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What a surprise I had when I came home from work today and checked my blogs that I follow and saw this lovely post. It is so fun to know that something is appreciated. Who knows I might have to do it again for my next Blog Anniversary, but that is a ways off.

Sunday Quilting Upate a Little Late

I really had a busy 3 day weekend, between being on call and taking all the Christmas decorations down. It is always fun decorate for Christmas and it is always nice to get back to normal.

My sewing was interrupted a lot on New Year's Day by being on call but that is part of my job and it allows me to live in doors and eat both of which I really like.

I did manage to get 2.5 borders of the 3 on my Mystery Quilt. I was going to put it on the frame but the more I thought about my experience with last years mystery quilt. I decided to do a practice piece first.

I'm really glad I did. I'll be making nice Non- Traditional Baptist Fans by the time I finish the practice piece. I didn't get very far on my practice piece, just the markings and two little fans. The thread broke once, sure sign to me it is time to take a break. I haven't gotten back to it again.



I also worked on part 9 of my Block of the Month Washington Medallion. As you can see I'm missing a few pieces of fabric. Some were along the line I cut something wrong. Luckily for me one of my friends who is also doing this quilt but is not using this fabric is going to give me some so I won't have holes in my quilt block. One of the blocks as you can see is just as I left it last night at my machine. There is even a pin in that one seam that is waiting for more pins and to be sewn.

This evening Richard & I went to Empty Nesters for Family Home Evening, that for folks with no kids at home. There was a pot luck dinner and we gave the lesson. We do have young adults at home but they work most evenings so they aren't here. Now it is time to call it a day.

Night all and Happy Stitching!!

Man Cave Update

I'm just not sure where the weekend went but it sure did fly by fast. I was on call for my job on New Year's Day and Sunday, so I had to stay close to home. I don't have to go to the hospital to help any one, but I do have to remote into their computer from my computer here at the house.

Richard was able to start adding the material for the roof to his man cave. He was a happy camper to have two full days to work on it.

First Mini Quilt of 2010 Finished

I don't know why I agonized over this little class sample so much but I did. Now it's done and I will take it to the shop tomorrow. I'm happy with how it turned out. The next step is to make my handouts. I do have to redraw it in EQ6 since I changed it a little while I was making it today. Oh in case you are wondering what that little mark is on the bow of the large sail boat is, it is FL. If I was going to have a sail boat I would want to be in FL with it, not here in AZ.


Since I am going to the shop and I'll be teaching EQ6 in February I decided to remake my EQ6 class poster and take it down tomorrow. I like the layout of this one better than my original poster.

Now all I need is for students to sign up for the classes.

Word for the Year

Every year we make goals, last year I wanted to lose weight but I didn’t make it a goals just a wish and because of that I actually gained weight. So now that my foot pain is worst and it might get better if I got the extra pounds off and my clothes are too tight and other things I have noticed that I don’t like. I’m really making this a goal this year. I even have a plan to make it more interesting such as paying myself instead of the Biggest Loser group my office is doing. I also want to make it more of a life style change than just a number to reach on the scale. I had been thinking about this for a couple of days and thinking I wanted really to be healthier. Yesterday while blog surfing I saw a post about a word for the year, here & here. So guess what my word of the year is, you guessed it. Here is my outline of how that feels to me.

Word of the year Healthy
This word will help me to
• Eat Healthy
Right choices
Right amounts
Right times
• Move Healthy
Stretch More
Exercise More
Be More Active
• Think Healthy
About food
About people
About my life
• Act Healthy
Go to bed early
Get up early
• Listen to my Body
• Be Balanced with work, play, spirituality and learning
• Be Happy
• Be Grateful
• Lose weight
Pay myself $5 a week
Pay myself $2 for every pound lost
Weight in on Friday
Build back up to previous exercise routine
Buy a special something with my winnings
Keep a food journal
Write weekly on the blog about my progress
• Think Win – Win
• Be Neater

My quotes to help me.
Although difficulties and poor choices may surround me, I have a clear vision of what to do and how to get it done. I am not distracted.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
~Melody Beattie~

This will be a hard goal for me; I do love food and enjoy eating. I’m not one of those people who eat to live, I live to eat but I need to change that paradigm. I know I can do it, that why I’m bearing my soul to all about this I don’t want to leave me any loop holes.
I weighed in this morning and Friday will be my weigh in day and blog entry day. My tracker is on the side bar, down a little by my quilt goals. I didn’t want it right at the top.

A great New Year to you and good luck with your goals.

Quilting Goals 2010

Happy New Year to all my Blogging Friends
I sure hope everyone will have a good year and will be blessed with Health & Friendship and the Important Things in Life.

I have of course have been reflecting on the last year and the year to come. First for my quilting goals for the New Year. My list is longer than I thought it would be but as I went through by PIGs (Projects in Grocery bags) and WIP (Works in Progress) I kept finding more fun things I want to do. I had to rein myself in or there would be no room for surprises. I'm really want to resist all surprises this year. Some surprises are OK like quilting a quilt for a friend. Plus one of my friends wants to pay me to make a quilt, so I have to leave some room.
In addition to these quilts to start or finish I have some other quilting goals like learn to follow a pantograph on my frame. Increase my library of designs that I can quilt. And practice more, even if it is just yardage of fabric. Maybe between quilts I should just have yardage up and quilt a little every day, even if it is one pass. Now that I thought of that, that is a very good idea!!
The other parts of my goals are to use up my stash and not to buy fabric unless it is for a project, none just because it is pretty or I like it. I have too much as it is, so why add to it. Plus I want to use up the stuff I have. The not buying is going to be hard but the reality is I have lots of wonderful stuff already and I want to use and make, more than a life time probably.

My list of quilts is on my said bar but here are the pictures.