Devon and football

Devon's quilt is quilted!  It was handed back to me at our Bee meeting last night.

Catherine did a great job making footballs in the gray open spaces.  And then she put stars in the red spaces.  Good idea, Catherine!

I had the binding ready, made from the same flannel as the backing, lots of helmets and footballs there.

Today I trimmed the quilt, applied the binding and then gave it a good wash and dry.

I hope Devon likes his name spelled out on the quilt as much as I do.

Final size: 44" x 75", bigger than Margaret's Hope Chest required, but he's turning 12, so a growing boy..



Sara

Gratitudes:

Bee members took 7 boxes to fill for IBOL
Devon's quilt ready to be mailed
Lots of snow has melted, wind howling

Last IBOL boxes, new project

Today I finished filling the Flat Rate boxes I had from the P.O. for Iraqi Bundles of Love. I forgot to take any photos, but here is the evidence that I used my stash.
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THREE totally empty plastic storage boxes! Now what am I going to do with them?


Well, I could pack up some of the piles of fabric and unfinished projects that are all over the bed in the sewing room....


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As I was looking through the boxes of fabric to determine what I was ready to send away for good, I found a couple of small "jelly rolls", only 10 strips each in pastel batiks. So I have started a baby quilt with them and some white-on-white prints.
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It's going to ba another Zig-zag quilt, but this time I'm going to let the zig-zags go diagonally. More interesting I think, and definitely easier to put together--no setting triangles necessary!
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Sara
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Gratitudes:
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Lynne is only bruised from a serious car accident, and NO ONE hurt but her
Article about IBOL in the Honolulu Advertizer (look here) http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009909040369

Baby bargello finished

Last night this quilt was washed and dried, and here it is out on the deck after dinner tonight.

And here it is in the living room, showing the whole thing.

And here is a close-up of one corner.

Today I filled another two boxes for IBOL, this time with mostly worsted weight YARN from never to be completed projects of the past. Thanks to Jo Keena for contributing that argyl fabric and also some Beanie Babies!

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Sara

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Gratitudes:

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So many generous people contributing to this project!

Lovely cool, sunny day at the beginning of September

Peter Seegar special on public TV

IBOL and Baby quilt

Two more boxes going to Iraq. I filled them up Friday and Saturday. Now they are in the back seat of my car ready to take to the P.O. after exercise class tomorrow. This IBOL project is such a heart warmer!

This afternoon I started a bargello baby quilt for Matthew and Collette's baby girl. The shower is next Sunday, so I have one week to pull this together. Shouldn't be a problem. I'm using a "Mint" batik jelly roll and have added a couple of coral strips to make it a little more "girlie". And I will also use that color for a border.

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Sara

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Gratitudes:

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Sun finally shone today

BLT sandwiches for supper

Dogs were hilarious during bocce game

More IBOL

So my Wednesday breakfast group told me that the place to go for the IBOL sewing tools was....Dollar Tree. I stopped there and found these little sewing kits for a dollar each. I know the scissors is crummy, but it has needles and 12 colors of thread, a couple of buttons, a needle threader and a plastic thimble. I also bought a package of 200 safety pins for a dollar and I'm adding 20 to each kit, as well as some of my straight pins.

So now I am just waiting for my bundle of 10 APO flat rate bhoxes to be delivered by USPS. The Post Offices around here were all OUT of them, so I ordered over the internet, and they are free.

A couple of years ago I thought I was going to use a lot of plaid flannel--and now it doesn't look like it is ever going to happen. So I can now "use" that fabric strategically in this "surge" of sewing materials to Iraq. Good deal all around!

Sara

Gratitudes:

Art LaFlamme for setting this up!

Dollar Tree

Lawn mower repaired, the grass is waving!

Your Way Progress + IBOL

This is the current state of the mystery for me. I put all the largest blocks on the bottom to weighit down, or look like things are "settling". Now I think that they run together and don't hold their individual shape. Maybe I'll have to put in some more coping bars.

I showed this at our SpoolSpinners bee meeting tonight. And I also got seven of them to take flat rate postal boxes to send to the Iraqi Bundles of Love project [http://ibol.wordpress.com]. Everyone agreed that it is a very small box compared to their stash! Hope any readers will look into this project too.

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I had a serious optical scare today, My opthalmologist sent me straight over to a retinologist because I had developed "wet" macular degeneration in my right eye. This expert said it was like I had had a heart attack, and there was no time to "consider" what treatment to take, just DO IT. This meant that he inserted a hypodermic needle into my eyeball and injected medicine into the back of my retina. And this will have to be done every four weeks for an indeterminate future to hopefully save my eyesight.

I was shocked and immensly aware of how precious my sight is.

Why am I not more attentive to the beauties before me?

Why should I spend any time looking at and working on frugal projects if they are ugly?

Sara

Gratitudes:

The time I still have to look at this beautiful world.

The calmness of a competent doctor and all his helpers

That I drove home safely