Rainy Day Sewing

The  Block Lotto is back in full swing.  If you played with them before you might want to head over and see what is happening now.  There are guest Lotto Masters who guide the months rather than Sophie doing all the work.  New and fresh. 

So this month is using up some orphan blocks and scraps.  I was going to do more, but I ended up with 5 blocks.  The orphans need to be 3 1/2 unfinished and my orphans are all larger blocks.  So I used up these 5 for the pot.

Not particularly  my cup of tea but I will offer them up as donation blocks for the kitty.

I spent the afternoon clearing up some of the clutter I created on my sewing table.  Boy, is it a mess!

One of the things was the back that needed to be sewn for the Daily Bird. Basically what I do is just hang up the quilt top and cover it with the backing material.

Then I fill in the gaps! 

I generally add a white or ecru square for the label information.  I like that better than sewing on labels at the end.    See the birds through the label? 

You can see my One Road Through Town piece that will be in at least one show this spring.  Maybe two.  I will have to see what it gets juried into. 

I got another tree block done tonight.  Nothing on TV,  so I just sewed.  The block is next to Red.

I will even them out when they are all done.  

Here is the whole layout so far.  The long piece on the right will be the border.  I will start laying out the words soon. 

AND.......you will be pleased to know.  I think I have my next quilt chosen.  My friend Bertha in California sent me the templates for the one she did.  I will have to ask her if I can post it.  It is amazing.  More on that later though.

I had the book it came from, but of course it flooded. 

And I need to quilt a few things before I get too far ahead on the tops........not that
I am not far enough behind in everything, but you know what I mean........

Red Riding Hood

 She is so adorable!  And I am linking her up to the Design Wall Monday.  go see what others are doing today as well.

So now I have the Grandma’s house, a bit of the forest and Red.  When I put Red together the first time......yep, the first time I had her head a bit to the left.  A bit!  LOL.  She had a serious hunch back.

See the one below is before I fixed her.   She really needed to be fixed, so I used my friendly seam ripper to decapitate her.  For her own good.

And she looks a lot better now.





I am going to o the wolf tomorrow.  Love that guy!

We were at Carrie’s today playing with the grandbaby.  He is cutting some big time teeth.  He got me pretty good last week so I knew to stay away from those choppers.  Hopefully he will get them under control and I won’t be going to daycare to spring him from Baby Jail for biting.

His teacher told Carrie that he is into licking the glass door in his classroom.  I am pretty sure he gets that crazy wild side from my family.  Although I don’t generally lick glass doors I have been known to do some pretty offbeat things.

Zookeeper, dog trainer, owned three businesses, I have an undergraduate and two advanced degrees.  I was sole caretaker for two Alzheimer’s patients and a cancer patient overlapping each other;  all family members.   I don’t sleep a lot, my favorite shows in the middle of the night?  600 Lb Life and Lock Up!   Not your average career line, but very interesting all the way.

What’s next?  Who knows!

What’s the weirdest job you’ve ever had?

Lips

Just to show you how much I love Suzette.......here are the lips.

 Don't you just love that  color on me?

Here are the five of us at the parade.  I  saved this from Carrie's new camera and it auto corrected it to black and white.  Sometimes I
amaze myself at what I can do without even knowing it!







This is a new project.  I figured if I am finishing up two quilts this month I can add at least one more to the pile.  Right?

This is the grandmother's house  in Little Red Riding Hood.  I need to go copy some additional tree blocks today, I need 6 of them.  I only copied 3 for some reason. 

And then there is Red and the Wolf blocks.  Been wanting to do this one for a while.