Ulmer quilt frame

ta daaaaaa....... its new.... its compact... its pretty sturdy... its light weight.. Its on the straight of grain... it has an arm reach of stitching space.. I can move it myself... its easy!... it fits my lil house...........................................................................................................................................................

and TheDiva got a lesson from MOM.. The lil twerp likes to digg/ fluff the batting.. tear it and scatter it around the room........... NOT Cool.... she is NOT in the pic because she is sitting in MR's chair........ away.... pouting

Plans !

I'm on a misssion to clean / tidy a few things , run the vac ! ,,, swish a broom.

I have fabric on the dining room table for borders to 2 tops started last week...

Next project: is to pack up a large set of Willow china for the new bride and groom.. We gifted them a new china hutch for wedding.... now On a mission to FILL IT !...... so news paper and boxes are on my horizon this week.

While blogging around this week. I saw THE PERFECT quilt frame. called The ULmer Quilt Frame..... has square corners and ,, smaller size,,, folds up,,,,,, Not bulky like my round one........ not wobbly like my spindle saw horse one...... perfect... MR said GET IT......... so I did !

So That idea led to makeing some space and clearing out special place to set it... Im thinking moving a desk that is full of junk.... pitch the junk,,, toss the desk..., really only need a spot for keys and sun glasses.... a basket for the odd drawer of pictures..... I have a plan,,,,,,, see if it works !

Im tired of JUNK.... PITCH ~~~

Navy and Purple Good Deeds

Ive been sewing for a couple days with my own mini marathon. Here is Two tops done so far !

This is a navy pansy print from Nancy's donation box. She had many yards in there !

I think some is a Hoffman, it has lines of gold in the print.

The purples are a variety of batiks sorted out of the bundles from the red and blue quilts.

The borders are just 'add till it gets to 42" size'

Included in the use of her yardage, I cut the back side from the pansy print too.

I still have several rectangles.. and just found couple more purple strips so Im thinking ONE MORE... I still have 3 to 5 yds of the Navy prints to use up also.....

Then I found some green strips..... another? with hmmmmm large florals?? see what the day brings !! Im sewing till 8 pm.

keep the machines humming ~~K

jelly roll quilts

Since its been hot, very HOT, I stayed indoors AC and was 'productive' !

After finishing a commission job for Tx lady of 7 feathered stars. I had this bundle of batiks saved from trip to Hot Springs, Ark early spring. I love batiks. A pattern in the Jelly Roll Quilt book called for these strips.. I had so much fun with one. why not make TWO ?!... so I did.

We are busy cruisin the hills around here on the bike . Admiring the wild flower colors along the sides of the roads. We marvel at the farms that have SO MUCH mowing. endless circles.... why dont they put giant gardens in that space... be usefull...it cant take that much more time than sitting in circles....

Our garden is watched over carefully by the Diva.. she loves it out there. Tomatoes & beans soon !

We are amazed at the dumb women on phones and how VERY riskey they are to US.

( PLEASE, put the phones AWAY people)

A recent trip to town the 9 quilts in last blog were donated to Linus. Bring the total Good Deeds so far this year to about 16. with several more on hangers yet to be finished.

Good Deeds !

Yes, I'm still stitchin away ~~~~

I go in spurts, with sewing several tops,, then its sits for couple weeks. Then I get busy and quilt them.. then they sit a bit till we do the pics...

I had a visit this spring, The door bell rang.... dingdong.... AVON LAdy!

What a nice visit we had ! In all our chatter it was mentioned Good Deed quilts, 'did I get paid for this?'... 'Noooo but I have sisters and freinds that have all helped along the way.' We chatted some more... We snoooped the Avon book.... on her merry way she went,,,,,,

Couple days later ~dingdong ~~ Avon Lady... she and another friend of hers had a sack FULL of good fabric colors for me. I spent a good week motivated playing with those country style fabrics. Thank You Diana!

few weeks later ~~ dingdong~ Avon Lady..... another merry visit and much chatter ! along with another full sack of fabric colors.. all bright colors!.... again I was motivated & inspired and sewed steady for a week.

I still have good sized bundles of colors to play with. They will get used! They will go tword more Good Deed Quilts. Thank you kindly Diana and her lady friends.

I need to order bulk roll of batting again. Progress! Our garden is growing well. Diva is entertained by the kids out back and practicing her 'singing'. I hope to soon have the blue lagoon pool filled up . ~~ Summer at Camp David~~K

Bike Adventure

the lunch line, ALL the way up the hill:

the nut shack, $5 for 'lunch':

While riding on Tuesday thru Jefferson City, we came upon a sign advertising a town festival....... ahem.... the Testical Festival in Olean Mo.

Tim of course had to google it.. then plan a route to attend this event and see for ourselves what it was.

We had a nice sun shiney ride. We saw hundreds of bikes. Bike people of all ages.. lots of our age !

There were a few crafty booths. We did B'fast prior,,,,, so we didint DO the offered lunch. ahahaha.

This is a link of a prior Festival with lil more info.

http://www.scrapbookflair.com/Memekathy/The_Testical_Festival

~~K

Wedding weekend

mom n sisters w Jake

good lookin boys!

pretty darn proud bunch

A very special dance

Mr & Mrs Jake

Jump for joy!

busting His buttons!