finely...a camera!

thankyou Miss Leah! Of coarse being pretty

electronicly illiterate I took camera and directions

next door and my grandson helped me get

things set up!

My friend Irene and I have challenged each other

to do a block a week to make the Pick and Choose

quilt...somehow or other I have gotten a week

ahead...I use this block as a leader ender...

I suppose I will loose a week, at least, over the

holidays so I will just stay a week ahead for a

while. I am doing my quilt scrappy, Irene is

doing hers scrappy within a theme(civil war).

I have a comfort quilt to get assembled so i had better get to work on it so i can send it on

ann

It's been a while

since I have posted...I have no camera still, but I will have one soon. Leah has ordered me one
and it has been shipped! I feel like I have nothing to say when i have no pictures.

It has been really beautiful here the last couple of days! The sun definately improves my
mood. when it is cloudyand raining I am Doom and Gloom personified! I am gaining on my many projects, not as fast as i hoped but gaining!

have a great day

ann

Confesions of a closet hand piecer

i hate Y seams, but only by machine by hand

they are a piece of cake! of coarse this means

I am hand sewing this block to be set edge to

edge just cause i love the block...just not by

machine. I know it will take me forever but so do many of the quilts that i do by machine.

Since I have big ambitions, I also have a

grandmothers flower garden that I am piecing

by hand both for the Y seams and all the short

seams. Even tho the process is slow I have discovered I love relaxing with my hand sewing.

Many of my DJ blocks are by hand also. Now

when I take quilting with me to retreats I also take my hand applique etc.

I probably take far more machine work with me...and get more of it done, but the hand work

has become a part of my life...I truely love it.

A friend took this picture for me while I was visiting her home the first of the week, thankyou

Pat.

ann

my goals this week

I may not have a camera at this time but I do

have a working scanner so i thought I would

show the progress i have made on my applique triangle... I am more than half way. I have 4

to make, this is #1. I am making a heart

and apron strings quilt from QNM. it is a series

quilt from 2004...pieced and applique. Some where in this house the appliqued dresden

plate center is hiding. I am confident that it

will surface at some point in time. If it hasn't

by the time i have finished all the triangles and

blocks for all the rounds I will remake the

center. I have a long time to look. finished size

is 84 x 94.

I do have some simple goals for the week, after all it is monday!

1. finish assembling the borders for my batik and black Jacobs Ladder

2. finish one block of simple scrappy treasures BOM

3. Quilt the DNP thats been on auntie grace since april

4. Clear and clean cutting table so I can use it

5. Sew 15 min a day

back to taking baby steps

ann

just checking in

goodness....it's been almost a month since i last posted. i have no pictures at this time,
my puppy all 80 lbs of her ate the usb cord to my camera and at this time i have no replacement.
i will probably end up buying a new camera...the only thing i have found as a replacement has been an universal usb that was within $5 of a replacement camera...hmmmmm doesnt make sence. my camera is old enough that it has no memoy card.

i had a neat trip las month, went as a guest with an old high school friend (we graduated in 1959) to cancun...saw so much. It makes me truly grateful that I LIVE HERE!

frankly, i havent been doing much in the quilting area, or much of anything else. I have been having a major bout of depression...the trip helped at least i am now beginning to take baby steps to get my life in order...one small step at a time.

what happened here

i was at quilt camp last week end...and this is

as close as i came to putting stuff away...ah well

at least i can still sew as long as i don't knock a

stack over. had a great time! there is just something about quilting with friends!

Yes i have a stash report...I was down to about

1/2 yard of yellows...befor quilt camp. came home with 8 yds of yellow @ 2.50 a yard so my numbers went up not down

yardage busted this week 00 yds

yardage busted this year 98.5 yds

yardage added 8 yds

yardage added this year 334.5 yds

net used for year minus 236 yds

I do not have to send penalty charms in to stashbusters challenge...this is still from the gift

money i was given for Christmas and B day just for fabric.

I probably will not get much sewing done this week...I am planning a major trip.

I was asked after my last report how i figured the original total amnt of fabric I have.

I weighed it...figuring about 3.50 yds per pound...i know its closer to 3.74 but weighed it containers and all... I know i don't have an accurate number but i have a number...

maybe if i get every thing down to a few shelves i will measure. I even weighed the boxes of

scraps cause i figure i use them too.

ann

stash report #31

I have no changes from last week...i spent most of the week sorting and potsing around.
did a lot of frog stitching. I hope to see more progress next week. and i know i will spend
a lot of time sorting and cutting. Stash management has become a priority.
ann