The real Tuesday

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Suzanne

So, I’ve just now realized that yesterday’s post was titled Tuesday, but it was actually Monday when I wrote it. I suppose most of you READ it on Tuesday and didn’t even notice the incongruity. Either that or no one is actually paying attention to me. Sometimes I worry that it’s the latter, but then every so often my Dad calls me and asks me a question or makes a comment about something he read on my blog, so I know that at least HE is paying attention. (Hey Dad! How are ya?)

I’ve been doing a little mishmash of everything the last few days. Printing and trimming stuff for the Stories In Hand class at JessicaSprague.com, thinking about what I’m going to do for my Journal Your Christmas project this year. (And if you are interested in doing your own Christmas Journal, you should visit Shimelle, sign-ups are open…) Plus! I’ve actually done some work, including some customer quilting, cleaning the shop back up after the weekend of fun, and putting together a new shop sample. I sewed the rows together this evening and brought them in here to press, whereupon I have discovered that I’ve actually put half of the rows together wrong. Duh.

I know you probably can’t tell, but I will say that the long light-colored rectangles with stripes on them, are not supposed to line up in almost-rows like that. (What I did was make all 5 rows the same, and every other row should be shifted. Here I’ve just flipped them end for end, and it’s just not right.) On my way in to sew earlier, I looked at the book with the pattern in it, and thought, I don’t need to look at that, I know what I’m doing. Ha.)

It’s the same pattern as the fall-themed quilt I did several weeks ago. I got a whole whack of new fabric last week and a lot of was was WOW-BRIGHT. The picture doesn’t even do the fabric justice. Those of you that know me (and the color box that I live in) are probably wondering if I’ve lost it. I’m still not sure I like it or not. Will was just in here and asked if it was for someone. I told him it was a shop sample and asked him if he liked it or not.

“It’s pretty bright,” was his answer…

After I unsew and resew so that the blocks are in the right order (because I’m trying to actually follow the pattern, since it’s a shop sample, and dang me, that is really hard, because I hate following patterns…), I’ll need to decide on a border — one of the really wild and crazy prints? Or something tamer?

I think that was everything I intended to babble about this evening.

If not, I’ll babble about something else tomorrow.

Suzanne

Tuesday

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Suzanne

A million and one things that I *could* talk about, and I just can’t seem to pick one to settle on.

Wow. That’s like the story of my life in a nutshell.

I need to go contemplate that.

Back later.

Two things

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Suzanne

1. Gas prices the likes of which we haven’t seen in….I don’t know how long:

Yes, I actually took a picture.

2. Pictures of the entries at our Fiber Arts Festival this past week. It’s always been called a quilt show (becuase it’s always been just a quilt show….). Now that it has more stuff in it, we gave it a new name, but the new name doesn’t trip off the tongue quite as easily. Whatever you call it, it was fun, and we had a bunch of neat stuff. I am experimenting with posting all of the pictures over on my other blog, and if you have a few minutes and some interest, you are welcome to go take a look.

2008 Fiber Arts Festival Pictures

I am without energy today, so that’s all you get.

Things I Like About Cold Weather

Posted on November 8, 2008 by Suzanne

1. Wearing sweaters

2. Sleeping under two quilts

3. The doggy that crawls under the two quilts and curls up against my legs

3. Driving my blog readers batty with obnoxious posts about the cold weather

Perky Blog Post #1

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Suzanne

And thus concludes all chipper and perky blog posts.

Someone made this comment on my prior post about the white stuff in the sky.

I am bound and determined to prove this someone wrong by posting as many chipper and perky blog posts as possible.

So how is this for chipper? Our football team just won another game and are headed to the Semi-Finals!!! We chose not to go watch because of the unmentionable weather, and instead I enjoyed a nice evening at the movie watching Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. The boys stayed home and watched Indiana Jones (the newest one).

We’re really hopeful that tomorrow is going to be a great day at our little show in Traer (anyone in the area? you should come, there’s some neat stuff on display!), and as soon as I figure out what I did with my camera, I’ll post some pictures!

Have a Fabulous Saturday!

Suzanne