Diawabo Houses

Well it's been several days since I've posted and WOW has time gone by fast. Saturday morning hubby and I were at my Mom's house by 7am and we worked in her attic until about 5pm with just a few short breaks. Was it ever hot!!! But we did get a lot done. Four pick-up loads to The Salvation Army and 2 dumpster loads of trash. Daughter #2 came and helped along with my sister in law. We really didn't pack for her move and there is still tons to be done, but hey it was a start!!

Here are the pictures of the Diawabo Houses from www.pinwheels.com. They had a booth at the Road 2 California Quilt Show in January and I signed up for this BOM. I love these fabrics.... and I love house blocks so what could be better! :o) You should visit their site if you like cool and different stuff.

On Sunday I did all of my August birthday DJ siggie swap blocks and I made a couple more blocks that I'll show you later...it's a quilt I'm gonna really love! Like I don't love ALL QUILTS!

Time to get supper ready and maybe sew a stitch or two.

No pics today

Today is going to be a busy day. Sales rep that takes forever...he is a nice guy though...errands to run...house to finish cleaning (after I get home from work) and I don't feel very good today :o(

I do have progress to report on my DJ quilt though...144 blocks done, 143 of those are sashed and put together and 36 triangles done! Awesome! Also I finished a Diawabo House (one of the BOM's). Hopefully I'll get pics taken and post about that quilt tomorrow.

Try to stay cool everyone (at least those of you where it is hot)!

sewing and cleaning. cleaning and sewing

The first thing I need to clean is the table and area by my chair. After looking at the picture that I just posted I can see that it's just a mess. But it's a comforting mess I guess because it always ends up looking like this. The quilt pictured is one that I made about 3-4 years ago for daughter #3. It was fun to make and she loves it and uses it. The quilt has been washed and washed and it gets softer and softer.

My hubby will be home late this afternoon so I'm excited!!! I'm going to clean a little at a time and then reward myself with sewing time. I finished all of the blocks in my DJ packet for July and I did the hand applique on one of the triangles yesterday, so today I'll put that triangle together and paper piece the other triangle and I'll be caught up, for now. I also put row K on the quilt. I really should start putting my triangles together as well so maybe I'll do that.

I've really been itchin to start a new project but have held off until I can carve out a bigger block of time to work on something. I've got several quilts on my mind to make. Plus I need to get back to my NI. Next year I'm going to make a promise to myself NOT to do anymore BOM's. I'll just finish with the ones that are started
(5, i think) and that doesn't include the DJ which finished in December.

Okay bye for now...I've got to go and water the pretty flowers (hubbies job when he's home) so they don't burn up as we've had over 100 degrees for several day and the weather forecast says it will go on for weeks. YUCK!

Nothing quilty today

Okay so changed my mind and found a picture of a quilt that I made and gave to my sis-in-law and her hubby a couple of years ago for Christmas. I think they liked it but I'm not really sure. I wish that I had given it to #2 daughter as she begged for it, but I didn't so she started her own and she has made every block except the bow tie border. She's busy being 18 right now so she doesn't make much time for sewing. LOL

Sometimes when I look at and read other peoples blogs I feel a little overwhelmed. It seems like every ones lives are perfect and they have beautiful and clean homes, plenty of time and money to buy fabric and sew and wonderful family and friends. They also travel to the best places or they have lake house or cabins. Now I'm no dummy, I do know that you can make your life out to be whatever you want it to be in print. But jeez...I guess I'm such a realist about things. So here is my life...I never have enough time or money to do what I really want to do. I do have a great family though. I don't have a lake house or cabin, nor do I get to travel like I'd like to. There are times in my life when my hobby has to take a back, back seat which makes me sad. I have a nice house that never stays clean enough to suit me.
I am a mother to 3 daughters (2 in college and 1 in high school) and my hubby travels, a BUNCH!!!

Not a bad life, not perfect but pretty darn good. Excuse me for venting, I just needed to get that out. Thanks :p

kind of gross alert

Did I mention that on July 5th while mowing the lawn for my hubby that I ripped a fingernail part way off???? Well I did and it hurt like you know what. I was trying to start the mower and my nail caught somehow and then there was blood spurting. OWWWW I almost passed out but then I thought if I do, I'll have a sunburn to deal with too because #3 daughter was the only one home and she was asleep for at least 2 more hours. So I ran up to the house and screamed and #3 came down to help me doctor it. Then I went out and started that darn mower and mowed the entire yard!

Well I was just able to take the bandaid off yesterday and cut away the nail....yuck...but it's healing fairly well.

I'm off to take #3 to my Moms for a couple of days. Hubby leaves tomorrow for 3 days and #2 moves back in today after house sitting for 10 days (it was really nice while it lasted..lol). Hopefully I'll get some quilting done this week. I've already made 6 DJ blocks from this months packet. Yeah!

Emily's quilt....finished!!!!

Now before you judge the quilting on this, remember that I'm not a custom quilter. I love piecing quilts and when I first started making quilts 21 years agoIdid machine quilt them all or sometimes tie them because I didn't know any different. Then I had a couple of quilts done in a cloud panto by a friends mother-in-law. About 6 years ago I discovered several custom quilters that worked on longarms. Whoa...well I then had all of my quilts custom quilted and I forgot that I could, when necessary quilt them myself. Someday I will have a Gammill....I really will.

This has been a busy week for me at work with the big Crazy Days sale...lots of prep work, set up and tear down. Then there's the heat to deal with (the kids that work for me had it really rough) and to top it off, major computer issues with my POS cc processing software. Why do things have to cost so much???? huh?? Hopefully all these issues will be resolved before ft ball season (7 weeks away, i think).

I did come home for a couple of hours yesterday and whipped out 2 dj blocks and I've got another one going right now. The easy ones seem to run in spurts and then there will be a few that just really test me, but in a good way ;0).

In a little bit I'm running out to my version of "hell" or Walmart as it's more commonly known to pick up some groceries. The family is getting tired of "making do".

Weekends are GREAT!!!

Saturday is quilt day for me

Today I'm going to get #1's quilt finished, I hope. I didn't get anything accomplished on it in the last week and it's tying up the Bernina. I hope to have a pic to show you in the next few days.

My Mom did come and we went to see the movie (very good) and shopped around town and had a great time. She spent the night and went home late Friday afternoon. It's hard for her to go home to an empty house I know, but it is good for her to get out and keep on living. She's not a quilter although she has made one quilt 20 years ago for my sister (my Grandma and I helped) and it was stolen when her home was broken in to. :0( Mom likes to paint and will be going to Maine this fall to study with an old friend/teacher she used to take lessons from, very exciting!

Here are pics of a couple of quilts that I've made. The first one is a panel that I sewed the borders on to. I backed it with flannel and it will be a comfy cozy snugly winter quilt that I'm sure the entire family will fight for. The second quilt is made up of tons of flying geese and pinwheels and prairie points. It is made from a magazine pattern a few years back. I quilted this one also. Well enough blogging about my boring life for one day and off to quilt!

Later,