Easter Morning

A quick Blog this morning. Happy Easter !
Rose and I took a fantastic class on Good Friday, We went to Kindred Spirits Cottage and Alice taught us Rug Hooking, (we now have 2 degree's in HOOKING!) I cant believe that I am going to try to find one more minute of the day to add a new craft! But with my multiple personalities I can please all of my inner voices! I am just glad that my Husband is mostly able to fend for himself.
I ran several times this week with one of the time being 9.2 miles! I was tired later that day but boy that was fun. I gotta get ready for the Flying Pig or I will be the crawling Pig on May the 3rd.
I have been working on the Wall Hanging for the Club Prizes and they are so neat! I am very happy with how the Asters are coming out.
Yesterday I made the home made dinner rolls and I am now not sure there will be any for dinner tonight, between My husband, son and myself...we couldnt resist them warm from the oven. Glad I only make them for holidays.
Ok, time to get ready for Mass,
Until next time..

Being productive

  I had a very busy week of last. I spent more time out shopping than I have ever done! I had a blast but now I have to get my focus on...lol (Sarah) 

  I cut fabric for my Foolish Goose track and made block two without much trouble. But I had issue with block three, I cut wrong and went to the fabric store for new fabric, then I started the Flying Geese and wow, they did not have a point on them. So after much thought, I went back to the fabric store and bought Eleanor Burns ruler, and more fabric. came home and spent Saturday and Sunday, sun-up to sun-down working on block three. and finally 12 full blocks and 6 half blocks completed. phew!

  I spent yesterday working on the 3 wall hanging's for the quilt club prizes. I made a small dent in those. I will continue to work on that for this week, 

  I walked several time with Sarah last week, and didnt get on the treadmill the whole week. Well yesterday I went down and did a great workout, I was afraid I had lost my cardio but it was fine. Then last night my son called and said that he had gotten permission from commanders, that he is able to run The Flying Pig Marathon on Sunday the 3rd of May, which is the day before he is to deploy. So the slacking is over!! I must get my conditioning boosted to 13.2 miles per time. I plan to use the walk with Sarah as a warm-up and then come home and jump on the treadmill...let's see if this works. 

  The girls that I talk with on twitter is making two quilts for our sports granny, she does not sew and loves to hear about our adventures with fabric, her daughter has begged her to sew and she wont have any of it! So several of us are making blocks and they will send them to me and I will set them together and get the quilts ready for gift giving. This is going to be much fun, our friend knows about the quilt for her daughter but not about the one for herself. So this morning I am going to class and need to pick some fabric for 8 blocks. I haven't even pick the blocks yet but I am sure something will come to me. 

  I am very excited that on Friday of last week I went to a grand opening of a Rug Hooking cottage. it was very nice and she offers classes, So a few of us are set up to take class on Friday this week, I cant wait! this is going to be such fun. My favorite thing to do...take a class and learn a new fiber craft! 

  Ok, so last week I cooked, shopped, walked, sewed, crocheted and...oh I cant think of anything else. Below is the two blocks that make up part 2 and 3 of my Foolish Goose Tracks, Burning the Midnight Oil BOM ( not shown is the 1/2 blocks for part three will post later)

Foolish Goose Track

Here is the blocks Part 1 of Foolish Goose Tracks.

Another week down

I cant believe how fast this week has gone. I spent the week getting fabric cut for my Foolish Goose Tracks BOM. This pattern is from Burning the Midnight Oil, we have three parts so far and I have started piecing part one.
We had a great class at Fabric Crafts on Saturday, the apron class was a bunch of fun, I finished applique on the 12 aprons with plenty more to go, so I am going to make a list of things on the burner so nothing gets scorched. I am going to need a snow day/week to get all things in motion, finished.
I went with Rose to Meadow View Growers on Tuesday and bought 125 perennials but I did not put them out yet as the weather turned at the end of the week, this morning its only 32 degrees. I want to make a flower bed by the garage, thats one I will be able to see from my sewing room. I want a water fountain in it so I can hear the soothing sounds.
I found a local teacher for the primitive rug hooking. I called and Sarah and I are going to her open house this Friday. Her name is Alice and she is very open to teaching a class anytime or day of our choosing. I cant wait. this will be neat to add one more type of rug making to my list. I want to make a practice piece this week and just get the feel of the how it works.
My son got to come home this weekend for a 3 day pass, today is laundry day and then he gets back on the bus for 12 days, he will be home sometime on Easter for 4 days then back for training. He is trying to do everything and see everyone during these 3 days. Not easy.
My running is going good, I walked with Sarah twice this week for 1.2 miles each. and was able to run on the treadmill for 8.2 and 8.3 miles on Friday and Sunday. I am trying to build up that Cardio, My son said that I am running father than some of the guys in his unit can run. I have seen articles that say older runners do better, I think its because we are more dedicated to it.
Last night Sarah came over and helped me install EQ 5 on the sewing computer, I need to get busy learning it. Sad to say that I have had it for maybe 6-7 years and have never used it. Maybe now that I am not working I will learn it.
No pictures this week. maybe if I get my part one of the BOM finished today I post the pic, I also want to get a picture of Sarah and I walking, and of course our walking buddy, Max!
Thats all for now, Here's hoping for a productive week for all !

