Happy Thanksgiving

Here is my hope that you are enjoying this day with your loved ones.

Ramblings of a Mad Quilter

Nothing new here on the sewing front. I did start to hand stitch the pictures I traced last week, and will see how the first one turns out. I have been spending my time reading all the blogs I can online. I love to see all the new things that people are making out there. And it gives me ideas on what to make in the future. I am really at a cross roads in life and can't spend any money on new fabric and don't want to use up all of my small stash. I am not sure what direction I am heading to. I love to quilt, but I miss quilting with people. I can't afford to take classes right now and so it stunts my flow. I wonder if I would be any good trying to design my own quilt, I only use other peoples patterns as of yet. Oh well, on the bright side if I did have any spare money I would probably spend it on the day after thanksgiving sale at Jo Ann's. I thought I would be working that morning, but it looks like I will not work until the afternoon.

Today, I worked on tracing some snowmen that I was able to find online at the family fun coloring pages website. I am going to try some more hand work. I want to try to do a quilt entirely by hand stitching. My 15 year old wants to do it with me, so I have to trace enough for both of us.

I had to go out and buy new thread because I couldn't find the thread that I had. Turns out that my daughter has been using it to make bracelets with for her friends, and has it in her mess of a room somewhere. If you have a teenage daughter you know how many times you ask them to clean up their room.

Finally

Finally, I have had the time and will to sew.

I put this together with some redwork iron-ons that I found at Sew Special when I lived in California. I also have another set in blue. At the time I bought two sets of each so I have made two of these in red.

They are nice baby size, but the two end squares on the middle row I embroidered yesterday. I just couldn't leave them blank but because I had already sewn it together and quilted in the white borders. I was a little nervous to sew by hand and not take it through the whole square. But I had no problem after all, to look at it you would not know that it was done as an after thought.

Where has the time gone?

I know, it packed its bags for new pastures. I have been so busy with trying to live everyday life that the time has just moved on without me. I work from 3-midnight, come home try to catch up reading blogs, play a game and go to bed. My kids go to school while I am sleeping and are sleeping when I get home.

Ok, enough of the pity me. I have moved on now and trying to keep up with more blogs. There are some really nice stories out there and I just love the ones that have pictures of their latest work. It keeps the quilting bug alive. I haven't worked on anything in the last year, however I did finally install my EQ5 CD and have started to play with it. I need to find some video's on working with the CD to explore more creative uses. I tried by making a baby blanket first and I like it but when I print, it seems to print smaller than I think it should be.

So, although I am not using the machine, I am one step closer to getting back to it.

Maybe it's Time

Well as you can see in the previous post there has been a death in the family and my husband will be going to the funeral, but we will not be going with him. He is only going for three days and I only get one paid day off work for bereavement, and the kids have their first day of school this week.

So I will be taking the three days while my husband is gone off from work to take care of the kids. I think this will be a good time to get the sewing room done so that I can try to find time to get back to sewing. I received the new catalog from Keepsake Quilting and of course just love the cover quilt, it made me want to start a new fall color quilt. Of course thinking about going to San Deigo made me want to visit all my friends at Quilt in a Day too. Oh well it will just have to wait till next time.

Family Sadness

At 11:05pm Michigan time (8:05 California) my husband got the called that his father had past away. He and his sisters will be joining his mother in the next few days. School starts here on Tuesday so my husband will be attending the funeral alone.