The Quilt Formerly Known as Grawlix

What?  You're saying, what?

It's true, I not only have made peace with this quilt but I am really beginning to enjoy it!  I'm not sure why we had such a rough beginning (and also middle).  It could have been my general winter-no-sunshine problem.  It could have been not getting Christmas finished.  It could have been not getting any January projects done.  Whatever, we are having fun now.

Sadly, the quilt will be two weeks overdue and I hope I do not lose my job over it.  I will take the pieces in with me today because Gaye and I are closing and we will hopefully have a minute to lay it out and figure out the sashing.  And while sashing is usually straight (pun intended) forward, not so with TQFKAG.  That's just the way it is with The Flower Pot quilt.  :-)

Oh and this should be my Design Wall Monday post!

He's Back!

I can't think of too many people that make me think as hard as this man does.  I'm so glad he is back on public television:

http://billmoyers.com/

Stash Report Week 6

A little birthday bag

 Used this week (yards)            1.25

Added this week (yards)             .25

Used year to date (yards)          2.75

Added year to date (yards)        3.25

Net year to date total                   .50

I found a yard piece of a pastel "girlie" stripe in my stash that I gave to a friend who has a use for it and I made the gift bag.  I also picked up a quarter of a yard of some heavier kind of terry cloth that might be a better insulator for pot holders than batting.  Purchase price was 87 cents so worth the experiment!

Hmmm

Around Town

You have to be paying attention around here!  Buildings are falling and rising at an alarming rate and you find yourself saying "what used to be there?"

January in Review

For 15 minutes this morning there was a fabulously beautiful sky. 

 Pretty crabby today.  My January UFO project?  Not started.  My January Color Palette Challenge.  Not started.  My January Embroidery Project?  More than half done.  My Christmas projects?  Still not finished.   The sample quilt, Grawlix?  That nightmare continues.

So here it is February and none of the quilting I wanted to do in January was done.  Some of it was because I took the first week "off" because I was exhausted after the puppy tending.  The rest of it was poor time management and unrealistic expectations, i.e. Grawlix.

I did get some sewing done and order is being re-established in the sewing room.  Still, I am a month behind now and FPS!, February is two days shorter than January!!

January UFO

What I Learned Today

You can scan and email a document from the copy machine at the Library and it doesn't cost anything!  Yipee Skipee!