas, lettuce, basil, potatoes in the garden. I guess too early cause guess what, we're getting a freeze tonight and tomorrow night...hmmm hope we don't lose the blueberries and grapes. I wanted to cover them tonight but hubby said they should be OK since it's a light freeze so he can't blame me if they freeze and all the berries drop off.
Dad and mom called yesterday to let me know that they had to rush to the hospital cause mom was having chest pains at 1 a.m. Turns out she has a hiatal hernia and not having a heart attack.
We close on some new property we are buying tomorrow. 5 acres of land in Tennessee! No house on it but we are planning on building one or getting a trailer (I don't like trailers, been there, done that and don't want to do it again :) Hubby was thinking we might just build a pole building and then do the inside like we want but he wants to have a garage door...what? Anyway he says then it will be easier to move in the furniture and appliances. Guess you can't argue with that logic huh?
My brother is moving to New York. Dad and mom finally got him on the phone, hadn't heard from him for over two weeks. I had left a message a couple of days after he had called me drunk. He's an alcoholic and fell off the wagon again. Glad he's OK. Wish he would get his act together.
Our geriatric cat is on his last legs I'm afraid. He's dragging his back leg and peed on our bed the other day. I couldn't yell at him or anything, he's so old. If he gets any worse, we'll probably have to take him to be put to sleep. As long as he's eating and drinking, we'll keep him and love on him as long as possible. Had to give him a bath tonight though he stunk so bad (all the peeing I think). He's good about going to the litter box usually though. I have shut him out of the bedroom. I had the devil of a time getting the top pillow top clean (we have an air bed) and the top zips off. It is so bulky and barely fits in the washer. I put it outside to dry.
Hubby has been sick but won't go to the doctor until after we sign the papers for the land. I'm calling the doc to make an appointment when he's outside tomorrow...sneaky huh?
I got one cross stitched picture done. I need to take some pics of it. It's a fruit label and I'm making quite a few others to go with it. I think I will make a quilted hanging out of them. I'm still working on several sweaters and a pair of socks as well. I get bored with one project and go to another one.
Well that's all I can think of for now. Hope you had a very nice Easter!
Denise
The chickens are laying again...a lot. I have several dozen eggs in the fridge. We eat eggs almost every day for breakfast and I even made some egg salad the other day for lunch. I really don't want to eat them for supper too, really I don't.
We planted cabbages, peas, lettuce, basil, potatoes in the garden. I guess too early cause guess what, we're getting a freeze tonight and tomorrow night...hmmm hope we don't lose the blueberries and grapes. I wanted to cover them tonight but hubby said they should be OK since it's a light freeze so he can't blame me if they freeze and all the berries drop off.
Dad and mom called yesterday to let me know that they had to rush to the hospital cause mom was having chest pains at 1 a.m. Turns out she has a hiatal hernia and not having a heart attack.
We close on some new property we are buying tomorrow. 5 acres of land in Tennessee! No house on it but we are planning on building one or getting a trailer (I don't like trailers, been there, done that and don't want to do it again :) Hubby was thinking we might just build a pole building and then do the inside like we want but he wants to have a garage door...what? Anyway he says then it will be easier to move in the furniture and appliances. Guess you can't argue with that logic huh?
My brother is moving to New York. Dad and mom finally got him on the phone, hadn't heard from him for over two weeks. I had left a message a couple of days after he had called me drunk. He's an alcoholic and fell off the wagon again. Glad he's OK. Wish he would get his act together.
Our geriatric cat is on his last legs I'm afraid. He's dragging his back leg and peed on our bed the other day. I couldn't yell at him or anything, he's so old. If he gets any worse, we'll probably have to take him to be put to sleep. As long as he's eating and drinking, we'll keep him and love on him as long as possible. Had to give him a bath tonight though he stunk so bad (all the peeing I think). He's good about going to the litter box usually though. I have shut him out of the bedroom. I had the devil of a time getting the top pillow top clean (we have an air bed) and the top zips off. It is so bulky and barely fits in the washer. I put it outside to dry.
Hubby has been sick but won't go to the doctor until after we sign the papers for the land. I'm calling the doc to make an appointment when he's outside tomorrow...sneaky huh?
I got one cross stitched picture done. I need to take some pics of it. It's a fruit label and I'm making quite a few others to go with it. I think I will make a quilted hanging out of them. I'm still working on several sweaters and a pair of socks as well. I get bored with one project and go to another one.
Well that's all I can think of for now. Hope you had a very nice Easter!
Denise
Monday, March 12, 2012
Quilting Problems
http://blog.craftsy.com/2012/03/advice-from-the-experts-quilting-sewing-trouble/
Check out the above Craftsy blog for some great answers to some of the most common quilting problems. If you havent checked out Craftsy's classes, you should. I have signed up for a few and they never expire and are very informative. They are in video format with pdf's you can print out. They have classes on quilting, sewing, gardening, jewelry making, weaving, etc. I really like them and hope you check them out and find something you want to learn. If you sign up for their emails, they send out 1/2 price class lists every so often. I'm all for 1/2 price LOL ;). Here is their site: http://www.craftsy.com/
I received no compensation from the above recommendation... just thought you might be interested.
Check out the above Craftsy blog for some great answers to some of the most common quilting problems. If you havent checked out Craftsy's classes, you should. I have signed up for a few and they never expire and are very informative. They are in video format with pdf's you can print out. They have classes on quilting, sewing, gardening, jewelry making, weaving, etc. I really like them and hope you check them out and find something you want to learn. If you sign up for their emails, they send out 1/2 price class lists every so often. I'm all for 1/2 price LOL ;). Here is their site: http://www.craftsy.com/
I received no compensation from the above recommendation... just thought you might be interested.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Quilting...
