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.

Exercise

for us quilters.

I was just checking blogs, started hopping around and ended up at Generation Q and

 this post.  

I did the 3 exercises as I got to them while reading the article and I just wanted to let you know that HOLY COW I can really feel the difference!  My wrists feel really good right now. 

I didn't realize how tight they were.

So I thought I'd just share the link with you all.

Before I forget (again)

My Christmas Sampler quilt is finally- completely- totally finished! 

(80 x 80)

the leftovers pieced back, the row of blocks are block-a-days from last year.  I just couldn't take the thought of making them all into pillows!

Before I forget....

I did put the fast finish triangles technique on the new jack's quilts.

Very fast and easy.  I normally sew a split sleeve on the back of my wall quilts so I can run a dowel through them and hang with a single nail in the wall; putting these little triangles in the corners of even those quilts in addition to the hanging sleeve would be helpful in keeping the corners from drooping and also save time. 

I just love that trick or treat backing fabric (got it as Jo Ann's).

I also started a 2nd The Witch Is In banner.  I don't know why I feel compelled to make a second small quilt from a pattern but it happens a lot. 

Anywho...after I fused the shoes to the background and was trying to get the hat pieces in place I couldn't figure out why it wasn't fitting.  

And then I realized I had fused the shoes 1 inch up from the edge of the bottom border instead of 1 inch up from the bottom edge of the background!  

So I had to cut down the hat and do a little re arranging (the black dot on the left below the word "is" will be a spider when I get to the blanket stitching.

(I removed the bottom border piece.)

It's a little wonky looking-her legs could be a little closer together but they were already fused so that was not possible.  For about 20 seconds I contemplated just pitching the whole thing into the trash.

I'm glad I didn't-I would have dug it out this morning anyway!

 Anyone who doesn't know how it really 'should' look would never know.  

And I still just love those shoes!

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In other news, I finally got the blanket stitching done on H.Whiskers.

Here is the proof!  

Now I just need to finish a huge customer quilt (100x110) and I will maybe take a day and quilt this for me.  

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.

Family Weekend

This past weekend hubby and I went to visit Paul.

 It was family weekend at The Mount.

We had a wonderful time, good food, inspired worship, lovely fall views of the mountains, getting to meet and talk with other parents, seminarians and faculty.

 I can show no pictures because I forgot to take my camera.  

I will blame my forgetting on the fact that while I was getting ready to leave on Friday morning-going back and forth from the bathroom to our bedroom to pack the items I was done with...make up etc. I went too fast, miscalculating where the bedroom door was (heh-heh) and walking into the door jamb and in cartoonishly slow fashion fell through the door way.  

I really only hurt my little baby toe, which got hooked somehow.  

It is broken.  

It hurt like heck hell. 

 It is a lovely Halloween purple-y color. 

(how seasonal of me-no?)

Hoping to be able to hobble along and get some quilting done today.

fun times, fun times. Life is Good!

It's a flimsy!

Strings & Stars (70x70)

Otis was happy to help hold that pesky red star in place while I took the picture.

He's trying to get on my good side again over the fact that after having a bath yesterday and looking quite handsome, he lost his mind this morning and rolled in something quite delightful  awful and had to have another bath.
 He feels terrible about this weakness of his.

He should.