Treasure & Amy Bradley

We have a store called Fabric Recycles. I love the concept. It's a place you can take all of your sewing stuff and recycle it. It's like a giant Goodwill store for sewing things. It's fun to poke around in because you never know what you might find. So poking was what I was doing Tuesday during lunch. Check out this little treasure.


It's a cross stitch picture that someone one put a lot of time into. Big whopping $6. I couldn't leave it at the store. I think I'm going to put a border around it and figure out how to frame it. It will make a great baby gift for someone.

Amy Bradley was the guest speaker at guild on Tuesday night. Her quilts are wonderful. Bright colors and very fun. I look at them and just smile. What else can you do?



I'm taking a class this weekend at Missouri Sewing Machine company, which is where I bought my awesome embroidery machine. The class is on placement and hooping and all sorts of tricks. I love classes like these because the teacher says something and then everyone starts throwing in their ideas. I always take a notebook and am furiously writing things down. I'm hoping to be able to ask how to place designs on garments or bags without having to mark the item up. There's got to be some tricks that I can learn. I'm also taking my machine in for service, so no embroidery for about a week. I don't know what my deal is, but that's all I will want to do while the machine is out of my sight. I'm hoping I can quilt some of my 20 tops while my gal is gone.

Have a great night.

Accountability Report - Jan 27th

Wow, where does time go? I can't believe the week is 1/2 over. YIKES.

Onto my report. This week was good, although not as productive as I would have liked.

1. I found the missing projects that I misplaced in my organizing frenzy. They are now sitting next to the sewing machine and will be worked on next week.
2. I donated the sheep baby quilt project to the guild to use for Project Linus. At least I know it will be put to a good use. Lesson learned - draw a picture so it's not a guess as to what I was thinking at the time I started cutting.
   
3. I found an extra project while trying to organize some fabric on my shelf. It's a lone star that I started 5 years ago. I belonged to KQO (Kansas Quilters Organization) and took a class from Jan Krentz after her Lone Star book came out. I didn't finish the project because I was freaked out by the fact that Jan wanted us to "block" the pieces before putting the entire thing together. Block? Do people really block? I get the concept for knitting or crochet, but quilting? Very very tedious. Well, since I've decided it's OK to not always follow all of the quilting rules put out in front of me, I will use some other instructions that I found on Lone Stars. They don't call for blocking. Wonder what I did with the rest of the fabric?
4. 15 minutes a day of sewing is working for me. Although I wish for more some days. I really think it's helping me get some things done.
5. Extras this week, bags for Brandi. Fired up the embroidery machine and put logos on 5 bags.
6. I worked on my Pickety Sticks top (Tula Pink Spiked Punch pattern). It's not going together as fast as I would like, but it also seems that I get a bit distracted. The top 12 rows are completely sewn together. The rest are either sewn as a single row or just positioned on the wall. I'm really hoping to put a dent in it this weekend.

All in all, not a bad Accountability week.

Last night was guild. It was so much fun to go. The speaker talked about borders and letting the quilt talk to you. Not all quilts need borders. Great ideas.

Saturday was the first meeting of the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild. Wow. Fun Fun Fun. I was very excited to see how many people turned out. Very young group and very excited people. The room had a completely different energy which was GREAT. I'm really hoping to gain some spontaneity from these ladies. I don't have to have a pattern for everything. It's OK to wing it.

TTFN!

Did You Miss Me?

Rhetorical question, really don't answer that.

1 1/2 weeks of kindergarten under the belt. I think it's more of an adjustment for me than it is for Grace. I can't seem to get my routine down in the morning. Guess maybe I should try to do some more at night instead of waiting until the morning. Oh well.
Have to share a couple pictures.
Carrie Nelson, of Miss Rosie fame, came to guild last night. That woman is hysterical. The stories were a riot and the quilts were BEAUTIFUL. The bad thing for me is I always leave inspired and wanted to spend the entire night sewing. Unfortunately I didn't get home until 10 PM, so sewing was out of the question. Oh well.
Here are a few pictures from last nights meeting.




I'm happy to report that Grandma is out of ICU and now at Overland Park Regional in their specialty wing. We went for a quick visit tonight and I couldn't believe the change from Sunday. Definitely feeling better. That had her up and sitting on the edge of her bed doing exercises today. God does work in mysterious ways, especially considering where Grandma was a couple weeks back.

I will be sure to share some of my project pictures this week. I have been able to find a little more time to sew.

Also, I started another blog for the embroidery. I'm hoping to use it to give ideas to people to boost my embroidery. When you get bored, check it out. www.sunflowercre8tions.blogspot.com