Green Stack and Whack Calla Lily Quilt is Quilted

Chips the 22 lb mean cat!

Cali helping with a quilt

I loved that story about the kitty waiting for the litter!  Sounds just  like a cat, too!  I miss not having kitty feet in the house.  We always had two or three at one time and they lived to ripe old ages of close to 20.  We lost the last one 2 years ago, Cali, my little tiny calico who was 21 and still catching lizards until the end!




The Calla Lily Stack and Whack quilt is now quilted and needs a binding.  I have to decide what to put as a binding and get that done so I will have a finish for May, at least!

I wanted to do a pantograph on the back table since the long arm is still pulled out from the wall for when the film guy was here.  I got everything set up and realized we never did put the handles on the rear of the machine!  So much for that!

So I resorted to working from the camera, but I couldn't figure out where to put one of the wires that turned the whole thing on!  I gave up and just did a free motion leaf and swirl.  It worked out well.

Now it just needs a binding!

And to show you just how much Frank is loved:

the snoring from all three is deafening!

Stash Report 5-17-15

Seems like at least once a week my computer decides to gum up some keys.  I think it does it on purpose.  Just to get me.  Last week it was the a.  This weekend is has been the -.  Who knows what it will be next week!

I am down with it.  It can't get at me too bad, I have a great week to report and it can be done without any more -'s  !!

After several nothing weeks, I had a stellar week!

I put together three quilt backs to get them ready for quilting (Stars, Lily and Spools).  they will all get new names before it is all over with.  And I finished up the Lily quilt's green and brown borders an sashing and the Spools' black sashing and borders.

And I claimed the Plaster of Paris FQ set that downed me by 7.5 yards!  Who knew it was that much?  I  bought another set of FQs from Massdrop this week, bicycles.  I will use them to make a quilt for my hairdresser.  She keeps me red and I love her!  She is an avid semi-semi-pro biker.  (I did have to use the - again......)

I am sooooo loving my numbers!

Used this week	-20.75	Used this month	-20.75	Used this year	-75.75
Bought this week	7.5	Bought this month	7.5	Bought this year	41.25
Plus or minus	-13.25	Plus or minus	-13.25	Plus or minus	-34.5

From "UFO" to "In Line At The Long Arm"

On Saturday, I was working hard at cooking and quilting all the live long day!

I decided that we needed tamales, having eaten the last package many months ago.  I got meats, corn husks and masa.  You might think that here in Louisiana we know nothing of tamales.  Au contraire, mon ami!  There are a lot of Cajun families who celebrate holidays and the High Holy Days with tamales!  You might find a bit of crawfish in there, but they are tamales nonetheless!

Every time I make tamales, I have to go to YouTube and refresh myself with the way to roll them.  This time I started off and I forgot to soak the husks.  Last time I used the papers, and I have to admit it was a lot easier than the husks.

And they stayed together better than the husks.  I lost about 3 in each for the pots I steamed.  But I saved the juice for tortilla soup, one of Carrie's favorite things!

While I finished up the last batch I noticed some bugs on my stove.  The Formosan termites are swarming in the neighborhood right now and there they were in the hood vent.  We spent the next two hours vacuuming them up.  My kitchen is a mess with stuff moved out of its place everywhere.

They are attracted to light and as soon as we turned the light off they stopped coming in.  We have Terminex treat our house every year, so there is not too much concern for an infestation, but it was uncomfortable thinking of it.   Will call on Monday and get them to come and look.

Then he decided that he needed to fix the bottom of the cabinet under the sink, more stuff came out.  I notice I have 4 red bottles of some such thing.  Maybe I need to go through and toss stuff.........

Quilts.......

I spent some time in and out of the quilt room over the course of the day.  While I was working I finished up listening to Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention Of Wings.  I have no idea how she came to that title.  It is about two abolitionist sisters pre-Civil War Charleston.  I started in listening to Amanda Berry's new book Hope about the Cleveland kidnapping of her, Gina Dejesus and Michelle Knight.  Castro was a real monster.  In the beginning chapter she expresses regret that he killed himself rather than remain in captivity like he forced them to for 11 years.

 My friend Joni made herself some note cards with the name of each UFO she had.  And in several weeks she cleared up a whole stack of cards!  I thought it might be a good way to focus on my unbelievable group of UFOs.  There are not enough cards in the city for the ones I have!  But I filled up all the cards I could find.

So the Lily Stack and whack was the first one I pulled.  That top and back is done.




The second card was the Star quilt.  That needed quilting so I made a back for it and it is ready.







 The third, yes, I am on THREE!  The third one was the Lotto Spools. I won those at a River City Guild meeting maybe 4 years ago.  They were in rows and needed to be out together.  And a back made.  DONE!

Next week I have a guy coming to put film on my windows, but after that I am ready to quilt these three babies!  That should keep me out of trouble for a while.