First Bobbin fabric blocks arrive

The first blocks for the very exclusive TreadleOn Bobbin Fabric Block Exchange arrived at my house where the sorting and resending will occur next month. The guidelines for the exchange are posted on the right of this blog, so take a look. Tina's blocks are great. She sent in a set and a half, 9 blocks total-3 of each design.

My desire is to make a "pillowcover" for my lace pillow from the blocks.

Think Pink Mailings

During the month of October I was busy knitting pink facecloths for the ladies in my life... each pink facecloth came with a bar of soap (some homemade from a local source and some got Peach Georgia soaps) The idea was that each time my friend used her pink cloth she would remember that her health was in her hands, that friends loved and needed her and that most of all God had a plan for her....the bottom line, TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. I derived a great deal of pleasure making all these facecloths. Now I did send my brother and Uncle Bob one as well but theirs were red-white-and blue, both are veterans, but the message was the same, Take Care. A little note card was sent in each mailer just to stay in touch... I've not been a very good correspondent lately....

The photo of the pink facecloths is the second batch. The first ones got hand delivered around the area on Nov 1 with out a thought of taking a picture...

Robert C. Williams Paper Museum-GA Tech

On Monday November 10th Sonja and I took an adventure down to the paper museum on the GA Tech Campus. Our visit was informative for us and amusing to the building's receptionist. She couldn't believe that we were that enthused to be there and that we spent more than an hour (the parking spaces reserved for the visitors had 1 hr time limitations). The museum housed not only artifacts from the history of paper making but a traveling display of "paper cutting art" WOW is all we could say... how do they do that???? There should have been video showing someone actually cutting one of these masterpieces... it was a great visit. With this fun under our belts we've considered going to another obscure Atlanta area museum in the near future, Atlanta has the National Patriotism Museum and a long list of others that few have heard of... so much to see.

Two signs from the Paper Museum

Two of the signs from the museum caught our eye...

The first one states that Hunter (the collector of the artifacts and hand made paper researcher) "believed that a hand-crafted object was inherently more desirable, beautiful, serviceable and worthy of human endeavor than anything made by machine." Amen!!!

The second sign was in the room that housed the equipment from Dard Hunter's actual paper mill here in the USA (early 1900's)...

Rags make paper
Paper makes money
Money makes banks
Banks make loans
Loans make beggars
Beggars make rags

Quilts and "Costume Sewing-in"

The evening of Election Day (Nov 4th) saw much activity in the usually creative but calm quilting room of First Baptist Church.... the big turn out and commotion was due to the quilters and stitchers of the church coming together to work on the costumes for the up coming Christmas program. Puffy pantaloons and vests were the order of the night rather than quilt blocks, borders and bindings. Food was provided and we even had a willing model for the vests ...we didn't tell him about the pantaloons and tights :)

Christmas Stocking QTYW Day

Well, you probably thought that things in GA had come to a stand still....

After sending my mother-in-law the box of 30 knitted dishcloths I thought of a project for October that could use the same knitting pattern, I've gotten 14 of them done so far but will say nothing more till the project is done. Just wanted to let you know that I'd been busy...

This past Saturday was the Loving Hands Quilt Group quarterly Quilt Till You Wilt event... this time it was to make 40+ Christmas stockings for the church's Youth Outreach in December. This time there were but a handful of eager elves to assemble the stockings. After a few technical difficulties (thread tensions, needles breaking, switching machine feet etc) we finally got a steady pace going and finished up 32 of the necessary 40. I used one of my vintage sewing machines: matter of fact, Froggy was our first vintage machine. He was purchased the last day of an estate sale in MN. The bobbin case was snarled up in thread so it appeared not to be working... we got him for $5 and have had not a minutes trouble with him since getting the thread nest out of the bobbin case :) .

We each brought home some extra stockings to assemble so I think I'll sew mine with Sarah the Featherweight and my Elna Supermatic.What fun!!! In the photo are four of the participants....Patti, Joann, Terri and myself (sitting behind the machine). Not pictured were our support and supply committee, Jean and Imogene.

It is turning cooler in the metro Atlanta area... hope that all is well in your corner of the world.
kz

Barbie #4 Done

Well, October came in with the long anticipated final Barbie quilt pieced, quilted and bound ready for debut. This too has the shaggy binding around the edges. The Loving Hands Quilt Group of First Baptist Church Smyrna GA has done a wonderful job of turning the donated fat quarter bundles from The Fabric Outlet in Brooklyn Park MN into four fantastic giggly girl style quilts that will warm hearts and beds for years to come. These quilts are going to two charities in the Atlanta area...three are going to the street ministry of Cobb Co and the other is a raffle quilt. (We'll know in a few months how much money it helped raise and I'll let you know.) kz