Friday Night Sew In

I joined in for the Friday Night Sew In last night and I'm so glad that I did.  I have wanted to make this little wall hanging for over a year and just never seem to get around to it. 

 

Instead of sewing the buttons on I glued them as this will not be getting washed and it was so much easier than fiddling with sewing all those little buttons.

This came in a kit with the fabrics.  I love the fabrics but this is super simple.  They did not put as many buttons on the one the photo they showed showed but I liked the buttons.  I can also think of a lot of other things that you could put on this.

Here it is with the border.  I LOVE it!!!

I think that I will do a tutorial for this and post it as this is so cute and would be a fast little gift for teachers, neighbors, etc.  Would anyone like to have a tutorial for this?

This is going to be a "Make It Take It" project for the Monday Night Quilting group this fall at church.

I don't have photos but I also sewed on my sky scape blocks.  Lot of sewing 2.5 inch strips together.  I think there is a photo in one of my recent posts showing the block.  I think the quilt will turn out great and I like the two rows I've completed.

Thanks to Wendy for hosting the sew in.

 

I have added this to some linky parties.  See the buttons on the sidebar as there are some cute things out there.

Thrift Store Finds and Two Week-end Projects

I took a class about a year ago and made this landscape.  I've never finished it soooo  I have my granddaughters starting Saturday nite and I'm not allowed to do anything but be with them.  I am allowed to go to the potty or to get a drink if I ask and promise to be right back.  They will allow me to work on hand projects so I thought I'd embellish the landscape and hand quilt the doll quilt below.  The doll quilt has been lying around a long time also.  I must be the only person in the world that has this problem!!!

On Thursday I volunteered at the Thrift Shop and found these shoes for $5.00!  I love Clark's so I'll be wearing these babies to work next week.

Then I found this container for a buck!!

A container full of white buttons!!  Oh Yes!  I will spend a buck on that!!  I kinda sorta collect buttons but I don't talk about it.  I'm a "Closet Button Keeper" and I know this isn't good.

Aren't they pretty?

I've had a good week and I'm still working on my sewing room and it's looking better every day.  I hope by tomorrow to have it all back together and looking neat for a sewing room.  As neat as I can be.  I'm not a "Neat" person!!

I'm going to link up to the following:

 

 http://www.frommyfrontporchtoyours.com/

http://www.savvysouthernstyle.net/2013/07/wow-us-wednesdays-127.html?utm_source=feedburner

PS:  It's Friday Night Sew-In and I'm going to join up.  I was number 73 so I think it's so hot that everyone wants to stay in, be cool and create!!

http://sugarlanequilts.blogspot.com/2013/07/fnsi-sign-up.html

Projects in July

The photo above and below are what I'm calling sky scape.  I saw a quilt on a blog and then couldn't find it so I think this is close.  I'm using all batik scraps for the buildings and then white.  Neither of these two blocks made the cut for the quilt as I decided to go with one color of white for the sky.  I had thought about using different blues for the sky but I knew that I had quite a few blues in it already.  I like the contrast between the white and the colors.  I have two rows sewn together.

This is just something hanging out on my desin wall.  I love funky buildings!!

This photo below is the quilt that I found that needed one nine patch block sewn and then the last row sewn together.  This is an easy peasy quilt and I just don't understand what happened.  I think that I was working on it when I moved my sewing room and somehow it was folded into a plastic container.  As I've said before I need more money before all of these quilts are sent to the quilter.  This quilt is 90" x 98" so it's a whopper.

Hope you're having a good week!!!

A Walk at Mill Race and More Money Saved

Mill Race is a local park and it sits beside the river.  In rainy times it's very likely to flood.

The above photo is of the man made pond and the covered bridge.  This is an old bridge and you can still drive through it.  There are usually geese in the pond but I think today it was too hot for much of anything.

On the river there were a couple of guys fishing.  A beautiful morning to do that but I would think it was hot out there in the sun. 

People were walking their dogs and biking.  You have to be careful on these trails as there are people walking and biking.  I try to walk very close to the edge and stay out of the way.

This is a picnic area by the river and sometimes a group of us eat here at lunch time.  Sometimes if the day is stressful I eat here alone.  You just need peace and quiet!!

I love the shadows here and once you walk under the trees you can feel the temp. change, the quietness and there is a peace of walking in here.

This is the bench I sat on for a few minutes and I had a friend there for a few seconds.

Walking along the path you can see where trees and debris have floated down and then become stuck.  It adds character to the area I think.  I think this would make a good landscape quilt.

 

The rest of the day has consisted of laundry and cleaning my sewing room.  Right now it's in a bigger mess than it was.  I like to organize as I clean and try to find ways to make more room.  What I've done so far looks good.

 

Yesterday I helped a friend with her granddaughters birthday party.  We had a sewing party and all of the girls made pillow cases and then they used markers and designed a quilt block for the birthday girl.  Her grandmother will put these together and make it a wall hanging  for her 10th birthday.  It was fun and there is always one that is amazing and she had her pillow case completed first and wanted to sew something else.  It was like she just knew how to sew.  We have that when we teach the 7th grade girls to sew.  There are always a few that are just so talented.

