Sunday, May 31, 2009
spring to finish challenge
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
may giveaway day!!
the may giveaway day is here!!! the lovely people at sew mama sew are hosting the next round of giveaway days. i discovered so many of the fantastic blogs i follow and regularly read from their last one in december. tons of fun to participate in - people offered fantastic items in their giveaways.
unfinished business being finished
Monday, May 18, 2009
the postman came knocking...
Friday, May 15, 2009
grumble grumble
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
sms's may giveaway day
Sunday, May 10, 2009
who's got an obnoxious quilt top?!
and a close up of some of the fabrics.
at first, i thought i'd just find fabrics that were bright and happy and flowery, along with some skeletons and skulls, to give the sense of the celebration that is the day of the dead. then, at the international quilt festival in early november...i found the border fabric. a robert kaufman. the border fabric seems to have worked its way into the main body of the quilt top too, but that's okay with me. this one is big too...i've been working on smaller lap quilts or kid-sized ones lately.
now that this is pieced, i can get back to the next QOV, my green batik dress, my drawing, boo's quilt and my drawing. um...yeah... about that...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
i was bad.
don't tell my husband....
i'm really thinking i have a fabric addiction. i'm past the denial stage and into acceptance. i tried not to buy any fabric unless i absolutely needed it for something i was trying to finish. it lasted a month. there are toooooo many ideas and projects in my head and i don't know where to start. or maybe it's where to stop.
and lately, the dedication to making QOV's is overwhelming. i told myself i was going to do something for me, or at least my household, before i started the next quilt top. i did make a skirt. and i wore it yesterday! but i started cutting a fabric yesterday for the QOV #3. i stopped myself quickly...then started cutting the fabrics for my dia de los muertos quilt. it's a fairly simple quilt pattern, so i'll put it together and then work on the QOV.
i need a QOV sponsor. i keep buying fabrics. in the stash that came today, the oranges, the red rope fabric and the biggest piece of blue fabric (backing material) are designated for QOVs. the oranges are for the coast guard. the red one can go for either usn or uscg - it's just simply nautical.
now i'm off to check on my kiddo who is losing his voice. let's just hope he doesn't get sicker and i have to squash the thoughts of H1N1 virus. i'm in the greater houston area....we have it here...
Sunday, May 3, 2009
my new weekend skirt
Saturday, May 2, 2009
goodies i received!
the mailman brought me some goodies in today's mail. it was the only thing that wasn't junk too! a few weeks ago, i entered a giveaway on the homestead quilter's blog and i was one of the lucky winners. as well as quilting, pamela makes soaps and bath teas and balms. she sent me a package of bath teas, romantic rose bath salts (to which my hubby went "ooooooohhh!!!!" upon my going through the contents) and a lip balm. she's having a grand opening of her online store for the soaps and body products on june 1st, so pop on by montana soap works and check it out.
so far, i tried the lip balm. it's lovely and light - goes on thin enough to coat your lips but doesn't have any goopiness that some of the other balms i've tried before. mine is unflavored, but i know she's got some flavors out there. i'm looking forward to the bath salts and the teas. i've never used a bath tea before - you steep it in boiling water and then add it to your bath. i could see it being a calming thing. hmm...i see a hot bath, a good book, and maybe some candles in my near future... now, to put the kid in bed or keep him from going "mommmmmm!!!!!" every few minutes when i want to relax.
as much as april's challenge to complete things instead of start them, i did a great job. in ways, i was hoping to keep that going before i started anything else, but no luck. thursday night, i already had a skirt pattern laid out and free spirit floral fabric cut while i watched grey's anatomy. i haven't started sewing yet - that was part of the plans for today, but that changed to running with hubby and kid (and holy smokes! my 6-year old can run like the wind for a half mile before slowing down for water! i think he'll be a cross country runner), some gardening and lawn work, then battling the eyeglasses place about the wrong lenses and incorrectly put in - an adventure that took me through a sales person and two managers, and then running around getting odds and ends for the house. AND, i washed all the fabric for my dia de los muertos quilt. i figured out a pattern for it. modern and clean lines, although the fabrics won't keep it so streamlined. pictures to come later.