A Miserable Week All Around and a Stash Report 11-1-15

Ahhhh!  A new month!  I get to start at 0's again!  LOL.

Poor little Hugeaux is doing well after eating all that Halloween chocolate.  Bad bad grand dog.  And
we had Halloween on Saturday moved up to Halloween on Friday because yesterday we had some tornadoes and over 4 inches of rain over the afternoon and night.  I was skeptical about the change but they were right to do it, the weather really was that bad.

I got some things done this week, not much but a few.

I worked on another set of T-Shirt Back blocks for a boy's quilt.  And I got the Raffle quilt for the Swissy Rescue Foundation off to Pat in Florida.  That was just a matter of finishing sewing the binding and mailing it off.

I grabbed some UFO blocks leftover from a dog quilt I made 5 years ago and made them into a small duffel bag for the CAAWS Raffle in December.


I also put together the 9 large blocks for the quilt Paula is donating for the church fair.  I sashed the blocks, put on two borders and will bring it to her to quilt tomorrow.  I previously made 3 (maybe 4) of the large blocks.  Paula and some others made the rest of the blocks.  Although it looks so dark here, the borders and binding are of a wonderful pine needle print that matches the color ranges of the greens inside the quilt blocks.  So that is 1 1/2 yards to declare.

Here is my whine for the week.  I am working on the Egyptian Pyramid and Sphinx piece for the Fiber Group.  I get stuck because I don't really have the creative talent to take it to the next level.  I can put the photos on, and do the backing, but the WOW creativity part is where I am lacking.  I just don't have that.  I have the  idea in my mind, but it rarely translates to the fabric. 

I have also been working on the quad-tych from this small group of friends.  I have trashed this one twice now.  And the current incarnation may not make it far.  See what I mean?  I really need to stick to quilt type stuff........aughhhh!  Must be the weather, nothing seems to be feeling right this week.

I am working on binding the Skele-Biker.  Got that half done, you can see where i started and stopped last night.  At least I can do binding well........

Used this week	-3.58	Used this month	-3.5	Used this year	-172.5
Bought this week	0	Bought this month	0	Bought this year	96.25
Plus or minus	-3.58	Plus or minus	-3.5	Plus or minus	-76.25

Karen, If You Are Reading This....Close Your Eyes

This is my cousin Karen's Christmas present.  She will love it.  She and her son Matthew the Smartest Kid in the World, both love cats.  Their foray into dogs was not a blazing success, but the cats have definitely been their thing.  She is an acupuncture vet who does only the acupuncture now.  Always interesting, that girl.

These are Siamese, if you please.....thank you Anne - I agree, I think it was Lady and The Tramp....

I finished this duffle bag about 9 pm tonight.  I did use a different batting inside, this one is the fusible pellon batting, 785 I think.  I already tossed the info on it.  It made if stiffer and it stands up where the other one with the 80/20 batting is really soft and needs stuff inside.  Both are the same in utilization ability but this one is prettier with nothing in it.  And it has cats.  Karen will think that makes it better anyway.

Don't you love it?  I am so impressed with these bags.  I am addicted to them.  The worthy this year may just get a duffle bag with their quilt!  LOL.  Maybe you need to click on this one showing the inside, it has little cat feet!  Like the Chicago Fog and Carl Sandburg.  Karen is from Chicago.......wow......that is amazing, it was meant to be!


THE fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

I love the size and the shape and the ease of making it.  I will be at Red Stick on Tuesday with April and Ann and Charlene and we will all make one.  If you are interested, this is not a class but we can all work on one, I will send you the pre-info and you can make the fabric sandwich and do the cutting before we get together so it will finish in aobut 3 hours.  The longest part is the quilting the fabric part so I am thinking on how to do it on the long arm.........hmmmm.


I had hoped to finish the other one this weekend but I don't think I will have the time.  I am going on the Shop Hop in Houston leaving Friday morning with the Gang of Women from REME Guild.  That would be Remember Me Guild here in Baton Rouge.  We are still whining from the news that we have to leave at 7 fricking AM before all that is good and dawn has hit the streets.  But we will make it.

And I guess I will have to buy something at each shop, you know, just to be kind.   My Stash busting numbers are pathetically low right now anyway, so why not blow it in Texas!

And Sunday, Jason comes in town and we have a fish fry at his momma's house in Addis.  Addis is like BFE, but closer.  And cooler.  And Jason.




                                                      glen