Sunday, December 21, 2008

Sunday Night Quilting Updates


Well another present is done and another started. Here is the completed one. This is for my co-worker Rob, he admired mine I had at work in March. So I made him one.

This next one is for my daughter-in-law Krystal. Lesson learned, when picking out panels pick out coordinating fabrics at the same time. I didn't and last week I picked out some yellow and blue to go with it, thinking it was the same line and it would match. Well I went to put the blue borders on tonight and it isn't a match, not even closed. So I made do with some left overs I had from my Winter Wonderland. It looks OK and I think she will like it.


The third project of the week was picking out fabrics for my other co-worker, Glenda. She didn't like what I had originally picked out so I found some other fabric and it was a hit. The border fabric was good from the start. I told her it won't be done in time for the eighth day of Hanukkah, she is fine with that she just loves the Jane Wilson pattern so much she doesn't care when she gets. She collects frogs. The pattern is the Badlands Frog.


Looks like I'll be up late sewing the next couple of nights!!

Christmas Treat

Here is a recipe that I make every Christmas, it makes a lot so it can easily be shared. I made it today and have it all portioned out to deliver later.

Hot Butter Wassail
12 oz Orange Juice Concentrate
12 0z Lemonade Concentrate
6 oz Pineapple Concentrate
8 quarts of water
6 cups of sugar
1 tsp ground cloves
2 TBSP of butter

Mix in a large pot and serve warm.

Hints: I cut the sugar to 4 cups. Since I don't have a pot big enough to hold 8 quarts plus, I only mix it with 4 quarts of water and dilute it again when I serve it. Since I can't find 6 oz Pineapple Concentrate anymore I use the whole 12 oz.

Enjoy

Saturday, December 20, 2008

I Learned something new tonight.

I love learning even little things are fun. If you click on my signature it is a link to the site where I made my signature. My friend Jan taught me that! Way to go Jan. She has a really cool signature on her page at the Hartman's in Gilbert.
Guess since it is now midnight, I really learned this trick, last night. I'm on call again and I was just paged, so now that the work is done, I'm playing on my blog. I guess I should go to bed since I have tons to do tomorrow, the Last Saturday before Christmas.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Mystery Quilt Fabric.


I signed up for the Long Arm University Mystery Quilt that will be happening on New Year's Eve & Day. Here is a picture of my fabric & thread selection. The colors are out of the box for me, but doing a mystery quilt is out of the box for me, so it all fits. I’m excited about this challenge and looking forward to it. I when shopping today for fabric because this was the best day to get it done. I also brought my Plexiglas, this is used to drew your quilting design on while the plexiglas is on top of the quilt, a great way to preview your quilting. I’m ready. Now to put it away and finish my Christmas gifts.

Here is the link to the Mystery Quilt. http://www.longarmuniversity.com

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Sunday Quilting Upate


Well the Skier is finished, she is all appliqued, and has some embellishments. The label is on, and she is packed to be mailed. I liked how she turned out. I didn't work on any other projects this week. Here she is in all her glory!!
I hope she will be happy in her new home!

Richard's Birthday


Today is my sweet husband's birthday. We went out to eat last night to celebrate. Our son Kinsen treated us to dinner. It was a nice time had by all. Today the other kids have called to wish him Happy Birthday. Krystal our daugther-in-law even sang him the birthday song, which is what he always does to each of us.
Here is Kinsen our youngest.


Happy Birthday Honey!!
Love

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Our House


During the last year my husband has built a new room on to our house. Today he started testing some paint for outside. I think he was a little surprised at how off he was in his color matching. We aren't worry for an exact match since the whole house will need to be painted next year. We just wanted something for now. The primer paint has been on for a couple of weeks. You can see lots of pictures of the whole process in my Webshots link, Album Our House atarting page 3. http://community.webshots.com/user/mequilter