Good mail day!

Well, with today's economy and my husband being in sales, I have restrained from purchasing any new fabric, gadgets, gizmos and more. I only purchased exactly what I needed to make a gift or to finish something needed.

I have really been wanting to try those Clover Yo-yo Makers. While checking prices again online, I found Quilting-Warehouse.com. The have all the little notions I need for the best price I have found. Plus shipping is a set price no matter how much you order. I had a few dollors extra this payday so I got these goodies:

I cannot wait to try these out. I have a bunch of cut fabric circles already bought years ago to try yo-yo making, but did not do so well! I really wanted to try the circle cutter. But even at Quilting-Warehouse.com, it was a tad high for my budget. Besides I just chipped my last rotary blade and need to buy a new one. Those things are expensive.

Back to chores so I can play soon.

Happy Sewing,

Yay for me....I fixed it.

I fixed my post from the August 4th. My pictures were not showing up. I am very bad at all of thes, but learing by making mistakes. I really messed them up. Now they all work and are clickable for more detailed viewing if so desired.

I am *sew* glad that is done! Pictures are what make blogs work! LOL


Happy Sewing,



Now to figure out how to make the signature smaller! LOL


**ETA - I think I got a nice sized signature now. My goodness. I really need to be cleaning again.

A no sewing day.

I hate chores. I especially hate when I must dust from ceiling to floor. It takes all day to do one room. I physically hurt after that because I finish with cleaning my laminate floors.

On a positive note, my floor in the formal rooms is now very clean. I can sandwich and baste my daughter's butterfly top for quilting!

I am still working my way through reorganizing my sewing room too. My shelves are still not up. That's my man...gotta love him.

Til later,

Happy Sewing

Some Completed Projects....

and more UFO's found.

This is my oldest UFO! It is over 8 years old. It was a beginning quilting class.  The class ended in April of 2000. It is all hand pieced. The two blocks at the corners of the bottom are already hand quilted. The quilt is made following the lap quilting method from Georgia Bonesteel. Since pulling this out, I have cut more blocks. I decided to work on this every evening while watching TV.  Shown are 25 out of  the 42 blocks I am making. I decided to make this a king size!

I have to say that this is the ugliest quilt I have ever seen. I mean my piecing is fine and the blocks are good, but the colors are terrible. I did not know one thing about how to choose fabrics for a quilt when I picked them. I am going to finish this one day. I will use it on my bed and proudly! I decided to finish hand piecing and hand quilting it so I can say I did it all by hand.

I will never hand piece again, except for when it is necessary (like yo-yo's).

Now for some completed things!

This is a new outfit for my 6 year old. The shorts are Simplicity 9080 and the tank is Kwik Sew 2411. I think they are both OOP. The KS 2411 is actually for a girls camisole and panties, but it worked great for this "wife beater" as the rednecks in my family call it. 

I have made the shorts 4 different times now and still am not good at inserting a fly. The pattern uses velcro for the fly instead of a zipper. It worked great last year when my little one entered kindergarten. This is the first garment I have made that I used embroidery to embellish. I really need to do this more often. I used a nice twill for the shorts.   I have not washed out the markings yet in these photos. The only change in the pattern I made was to add a snap at the top and not put velcro for the small pocket on the front.

 

  

 

 

 

 

The tank is made of a nice thermal knit. I bound the edges with a rib knit using my new binder attachment I purchased off eBay for my coverstitch machine. I really want to get a few more sizes now. I could not get a photo of the tank because it was really rainy yesterday, and white is hard to see when I use my flash.

Next are some fleece blankets I made using my EdgeryDoo tool to crochet around the edges. The camo is for my youngest son and the John Deere was a gift for a friend's son's birthday.  The colors may be off some. I really need a new camera.

These are really quick and fun to do. I do not follow a pattern. I just do a couple of rounds in whatever stitch I like, usually a dc. Nothing fancy since these were for boys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, my finished cross stitched piece, all blocked and ready for framing. I love Winnie-the-Pooh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Stitching,

Blogging Frustration

I just spent an hour writing a new post with lots of photos and details. I do not know what happened. I also think that I messed up all the photos I had on here in my older posts. Is there an easier way to do this???

I will try to fix this tomorrow. I need to just walk away.

Total Surprise!

Hello to my 3 readers! LOL

I was just taken by total surprise by Lola of ..and Sew On. She nominated everyone in her blog list for a Blog Award!

Thank you *sew* much for including me. I am honored.

Now, the rules for receiving this award are:

1) Put the logo on your blog. Ok, done.

2) Add a link to the person who awarded you. Have done, see above.

3) Nominate at least 7 other blogs. Now this is the hardest for me. I have been reading blogs for quite some time now. I keep finding great ones more and more. I cannot take the easy way and say all in my list, because at the moment I have way too many (currently at 87 subscriptions).

But here I go:

1. Dorothy from Dorothy Baker Designs.
   
2. Karen from Log Cabin Quilter.
3. AJ from AJ's Antics.
4. Cindy from Sew Blessed. (The things she makes are exquisite!)
5. Kristy from lower your presser foot. (I absolutely love the style of clothes she makes.)
6. Barbara from Just a little zizzy.
7. Peggy from Peggy Quilts.

4) Add links to those blogs on yours. Also done. They are in my list, and I have linked them above.

5) Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs. Alrighty then. I hope those I picked do not mind. If so, that's okay. I apologize.

Happy Sewing y'all!

Problems with Internet Explorer

I cannot seem to "look" at many blogs tonight. This has been happening all day. It is getting worse. I keep getting an error "Internet Explorer cannot open the site http:// (whatever blog it is). Operation aborted."

This is maddening. I am able to go to my dashboard to post, but cannot even view my own blog!

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!


**edited to add: Found out the problem. Sitemeter! Apparently they put some new code into their system last night, and now every blog that uses this meter gets that annoying error. Seems to only affect those who use IE 7 or 6. I located a work around for it here.

There is more about it, but I tried this. It worked for my blog. I can see it now in my IE 7 browser. Some of the ones that I could not see last night are now viewable.