Tipnut article about heat and cold bags...

Several of you responded to my post about the heat and cold bags.  I had just read an article about making these last week and I racked my brain to remember where I saw it. I googled it this morning and came up with the article. It's from Tipnut, a great website with all kinds of sewing, knitting, crochet, food, tips of all kinds. I have been reading Tipnut for a long, long time and I love this site. If you've never gone there, don't wait, go now!   Here's a link to the article I read about the heat and cold bags.. I hope you enjoy it and Tipnut.com!

http://tipnut.com/make-your-own-microwave-heating-pad/

Heat and Cold Bags

Last night, I went to tatting. I worked on a tatted lanyard for awhile. I got bored with it and started knitting for awhile. I got bored with that and decided I would leave and come home. I got home and sewed up these three little pillowcases to cover another three little bags I made to hold field corn. the top one has some fabric that looked like the map of the United States on it. I fussy cut it so Texas would be on the front!  This one is going to my husband.  I made the other two with left over fabric from a quilt for my MIL...I love using scraps to make something functional and fun!  Anyway, I heated one of these up last night and put it at the bottom of the bed and I did not have cold feet last night!  I love these things.  My friend gave me the field corn in December.  She had bought a big bag of it and shared it with all of us.  She gave me enough for one bag then came back and gave me three more bags of it.  I made one and gave to my son, then after I got these other three bags of corn, I made these.  Great little gifts for athletes or anyone!  I gave one to my friend in the office today and she loved it. She says she's going to use it tonight when she goes to bed.

I don't know if you can read this but here's the instructions that goes with the bag.  I plan on making more of these soon.  I just don't want to buy a 50 lb bag!!!

Tonight, I'm working on putting the binding on one of my finished quilts.  I hope to show you that tomorrow or Friday.  Until next time, happy quilting!

A few finishes for the weekend.

This has been a cold weekend so I've stayed in. I had the grandbaby yesterday and didn't get to sew except for when she took a nap.  I sewed up a set of pillowcases for my friend. These go with the Love quilt that I showed you last week.  She loves penguins so these will be right up her alley.

Friday night, I finished up my Wingspan shawl.  Not sure how long it took me to knit this but I'm glad it's finished as I need to work on making some wash cloths for a friend of mine.  Here's the finished Wingspan. I just have to block it now.

 

 

Last night, I finished quilting a tablerunner I've had done since last year.   Today, I finished the binding on it and I'm so excited it's finished...

After I finished this up, I finished up another older project. I used this little quilt to teach a class of beginner quilters at my church and I decided it was time to quilt and bind this one too....

You can tell this one is older from the fabric used in it but I really like this one as it brings back some sweet memories.  I didn't quilt it too heavily but it's just right for me. I'll hang this one in my sewing room for awhile.  Ok, that's two more UFO's for me this year!  I can't tell you how excited I am to see my stack of UFO's going down just a little at a time but I am going to really work to have all of them done this year. 

I was going to work on some pink blocks for the Rainbow Scrap challenge for this year but I put my pink fabric up and couldn't find it!  I finally just gave up and worked on these old projects and my swap blocks and lo and behold, I found my pink fabric!  I don't have alot of pink and put it up so I wouldn't lose it...Ha, ha, you know how that is??  Well, now I can work on my pink this week....

The last thing I did was make my 5 swap blocks for this week.  We will swap these blocks this week and we only have one more month and the swap will be finished. I'll be able to start putting this one together.    I didn't have 40 nine patches to do this month like I thought. That swap was over last month and I got the last 40 blocks Tuesday night.  We swapped 480 nine patches!! Do you believe that?  Now you know why I was so burnt out on nine patches!  It was so good not to have to do anymore of those!  Here's my swap blocks for this month....

 

Ok, now for some TV time and knitting time.  I hope you have a good week and get to sew some.  Til next time, happy sewing.

Some great winnings!

