Organization Day Today?

These last few months I have felt like a Hamster running in a wheel. Going, going, and still in the same place. The last few weeks I have been doing some soul searching on why it is that I am doing so much in a day and not getting anything accomplished. I decided that I need to get back into my organized days. I have taken on the roll of President of our quilt guild and with that and then the quilt show and the drama had my mind spinning. Now things are started leveling out.

We have our final Craft Fair the 18th of November and then getting ready for Christmas. With that said I am working on Gnomes and Brittle candy.

Today will be a day of no Gnomes because I need to clean my sewing room. It is an obstacle course and it needs to be organized and purged some of the stuff. Or atleast my 7yr old granddaughter tells me.

Starting to decorate for the fall season and a little for Halloween. I love sitting outside and hand out candy to the trick or treaters. By 9pm I just leave the candy outside for the older kids. I hope it will be gone by morning. We don’t need it.

I love seeing the fall colors and the trees are beautiful.

Nothing beats God’s work.

Have a great day and enjoy it.

A Week In Process

In the last few weeks we have been making gnomes, bowl cozies, and dolls for craft fairs. Hubby has been down stairs cutting Military Plaques out. Then our new “Hobby” Target Shooting. We joke that we see each other only for meals, but it got close to being like that, so we decided to do this together. It is a lot of fun, but gets a little expensive for ammo. We go out 1 or 2 times a week so that is good.

Today I will work on Gnomes a little more then start on a scrap quilt. This will be interesting to see how it turns out. I have a large basket full of scraps and will just start sewing and see where it goes. Hahaha maybe in the trash. Oh well.

Meet the new members to the Gnome Family.

KC Chief’s Gnome

Quick Trip(Convenience store here) Mascot

Chef Gnome, Santa and Ms. Clause, and Gerome Gnome.

A Little on the Chilly Side

It has been cold here in Missouri for a few days, but today is -7 with a windchill of -26. While I sew I like to look out the window, but it is a little chilly in here. We got new windows a few years ago, but I have realized that when it is hit a place on the thermometer cold is just cold. I wear a sweater all day and am ok. Maybe today I will Close the curtains in here and keep the warm in and not be able to see outside. Maybe I will just take breaks and move around. 

As I have been reading your blogs I am getting ideas for Christmas in 2024. I have 8 females to do for so Thank You for your ideas. 1. Spa bags (From My Carolina Home) then a take off of that a Sewing bag, Cooking bags. and so on.

Today when not sewing we are working on a jigsaw puzzle. What do you do when the weather is not the best. My moto is “It could be worse.”

A Little Too Cold

We are having too cold of a cold spell. It is 15 degrees today with a windchill of -2. Tomorrow the temp is gonna be in the negative numbers for the next 6 days. I am at the sewing machine and looking out the window and you can see the branches on trees just bouncing with the wind. Tomorrow it is going to be -1 with a windchill of -25. Time to make something.

Last post I showed you pictures of the Diamond Log Cabin miniature quilt so here is the progress I am making.

Well fabric is calling my name and so I will leave you with some photos from the last 2 days.

Been A While

I was a little surprised when I noticed how long it has been since I’ve posted anything. So far 2024 has started out pretty good for us. I am hoping that this year will be a good one for everyone. We are still making, but looks like we are slowly changing to more candy making, we will doing our crafting. Here are a few things that have come out of my sewing room.

As we look back 2023 was a good year. We took our 3 kids, their families except the 4 older granddaughters went to spend Thanksgiving in Texas. It was wonderful to see family and watch the youngest granddaughter, Destiny, going to the beach for the first time, riding a horse, and seeing cows up close. When we grow up with things it is easy to take for granted things you see and do on a daily basis. 

This last year I was made President of our Quilt Guild and 2023 also was a good experience, but to say I will miss doing this would be a mixed answer. Many things I’ve experienced was great, but my question to you is how do you work with any females who throw temper tantrums, and want to bully you. I have been asking God for patience and guidance. He has so for given me what I have asked for, but just a small handful of people sure can drive a person crazy.

Now on to more happy things, I am making a FIRST. My FIRST miniature quilt, My FIRST paper piecing a miniature quilt. I have made a large Queen Size paper pieced quilt, but this has given me more issues than anything I have done. Here it is

While this has given me some issues, I make have to make more. We will see. Hope you achieve all you want for 2024.

Big Plans For Today

This morning got the granddaughter off to school, got the bedrooms, bathrooms cleaned, and picked up living room. After running the vacuum I want to sew some and then do some baking.

Starting the brittles so I will have some to take to Tx for Thanksgiving. The kids and 3 of the 5 granddaughters are coming with us to see family. Will let you know how the saga of City Cousins meet Country Cousins go. Now is also the time I start my baking for the Holiday and put it in the freezer.

