Blizzard !

Snow ! we have snow ! we have wind ! We have swirly drifts !

Feels like I'm back home in N Iowa ! Tim had to shovel a path before Diva would go outside. Rare for her !



Cracker is very carefully plowing thru snow up to his chest. There is a 12 " flower pot near the trellis.... see it ????

I think these chairs would give you a cold butt !.... and do you see my blue pool anywhere????

8 inches in front of the door....

Last week Diva was 'skating' on the blue pool. She will get a rude awakening come spring !

I love a good snow storm when we are home safe n sound to watch it sans worrying about roads. Its a good time to hibernate, cook, clean, watch movies, sew...

Yes, Ive been sewing right along, just not doing the pics as regular as I should ! Jan had 2 pink/green tops, 2 very large 'stinkin squares' tops and 1 red feathered star top,, waiting to be basted and quilted ~~ soon !

~stay warm ~stay put. ~~K

NewsYears HOHOHO

Carson & Raelle

Dec went fast ! Jan is going even faster ! here is the late scoop of the family Christmas happening on NewYears. Three sisters relaxing after all the food, giftys, noise ,wrapping paper, ectect was done . ~~ cheers and good things for 2011 ! It was Carsons 1st Christmas, ribbons are good things !. cookies are too !

.. and the annual Christmas Quilt got started late April then inspired me to make TWO.. they called out their own Owners of Jake and Aaron to

care for them.

Both Quilts are styled after Frank LLoyd Write house windows.
Aaron's quilt on the left is based on the Darwin D Martin House , Tree of Life in Buffalo, New York, 1904.

Jake's quilt on the right is based on Charles Ennis House in Los Angels, Calif. in 1924- 26.

I named the quilts 'Frost On Franks Windows' due to a glazed icy colored fabric used in the white space.

I'm currently stitching madly on a MilleniumQuilt or '2000 stinkinSquares'.. I haven't counted how many were used yet, tho there are many left in the box ! ........

Two Projects

Finally I have time for MY projects, The holiday sewing is done!
Now is the time for the '2000 stinkin squares' or nicer name of Milenium swap squares. They were swapped by the CrazyQuilters chat group in 1999/2000. I think they have sat in the box long enough and its time to getRdone.

Here's the start of the mess. They will be sewn on the Singer industrial model, made in November 1938. This is a rescued freecycle machine, repainted, plus a lil tune-up. The base box had broken hinges so I recovered with fabric to hide the fix it job there too !

These old classic machines have pretty details that our current plastic machines don't have . Neat !

The machine in the beginning was very rough, textured industrial grey machine. Many people would try to protect the integrity of the old details. Since there really wasn't much for savable paint details so I don't feel bad for changing the paint. I did save the serial number and the Singer medallion on the front. I added curly pinstripe decals and the local repair guy re oiled the mechanical parts.

I'll be testing her out on the 2000 Stinkin Squares that I'm sewing on tween now and NewYears
~ ta da ~~~ K

~~~hohoho and Merry Christmas to you and yours~~

Saturday morning at CampDavid

Last week we were up north to see the boys and their families, some shopping, some early Christmas.. some fussing over Carson & Raelle. a pizza B'day party . It was a busy weekend ! we also made a run to the mall with Aaron to pick up a ring ! With that we welcome Natalie to our crazy family.

On getting home Tim has fussed over a sore shoulder for a couple weeks, and went to the Dr.. along with an RX, she shut the PuterMonsters OFF ! (Lets just say this is torture for BOTH of us.)


While they are getting winter blizzard warnings up north.. Diva is snuggling in her home made cave here. I think she is part mole, she burrows in wherever she can all by herself.

Also while up north we visited with Nancy and gave her 10 quilts for her latest project planning an auction to raise $ for a health clinic. One snazzy quilt and 9 lap size Good Deeds. That will be my last donation for the year bringing the total for 2010 to 39. Thank you all for the help! I'm not done yet! Ive been rummaging in the color boxes and have plans for many more in 2011 .

Finally its looking a lot like Christmas around here. I had Tim help put our lil tree up ( to keep him busy/distracted for few) Then spent the afternoon making a list checking it twice and wrapping.

FWI:: for a peek at the Holiday 2010 Quilt.. peek at the big bags !

all wrapped up and waiting for the drawing.... stay tuned....

hohoho ~K

Country Quilt Project ~ the rest of the story..

Its a warm today ~ I don't think we will have too many more. I'm caught up on the HAVE TO DO things. The Christmas quilts are done , both of them. Nancy's auction quilt got hemmed last night. A wedding one is near done. I recvd a BIg Box of fabric reccently from Kay In AZ. ( Thank You kay) So we spent the morning in the garage basting five country tops. I really like Tim's help. That's a lot of pins. This week will be spent quilting on them!

Ive had a fun month of sewing finishing the Christmas quits, Heres the TEASE: I named them 'Frost on Franks Windows' LOL You figger it out !

I had couple days of shopping w the sisters for cruise clothing. We celebrated Shells birthday with supper out and drinks on Tim. ; )

I had a fun visitor of Sharonqlts, a great gal from the old chat room CraZyQuilTers. She was enroute from Va to Seattle. We talked non stop just like old times !



Facebook seems to be the new way to chat and keep up with those we know. Its also good for reconnecting with those we often wonder about. Its been fun talking to classmates and others with bits of our daily lives thrown in.

End of the Season

Its end of the season here. The news talked about a hard frost tonite possible 27*. So with a big sigh to the last of the garden goodies, we tore it all out. I tried to do a second season of green beans. Ill plant them bit earlier next year. These were planted August 16 and just now produced 12 beans. The small tomatoes will be added to a basket full on the counter.

Tonite is pasta using the majority of those!

I'm also keeping up with the Good Deeds. The top shown is the last of the colors purchased for Nancy's Auction quilt. Tis a good thing its not all assembled ! Tim found 3 errors I need to fix first.

All in a Day

All in a day ~ Heres my mess.. LOL some quilters have studios, I call that the house. I sew in many places, just bring the tv tray along. I cut on the dining room table. I iron in the spare bedroom. In the winter the quilt frame has couple different spots it migrates to also. ( I have a really good vacumn)

Yesterday I fussed with a pencil and math to design a border for Nancys quilt. After spending the morning stitching it together it just didnt have the 'framing abilty' I wanted in a border so I ripped it off,,~ frog stitch. ripit rippitt!~ This afternoon a new plan was sewn and added to her quilt. This top is done. ( a sneek peek on the chair)





ALL in a week~ Lin and Shell were here few days. After they left the place was way tooo quiet !! Just Diva and the humm of the machine. These 3 stars were finished this week. 2 are comission job. The star w red border is a GoodDeed. Also DO notice the neat Hawiian Pillow from Lin . Neat !

From my Quilter mail list they talked about old projects. I remebered I still had a box of 2 1/2" squares tucked away from swapping 'millenium squares' in '99. This box has moved with me around Ia to Chicago and around MO. Its all there, still in envelopes with a string around the box.

As I open the box and thumb thru scanning the addys on the envelopes I come to a folded up bundle of Xerox pages.. of a pattern called 'rainbow around the world'

It so happens ! today ! I also pulled a book from the shelf with that same pattern with thoughts to use this box of squares finally~ TEN yrs after the fact !

> coincidence??

the pattern is from a book printed in 1994 by Boonslick Trail Quilters a Columbia MO quilt guild in MO. I moved to Columbia MO in 2004. and bought the book at a show 2 yrs ago '08.

Guess what Ill be doing for the next big quilt??! I think 2010 is past due for a Millenium Quilt, I better get busy !