Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Two Doors Down

I have moved my sewing room! I hated being in the back of the house. The lighting was bad in the old room too. The room is bigger, but there is no storage space so I guess that I will just use the old sewing room for storage and designing. It was a pain moving everything. My bookshelf collapsed as I moved it. I spent Saturday with my parents looking for a new one. I ended up with the same type as before. It took dad and I forever to get it together, it wasn't drilled right. You can't tell it in the picture but it is bowed a little at the bottom. I moved the buffet into the room. It is perfect for storing fabric. It doesn't have it all in there. It wouldn't all fit anyway.
My favorite new item is my little white shelf! I bought it at Goodwill for $5.00. It is perfect for ribbon and to hold my honey buns, jelly rolls, and charm packs that double as decorations till they are assigned a project.

You see my latest work in progress laying there across my sewing machine. Hopefully it will be finished and posted soon.

Moving has got me sewing again. As you can see, it isn't all nice and neat, which means it is being used!

Speaking of being used... here are 2 blocks I finished yesterday. It is my September Block of the Month and one of my September Buck a Blocks (one still to go.)




I have LOTS of sewing to do. I have 2 craft shows coming up. More on those in the coming weeks!

Time for a nap and then to my real job for the night!

Saturday, September 11, 2010

I Remember

I remember where I was on 9/11/2001. I had just pulled into the Murphy Center parking lot for class at MTSU when I realized that I had forgotten my things for a HS Biology class I had to teach. I decided to skip my class so I wouldn't be late teaching. Rick and Bubba were on the radio. I think it was Bubba that reported that a terrible accident had happened in NY. That's what everyone thought it was until the 2nd plane hit. I got home in time to see the 2nd one live on TV. I watched until I had to go. On my way to the little private school, Rick and Bubba were as solemn as I have ever heard them. Then the unbelievable happened, the first tower fell. The terror in their voices still haunts me. The kids were already watching it when I got there. Another private Christian school was on there senior trip in NY and all the kids knew someone on it. No news about there safety had been heard yet. It was scary to them. Most just wanted reassurance that they were safe. I felt safe where I was at that moment and told them that this little place in the middle of nowhere was not likely to be a target for anyone. But I knew that in one morning everything had changed for America and that made me very uneasy. This was before we knew of who was behind the attacks or if there were going to be any more. No biology was learned that day. No one could focus. Thankfully a parent called before the end of class to say that they had heard from a parent of a kid that was on the trip and that they were okay.

America has changed, but I can't say the way I thought it would looking back to the days and months right after 9/11/01. It seemed that the whole country was unified for once, not on every issue but on the important ones. We looked at each other differently, we talked differently. Nine years later we seem more UNunified than ever. I have a feeling that if they showed the footage more regularly there would be a different America today.

It's a different world today. The radicals didn't win by attacking us on 9/11, but the fight is still going on, and I hate to say it but.... if we don't start remembering and standing up... they will win.



Friday, September 10, 2010

Carter's Quilt, aka, The Fastest Quilt EVER!




Carter's Quilt

Well, I started this project yesterday. I would have finished it yesterday but I lollygagged around.

Cut

A friend's baby is having her 1st birthday party tomorrow. She is at the stage where everything goes in her mouth. I wanted to do a little blanket for her so I started going through all of my quilting magazines.

Summer 2010 issue

I found a recent one that had a quilt that I have been wanting to make but didn't want it that big. This one was perfect to size down. I just did 9 squares and then added a little special something of my own.

Pieced

Layered

I used plain white fabric and 8 10" squares from a layer cake of Moda's Frolic line.
I L-O-V-E this line! It is by Sandy Gervais. She has the cutest blog too.

Quilted and Bound

I did try something new... Continuous binding. I found a great tutorial on YouTube. I can't figure out how to move it so it's at the end of this post.

As for my special addition? I put a ribbon under the binding, which was done completely by machine thank you very much, added a snap and teether. I got her some keys she can put on there too. I had the ribbon and I think it goes well with the quilt both the circles and the colors.






And now for the video for making continuous bias.....

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner



OK, so no chicken dinner, but I did win $10! Two of my quilting projects won 3rd place in the Wilson County Fair! I think that's huge considering all the quilts that were entered!


I am going to enter some of my quilts in a show in Granville, Tn at the end of this month. We'll see how that goes.

I can't believe it has been almost 3 months since my last post. I don't think I have sewn since then either. Hopefully there will be lots of posts coming up of all the new things I am making.