Small Butterfly Done - check

Small butterfly baby quilt is done. Mother wanted lavender butterflies, but the lavender will not be used it's for a keepsake only. This one is all prewashed and polyester batting, can be washed.

This is the overall - it's about 18 x 24, I just quarted it and did some stitch in the ditch with the side panels and then with variegated thread did chain stitches around about 1/2 of the butterflies and

then did some french knots in the big butterflies. Back is solid purple.

Hope she likes it.

More Octo Quilts

Look at this that I found on Material Obsession from Australia!!! I never would have thought to put brown with Kaffe!!?? Looks good, I might take some of mine apart and do this. It's so pretty. Material Obsession always has great pics, and I have one of their books too. Kaffe spends weeks there teaching, uuummm, Australia and Kaffe, what a trip!! Some day!!

I watched Julie & Julia the other day, love that movie. I just love Julia's thrill for life, everything she did was over the top, including her height, anyhow... What about a Kaffe and Beth, doesn't sound as good, but a stitch a day for a year with Kaffe. Kaffe if you have people that track you, I would love to do that!!! We've met (at a class), You were born in San Francisco, I was raised in Marin County (across the bridge), I worship your colors, Big Sur is where you grew up, and your family has the Nepethe restaurant, my Grandmother ate there long ago and always loved that area, so much so that's the area we spread her ashes. When they had the fire in Big Sur, I e-mailed the restaurant to check on them, they e-mailed me back, they had survived and even fed firemen during the fire. I'm really liking this idea. I guess I would have to get permission from the Man, but Julie didn't - maybe I'll just sew and go!!

Octagons gone wild

They are everywhere!! Ever since Suzie and I started these things, this is all I see:

My next quilt!!! Maybe for state fair too!

Two for a big center - cool

This is how you finish, you get halves!!

Yikes, I got to stop. Back is still out, might go to dr, might. Just will give me a muscle relaxer, then I'll be out!

They are everywhere

PUlled back, stuck in bed on heating pad

By the way, the heating pad is not working. Ibuprofen and ice hot work. But I still can't move. So, I'm surfing, cleaning up my ipod, playing cards on my ipod, doing puzzles on my computer, staring at incessantly stupid tv. Except for when somebody pulled Danielle's hair extension out on New Jersey housewives. That woman (Danielle) is crazy, certifiably, a loon. I feel sorry for her kids whom seem sweet and quiet. She hires ex-cons to go everywhere with her as body guards. She can't defend herself from another new jersey girl?? She's a loon I'm telling you. Nothing else good on the tube. I'm listening to Alice and Wonderland on my ipod, finished the HELP, that was cute. I've got great podcasts but I'm using them as "go to sleep stuff" since tv is so bad. When did it get so bad?????? Still making octagons, a little, can't sit up right enough to sew. I have two purple butterfly baby quilts to finish, but they are both basted, just need quilting. Frankly, I'm afraid to start the quilting for fear of goofing it up QUILT one of two purple ones. They will be done next week hopefully!

Jeeeeez

Left out the pic of "Low Tide"

morphing

Those octagons Suzie and I played with in CA, well they are still happening in Sc! I'm addicted. I have a box of them next to the bed, I try and do at least six hexagons a day. My Halloween, started in CA, has morphed into a tabletopper:

Will eventually have this orange border, then being lightly quilted to a backing and used at Halloween!

This is a piece I painted the other day, It's titled "Low Tide" and if it works like I hope, going to the state fair along with "foggy Clementine". I worked on baby quilts yesterday.

Stress Test

I forgot to say: I passed stress test with flying colors. No asprin routine even needed yet. My heart is not the size of the Grinches, and it pumps nicely I was told. Come back in a year!

Stress, Cupboards, Painting

Twin beds pushed together as one like they do in Europe, still sleeps as twins. I'm going to make a head board and foot board eventually.

Cupboards on one wall, 3 sets by end of day. All my chochkeys fit with a tad of room to spare, lots shop!!! No way, just give me trip.com money!!

Colors will be chocolate brown and aqua and white by the time I'm done. So no painting except maybe a little side table and some sewing. That's it.

Today I painted fabric, well tried. See what I mean:

I'm going to try and do some decorative stitching and a couple, if that works out well, they are going to the state fair!!!

Stress, what stress

Test was easy, but involved. They told me to be there 6 hours. So, I grumpily said ok. Signed me in the wrong area, that took 30 minutes for them to straighten that out, did the nuclear med needle prick, best prick I've every had, never felt it. Send in all that glowing fluid, did the first round of pics, its really a machine that goes around your heart from angles on all 3 sides of your body. then they make you wait, then you get on the treadmill - 30 minutes from start to finish the whole time hooked to an ekg machine, then they make you wait, then they do a sonogram which hurt like the devil, cause they were trying to work around and under ribs. then another wait, then another serious of pics all around then wait. We are now at 3.5 hours, they tell me to came back at 2:00 to see the dr for his results. You're jocking spewed from my mouth before I thought. I moved through all the other stages and waiting "so fast" cause" they hardly had any patients that normally the gap of me waiting for the doctor would not have been the 2 hours. So, I opt to reschedule the dr appt part to Thursday. So consequently next week is all booked.

Blue Grass festival #1 was awesome. We only stayed for a short part of, most of the time we were there they were breaking. But we heard the best base player for blue grass internationally, the best mandolin from like 2007 nationally, and the others maybe 5 more all played together just "jammin". No plan in mind, no music, just bouncing off of each other. Awesome!! Plus we had a whole pig and great side dishes to eat. Too much, got to my stomach bad!! The other blue grass was a cd of Ricky Skaggs, not nearly as good as the old farts just goofing around!!

Today, we put together 3 wardrobe cabinets in lili's room (guest room), going to put all decorative pieces and holiday stuff I have in one place, it will no longer be shoved here there or nilly. Mom and Julie are coming over to organize. I took Lili's twin beds and slide them together made them as twins and put a King coverlet over the two and decorate pillows making it look like a King, like they do in Europe. It looks good!! I have an extra book case out of the deal, I might be able to squeeze in my sewing room for supplies.

Lots of fireworks here last night, scared animals!!

Margaret's Quilt

Forgot:

It's lavenders, with the butterflies ironed on and a little variegated pastel thread will be thrown in.

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th ya'll!!!!

We are going to two parties, both involve Blue Grass (don't like) But the first one the players are genuinely talented, so you can't help but listen, 2nd one, armatures!! Thank God Mr. Job invented that little machine I can listen to my own stuff on!! Go Bon Jovi!!!

today is stress test - are you supposed to be scared to death!! They keep telling me little ladies of 80 yrs old do it, so can I. Again, that little machine of Mr. Job's is accompanying me!!

Look at Tommie's blog, yesterday's posting - what a naughty dog!! Mine doesn't even like chapstick!!

Happy " Our Nation's Birthday!"