Today is finish border of this quilt.

All I need to do is binding and then it will be done.

After this I will be baking cookies and the brittle and call it a day. Have a wonderful day

Taken A Little Break

I hope that we are back and ready to keep going. This Grandma has had so much happening that I had to take a short break to get my act together. I am in the middle of my last year as my Quilt Guild President. It has been a wonderful experience and I would highly recommend it to everyone. It has taught me more about how other people do things and process other’s actions and words so differently. I am thankful to the folks who had more faith in my than I did. That being said Hubby would ask as I had or went to a meeting if anyone had been impeached from a position in the guild. He spoke his truth as for 50+ years our lives revolved around family(him being 1st until we had kids)

Earlier this month I was busy altering my oldest daughter’s best friend’s daughter’s wedding party’s dresses. The first dress was the mother’s wedding dress was needed to shorten.

Then Bride’s Maid”s Dresses need a little tweeking.

Mother of the Bride few little touches

Then poof up the bottom of the Bride’s dress. This is for the ceremony.

This was a fun change from all the other stuff going on. Hope all is going good for everyone.

Y Seams

What is there to say about Y ? I don’t like them very much. I’ve tried to” stay away from them until I agreed to test the “Origins Shooting Stars” by Jamie Kalvestran. https://www.jamiekalvestrandesign.com/sewing-with-jamie… #scrapbagspatterns After doing a YouTube search and practicing each different way of making them and found the one that made sense to me and I am really liking my quilt. If you haven’t made too many Y seams practice till you find the one for you. Now is the time to fly thru these blocks. Soon you will be seeing these blocks ready to put together.

Watch for new pattern coming soon to Jamie Kalvestran Designs. Check out her site for some fantastic works

3 Months and seems like 3 years in ways

All is going good here in Missouri, except the heat. Texas is still out doing us. Worked in my garden yesterday and it was good to get out and play in the dirt for a while. A year without being able to work in the garden produced a crop of weeds and baby trees.

I am testing a new quilt and with the exception of Y seams I love it. I have always steered away from them and now I am making them. I have tried several You Tube videos and I think I am finding my own way to make them and have come up with a way that works for me.

The bottom picture is what the finished quilt will look like. ell I have gotten some of Block A for the quilt “Origins – Shooting Star Quilt” By Jamie Kalvestran. This Quilt will be out in September. Follow https://www.jamiekalvestrandesign.com/sewing-with-jamie… #scrapbagspatterns and tag @jamiekalvestra Blocks are going good especially once I got it into my head what reverse means. Gonna like this quilt. Hopefully today will bring the end of block A and I will move on to Block B.

Spring is here.

As I look outside my window I see green grass mostly deep and lush, but it is 39 degrees outside. So today will find me making peanut brittle, and doing some sewing. Today no quilt, but some summer clothes for Granddaughter and myself. I realized the most colors in my closet are dark colors. Hubby told me to go shopping, but I think about spending that amount in fabric for quilts and crsfts. My sister decided she was done sewing and sent me 2 boxes of fabrics. They weighed about 35 pounds each of the most beautiful clothing fabrics.

I want to spend someti.e outside so hopefully the day will warm up some. Then I will be able to get outside.

Have a wonderful day

What’s new?

I have been making quilts for a friend out of fabric for her and her siblings. The fabric was made out of her father’s clothes.

After getting these made I was taking somethind downstairs, tripped over my own feet and took the last 4 steps on my back side, then bonked my head on the concrete floor. When people say they saw stars, that is no lie. This is going on 4 weeks still have a knot on the head. When reading or sewing very much I will get a headache. We went to the ER and when the nurses asked I replied”Tripped over my own feet and fell down the stairs.” She looked at the hubby and asked quietly “Are you safe in your home?” I responded from everyone except myself. I know they have to and if anyone knew my husband they would laugh.

With this happening things are slow going and I started making 3 Christmas Tree wall hangings. They are all hand appliqued(I have struggled with this and get frustrated and put it away). After talking to a friend and watched some Youtube videos I am enjoying this process.

Sorry you have to lay down to look at thesee pictures.

I am glad I decided to give this another try. I will let you know how this turns out.

Have a great day and try something new

Beautiful day out today

We had a beautiful day today. It was sunny and in the 60’s today, so hubby and I spent the day out goofing off. Then I got my seeds out to start some early starts for my Mom Flowers and Hollyhocks. Tomorrow I will report some indoor plants and plant the seeds to hopefully have some of these flower in the Spring to plant. This is my moon flower from last year.

These bloom at night and close when the sun hits it. I also hope to get some Jasmine this year.

I hope you were able to have a good day