Well here are a few pics of the quilt tops I have been working on...
I havent sewn the blocks together yet on this one but the one below is ready to be backed and quilted. The border on the one below is actually chikens. Too cute!
Now if anyone knows how I can flip them so they are the right side up I would appreciate it!
I havent sewn the blocks together yet on this one but the one below is ready to be backed and quilted. The border on the one below is actually chikens. Too cute!
Now if anyone knows how I can flip them so they are the right side up I would appreciate it! Monday, August 1, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
GO Baby giveaway
Here is a chance to win a GO Baby! fabric cutter. Details on Heirlooms By Ashton House blog:
http://heirloomsbyashtonhouse.blogspot.com/2011/07/accuquilt-go-baby-giveaway.html
http://heirloomsbyashtonhouse.blogspot.com/2011/07/accuquilt-go-baby-giveaway.html
Monday, July 11, 2011
I took a break...
for a couple of days but now I'm baaaaaak! I didnt go on the computer for a whole 2 1/2 days! I went on Friday and got some peaches and cream corn and canned that (see totals on side bar)...we even had a couple of ears for supper that night. It was really good. It was grown just down the road from me. Nothing like local. None of my popcorn came up this year :( Oh well, there's always next year. Sunflowers didnt come up either...but my squash and cukes are all over the place (have a couple of squash peeking out from under the leaves) and we have tomatoes! They're still green but some of them are turning. Still picking blueberries. I ordered some more potatoes (fingerlings this time) and am waiting for DH to rototill up some rows for me. Kinda hard for him to because of the rain we've been getting on and off. Told him I had to plant them this weekend or they'll rot...got sweet potatoes growing on the windowsill and would like to plant them as well. Dont know if we'll get too many, it is kinda late but worth a shot.
It's been so hot and humid. The air is thick....really thick. Chickens have slowed down on the eggs which is a good thing really. We had so many eggs and I have pickled all we will ever need that I had to throw a couple dozen in the compost. At least it isnt wasting them but it still is upsetting. I think for a couple of people 3-4 hens is all you need. We have 8. We ordered 15 but gave some of them away. Cant imagine having all 15 laying can you?
I go out in the morning to pick berries for a half an hour and come back in and that's when the sweat is just dripping off my face. Never used to have that problem. When I was young I didnt sweat too much, my face would get really red but not much sweat. After I had my hysterectomy though something must have broke loose cause now I sweat A LOT. It's good for my pores I guess LOL.
After I canned the corn, I started sewing. I almost have two quilt tops done. Might get to work on them before the weekend and if I get the quilt tops put together I'll post some pics. I'm on the last book (I think) of the Wheel of Time by R. Jordan. He had died but made notes and another author worked on the last two books. If you have never read his books, give it a try. I really like the characters and it's getting really good in the last book. Final battle coming up...
I'm really bored with food this week. Do any of you have any good recipes? Maybe I'm just tired of my cooking.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
It's been so hot and humid. The air is thick....really thick. Chickens have slowed down on the eggs which is a good thing really. We had so many eggs and I have pickled all we will ever need that I had to throw a couple dozen in the compost. At least it isnt wasting them but it still is upsetting. I think for a couple of people 3-4 hens is all you need. We have 8. We ordered 15 but gave some of them away. Cant imagine having all 15 laying can you?
I go out in the morning to pick berries for a half an hour and come back in and that's when the sweat is just dripping off my face. Never used to have that problem. When I was young I didnt sweat too much, my face would get really red but not much sweat. After I had my hysterectomy though something must have broke loose cause now I sweat A LOT. It's good for my pores I guess LOL.
After I canned the corn, I started sewing. I almost have two quilt tops done. Might get to work on them before the weekend and if I get the quilt tops put together I'll post some pics. I'm on the last book (I think) of the Wheel of Time by R. Jordan. He had died but made notes and another author worked on the last two books. If you have never read his books, give it a try. I really like the characters and it's getting really good in the last book. Final battle coming up...
I'm really bored with food this week. Do any of you have any good recipes? Maybe I'm just tired of my cooking.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Owl pillow
I so want to make this! I dont have any wool scraps but I think it would look good in calicos. What do you think?Here is the link for the instructions: http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/projects-ideas/bags-pillows/wool-owl-pillow_1.html
Friday, June 11, 2010
First quilt FINISHED!!!!!
This is the bottom.
Here it is on the 23rd of May. This is just the top!
This is a full shot of the quilt topI'm so surprised I actually got it done.
All quilted with the binding attached!And just cause I'm so proud of myself here are a few more pics of the quilt...:)
This is the completed back.
and a close up of the quiltingWednesday, April 21, 2010
Quilting - My material
This is the fabric I chose. What do you think? Very retro. The brown with pink polka dots reminds me of a dress I had when I was little only the polka dots were the size of a silver dollar. One of my favorite dresses. Next to sew them together in nine patches blocks.
These are some Tawashis that I knitted up. I plan on making some more. Havent tried to use one yet but I will..oh yes I will...
Just wanted to let you see what I have to put up with every day. This is Penny. See Penny get comfortable between me and the keyboard...Sleep Penny, sleep. She got disgusted after I took her picture and left. LOL. :) She'll be back.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Quilting
For those of you who want to learn how to quilt check out obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com. Care is going to learn us how... so grab your supplies and mosey over to the crafting table for some instruction...;)
I have started a quilt but not finished one yet so am hoping to pick up some pointers on finishing one.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
I have started a quilt but not finished one yet so am hoping to pick up some pointers on finishing one.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
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