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

GSMD Club Raffle Quilt

I am going to work on the Greater Swiss Mountain Dog Club of America's Raffle Quilt today.  It needs to be bigger.  Longer and maybe wider, we shall see what it looks like when it gets longer.  You know I hate square quilts and right now it is about 42 x 42. It needs to be bigger.

But first I have something to get off my craw.

It looks like an alien ship and runway

I have this wonderful new keyboard.  Remember mine died about

it has a calculator function and F keys

3 weeks ago?  I like the split keyboards and Best Buy had only one split keyboard available.  It was reasonably priced so I bought it.  I do like it.  Except for one thing.

It has like a ghost keyboard where all the keys take on a different

It has keys that have no explanation

meaning.  For no apparent reason and without apparent cause.  For example, just typing this post so far I have hit some key that erases the entire post.  I can get it back  by hitting the back arrow on the screen but it is very very very very very very very (infinity) aggravating.

And it just did it again!  Aughhhh!

Some key I hit brings up a strange window that wants me to edit in HTML. Then typing a period at the end of a sentence brings up a window that has the normal edits on it (copy, delete, paste, etc).

You have no idea how infuriating it is to have these windows constantly popping up and your work being constantly erased.

On top of that, I am sort of pissed off with Frank.  He only wanted to eat a hot dog at Sam's (yes, the STORE) and there is no way I am going to eat a hot dog or pizza when I am not eating wheat, corn, dairy, sugar, or fats.   So he was mad at ME for not wanting to eat.  And yes, I did try to compromise by offering to go to Dairy Queen where he could have gotten a nice hot dog and I could at least have gotten a salad.   Back in the car after getting dog bones and the infamous hot dog, he said it was my fault because if I had just convinced him to go somewhere else he would have gladly gone.

Now, really?  How passive aggressive is that?