8.15.12


I love wednesday mornings!! I'm sitting having a cup of tea and reading blogs! It's so relaxing after a hectic week.

Daisy and Maggie are doing great. Daisy had her eye removed and spayed  and Maggie was spayed as well.
Daisy is up and playing again now and dosen't even seem to realize it is gone.  Mind you she is extremely spoiled now!! I have been sitting in the bedroom most of the week with her  and the other furry family members If Daisy says lay down then lay down we go!! I will have to spend the next few months re adjusting her to who is boss!!

I have gotten a lot of hand sewing done this week. I am working on Esthers forget me knot from last month at the moment and I have the tracing done for this months I picked the magnolia to do. Esther I hope you are feeling some better now and thank you for putting out the blocks at the moment when you have been so ill.

I have completed two mini quilts and gotten them mailed to my grandmother in Scotland , pinned applique pieces to boms for this month all ready to sew.
Now to get my house tidied today and I can sit and watch tv shows and hand sew some more.
I hope everyone has a great week and thank you for all your prayers and notes over this last week it is really so nice and comforting to know someone is out there who cares even if we have never met in person.
God Bless.

Jennifer

8.8.12

Not much done this week again so far! 

I have been working on my crinoline picture I am now ready to work on the dress and hat!  Do yo think I will get it done before x-mas!!

I put it aside again while working on some projects to send overseas to my grandmother. She has been having some family and friends that have gone above and beyond to help so I have been making thank you gifts.  I am working on a small wall quilt now for my 3rd cousin Him and his wife have really helped  a lot

the last year. I have the  applique nearly done hopefully I will get it done today then sew it together I need to mail it by saturday so I will have to really crack down today and get it finished.  Then I need to work on my sister-in-laws lap quilt.




I spent yesterday morning working on some of this months BOMs I have three of them cut out and started to starch and turn edges ready for sewing . and I finished two from last month.























Today my son will be taking our dog daisy to the eye specialist to try and save her eye. we have been told she has the begining  of glacouma  she's not even two yrs old yet. so we will see what the new dr has to say. it is nearly a hour and half drive one way to take her and alot of money but he wants to make sure he has done what he can for her. she was spoiled before but now she is really spoiled!! she tells me when she wants to go lay down and expects me to join her. it is 5.30 am here right now and I have been up getting everyone off to work she is pawing at my arms and feet trying to get me to go back to bed now!! I will have to lay down with her after kyle leaves for work I think it is the drops she gets in the morning.

 

Well I hope you all have a great week. speak to you  next time.

Jennifer

w.i,p 8.1.12

I haven't done much this week!  I had a bunch of hand sewing set up for doing while watching the olympic games but I didn't get much done!!  but thats ok the games have been good. I did get these place mats finished up for x-mas

 I finished the country cottage bom for July












  Oh and I cut this piece of material to make a new cover for the dog bed. bought it the other week and in 15 mins it was in pieces in the livingroom!!

my material came for the quilt I am making for my sister-in-law for x-mas  but it will all have to wait now until the games are nearly over!!

Hope you all have a great week

Finally the rain has stopped for a little while here. We have had rain off and on for the last week steady the ground needed it but it has been hard having all the dogs in all day long!! Today they are outside playing and loving every minute of it.I went outside early this morning and feed the geese and the chickens now to get my table set up for today's sewing. I'm ashamed to say I gave in to my BOM's this month and put aside my crinoline embroidery to work on them!! I don't think I will ever get it finished at this rate!!!MY friend  came over the other week to see it so at least she liked what I had done so far. My son laughs and tells me she might get it by 2016 at the speed I'm going.  Only a few more months until x-mas I really really need to get it done this year!!

Ester's blocks are really nice this month I have the flowers ready for placement and sewing but the leaves I decided to try and sew the veins on I have never done that before so thought I would see how it works. now just to get some green thread to do it with.

 I made a top for a x-mas wall quilt

Lets see this week I have pinned the pieces on the Raspberry rabbit bom












pinned pieces for country junktion bom













pinned pieces for country cottages bom and started to sew them on









pinned pieces on the funky chicken bom

I stuffed the pillow I made for my grandmothers friend and got it packaged up and mailed I hope they like it.



