Old St Nick

He was finished last night, well I don't have a label on him yet but I'm going to make one today, but technically he's finished.
I just couldn't wait another day hour to hang him up.

Once again my crappola photography skills are shining through and I see the lens of my camera needs cleaning. I noticed that a week or so ago and forgot....
...and the quilt is straight, I should have smoothed it before taking the picture. agghhh.

64x80

This picture shows the colors better.

Here's a shot of the other side of the room and my new skinny tree and Otis waiting patiently for breakfast.

he's still waiting....

Binding time...

I would have it much further along but

 OF COURSE the fabric I bought for the backing was the end of the bolt. 

Four yards, just what I needed. 

whew.  

And then I pieced it and realized.  

IT"S DIRECTIONAL!

I need another yard.

I went to another Jo Ann's yesterday....they had it.  

It's all good.

It was worth the extra day's wait to quilt it-having the words running sideways on the back would have bugged me to no end.

I 'believe' I'm pretty happy and will be even happier probably tomorrow sometime...

A Flimsy!

64 x 80

I LOVE this! 

The borders went on so stinkin' smoothly I was stunned. 

I haven't been this excited about a quilt in a long time...hmmm

going to have to think about that and why..

It's now waiting patiently for quilting.

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I'm about as ready for Thanksgiving as I can get. 

Everything else has to be done tomorrow morning.

OH WAIT!  I forgot to dust, dang it.  I hate dusting. 

Tonight Meghan and I are going to the Pens game!  

Happy Thanksgiving!

fun times- fun times! Life is Good.

amen

Design Wall Monday

These are the top and bottom rows for my Old St Nick top. The four corner blocks are up there also. They're already sewn together.

My plans for this week (besides hosting Thanksgiving dinner) is to get these 2 rows sewn together.
And machine finish the bindings on these 5 Quilts for Kids quilts.

And do some quilting too. Well, if I just get another top loaded I'll count that as good.

Paul went bear hunting.  Alas Whew! He didn't get one. While he was gone I cleaned and cooked and did yard work  (LYING!) sewed non stop almost!  (that's the TRUTH!)

I quilted and finished

18 x 36

And then I quilted and finished.

Check out other design walls at Judy's

Ole' St. Nick

Old St Nick progress (64 x 80-when done)

Here's a 'hot off the memory card' picture!

I finished all the machine blanket stitching-those pine trees are huge-the two bigger trees are 15 inches and that's just the green part. They are 28 inches from tip top to bottom of the trunk!  I did take the background apart, in half basically along one of the rows, to make it easier to manipulate while doing the stitching.  It's sewn back together now.

And for anyone who might be wondering, yes I forgot to flip the templates when I was marking the fusible so my Santa it looking to the east rather than the west.
His coat and hat are flannel and I just love it.

I still need to piece 26 or is it 22 hst's? oh crap I can't remember but I think I have the correct number of Thangles pulled.
I do remember the number 168; which is the total HST needed for those scrumptious borders! I'm hoping to have this done in the first week of December.  

The racks of thread there need to find a home on a wall but since walls down  in deconstruction land seem to keep moving/changing/disappearing, they're hanging out along the design wall for now- in my way but I'm trying to work on my patience  just deal with it.

Paul spent last evening tearing out part of the old back wall to move the gas line for the fireplace.
Once again I'm so glad he never finished the drywall on that back wall even with my gentle urging to do so nagging.  Unscrewing it from the studs was nearly mess free as opposed to the dreaded Saws-All  and the tons of white powdery dust which is has become, once again, my nemesis.

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quilting continues...

....fun times, fun times. Life is good.

Design Wall Monday

The "Old St Nick" applique center is fused.  

I'm using 4 inch Thangles for the HST's. 

I have on my list for this week to do the blanket stitching and finish sewing the HST's.  I also have a small customer quilt to do, going with my mom tomorrow to a doctor appt. and Wednesday a friend from my church is coming over to discuss my making a quilt for her from clothing items from her Grandma. 

Oh and since I'm having Thanksgiving here I need to start worrying about that too. 

I've been so busy I forgot all about it.

 I started this post almost an hour ago but Otis came in from his morning rounds and he rolled in something delightful again.  

So at 8 am he was getting his first ever 'before breakfast' bath.

I have a feeling this is going to set the tone for the week-still in my jammy's and a major detour from the to do list for the day.

fun times, fun times. Life is good.

Well I'll be...

....notice the leaves aren't even done changing colors....

Yesterday, Meghan saw a flock of turkey's walking up our neighbors driveway.

I took this picture from the front door.

Here's the same shot today. (just a little wider one)

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I've quilted the Quilts for Kids tops-no pictures yet will take when their bound.

I've quilted for others too.

Libby's

and today if I can get my butt in gear I'm going to sew the binding on the Christmas sampler quilt. It's been sitting on the back of a chair waiting patiently for weeks now....

I do have the most patient quilts.

 *wink*

Libby and I had a little quilt shop retail fun on Thursday. 

 I was bad.  

I read this post and fell in love.  And then forgot about it.  Until I saw 

this book...the only copy...I flipped through it, my heart still did a little skip when I got to the St Nick quilt....I put it down, I shopped around....I came back...flipped through it again.  I looked around,, no quilting police to be seen (to arrest me for even THINKING about starting another project). 

 I brought it home. 

 I shopped my stash, which is sadly lacking in plaids.

 I will be needing to go here real soon.  I've been wanting to take a little trip to visit Farmhouse Fabrics for a while, this is a good excuse reason too.

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I'm still hobbling  more of a limp but not as bad.

 I will survive. 

And probably be able to predict future weather events, perhaps even like an inch or so of snow on October 29th --who knows. It will add to my character for sure!  

fun times, fun times...Life is Good.

PS:  I get a kick out of little things, like just now I hit the spell check button, scanned this post and lo and behold not a yellow highlighted word to be found.

I am the queen of the misspelled word; rare is the post without at least 3-4 mistakes.

Yep, it's the little things.