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.

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