Sunday Notes

It was a beautiful day here on the coast. Eddie went fishing, but I am still recovering from the upper respiratory coughing and nose stuff, so I begged off. I am glad I did. I was outside all day Saturday in the wind at a book sale. I did not get halfway warm till I got home and got in the shower. I was so chilled my back muscles were aching. The sale did good, but I needed to recovery today.

I spent the day doing some sewing and quilting after I set my table back up (took it down to use for the book sale). Anyway. I got the yellow and green baby Irish Chain machine quilted. Used my walking front on my old New Home machine. It did a pretty good job. I was going to try to freehand the open block, but I was doing so good on the straight lines, I just kept on going. Now all it needs is binding! This is a gift for a co-worker who is due in March. Talk about cutting it close!

I also got the binding sewn on the Scrappy Sedona Stars. That is a Marti Michell pattern. http://www.frommarti.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=FMM&Product_Code=8016&Category_Code=P_OQP I just love the way it turned out and had planned to give it to Eddie, but he didn't seem to thrilled with it. So I may just keep it and drape it on the couch in the fall. So, just some hand stitching and this one will be DONE!

Also, got one of the baby doggie quits quilting on the machine. I just worked that walking foot out today! I used four bobbins of thread today! It just needs some binding on it too. It is a gift for my cousin David's daughter's new little boy. Andrea and her husband are stationed in California and David and his wife live in Florida. Andrea is an only child....so you can imagine the long distance bills. Anyway, I need to write David and get the address to send this little doggie quilt to. I hope to have it finished by the weekend.

I really need to put a dent in my strip scraps. So I am cutting some 10 inch muslin bases and then will make a few string blocks. This can be an ongoing project till I have enough squares to make a top.

I was going to upload some photos of the quilts I worked on today, but the Kodak program saves the darn photos in some well hidden file and I can't find them quickly. I will search and add them in a bit.

Eddie got home from fishing, with no fish I might add, and said he wished he hadn't gone coz he got cold. Hmm, sounds like i made a good decision to stay home.