One Monthly Goal Finish - Zig Zag

Wow, I finished my OMG for January.  Are you shocked?

Not as much as me!  LOL

In all seriousness, I did finish it about 2 weeks ago, and it was a good thing I did because all hell broke lose in the last two weeks.  I have been sick with "Not The Flu".


 Now Frank has it.  He was out of town for my illness so I had the three dogs wanting in and out and to eat for two days before he felt so bad he drove home from Houston to be sick here at home.



I started Zig Zag in a retreat.  It is a pattern from Cultural Fusion by Sujata Shah.  Lots of scraps in there!

I quilted it with a HUGE Baptist Fan pattern on my domestic head rather than the long arm.  You can go here to my Fun with Barb post to see why.........it wasn't pretty

It is bound in a red orangy fabric......just because.  there are so many colors in there I felt it needed to be contained by a strong color!

Not sure what I will do with it yet.

But it is declared finished!

And I am linking up with the Elm Street people at OMG - Finish for January Linky! 

And with Judy at Patchwork Times for the January UFO.......hey, it is NOT cheating.......

Jack and Gourdy Throw a Party

Finished!  I spent the day with Ann at the Red Stick and put the binding on the Jack and Gourdy quilt.   I chose the black and orange stripes because it looks like a witch's socks.  Stockings, I guess, stockings.

It is MARVELOUS!

This is the binding I used

My Uncle Buddy used to say that all the time.  Marvelous, he would say.  My father would say, why did you make so many mistakes on that quilt?  My Uncle would say, Marvelous.

So Jack and Gourdy are throwing a Marvelous party!


glen

The Three Legged Dog, Dinosaurs and a Serious Sinus Shutdown

Will 2011 ever end?  Pleeeeeeeease??????

It is a good thing I have lots of patience.  When I left to run some errands 4 days ago, I put DiNozzo in his crate and tossed in a Milkbone.  Normal procedure.  DiNozzo uses the crate Dutch had when we were on the show circuit.  It is huge!  Dutch, as 120 lbs, could stand up and turn around comfortable so I know DiNozzo at 55 lbs and short as a stump is way comfortable.  But when I got home and opened up the crate, he came out on 3 legs.  What??????



Chloe is now sleeping on Dutch's bed



Is it some unwritten law around here that a dog can only have three good legs?  Bonnie Doon had bad hips and her left one sometimes gave her a bit of trouble.  Dutch had a right front leg in which he tore a shoulder muscle when stadium jumping.  And Chloe the Smelly Basset has that torn ACL from when I fell over her and ended up with my own knee surgery.  Three good legs, all of them.



Is that not pathetic looking?



Now DiNozzo.  So I did when I always do for dogs.  I treat for 1 to 2 days and if it isn't better, head out to the vet.  In fact, I knew already the vet would say, Rimadyl twice a day and rest.  So that is what we did. 

DiNozzo did get better.  He was no longer limping on day 3 so I stopped the Rimadyl to see what would happen.  I really had no idea where he was hurting.  His patella was not moving, he had no tenderness in any leg part, nothing wrong with his foot or toes or pads.  I was stumped.  So off to the vet.

Vet laughs at me.  He always laughs at me and my three good legged dogs.  He pushes and prods and pulls and pokes.  All the P's.  Then he runs his fingers down DiNozzo's back.  In the lower back section he is weakness.  Sciatica.  Can you believe that?  Yep.  So he is on......let's hear it......Rimadyl and rest!

I have my first actual finish on a UFO for 2012.  Even though it is in 2011 on Dec 29, it is actually for 2012.  I needed to get it off my floor because it involves more than just a quilt.  It involves a whole sack full of dinosaurs.  I bought the dinos from a garage sale for $8 and the quilt is from my stash.  I don't really have too many kid fabrics, but most of them went into this effort.  A great stash buster and UFO finish.  Oh, can I claim this on my stash busting report maybe???????

last but not least, not least at all, because of all the cleaning and sweeping and moving of stuff it stirs up all the dust and fabric fibers.  Which in turn causes my sinuses to object.  To top that off, yesterday, and he swears he did not do this, I picked up the Windex Vinegar Cleaner I was using to clean surfaces and blinds and shelves as I went.  The top sprayer thingy stayed in my hand but the bottle with ALL the liquid fell to the floor.  I was on the stepladder and it poured out over a large area of the floor and stuff.  So the smell was quite strong despite the fan and an open window.

So I can't breathe, I have another three legged dog but I have a dinosaur finish! 

 glen:  2012 where are you?????

A UFO Finish - Jesse Will Love This

Judy L called the number and this one came up.

Finished up a UFO just now.  It was one I started years ago.  I took a class at the Quilt Corner with Judy Tate and she had designed a Row Quilt out of beautiful bright tone on tone fabrics.  I had this in my stash and decided to use steel blue and beige rose prints.  I had the top finished for about a year and it was sandwiched and just sitting there.

When I got into quilting it I realized that a corner of the backing was chunked out for some reason.  So I pulled a piece of green that was a similar tone with roses and made a Y seam adding that to fill in the gap.

The added bonus is the beautiful day we had here.  60's temps made it a perfect spring day.  So I sat in the back yard, yelling at DiNozzo for chewing up all the sticks he could find and swallowing them for the 2 1/2 hours that I worked.  And I had to keep flicking the caterpillars off me and the quilt as well.

I hope you enjoy the pictures of the quilt and the beautiful day and the back yard we work so hard in every week!

glen:  see the new goldfish on the fence Frank bought me today?  He is looking at the quilt and going:  Blub! What a blub blub quilt!