 

Have a great week!!

 

ps - I found another quilt that is almost completed!  I have sewing group tomorrow so I'll take it with me and figure out what it needs.  Remember the last one only had one block left.  Right now I have 4 quilts that need to go to the quilter but I don't have the extra money!!!

 

pss - I added $8.00 to my savings today as that's what I had in my pocket.  So instead of $6.00 if you follow the scale I have $28.00!!  $1,340.00 more to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Selling on E-Bay and Another $5.00 in Savings

I've spent the last couple of hours adding some items to E-Bay (judyk4864) as I want to add that money to my savings and I need to clear out some of the fabric and magazines in my sewing room.  I don't know where it all came from!  Anyone else have that problem?  Anyone looking for anything in particular as I may have it.
The first two photos are of the same fabric #1 is the front #2 is the back

I have several magazines groups for sale

This John Deere Pillow kit

This kitty fabric

The next three photos are of ABC blocks that are 6.5x6.5  I have two sets of these on E-Bay but I have more of this set and of other sets.  I was in a lot of swaps for a while and sometimes several letters per swap.  If anyone is interested in the ABC blocks you can e-mail me but the other items have to sell on E-Bay.

This is a dinosaur fabric - very cute

Right now there is no rain here though this morning it was raining.  The sun is even shining at the moment.

Have a great day!!!

 

52 Week Money Challenge

I have been wanting to start a special savings plan and I found this on the internet.  I did not do all of this work but I think that it makes cents.  Next year I would like to take a vacation to England and this could help with this goal.  This is doable!!!  Might have to plan ahead toward the end as the amounts get larger.

This is the first week of July so I'm going to start it now.  If anyone would like to join in then send me a comment and let me know what your goal is and then keep me update on how you are doing. 

I did find a Facebbok Page that is doing this.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/344214249020179/

DISCLAIMER: I didn’t create this chart, it was the image that was in my news feed, so thank you to whoever drafted this because it serves as a great visual to see the overall idea of the challenge.

You can link to this post if you'd like to share this on your blog,

I started my first week today and I put $5.00 in it as when I can I'd like to add some extra.  Tomorrow will start another week and I'll see what I have but I think I'll do another $5.00.  My dream is to go to England and Scotland and spend a month.  That will take a lot of money. 

What would be the use for your savings?

Edit - Pinterest has a lot of good ideas for saving money and here is a blog that is good
http://www.livingwellspendingless.com/saving-money/

July 4th Activities and Quiche

This is my friend Wilma and on the 4th we went to Brown Co. State Park so that I could take some photos.  She had just gotten done telling me that her hair was too flat and I turned around to tell her that her hair looked nice.

This was the view we were looking at during the first photo.  It was a drizzly day as it would sprinkle some then quit but the sun never did come out.

I love photos of trees against the sky.

The woods along the little creek that was below when the creek curved

Another shot of the stream.  If it had been warm I would have went wading!!  Remember doing that as a child?

We were standing under this huge tree and all at once it just pored the rain.  We did not get wet at all as that tree was full of leaves and gave great protection.

These lake photos are of Ogle lake which is part of the park.  There is a trail that is about 1.5 miles around the lake but in this weather we did not attempt it.

Another area of the lake with this tree across.  This would make a good landscape quilt.  Maybe one of these days I'll try it.

I loved the contrast in greens of these trees.  Nature is amazing and beautiful!!

These two photos are what I did yesterday.  I had seen on Pinterest where you can make small quiches in cupcake pans so that is what I did.  I froze all of these and can use them for breakfast or lunch at work.

I don't really have a recipe for quiche.  But this is approximately what I do

4 eggs, beaten

2/3 cup milk, cream whatever you have

In this one I added cut up cherry tomatoes and asparagus

I use a lot of cheese - 2 cups and I either shake them in a bag with a tablespoon of flour or add a heaping tablespoon of cornstarch for thickener right in the egg mixture an stir good.  If you add flour into the mixture you will get lumps so that's the reason that I do it this way.

Sometimes I put less shredded cheese and take fresh mozzarella and slice it in the quiche (GOOD!!)

I bake at 350 until it's done and that's around 30 - 40 minutes

Sometimes I add fresh herbs like basil, thyme and rosemary and sometime not.

 

I'm a cook that does not always follow a recipe or add or delete items.  I don't do this with baking of course as you have to be more exact or you have a big flop!! LOL

 

I've been sewing some but mostly trying to organize as it's that time of the year.  I've sold a few things on E-Bay as I need money for a quilt retreat that I would like to go to in November.  Or I may save the money for the International Quilt Festival in April.  That one I like to take classes.

 

I hope the sun is shining in your part of the world as it sure isn't here today.  A good day to clean and I want to get in the sewing room as I need to sell some of this fabric!!!  Don't we all??