Some great Show and tell from some friends

I went to two meetings tonight. First, I went to my Tatting group but I only stayed for a little while. I needed some help with a sweater and several of the ladies in our group are wonderful knitters too. I gave the sweater and directions to Mary Jo and she's going to look over it and see if she can help me with my problem. I hope so cause it is driving me crazy and I really want to finish it...I talked to a few of my friends and had to leave pretty quickly to get to my quilt meeting. Lots of ugly traffic but I finally got there. We had a quick meeting and then some great show and tell. Here's some of the things this small group has been working on...

We have some great sewers in our group!





This is Naomi's Halloween quilt....



Look at this cute bag.  Nadine made this for her daughter who lives in Savannah, Ga.  Yes, it has Savannah, Ga fabric on the inside and on the pocket. Too cute.




Nadine made this BQ Zebra quilt for her granddaughter for Christmas.



Judy made this charity quilt.



These are two mini quilts turned in during the daytime meeting.




Bonnie's Floating 4 Patch quilt.  Hmm, I need to make some more of these.  I love how she set these together. 




Melissa's quilt.  I forget the name of this one but it is a Marti Michell pattern.




Evelyn has been knitting hats for Parkland.




Evelyn made these cute bags.  They are fabric covered zip lock bags.  You can put quick Christmas treats like Pumpkin Bread or candy or whatever and give as a quick gift.  Evelyn made some for Halloween too and gave to some of her little friends. They were a big hit.  I've got to make some of these too. 




Shirley made this reversible apron.

 



Naomi showing off her sweatshirt jacket. You go, girl!



Naomi made these cut Christmas tree napkins for a church function.



Linda made this great star quilt for a friend's son.



Sunday sewing

I made these two blocks for the Pizza Box Project.  This is block 8 and 9.  This is the last of the blocks and now they can be put together.  These are for Jeanne. My set of blocks will be given to me at our Christmas party.  They will be red, white and blue...I don't ever get tired of red, white and blue and I'll add these to the other blocks I've done this year through Amy's BOM.  I'll be putting those all together into two or more quilts.

This is a little mat my mother in law gave me. She didn't make it. She bought it from a craft show.  The binding was pretty bad so I took it off and rebound it... I love the quilting on it and I'm very pleased with it now.  

I did sew on several other things this weekend but I haven't finished them. I worked on my Brown Bear quilt and I made several more blocks for other projects too. 

 I just couldn't  seem to get it together today.  I felt totally disorganized.  I finally sat down and  made some more siggy blocks to send out. I knitted a while and watched TV and relaxed.  Hopefully, I'll get more done this week and can show you my little Brown Bear quilt.   I hope you have a great week...til next time.

Siggy blocks

Here's some Siggy Blocks I received this week.  Both of these ladies are from the Netherlands.

The first one is from Mary.

This one is from Ineke.



Retreat Pictures

These are some of the quilts we saw at the quilt shop we went to in Anthens, Tx. while on retreat.   This was done in colored embroidery work and it was beautiful.

A Cute Apron

A great Texas quilt...

Look at this pretty Christmas quilt.

This one would be great for scraps.

I loved this one.

This is a friendship block I made for Glenda...

Some Crazy 8 squares I made at retreat.  I am doing these in florals.  I've got 30 so far but need 56.

I made this little Christmas wallhanging.  All I have to do to finish this one is pink the edges.

Jackie made this cute little tablerunner with that little tilt ruler.  I forget what it's called but you cut your blocks, sew them together and then use the ruler to cut

again.

 Here's some more blocks for our church quilt. Jackie made these two.

Glenda made several of these little Angel wallhangings for her co-workers.

Glenda made these for her Mom. This was a BOM and had 6 blocks.  She only decided to do 4 of them and she will be framing these instead of making them into a quilt.

Glenda finished this little quilt top.  She'll be giving this one away.

Back up and running

Yeah, my TV is working and so is my computer...there were problems in my area and they have it all fixed.

Our TV was going crazy last Wednesday night with digital spotting. I don't know how to describe it but there were little blips here and there on the screen.  The TV controller wouldn't work properly either and it was hard to turn the TV off or on or change the channel.  The audio portion was all weird too.  It was really strange.  I called the cable people and they reset the TV and it started working but the computer blitzed out.  I got the TV working Thursday before I went on retreat.
The computer was out until today.
The cable guy came out yesterday  and worked on it and it worked ok while he was here.  When he left, we tried the computer and it didn't work again....Well, it wasn't our computer but the whole area network was out.  Our TV went black too and we had no TV either.  Talk about a black out...I gave up, took a bath and went to bed.

This morning, we called the cable people again and they said they were working in the area.    The TV came on about an hour later and then the computer.  We now have TV and computer and feel like we are back in the land of the living...

It's amazing how I felt so out of touch without my computer.  I can't imagine life without my cell phone or computer now.  I don't know about you but life just isn't the same without  those two things. What did we do before these two great communication devices?  I don't want to find out ever again!

I went to retreat with some friends last weekend and I had a great time.  There was only seven of us and it was great.  Everybody else went to the Houston Quilt show, I guess, while we sewed alot.  I had a great time with my friends and I got alot done....I didn't sleep too well but it let me sew more.  I'm now catching up on my sleep and I'll be back to my normal sewing schedule by tomorrow. 

Tonight was tatting Tuesday and I went there and visited with my buddies. I came home and  I'm trying to catch up on reading blogs that I've missed . I will post some pics of the retreat and other things I did last week tomorrow. 

I know these posts are really boring without pics so I will leave you with one.  I saw this beautiful One Block Wonder quilt and want to make one.   So, here's the quilt and this will be a future project for me.  I can't wait to make it so I'll be searching for just the right fabric this weekend....I'll show more pics tomorrow, until then, enjoy this one.

Computer Problems

Sorry, guys, my computer at home has been out since last Wednesday. I should be up and running again this week. The service guy is due to come out today or tomorrow so please come back and visit me again later in the week.....

I have been busy. I went to retreat and got quite a bit done,  so as soon as I can I will be posting some pics...Stay tuned.

American Sewing Guild Projects

It's been a long week and I just don't know where to start to post.  I think I'll show you some of the things my ASG group is working on...

this was last Tuesday night:

Jan's Nursery Rhyme Quilt

Another Nursery Rhyme Quilt

Jeanne's car quilt

Reba's Halloween Apron

Reba's pillowcase

Linda's burp pads made from diapers

Linda's little snuggly

This was Cathey's granddaughter's Halloween costume. Emily is a year old and she was dressed as Snow White.

Cathy made her son a Cowboy robe.  This is made on the serger.

And, our project for tonight was to make Voodoo dolls.  You get a hat pin and you can stick the pin in whatever ache or pain you want to get rid of...I've seen these done several different ways. This one was new to me.