Signage

I really enjoy a good sign...

For the past year or more while driving the back roads down to a relative's home I've seen the sign for a specific BBQ restaurant. I even asked my brother-in-law in the middle of the state if he knew where the place located...... I was thinking of getting a t-shirt from this place. I mean after 30 years of teaching blind and visually impaired children how to use a cane I just had to have a t-shirt from the....

I'd taken my camera down to the party for my niece's baby's first birthday... I didn't take any photos of family or friends but I couldn't pass up the pig sign.

Once we got back to the south side of Atlanta we decided to eat at the Oakwood Cafe which is located in the Farmer's Market campus. We have found their flower garden signage interesting.



Now why not is our question??? Is it to keep the cats hungry so that they'll chase mice away from the market or is it an attempt to get them to move away??? K

All Ironing Boards are Not Created EQUAL

I'm not sure what has gotten into me but I've been cleaning, tossing and sorting like crazy these last weeks. Last week after helping our son get ready for the interior of his house to be painted I came home and cleaned out 6 tubs of fabric...GONE. Just take a look. I sure hope that some new quilter shops at the thrift store where the American Kidney Foundation takes this donation.

Some time over the past year I'd seen a much wider ironing board at "some" average old store, meaning I didn't see it at a fabric or quilt store. Since I'm on my cleaning jag I thought I might as well invest in a new board (take the currently used one over to church for the quilt group, then we'd have two). So I went for a QUICK drive to find it. Most of a day, three Wal-Marts, and a Target store later I finally found it.

Now look at these two boards, don't you think the new is worth it??? And are all ironing boards created equal... I don't think so... Ironing yardage could be much quicker now... Notice I didn't say anything about shirts or other garments... K

!!!SO FAR BEHIND !!!

How can a retired person get so far behind??? I mean I don't get in the car everyday and spend hours some where else... so how do I get so far behind... I guess, that might be one of those ageless questions...

Well, to help catch you up on what I've been doing I thought I'd just group things together rather than do individual posts...
So here goes QUILTING

I've got another Christmas BOM done... is the Civil War block done NO.

Here is a photo of my blocks for the TreadleOn Spring TOBE (Treadle On Block Exchange) which was due at the beginning of the month. These will make a great split rail fence quilt. I sent in multiple sets.... On the right is a photo of the extra block that I made each of the participants, it's made with the special state of Georgia Fabric fabric that commissioned for the recent Metro Atlanta shop hop.



I took a two day class in hand applique... it was advertized as 6 ways to applique... but I think the teacher slipped an extra one in there somewhere... The picture shows the results of the first day of class... basket, handle and one leaf. I have the flowers prepared for stitching down but this will be one of my projects on my up coming quilting trip to the north Georgia mountains.

Last Wednesday my Georgia Friendship Quilt Guild had a workshop on making these neat pincushions...we made ours big so that folks could get the hang of the process. We made two and had a drawing for one made by a guild mate. Here is a link to a smaller sized that is worn on the wrist... In my picture the one is made is on the right... the purple one was made by a guild friend. It was a fun project.


Now you are caught up on all of my sewing adventures...k

House Hunting again

I enjoy a good looking old house or building, it doesn't even need to be in acceptable repair, as you can tell from these photos...

The pinkish house is in Tifton near the water tower and the other is downtown Ty Ty, maybe you've heard of them.... the big Ty Ty nursery is there.... they send fruit trees and plants all over the south (maybe the north as well...) The more flourishing photo is downtown Sylvester GA... the home of Aunt Inez... my mother-in-laws sister...we went by during my recent visit to the southern part of the state...

Another BOM done

While hubby was away shooting at the Glock match I spent the day working on the first block of the month (BOMs) installments for my two Red Hen quilts for this year... I've never done a Christmas quilt and this year is the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Well, I just finished the Civil War block which was constructed mostly of HST sections (half square triangles). Some of my most favorite blocks or quilts are made up of HST sections...
Anyway, here is the finished Civil War block for January...

And yes it really is 2:45 AM... love that coffee at late dinner :)

DONE

Red Hen Quilt Shop Christmas Quilt Block of the Month (BOM), January Block... DONE :)

Challenge Quilt 2011

Well, I've moved into that thought process of "it's better done than perfect". Even though I've been working on the quilt top of my East Cobb Quilt Guild 2011 challenge quilt for weeks it was still under production last night when I took it to evening guild meeting. Matter of fact, I was picking out free motion quilting that I'd done and didn't like like. Not sure if it was color thread, awful design or the fact that I'm a terrible free motion quilter. Anyway, it was not done in time to turn it in last night.... so I was working on it till the wee hours of the morning... I got to hear the 3:00AM thunderstorm roll through.

I got it all together this morning and turned in...I've not decided if I'll redo any of it or just hide it in the drawer... it is finished and that makes another thing DONE on my deadline list.

The challenge elements were, one friendship block, a heart, obvious binding, a certain size, and it had to tell you something about your best friend....
... So my Best Friend is (or are) my treadle sewing machines... I used some treadle fabric that a TreadleOn member shared with me. My friendship stars had black backgrounds. There was a thin purple with metallic silver pattern fabric piping (?) edge trim then 2.5 inch squares of various sewing fabrics. The outer border was the same snake fabric that I used in my ISMACS convention Halloween quilt contest entry, now that is all gone :) The binding was supposed to be obvious so I did lime green... The lime green binding looks okay at 100 yards while riding a galloping horse, up close it is awful--- I might trim it off and redo... haven't decided.

Yes, one of the friendship blocks is misshaped, that's because our friends are not perfect... not even treadles--- I know that is hard to believe...

I have the quilt back home so will take a better picture but this is the photo taken this morning before leaving for guild meeting...