Category Archive: quilts
We have power at the barn again after 2 weeks without. That means the hot wire is up and running again. I had fears the animals would discover it was off and break through the fences. But that didn’t happen, for which I am grateful.
These blocks are not only finished, they have been mailed. It’s the kind of thing that if I don’t do it immediately, it slips my mind. So it is now in the hands of the post office.Perkiomen Valley fire blocks
This is the Perkiomen block requested to make quilts for those who have been affected by the Thomas fire in California. I have 5 more cut out and then will send them to Ventura Modern Quilt Guild who is putting them together.
For my OMG at Elm Street Quilts I plan to complete the NY mystery, putting on borders, quilting, and binding it. (http://www.elmstreetquilts.com/2018/01/one-monthly-goal-january-goal-setting.html)
Happy New Year
The newly married couple. I have been in California for the civil ceremony. They will have a church wedding in April as she is from Armenia and the relatives who wish to attend need time to get passports etc. So this was a really nice small family gathering. The courthouse in San Jose has a little chapel-like decorated room for weddings. And again, those photos are on another camera.
The family photo I promised you
Today I worked on the Merry Mayhem New Year’s day mystery quilt. It still needs borders, but that wasn’t part of today’s program. At this point it measures 32.5 x 49, so with borders, it will be a nice crib size.
The goal for tomorrow is to organize my year as best as I can, knowing that there are always things that pop up and need to be inserted.
Elm street OMG
My One monthly goal for Elm street was these bowl cozies of which I had 20 ready for Christmas. I am linking this post to their site http://www.elmstreetquilts.com/2017/12/one-monthly-goal-december-finish-link-up.html
2017
12/28
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2017 Recap and 2018 goals
2017 Recap:
Finished 3 pair of the 12 pair of socks that I kitted, ready to go.
Finished 29 quilts, 10 of which were ready for the quilting. The other 19 were in early stages or not started.
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I also made 2 bags and 2 pillows plus embroidered 4 sets of towels. I embroidered a Hatched in Africa set each month for their challenge, two of which were jeans.
There were bowl cozies and pea pods.
Then there were the baby lambs and additional sheep and puppy. I don’t want to forget there was a garden with canning and freezing.
Plus the hospital stays. It appears to have been a very busy year. But there were things I did not finish or even start, so they can become goals for the next year.
2018 goals:
I’m expecting much more “out of sewing area” activities. My sister-in-law has Alzheimer’s and is near the end. There will be many more lambs plus sheep activities including at least one fair where I will be showing them. We are moving the garden to a more level spot this spring. DH is needing more attention. And there is a big wedding in California in April. I have fewer flimsies, so most quilts still need much work.
Quilts to do: Goal is 200 yards usage
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Mystery quilt: Merry Mayhem – NY day mystery
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Mystery quilt: “Scrappy friends” – NY day mystery
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Bonnie Hunter “On Ringo Lake” – finished clue #1
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Daffodil flimsy – to quilt
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Roses flimsy – to quilt
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Teddy Bear picnic – to quilt
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Celebrate flimsy – to quilt
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Bear paw quilt – large, cut out
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All aboard – not started twin bed size
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Fish quilt – not started applique – large wall or lap quilt
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Tulip quilt – flimsy – needs quilting
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Sunbonnet Sue #4, have sue blocks, needs setting and quilting
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Bonnie Hunter 2012, needs to be finished for King size, quilted, etc.
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Baby Hono – I want to make a child size turtle quilt
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Finish all the paper piecing blocks and finish the wall hanging with them.
Socks: I’ll keep working on my last year’s kits, since I only finished 1/4 of them.
Other goals:
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Learn Electric quilt
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Learn cutting machine
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Make 10 Alzheimer’s activity mats
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Try 2 new recipes a month
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Gym 2x week
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Make garden plan with plans for starting, fert, etc.
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Make hoop house plans as above
Obviously, I will come across items during the year that I will tuck into my weeks.
Merry Christmas 2017
MERRY CHRISTMAS 2017
Yes, it snowed just under 3″ It is the 6th snowy Christmas since they have been keeping records here in the Seattle area.
This 2/3 yard of sparkly fabric insisted on coming home with me when I stopped at JoAnns for some rotary cutter blades. And for 1.50, I couldn’t refuse. Now, I’ll be on the look out for the perfect use.
This is called “portion control” or maybe, I should just say, they were so late for lunch, they thought we’d already eaten so stopped to eat before coming, and therefore weren’t hungry when they arrived.
This is what the tag might look like when you don’t have tags, but you do have an embroidery machine and some felt. Truly we had a wonderful Christmas. We took a group self photo of the family by setting the camera and the operator, ran to get into the photo on time. This is the first time we’ve had the entire family together at one place and one time since they started leaving home. However, you will have to wait a day or two for that because I have to wait for him to upload to his computer and then send it to me. But I will share it with you. We were so busy visiting with each other, that photos in general didn’t happen.
Tomorrow life starts again, with the annual recapping, and getting ideas ready for the next 12 months.
And now “to all a good night”
Recipe and taxes
I tried this new recipe today https://www.connoisseurusveg.com/vegan-mac-and-cheese/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=classic_vegan_mac_and_cheese_my_tips_for_making_amazing_vegan_mac_and_cheese&utm_term=2017-12-20 It was absolutely delicious!. If you don’t use dairy and want a nice creamy cheese for pasta, this is a keeper. (I was out of macaroni so used these noodles). I’d like to put it on everything I make for awhile, it is so good.
Then I worked some more of the tax material. Lambs start coming mid January, and taxes just get in the way, so I like to have as much as possible out of the way, or at least organized in Quicken. I’m behind this year, because other things popped into my life.
Between taxes, I did finish part 1 “On Ringo Lake”. Part 2 is 200 Flying geese, so that will take a bit longer. Now until Friday, I’m only 3 parts behind, which feels like I’m catching up.
9 patches for Ringo lake
Here are 25 of the 9 patches for ” Ringo Lake”. This is half of the first step for the Bonnie Hunter mystery. She has now published the 4th step and this will roll over into the new year, so I should be okay – well I would have been, but then
I got a call last night from this fellow. “Mom, can you and Dad come down on Dec 29. We have things worked out so we can have a civil wedding before this year ends and have the big wedding in April (so her relatives from Armenia have time to get passports). So, this morning, I was on the phone with the airlines. Yes, I have a ticket. DH didn’t feel up to this trip. So I will take off next week from blogging and work on the finances and the trip.
Yes, they get fed daily and still think they are starving to death. They can’t wait for me to get it over to the feeder. It’s getting colder here, maybe that’s why they are always hungry. I hope all of you are staying warm.
This is the Spool bag pattern that I tested for 
Today, I finished the flimsy with these fabrics for Teddy Bear Picnic baby quilt which will be released in August.
This hole was put into this new piece of plywood by this
ram head. He managed to get the hole large enough by ramming it to fit that whole head including the horns through it. The neighbors asked what the sound coming from our barn in the middle of the night was and we didn’t know. They said it sounded like firecrackers or a gun and repetitively sounded 4 times. It was across the driveway from the barn, but this is what all that noise was about. It certainly seems like he should have a large headache. This is the reason one never turns a back on a ram. He simply doesn’t need a reason. He was head butting the cedar trees later in the day.
And these are for the Bonnie Hunter mystery “On Ringo Lake” She just put out the 4th step, so I’m a bit behind, but now the pieces are cut for these steps, and I just have to find time to catch up.
Though the garden is not growing very much or fast, we did get a sink full of kale today.