Why so quiet?

I'm cutting fabric for a quilt for my sil's Christmas gift. Bought it today on a little shopping trip. And I'm also busy quilting my customer quilts so I can take December off! I should be at my machine now.......

I'm on the road for 10 days, driving out to PA to visit our son and his wife and family. No phone, no stresses for the next week or so...ah, heaven! Fabric is all set out in the sewing room for a warm wishes quilt when I return. Right now all I can concentrate on is seeing my little granddaughter again and playing doting G'ma! Donna

When I get tired of quilting, (Why should that even be possible?), I switch over to another type of creative endeavor. I'm making myself a new sewing table with lots of drawers for the Janome 1600. I haven't been using that machine because it didn't have it's own table, with the ability to store all the many feet and other bits, that go with it. They were spread out among various drawers, all around the room, and now they are going to be combined in one hot sewing table. I so can't wait to get this thing finished. Pictures will follow in a week or so. Then it's back to quilting, with renewed enthusiasm.

John

I love churn dash. Never made one, but I want to. Please a post of picture of yours! I've been trying to decide whether to hand-quilt a finished top, or finish up

2 baby quilts (all they need is washing). Or start on a HUG quilt for a friend whose having a really hard time. The handquilting probably must take a back seat because that one is just for me, and the others are for friends. DH had surgery last week and I've been waiting on him hand and foot. It cuts into my quilting time. He's nearly back on his feet. Sherry

Um....I'm working on the home stretch of 4 Halloween costumes, needed for a party on Friday. The last one has just been partially cut out, and the remaining fabric bought today...argh. Alice in Wonderland....done: Alice, Mad Hatter, White Rabbit....Queen of Hearts still to do....next time I had better have more warning as to what is needed (this is for my family and hubby made the decision at the end of September...oh, and these will also be for the annual family picture...lol).

Plans for quilts are on hold until the middle of November because I have to finish up several things for the craft fair that I will be working...but plans...oh how I have plans!!

Larisa

well, it's been quiet here also. i've been cleaning up the house and re-arranging furniture. i dislike open houses. it's so judgemental. anyway...i did sit and design a new quilt top on EQ today. it took 7 tries and color placements to get to the end result. and even that probably won't be the way it looks in real fabric. then i baked a fresh apple pie...came out fabulous! mmm. had a piece for supper. and some cheese. tomorrow i have to clean out gutters if the sun ever comes out....ugh.

next? amy in CNY

I'm busy as a little bee, stitching and sewing and generally having a grand time. My DH is off work all next week, and I will spend a good bit of time just hanging around and being goofy with him. But I have several work days scheduled with a good quilting friend who is going to help me finish a project. It's coming together beautifully and I'm really excited. On the horizon -- finishing a quilt I put aside some time ago and now think I have the fortitude to fix, and then... well who knows? I have two tops that are begging to be sandwiched up and quilted and I have three stacks of fabric begging to be cut and stitched. I'm sooooooo popular, they all want my attention. ;)

Sunny

shhhhhhh, i'm having a nap. j.

"Edna Pearl" wrote ... Is it just my imagination, or have things been quiet here the last few days?

School, school and more school, parent/teacher conferences, Yearbook deadline of 56 pages, and the class from you-know-where that I am taking that is more work than I have ever, ever, ever had in a class, nothing like the course description, lots of work that is not graded but required to pass the class, more than 1000 pages of reading (no exaggeration), and on top of the six page lesson plan that we are having to develop (not mentioned in the course description which is about integrating technology into the curriculum), I have to actually create a full example of the web site that the lesson plan is about to post to our class web site as an example that I will be showing my students. As if I had time. Only three more lessons though and I am madly trying to work ahead.

Just a little overwhelmed and a bit stressed and I haven't touched a needle and thread in probably four weeks and I am having withdrawal from not sewing. Deep breaths.

Steven Alaska

Let's see?! Hmmm....okay I am in school full time. I am taking math, pysch, and health. Two of my classes are online, one is a lab. They are definetely challenging my mind. lol I am driving school bus everyday. I am a sub for our local district, so not only have I had to learn to drive the school bus in twenty hours, but I've also been learning each route, including the roads around here. Nothing like driving a big yellow bus down unknown winding roads...ah....taking care of three very active doggies and three kitties, and of course raising my son and keeping our house up. I'd say I'm treading water fast so I don't go under. lol Sometimes I think my neurons have gone to sleep in the years past and there's no waking them up! All of this is keeping me busy and there's not much time to wallow. It'll be a year next month that my DH passed and I can't say things have been easy or that things are getting better. I'm allowing myself the time to grief. I'm still taking each moment to moment and each day to day, plugging away. No time for sewing, but do enjoy reading about your projects and recipes. :-) All in all I can't complain, things are good...we have our health, we have a warm place to sleep, we have food in our bellies and we have our friends and family....that includes you all. So thank you for listening and being my friend. take care and happy sewing, Launie

Take 10 minutes every week just for sewing. PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDAR. (not yelling--emphasizing) That is 'mental health time'.

You don't have to sew--just run your hands thru fabric-fondle the project you want to be working on.etc, and totally concentrate on the item. It will help you immensely. That is what I did until I was able to start 'doing' again.

Butterfly (Set a timer if you have to--just DO IT)

I've been cutting 6.5" squares for 4 baby quilts and 5" squares for 2 charm quilts.and 5" width strips for a Chinese Coin quilt.

Butterfly (still wait> Is it just my imagination, or have things been quiet here the last few > days?

Howdy!

Y'all already changed time, Roberta? We have another week to go, then we get that hour returned to us; I'm so glad when we get back to "normal" time; don't need one more hour of summer! ;-D

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Halloween quilts are on display, time to break out the candy corn! (yeah, like that waited... )

R/Sandy

The good news-- I have finished the top and back of the first graduation quilt for this round. Hopefully I will start pin-basting it tomorrow. No time to get into all the reasons that it took so long to put on the last two borders...

Mary

We've gone back, too, Sandy - as of Saturday/Sunday night. . In message , Sandy E writes