Well I hope you all have a great week and for those that are sick or have loved ones that are hurt or sick best wishes and prayers.

Jennifer

July is flying by!! I just realized it is almost time for Esthers new block and I haven't gotten my other blocks for this month done yet!!  I have been working on my crinoline picture it sure is slow work now. I have the gate nearly done then onto the dress this weekend

.  My Grandmother is finally home from the hospital in sctoland. She is getting carer's now so she can stay in her own place. My sister-in-law is over there now checking on her and her own mother. Grandma is 95 yrs  well 96 the end of July. Her hip has finally healed enough that she can get around some with a walker but thats it.

I made a cushion  out of two blocks I had sitting around. I washed it yesterday and today I will stuff and close it up then get it packaged to mail off to her. she asked me to make something for a friend that has been helping her. Yesterday I made another 2  small quilt tops  and got all the freezer paper patterns drawn and cut for  some BOM's I will try to get the material done today for them. 

We have another new family member this week. My son rescued a puppy the other day. He saw someone throw it out a car window and stopped and picked it up.  So now we have a little BOY to add to all the GIRLS  thank God we have the girls already scheduled to be spayed on the 27th of this month!! that now gives us 5 dogs and 4 cats, 1 bearded dragon, 1 newt and two turtles, geese, chickens and 1 duck and gold fish in the pond!!!  Most of the critters are very old now except the dogs and two cats  who knew chickens could live so long!!! the newt has been with us for 17 yrs now I swear he has "died" so many times now that it is something else living in the tank!! I keep thinking it is dead and move him around and bam he comes back!!!

We have had rain the last few days here and expect more all the week long so will have to mop floors a few more times this week!!
Well I will get a move on now I have to get Kyle up for work soon. Have a great week everyone!!

Oh ps we called the pup Cletus (means pray in greek so the name book says!) and Maggie has adopted him she thinks he is her pup! Gizmo not sure if she like him yet she was maggies best buddy until cletus came along!!

Hi everyone!!
We have had finally had some rain here. the ground needed it but boy has the grass sproutted up tall!!
I need to get my garden weeded soon and put new mulch and plastic dow so the weeds will stay down poor Gizmo gets lost in the tall grass and flowers!!

Well I finally caught up my boms!!  I finished the forget me knot block for June yesterday  I'm not sure I like the top flower but will have to look at it awhile and decide if I will do anything else to it.

I finished  my raspberry rabbit june

funky chicken - june

country cottages - june

country junktion -  june

then I started to work on my june house blocks . today I plan on sewing the border parts on my funky chicken and raspberry rabbit then cut out the bottom sections for the house blocks so I can get the complete blocks caught up for jan-june so far I have half the bottoms and the complete tops done so just need to take the time and get the work done!!

when friday gets here I will clean the house for the weekend and then start  work on my crinoline picture again and work only with that for the rest of the month. Hopefully I can get it finished or at least nearly finished. As A friend said to me yesterday " You do know christmas is only 6 months away!!"  needless to say I haven't gotten this years lap quilts made for gifts or the place mats I wanted to make done!! I will have to take a whole month and do nothing but cut and sew tops to get quilted for christmas. I 'm meantt to be making a baby quilt and 4 lap quilts by then so heres hoping!!

Well I need to go now and get the  daily house work done my son wakes up in 1/2 hour for work then I have the place to myself until night  hopefully I will get something done today!  Have a great week !!

Jennifer

6.13.12

Hi everyone!!
My Husband is on a turnaround at work right now so he is  working 7 days 12-14 hrs per day for a few weeks so I get to set up in the livingroom for a while to sew!

This week I have finished  Mays block for Esthers forget me knot I feel it is missing something but I will take it back out another time and look at it again and see what I think. 

Yesterday I worked on my June blocks for other boms and got them ready for applique

Ive already got my day cleaning done this morning so I can sit all day and sew!  My little girls are all ready for a movie marathan ( they like the snacks!!) so a few more things to get ready and  then I can take it easy the rest of the day!!  










Well Hope you  all have a great week I will speak to you all again next week.  Can't wait until Esthers new block is posted!