Thursday, September 21, 2006

Visitor’s plea for help

A visitor to the site left a comment and I thought I would share the comment and maybe someone that reads this could help her out.  Here is her comment and then the only advice I could think of is below that. If you can offer some other advice to her please just leave a comment

Cher asks:
“I want to start a round robin and would like to do it with quilters from all of the cities or towns of Coleman’s in the USA I’ve tracked down a few. Any one out there who can give me any suggestions as to how to find those quilters?
Also how do I find out how many Coleman’s there are in the US? In the Coleman’s I know I’ve tried writing to the post office , the library and the nearest quilt shops.”

Now the one thing I wasn’t sure of was if you wanted towns in the USA named Coleman or people named Coleman. So I gave a piece of advise for both.
One of the things you could try Cher is to go online and do a search for quilt guilds around the USA. Then you could write, email or call the guilds and let them know what you are proposing to do and see if they are willing to help.
If you are looking for towns named Coleman then just go to Mapquest and search every State for a town called Coleman, then see if any of those towns have a quilt guild there or close by and then contact them.

Hope this helps. Pickleweed

Monday, September 11, 2006

Remembering September 11th, 2001

I always remember 911 with a lengthy morning prayer, asking God to please remember the victims families, especially the children who lost loved ones on that and subsequent days.

The families and loved ones affected by the terror attacks in New York, at the Pentagon and Flight 93.

I hope you too will say a prayer for them as they mature into adulthood. Also pray that any future terrorist attacks are thwarted. God has performed many miracles and as far as I am concerned will continue to do so.

The area that once held the twin towers is still a gaping hole to this day, I don’t see anything wrong with that. People complain that a memorial hasn’t been built yet.

To me those two empty holes are a memorial!

It takes a long time to heal a monstous wound and these holes represent the gaping holes that are in the hearts of all those that were affected that day. I am sure the holes are healing and as the memorial will be built, their hearts will build a memorial as well.

I think much of that is because I hope that we as a nation, never forget September 11, 2001.

Please continue your prayers for our Armed Forces men and women stationed in various locations around the world. May God cover and comfort them as they are fighting to keep our country safe.
I am proud to be a wife, daughter and sibling of uniformed and retired members of the American Armed Forces.

I watched the Path to 911 last night and found it to be a good movie and I look forward to the second part this evening.
I thought Donnie Wahlberg did a great job in the movie, I almost thought I was watching Mark his brother the acting was so similar.
I look forward to seeing Patricia Heaton in the second part this evening.

Saturday, September 02, 2006

What I have been doing

Well I have been busy. I started working again and have been getting some weird hours. I always liked my mornings free so I could get up with hubby and then come sew for a couple hours before work. They have me coming in at 7 am most days so I don’t get any morning sewing time lately.

Today I managed to work some more on another quilt pattern by Donna Westerkamp. This one has a Christmas theme and I hope to have it done in time to lay across the couch in time for the Holidays. I really liked this pattern because their is not one piece of fabric that is wasted, unless of course you count the selvadges.

I was trying to get a candy cane effect with the red and white stripe, Didn’t quite get the look I wanted but I like the pattern very much. it was so easy and my mind kept veering off with different ideas on what I could do with the pattern.

Here is a picture so far. The only thing I have left is the borders. You can click here to see a larger view

The other thing I have been doing is working on is hand quilting a whole cloth quilt. I already know what projects I want to start next but I want to get about 5 things quilted and bound before I will reward myself with a new project.  I have been collecting Pink, black and white fabrics and I can’t wait to start on that one in the future. That will be a great reward for finishing some projects.

I found a cute site. It is called Life Tips and they have sections of the site much like About.com has, only this site is basically all tips. Well of course they have a quilting section called quilting tips which you can see here

If you like gathering tips like I do you may find one or two tips that you really like or you can submit your own tips to the site.

They have tips on everything such as applique, quilting tools and more. I think over time the site will be so full of tips that it will be a great resource.

On another site, QNN they are finally going to start airing Fons and Porter quilt shows. They mentioned this a few months back and then it wasn’t mentioned again, but now they are advertising it to start this month.

With the demise of Simply Quilts, I am glad to see this one will be on a channel just about anyone with a computer will be able to see.

My poor Redsox. They have had so many injuries this year and now we hear that Jon Lester has cancer of the Lymph Nodes. He is so young and just getting started in his pitching career. If you are a baseball fan or even if your not, please say a prayer for this young man. I wish him a speedy recovery.

Well I am off to work, have fun and finish those projects.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Sewing Room almost complete

Well I almost have my sewing room done. I have the furniture where I want it, now just need to put some more items away. Yes this is how tidy I like to keep it but sometimes I can create the biggest mess and then I don’t sew because I am fretting over the chaos that the mess is causing me. I am not an obsessive compulsive person but I am one that likes things in place.
Here is a shot of part of the room and then you can visit the Sewing room gallery to see the way I have done it.