crowded parking lot

Why is it that when you want good pictures the camera acts up? I figured that the darling's problem was battery related but still..........

They are filming the new version of "Foot Loose" in various locations around Atlanta. Next to the antique mall where we have a booth there is an old country western night club... last week park of the parking lot was congested with film equipment and huge storage containers. This week the parking lot has container trailers, trailers for the actors, and other living/working configurations. The parking lot was full of cars rather the usual 10 to 20... I tried to take a few pictures of the makeshift village in the parking lot.....

The pictures are pretty terrible... but maybe it will give you a hint of what it looks like...

Church soft ball

New Friday night activity...
What could be more exciting than a fun game of church soft ball. Now my husband and I were not playing, we were part of the cheering team. Our son Adam is now playing on the church's soft ball team. He seems to think that its a most wonderful way to spend a Friday night. This was my first chance to watch him play as the games began while I was in south Georgia with my mother-in-law. The teams are made up of various ages and must have an equal number of ladies and gentleman. The purpose of church soft ball rules seem to be to equalize opportunities and fairness, to the unskilled cheerleader they were difficult to follow at times. But that is okay... it made for the element of surprise.

It was a great way to spend the night... much more entertaining than TV and the commercials are shorter... (little kids flying by on their trikes such cute kids).

Now I realize that the photos are not too good... but they give you the general idea. It was dark and they played on the other side of the fence :) K

September???

What happened to September???

I'm not sure but I think it flew by in a hurry...

So here I go trying to catch up...
K

ECQG blocks

During the month of September I did work up some blocks for two projects for the East Cobb Quilt Guild... I submitted a couple of fill-in blocks for the president's quilt, plus each guild in Georgia being asked to make a quilt that will be used to make money for the new state quilt museum... Since ECQG's emblem is baskets, I had the opportunity to improve my piecing skills. Meaning, I'd never made baskets before...

Adam's new car

Son Adam's new car.. such a nice looking man :)

neighborhood surprise

Bright and early one morning the neighborhood awoke to smiley faces in the our neighbor's yard... our young neighbor up the street was fascinated by the sight...

look what showed up!

Now this is some sort of cool tumbler... insulated, spill proof top and it's very own plastic straw with a "washer" to keep the liquids in... the only thing that would make it cooler would be if it was purple...

Some how it showed up here at the house while I was gone.

TOGA in Florida

I've just returned home from enjoying the Florida TOGA (TreadleOn Gathering and Academy). It was a short 2.5 days of rubbing elbows with other folks that are addicted to people powered sewing machines (all though were a few stray electric vintage machines). What could be better than a large room full of treadles and hand cranks, all singing their own purring songs. We sewed, practiced free motion quilting, learned about taking apart a tension assembly and did a block exchange.

Here are some photos of the TOGA. In the next posting I'll show you the block exchange entries.

Free motioning Quilting???

Miss McKenna gave us a demonstration and encouragement to try our hand at free motion quilting on a class 15 Singer treadle...( in the last post McKenna is the lady dressed in a pinkish outfit sitting at a treadle).

We each took our turn at practicing free motion quilting...especially feathers among other things...

Yes, I know I didn't smooth out the sample, but maybe you get the idea anyway :)

TOGA Exchange blocks

The guidelines for the TOGA were
-block size 6.5 inches square
-pinks, whites, greens, & a dash of yellow
-block design was the stitchers choice

You'll see that there is a nice variety...

More blocks

What do you do with junk???

You sell it as antiques :)

Or at least that's how the saying goes "we buy junk and sell antiques".

Ya, we got a booth in an antique mall in Kennesaw, Ga.So far so good...so far the biggest sellers are the tools that GH has been collecting. Books would have to be the second biggest seller.... I don't notice anymore room around the house though. (GH hasn't said anything about bringing a sewing machine up there...smart man.)

More House Hunting In South GA

While with my Mother In Law during the three months that I was down there we frequently went for a drive on the "dirt" back roads, something that she'd not do on her own. She love it, seeing farms and the houses of friends for times past... she enjoyed every trip. On trip we passed this collection of buildings that had once been a busy working farm. In June my husband and I were both down again and drove us out to see the farm again... yes, all the buildings lean slightly to the side while the farm house appears to standing it's ground.
What do you think???

UGA baby quilt top

The young couple down the street is expecting baby Charlie this week... after the German block exchange I had left over blocks & fabric, and since the UGA (University of Georgia) colors are red, white, and black I thought of no better use for my scraps than a UGA baby quilt.

Even though you can't tell the borders in this picture they are the token black for the UGA colors...

I still have 16 blocks left over... so you guessed it... a small square "summer" quilt... just the blocks, flannel batting with a black binding. Go Dawgs...

What do you think??? K

Harris H 9

Well, I've finished my three sets of blocks for the TreadleOn Block Exchange... some exchanges have an interesting requirement for those participating... This one the blocks were to be made on a German made people powered sewing machine with the colors being reds with creams and light tans.

Inspired to use my German handcrank I purchased three different reds and coordinating lights... since I've lived in Georgia for over half of my life I couldn't resist the UGA bulldog fabric when I saw it... It also turns out that we have a UGA baby due just two doors down... so those extra blocks and fabrics will go into a red, black and white baby quilt for the young Baldwin baby. I wanted to send in three different block sets, 12 in each set.

My sewing machine was purchased in Tifton at the only antique shop I know of... this Harris H9 was sold in England probably after the war because the national original is not stated on the machine... just the word foreign to let the buyer know that it was not an English product. It is a sweet sewing machine....

Is this for real???

Neither one of us could decide what we wanted for very late lunch today... so that means we ordered Chinese.

On this Memorial Day Weekend I got this fortune in my cookie...

"You'll accomplish much later if you have a little fun this weekend"

Don't you just love fate :)