Are you quilting this weekend? Nov. 16-18

11 years ago

I went to Toys R Us today. I haven't been there for years! I bought a few things for Eli, what fun! I can't wait to see him at Christmas. We will see everyone next week for Thanksgiving too.

I have 3 of the quilts for Christmas finished except for hand stitching the bindings. I plan to get them all to this point and then finish them in the evenings while watching TV. I hope to load DS's quilt on the frame this weekend. I washed the backing and need to press it before loading it. I'm still waiting for DD to send me the block designs for DSIL's quilt. I was hoping to have all the quilts finished before Thanksgiving but it is not to be.

Are you quilting this weekend? Are you working on quilts for Christmas?

Linda OH

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msmeow
11 years ago
No Christmas sewing for me! We've all but stopped giving Christmas gifts.

I do plan to sew tomorrow, though. I have a group baby quilt ready to load on the frame. I finished the top this morning before I went shop-hopping!

Donna
tuppermom
11 years ago
DD is home for the weekend so I will probably not get any sewing done. She is going to a wedding on Sunday so while she is there and before I have to drive into the city to pick her up, I will be cutting projects to work on at retreat. I am going Tues - Thurs next week and can't wait. I always waste so much time cutting and waiting for the cutting table so I thought I would like to be better prepared this year.
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All of your activities sound so fun and productive! Yesterday I went to the quilt show in Jacksonville. It was a week earlier than usual, so I almost missed it! But it worked out well, as the memorial service for our friend and long-time church music director is next Saturday. When I got home yesterday afternoon DH informed me he needed to go to Centra Care. He had red, itchy welts that had been bothering him for a week, and they were spreading. I told him on Monday he needed to see a doctor, but you know men! Anyway, as he suspected, he has shingles. :( We got a prescription filled for him and some Caladryl lotion, so hopefully he'll be feeling better soon. He had been using cortisone cream on it, and the doctor told him that's the WRONG thing to use - steroids can actually make shingles worse. So...if you have shingles, don't use cortisone! I got the cutest kit for a turkey table runner at the show, so that's my project for this afternoon. Donna
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Congratulations, Sue, on your beautiful new granddaughter. I hope you get to cuddle with her soon. I'm just hanging around the house finishing the top to the crazy, colorful "Fiesta" quilt. When I have only a little time and a little initiative, I'm making 4.5" by 10.5" string blocks out of scraps that are less than 1.5" wide at at least 5" long. I'm really having fun with them. I rifled through my paper recycling for paper that I could cut as foundations. I've got about 10 made already out of the 48 I need for the String-X Quilt. We had a Christmas house party last night and another one tonight. Tomorrow is my chorus's holiday concert, and then we're having friends over for dinner. My DH is cooking osso buco, a yummy Italian veal dish. I did manage enough ambition to make five types of cookies this year, so I'll have a dessert to serve. I think I will probably have most of you beaten in the COLD department. It's supposed to be 25 degrees below zero by morning here in Minneapolis with a wind chill factor of -45. What kind of a nut would live in this climate?
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Although I've thought about giving a guild a try I'm then reminded that one is supposed to PARTICIPATE! LOL! I would love to have some sewing friends just to hand out with and sew but then I would have to go along with all the projects and I'm not wanting to do anything except what I want to do. So I don't think they would want a big baby like me around. Donna, glad you were able to be around with the water heater going out to shut it down. About a month ago I had the TV on in the sewing room and went out briefly to fix a sandwich. All of a sudden I heard this loud whistling sound coming from there and went in and the picture was out and there was a horrible burning smell coming from the TV. I quickly unplugged it. Something in it fried. Don't know what would have happened if I hadn't been aware of something going on. DH looked at the back of the TV, the manufacturing date was 1998. That's pretty old. I bet the new ones wouldn't go that long. I might do some sewing, I've been having to do some un-sewing on this one because I've been watching the Tudors on Netflix at the same time and not focusing, I had to re-do 3 blocks because I forgot to put in some flying geese units in the middle of the blocks. On the third one I looked at it on the design board after pressing it and said "$&@* - I'm going to have to re-do this" and then noticed there were 2 more the same. I really cussed then.
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polardream
11 years ago
Just finished up a couple stocking stuffer quilty items (can't tell what it is - it's a SURPRISE!!) and have a hope to give the December block lotto another try ... paper piecing is my nemesis ...

Sue
bev2009
11 years ago
No sewing for me. My DD is coming home tomorrow. Yippee!!! And I got 11 for lunch on Sunday. Oh yeah, and a wedding tomorrow. (And Sue, she was able to pick up the pattern at Fig Leaf for the Christmas bread bags..last one, but they are ordering more.)
calliope
11 years ago
Yes.....Most days begin in the sewing room, cuppa tea or coffee nearby. Occasionally my fluffy tortie cat shares the morning ritual. No noise other than birds outside (because that is when Dh fills the feeders) and the hum of the machine. Amazingly, although my mouth doesn't work for an hour after I awaken, my hands seem to and it's a pleasant routine. I usually knock off a block before I quit and meet the day.

DH is taking a short trip out of town this weekend to visit family, and I suspect that shall mean a little more time to work on current Q.I.P. which is a deliberate attempt to bust some blue stash I've had put away. I didn't know I had that many blues until I organised my material.

Last night I measured a quantity of crisp white cotton I inherited along the line, to discover I had a ten yard cut of it! I was wanting to make some sets of crisp white pillow slips for the beds and it was pleasant to find out I have the material onhand. I love the traditional cotton ones, starched crisp and ironed. I also have a stash of striped cotton pillow ticking, and half a dozen feather pillows who need the flimsy, old casing replaced with sturdy new ticking to bring them back to life.
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11 years ago
Calliope, don't ever tell me where you live, the thoughts of getting my hands on lots of blue, white and ticking cotton fabric is bringing out thieving thoughts in me. I will probably do some quilting this weekend since I have a cold. I'm not real sick just miserable enough not to want to go anywhere. I've been working on that postage stamp quilt, I'm hand-quilting it. I really should use this time to take my machine in for maintenance, it's just such a long ride.
littlehelen_gw
11 years ago
No quilting for me this weekend...so sad...need to pack for a week's vacation on the florida golf coast and oh darn...lay around the beach, catch up on my reading, drink delightful drinks and watch sunsets all week. We will be having a Thanksgiving with dear friends at a wonderful "old florida" resort...much to be thankful for!
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
V.
msmeow
11 years ago
Rita, I hope you feel better soon! Even if you aren't very sick, it's still frustrating to not feel like doing anything.

Valarie, what beach are you headed to? I grew up in Lakeland, which is central FL but closer to the Gulf than the Atlantic, so we went to the Gulf beaches.

Sue, did you have a good trip to Orlando? Everything okay at Mouse World? :)

Donna
polardream
11 years ago
Donna, We had a great tine in Orlando - however the weather was MUCH colder than we expected! It was actually warmer in Colorado for most of the week - but, of course, Mouse World is in Florida. We rode all the coasters and had a great time. Have decided I don't need to go back until I have grandkids, though.

Sue
sunnycentralfl
11 years ago
Working to cleanup/organize the sewing room and closet for the upcoming Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt, "Easy Street". It begins Friday. Lime greens, teals, purples, airy black on white and a gray constant "color".

Best of Luck to all who are trying it!

Have Fun at whever sewing/quilting you are doing!
Gwen

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