Charity Sewing

  Yesterday was National Quilt Day and the quilt club has a charity sew. This year was Autograph Bears for the Camp Bearable/Hospice.  They are the cutes bears and it was a lot of fun watching others sew the bears.  Well I hear the question, "Watching the others, didnt you sew a bear?"  Glad you ask, NO I did not sew a bear, I can sew quilts, with good directions. But these bears look very hard, so I just became the un-sewer, and curve snipper.  I stayed busy and didn't put a stitch in anything. 

  Then I was highjacked and taken to a couple of quilt shops. Where I picked up a few projects that I can not live without. and again I laughed and talked until I just about lost my voice.  I had to really control myself today to not go back to the 2nd quilt shop and buy the hook rug things so I could start a new craft.  Partly because I really want to learn how and mostly because I needed to clean my sewing room and need to get out of the house before it became the job of the day.  So my sewing room is clean and I ordered the rug hooking kit from online and can just wait till next week when it arrives. I started on the room before church and it continued after right up until just a few minutes ago when i put the sweeper away. I am so happy that it is clean again. My husband ask when I got the new closet...no new closet just you can open the door with every thing falling on you.

  Well thats about all from here. I think I will work on my Chop Suey quilt tomorrow I would like to get that done this week. 

From My House

  Hi again, I was so excited that I just had to post a new blog today. I thought I would show the room that I get to play in. 

  I have been working on the mystery quilt and completed 12 blocks, so part one is done! They came together in snap, I started cutting this morning and had completed the blocks by 1230 this afternoon. 

 The blocks are 6 1/4 inches, I cant wait till she adds part 2 at the beginning of April.  You still have time to go to the website and download the pattern and join me.

https://www.susanclaire.com/

 

  

From My House

  Ok, I have not blogged for too long. I have plenty to tell its just that I keep filling my days with new projects and then I am looking for the lost minutes of the day. 

  The socks I have put them away because I got to a point that is hard and such is my pattern to put things down when they get hard, I will get it back out soon and give it a go again. 

  I have two afghans at my chair that I am working on, the first is a University of Kentucky flag for my son and the other is a breast cancer ribbon flag. I was telling my husband that this is my afghan time of the year, I love to watch basketball and it seems that crocheting is my craft for the multi task time.  I am also thinking I might start a Ohio State flag one. 

  I have about 3 quilts going right now I finished the Victory Quilt, but started a new one. I have the Barn Quilt that I am still working on the last two weeks in the month, and I picked up quilt blocks that I started a year or more ago and really put the gas on that one, The pressure is on because I want to give it to the quilt club for auction this fall. The blocks are finished and yesterday at class I squared up so this week I will get the rows together and hopefully I will put it all together, I ask a new quilt club member that is just getting started in long-arming if she would like it for practice, and she agreed to do it for me!  I went to a quilting class a few weeks ago and started a Chop Suey quilt, I haven't touched it since the class. Now I am not going to tell you about all the other projects that I have kits for and printed patterns for and sorted fabric for...except for the new mystery quilt that I am starting today. https://www.susanclaire.com/

  I follow this Designer on Twitter, she is from New Zealand, this is the first time of joining in a sew-along online and I am excited. So excited that even at the late hour last night I was picking fabric.( will explain about the late night. too funny)

  Ok, So the third Tuesday of the month is a long quilting day, I have class till 3pm and then head to quilt club at 530pm.  Club usually last till about 830-845 pm. as it did last night. when we got back to the rendezvous spot, one of the girls found a flat tire on her car. Well she was going to call her sick husband to come out and change that tire, I was going to call my husband to come up, but then brave Sarah said..."Cant we just change it", well let me tell you fun ensued.

 Here we were, 4 mid-lifers and a car manual using the headlights from another car. this happened on the driveway of our quilt shop owners home so thankfully her husband was there and help get the lug nuts off that had just been put on a week before with a hydraulic tool. but I have full confidence that we would have gotten it between the 4 of us had he not been there. Let me say that it was much fun. and if stuck on a island I know who I want with me...these other 3 women! So it was almost 11pm when I rolled into my garage but most of that time we was talking and laughing. I was so keyed up that I picked fabric for the above mystery quilt and caught up on online things. Sleep came and went in about 4.5 hours, as I still woke up at normal time without alarm. 

  I am planning on cutting blocks for the above mystery quilt, setting a quilt together, getting more yarn for my afghans, going to visit two friends and oh maybe cooking dinner tonight, I think I need more coffee to get this all done. And I have been in front of this computer since just before 545am. time to get a move on.

  Oh wait, Gotta tell about my running.  Last week I was able to run for 15 minutes straight each time I worked out, so this week I tried 20 minutes and I was able to do it. So shhh, should I say it in writing, I am turning into a RUNNER! Can you tell I am excited. lol (ok thats all for now)