Showing posts with label blocks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blocks. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Dare to Dresdent blog hop

Thanks to Madame Samm and the loverly Christine at Quilt Monster in My Closet for hosting and assisting with this exciting blog hop!  Here is the schedule - you don't want to miss any of this Daring Dresden fun!  My day will be January 30th - I'll be sharing my latest and greatest then - meanwhile, enjoy what the others are showing....


January 24th, 2013

January 25th, 2013
January 28th, 2013
Rosemary B @ “that Other Blog”
January 30th, 2013
Charlotte H @ “that Other Blog”
January 31th, 2013

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Nature always has the last laugh

Have you ever not asked yourself "Where has the time gone?" 
It just doesn't stand still... no matter what, no matter how much we try to slow life down, it just rolls on. 
Sometimes leaving us to 'dust off' and get on with our lives even when life throws us on our backsides. 

The good part of all this is that time does not drag for the caretaker who is not hospitalized.  I've hardly been home for the past month except to unpack and repack the car, do some laundry, grab a snack and go - to teach, to nurse, to nurture...  and hoping that I don't fall asleep at the wheel!

So, what have I been up to? 
learning how to blog with the 'new and improved' blogger... again!
researching drug interactions (not for myself!) and driving hubs back & forth to hosp & dr visits
finished a beautiful quilt on commission...

teaching 50+ active youngsters ages 3 to 10 for a week of craft projects
 ...these are the kids in the t-shirts that I silk screened...they added the colors!
these are some of my 'best boys', above....

making a few quilted postcards...
making a few of these class samples...
 
prepping a couple dozen kits for Quilts 4 Kids (similar to these, for others to sew, hopefully!)
Greensburg Modern Quilt Guild with their quilts for "Quilts 4 Kids"
and two quilts for new baby boys ready to deliver soon to Jonathan
 and... Wyatt

such precious little bundles...

making a big batch of paper clay for molding faces, etc.... not very photogenic stuff, really!

adding to a 'round robbin' online/mail quilt exchange
 I just added that simple bit at the bottom... click the link above to see others in progress.

...and this being the season for weed pulling - which I know is futile, as Nature always has the last laugh, but mostly Nature laughs in flowers. In my yard, morning glories....  And that reminds me - I have more seeds to plant!
 loving my pink petunias!  yes, planter is an old work boot...  now for sunflowers and nasturtiums!

bye for now! time for lunch with friends...


Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Goals for 2012

I have a lot of 'UFO' projects from past years... I found another one this morning - thankfully, with all the backing and binding fabric in a tidy zippy bag - the date on the backing fabric is 1995....

UFO from 1995

UFO - current decade...

backing fabric of UFO - another current decade

UFO - a mystery quilt started in early 2000's

Scrap buster from 2011 ready to quilt

Now, I'm not sure where they are hiding... but I think I have some blocks waiting to become quilts - or possibly tote bags - such as this one I did recently:
....proving that there's more than one way to 'finish' an 'unfinished object'!

It's a good thing to take inventory once in a while - I wonder what else I'll find?

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Greensburg Modern Quilt Guild and a drive over the mountain...

For "Make a Difference Day" the Greensburg Modern Quilt Guild joined together to start a new quilt from "Habitat" fabrics....

Mary, Judy and Kathleen with their blocks

Mary, Kathleen...... and ME..... working on our blocks!
We had six blocks finished, and enjoyed a lot of conversation, pattern patter, and sewing tips!

The next day, Sunday, was a beautiful- sunny- bright- perfect- day- for- a- drive kind of day.  So, Kathy and I took a break from our sewing machines and went off to enjoy a little foliage before the fall rains wash it all into the gutters!
The pull off was the site of a former restaurant built in the shape of a ship that had burned years ago... but the rubble remains.   I still find it amazing that anything was ever built on this spot!  It must be a bad spot for fires, because there was a car that pulled off and burned here more recently - altho not much evidence of that remained....
The view is still spectacular, and worth the drive!
 Looking south/southeast towards Somerset, PA
and as the sun got lower on the horizon... there was another photo op!
Then we stopped for a nice dinner on the way home! 

Hoping your weekend was also lovely, 
hugs & smoochies,
ggs