Ready to quilt!!

My batik quilt top is completed. It finished at approximatly 64 inches x 64 inches. I will probably do the dark blue for the binding to tie the colors all together. It will be a nice throw size quilt for using in the living room on the couch.

Here's another picture, with two things I "made" . Which do you think I'm proudest of? :)

Year of Quilting

I was working on putting the final border on my batik quilt, when I realized that if I can really hustle and get this one quilted .... then I'll have done 3 quilts this year! My first year of learning to quilt. I think that's great!

I don't have any unfinished quilts or projects lurking in the closet. I do, though, have a bag full of polka dot fabrics that I'll keep adding too and then I'll make a bulls eye quilt with that material. I also have started a great stash collection that is organized into strips, squares and bricks ( http://www.quiltville.com/)

Another planned project is to make a full size or queen sized quilt for Case that has lots of stars all over it. I'm not sure the exact pattern, becuase there are so many out there with stars! I think I want a fairly simply quilt ... not too many colors... just a dark and light contrast maybe.

Here are some pictures of the quilts I've done this year!

Conversation with a Two Year Old

While putting away dishes from the dishwasher, I had an interesting conversation with my almost two year old son. It went something like this:

Case was reaching for a plate, and squeezed out a loud Toot!

Mommy says "Case, you tooted, Please say excuse me."

Case continues trying to pilfer in the dishwasher and ignores me.

Mommy says "Case. Say Excuse me."

Case looks at Mommy with his big brown eyes and very graciously said, "Excuse you Mommy!"

:)

Miss Michelle and the Fabric Store

Well, if I'm going to be the oldest (well, third oldest) person at work .... and they do call me Miss Michelle....(which is what I call older people!) ... then I'm going to relish it.

:) So Miss Michelle went to the fabric store today. Hancocks has Kona Cotton (which I love to use for quilting) on 40% off sale. So I got a nice red and blue solid to use for the border for my batik quilt.

I still need to decide how wide the two different borders will be. I'm thinking of a thinner blue border, and a wider red border and hopefully will have enough blue left over to use as binding.

Living life

It's been a while since I updated my blog. Just been busy living life..working three jobs (two from home and one 4 nights/week at a retail store) and volunteering for the American Cancer Society.

Here's a few things I've learned lately:

1. The difference between me and girls in their early 20's is only skin deep.... you see.... the tops of my feet are hairy and theirs are smooth. I dont know if I'm so old that I grow hair where I never did before ... or if I'm just so old I dont care if there's hair on my feet!! Needless to say, after I noticed that ... I came home and got out the weedeater and whacked that offending hair off the top of my feet!

2. My legs aren't as young as they use to be. I've worked retail before. I wasn't this tired after working retail in my 20's. Now I have comfy shoes that aren't cool, and my feet still hurt. I come home after work, take 2 advil and play on the computer for a bit and hit the sack. I swear, those girls at work are going out after working and wearing cute shoes all the time! ha!

3. The crock pot is my best friend. yep. Sorry girls. You've been replaced. :) As long as Hubby doesn't get tired of having pot roast once a week, he's getting it. I actually put a pot roast in the crock pot this morning too. It's good. It's healthy. It's easy. And we all get a hot meal without me having to cook for an hour before I go to work retail and hurt my legs and hairy feet. :)

4. Working three jobs makes it hard to quilt or paint! But I really am just waiting on a first check so that I can go and buy some border fabric for my batik throw quilt. :)

I have to give a Memorial Speech this coming Sunday. I'm nervous. Do you think I could just ask them to all shut their eyes and pretend I'm not there? Or could I just post a blog on the presentation screen and let them all read my speech instead? :)

Later!
M