Last night I went to my quilt guild meeting. It was rainy and miserable but I went anyway.  I didn't think we would have a very good turnout but alot of people came despite the weather...We didn't really have a program last night. We were working on making stilettos for the TAQG (Texas Association of Quilt Guilds) Rally Day.  So, we all laughed and glued together...it was actually pretty fun.   At this meeting, we were asked to bring 5 fat quarters to exchange.  We were to put them  in a container of some kind and we would have a game to exchange them.  Forty people participated in the exchange and it was so much fun.  There were all kinds of containers, baskets, glass jars,glass bowls, boxes, candle stick holders, you name it. The fat quarters had to be visible so people could see what they were getting.   I put my fat quarters in a glass mason jar and did some stitching on aida cloth to decorate the jar. I did not take pictures. I should have but didn't have my camera with me.  The game we played was take away.  When your name was called you could steal from anyone what they had or pick from the table.  An object was considered frozen after being stolen twice.  It was so much fun. I walked away with what I wanted...I was so lucky last night. I should have bought a lottery ticket!  I picked the cutest one....It was a box decorated to look like a bed and a Barbie doll and Ken doll were in bed together. Here's a pic of it.  Isn't this cute??? I'm not going to take it apart. I like the fabrics and will only take it apart if I just have to use them... I loved this. I thought it was too funny!

I also won some door prizes too.  Like I said, I was very lucky last night.  I won a Jelly Roll and a tool to put on your ruler. Duh, I can't think of the name of the tool right now but it's a pretty cool tool. 

Anyway, last night was fun and productive too.  Tonight, I'm actually going to get to sew. It is still raining here and I hope it doesn't take me forever to get home. I want to spend as much time in front of my sewing machine as I can.  Til next time, happy sewing!

A way around my picture problem!

I tried downloading Google Chrome and it kept stopping.  I have no idea why but it kept saying something about unreponsive pages and I just finally gave up.  I finally looked at my desktop screen and remembered I had Safari, I wondered if this would work. I thought I would give it a try... I opened my blog in this browser and uploaded my picture..It was alot quicker and easier to get to.  Safari is a browser that is on my Iphone and part of Itunes and part of Google...if you are having trouble, see is you have this browser already loaded like I did since I have an iphone and have updated my phone through my Itunes account. Anyway, I'll use this for now and maybe the computer guys can get the problems worked out on  the picture problems with Internet Explorer...


Here's the picture of the Love quilt I have been trying to load...this is for a friend of mine and I hope she likes it. This had crochet, tatting and applique.  It was a challenge to quilt but it is finished and ready to gift.

Picture problems

Well, I'm not the only one having trouble putting pictures on blogs....it's a blogger thing and an Internet Explorer conflict. What kind of browser do you use?  They are recommending changing to Foxfire or Google Chrome but I've only ever used IE...any info would be appreciated....thanks,

A New Year and a finished quilt!

Happy New Year everyone.  I hope it's been good to you so far!

  We had some wonderful holidays with family and friends.  I so enjoy the holidays but I hate to say this but I'm also glad they are over.  I love the holidays but it's always good to get back to normal. I still haven't put up all the decorations and I still have my holiday quilts out. I guess I'll put those away this Saturday.   I really enjoy seeing them and even looking at the bare tree after all the gifts are gone!  I come home and turn the lights on my tree on just to enjoy it! 

I have finished one quilt this week.  I don't know if it counts as a finish for last year or this year as I was putting the final stitches in the binding on New Years Eve while watching the Count down for the new year.  It was fun to be sewing and finishing this quilt up then.  My husband was asleep on the couch when the new year came in. I had to wake him up to kiss him!  Sounds like we lead an exciting life, huh??   Anyway, I did finish this quilt and I am really pleased with it. It is a love quilt for my friend going through chemo. My tatting group got together and made the blocks and I quilted it and finished it. I have enough backing fabric to make a pillowcase to go with it so I'm going to do that and put the quilt in it to give to her.  We'll be giving it to her next Tuesday and I hope she likes it.  I have to attach two more blocks to the back of the quilt.  They were received late and didn't get put into the top so they will be appliqued to the back of the quilt when I get them Saturday.  Another friend of mine has them and I have to pick them up from her....We'll be meeting up at the local quilt store Saturday for me to get the blocks and see what's going on at the LQS too!

Here's the quilt so you can see how cute it turned out... Well, I've tried and tried to upload it and blogger doesn't want to play right now. I'll show you later!

 I've got to go for now and get busy, the sewing machine is calling me.  Til next time, happy quilting!