Late, Late, Late with Design Wall Monday 10-1-12

Happy October everyone!

I am so late today, so many things to do including setting McGee up for his heartworm treatment tomorrow.  So I am in a state.

I have red beans and sausage cooking, since today is Monday and it is Southern Louisiana!


I still have the Jack and Gourdy Throw a Party on my design wall, but the back has been completed and it needs to be sandwiched for quilting.  I was thinking I could get some orange an purple cotton thread and do a nice hand stitching on the pumpkins and candy corn.  I think that would be wonderful.  I do have all month, you know!

Tomorrow I will start a new quilt.  I am going to cut out two Southwestern Quilts so Ann and I can work on them during the retreat this weekend.

And I have the Saints quilt for my delightful nephew Matthew, who loves my quilts and the Saints, but not necessarily in that order.  His cats are named Drew Brees and Deuce McAllister (who used to be a Saint, he must have gotten traded off because he is not on the roster for this year!)

This is a similar pattern to the one Patty the Quilt Lady did for a wedding quilt.  I think she may still be working on the quilting.  She does this wonderfully close line quilting that I envy so much.  I have always wanted to do that but get really impatient before the end of quilting.  What I do is quilt lines 1 inch apart and go back if I have the inclination.  (Most times I don't.....)


So that is what is going on, heartworms, the Southwest and the Saints.

glen

McGee, Veggies and Photo Quilts

Some disturbing news from the vet, McGee is heartworm positive.  We usually do what is called the slow kill method; basically just giving ivermectin dosages each month and at the end of 1 - 2 years the dog should be free of heartworms.  But the fast kill method would take about 60 days and we could certify that he was given the treatment and hope the rescue will take him then.

Either way, it seems he is to be with me for a while.  And you know what that means.  I don't' know that I could give him up in December or January.  You can see I am not a good foster home.  Really.

He is so comfortable with his crate and bed that he actually goes in there and sleeps.  We have only used a crate for one dog, DiNozzo.  So this is new to me.  All the Swissys and the Setters were actually GOOD dogs.  McGee is totally housebroken and does not seem to be the counter surfer that DiNozzo is, yet.


But I did get two new quilt books.  And they reflect my thoughts and ideas as I am evolving into a new style of quilting.   I really have to let the box of UFOs go and just see them as margin works.  The new work needs to be fresh and wonderful and exciting.

Hence the new books.

The veggies are something I have wanted to do for a long long long time but was bogged down in all the other unfinished stuff.  I have been reading Ruth McDowell's technique and I can see a series.  Yes, a series of work in vegetables!  I need a catchy name now.  Any ideas?

And the photo book is incredible.  Susan Brubacker Knapp's methodology makes the journey from idea to photo to quilted piece incredibly easy.

I am so ready to get rid of this tension and anxiety and pressure in my life and do this wonderful quilting.  I would like to team up and do some really interesting work.

glen:  and just live with my dogs.  Quilts and Dogs, that's all.

PS.....and Frank, he has to work to keep us in doggy treats and quilt books.