Started A New Quilt

Well I did what I said I wasn't going to do, I started a new quilt yesterday. I am doing Thimbleberries Fatty Fatty 2x4. I spent yesterday and today cutting and cutting. I am using all of my leftover fabric from TB kits that I have done. So that means that it has a little bit of everything in it from Christmas to whatever. I did have to cut some fat quarters too but not many. I had lots of strips left from a sweatshirt workshop that my quilt club did last year and used the ones that where wide enough. I think that I have enough cut that I won't have to put any borders on it. The pattern for the king size has borders only on the sides and not the top and bottom. I didn't like that. If I am going to put borders on a quilt I am going to put them on all four sides. I think that the quilt looks undone with them only on two sides. I know that some of you don't like to do scrappy quilts but I think the more fabrics the better for some quilts. I do like and do some planned quilts but right now I can't buy any fabric so I am doing a little stash busting on my own. Gotta go sew so I can get this done.

Brittany got her senior pictures back. She is just beautiful. Of course I couldn't get them to move around this like I wanted them to, But they can still be looked at.



We chose the big head shot so when she goes away to school we can still look at her face almost lifesize or we can use it to scare the mice away. Its hard to imagine that she is this old already. It seems like she should still be that little tiny baby that she used to be. Now I have to get frames so I can get her on the wall. And yes she did have a dress on in that picture. It has tiny straps on it but her hair is hiding them.

2009 raffle quilt

Milan Quilt Builders have started the raffle quilt for next year. I have almost half of the blocks finished [by members of the group]. I gave in and left them take some of them home to work on. When they come back to me all we have to do is lay them out and sew them into a quilt. And put the last of the sashing on and the borders. I want to run off with this on. I really love the colors and the pattern that I designed on my quilt wizard. I have pictures of Kare's three blocks that she took home to do. They are at the top of the page. I have to take pictures of the ones that I have here at home. I have been laid off. It was to be for two weeks but I got a call this morning that I will be off untill Nov. 3. What am I going to do? I guess I better get the sewing maching going. Its not like I don't have anything to work on. My Aunt Rita and I will be doing the road trip shop hop on Friday. Butch is going along for the ride. It is only 6 shops this time. The last one we went on was 12 shops[I think]. We did that one over two days. Shop hops are alot of fun, but they can be quite costly. I will have to watch my spending this time. While I am off I want to get my retreat challenge quilt top finished and work on my snowman flannel quilt top. I know that we will have 3 of the littles on the weekends and that cuts into my sewing time. Nick would rather be here than anywhere else. He is getting so smart. Brittany was here on Sunday. She is so busy that we don't see her much anymore. Getting us ready for next year when she will be away for collage. We will miss her.