Stash report #5

No sewing this week as I have had a run week. We also adopted a 7 month old puppy from Alabama. She arrived yesterday.  She is a chewer! I have been trying to puppy proof my house again. I'll post her picture tomorrow.

Used this Week:                         0.00  yards
Used year to Date:                     14.00  yards
Added this Week:                       0.0  yards
Added Year to Date:                  1.0 yards
Net Used for 2016:                    13.00 yards

Stash Report week #3

I have been making blocks for Honor Flights quilts. I donated a bunch of red, white and blue to help save the guild some cash. A bunch of us are as our account is running low. Our cost for where we have our quilt show tripled from two years ago. It was quite a surprise. 
I also have a baby quilt to go to Project Linus. I just need to finish sewing the binding down. I may do it on the machine though.
The one yard I added was from our guild Holiday Party. 

Used this Week:                         14.00  yards
Used year to Date:                     14.00  yards
Added this Week:                       1.0  yards
Added Year to Date:                  1.0 yards
Net Used for 2016:                    13.00 yards



I missed last weeks as we were without power.

Busy Week (long)

It has been a very busy week. I even managed to do some quilting! Sunday I went to Modern Quilt Club. We had a guest speaker that was fabulous! After an hour drive to get home, I stopped to get gas for my Subaru. I'm looking at the sky and it is weird looking. I finish filling it, get back into my car and it starts rocking. The wind is gusting 60 - 70 mph. Then it starts hailing! I back up a little to protect my car behind the building. In a few minutes time,  the temperature had dropped 25 degrees.  Now it was starting to snow with the wind. I decided to take my chances and drive the last 5 miles home.
I get home and discover that the power has gone out. Great. What to do about dinner? Hubby decides that we are going out as he doesn't believe me how crappy it was out. After a few near misses with tree branches and power lines, we make it to our local Cracker Barrel. We enjoy breakfast and head back out into the storm. The snow is really starting to pick up. The power is still out so I head for bed.
I get up Monday and the power is back on.  Yeah! We only got a few inches of snow but we are under a lake effect snow warning. I make sure that we have food for us and the pets, propane and charcoal(heat and cooking). I try to quilt some butterflies on a practice piece so that I can quilt a top that I showed on my design wall. I'm just not happy with the design I'm trying to do.Hubby comes in and we work out a butterfly that I can continuously quilt. I'm happy until the power goes out again. I can't post anything and can't sew. Off to bed early again.
Tuesday arrives with cold and no water. The pump has frozen in the well. Now I have to figure out how to do things without water.  I call a few different people and get a few ideas on how to get the pump working again. We finally have water at 4pm. I go to take a shower as I have quilt guild.  Hubby calls from work and reminds me to turn the water heater back on. He shut it off for some reason. I wait for the water to get hot, shower and go to my meeting. It is snowing again.
Wednesday when I get up, we have 7 inches of snow.  It is still coming down. My son calls me and tells me that he will be by soon to plow the driveway so I don't have to go out and snow blow. I go out and shovel the sidewalk and patio. 4 times I ended up shoveling. Grand total 13 inches of snow. I fall asleep shortly after dinner. Hubby wakes me up and I go to bed.
Thursday was a run day. Friday ends up being a run day also.
Today, I pack up my quilting stuff and head to where we have out meetings. We had a sewing day. I had managed to make lemon bars and take them with me. We are making honor flight quilts for the vets as they go to Washington, DC or Hawaii. We have enough blocks for 4 tops done. It was a good day of sewing for 6 of us. We only need 4 more blocks and there will be a fifth top done.  That is my goal for tomorrow.

Design Wall #1, 2016

I finished this top last spring.  I put it up as it was such a busy time.  I pulled it out in September, pressed it and trimmed up the threads on the back.  I have been practicing butterflies to quilt on it.  I think that I'm finally ready to quilt it.  Now where did I put the back so I wouldn't use it on another project? The binding is with it so I really need to find it.

Stash Report #1

I've decided to do stash reports again as it may help me to be motivated to sew and quilt.  I had planned on sewing today, but hubby had other plans.  We went and looked at a puppy.  I'm waiting to see if we get her.  Tomorrow is another day. 

Nothing in and nothing out so far this year.

A new year

It has been 18 months since I last posted and a great many things have happened in my life. 

My oldest son moved to Alaska. He loves it there and has no desire to come back to NY.

We have added another granddaughter to our crew of grandchildren.  We now have 6 grandsons and 2 granddaughters.  Miss Freya made her appearance on June 4th of this year.  I was there for her delivery. She was born at home with no drugs or trouble. She is a very inquisitive baby and very active.

We said some sad goodbyes to 4 of our pets this year. 2 cats(Otter and Nibbles), my beloved Loki(my avatar) developed cancer, and Riki(who started out as my son's dog and ended up staying with me as she wouldn't make the flight to Alaska).  I miss my furry children.

We have put a metal roof on our house as we developed a leak in the spring.  We were surprised to find that there was 4 layers of shingles and in a few places 5.  Code states 3 so now I know that the last contractor didn't do what he was paid to do 10 years ago.

I have joined a Modern Quilt Club.  We have been together a year and I am enjoying the simple beauty of our quilts.  I have a challenge due in June.  Currently I'm trying to figure out what I want to do.

I still do the newsletter for my local quilt guild.  I need to sew more for this group so I volunteered to chair our charity group.  Currently we are working on Honor Flight Quilts.  4 tops have been handed out to long arm quilters in our guild.  We are having a workshop in 2 weeks to make more.

I still belong to a Jo Morton stitching group.  I haven't been able to attend in a couple of months and I hope to get back to going soon.  I really don't want to drop out as I enjoy the small quilts that we typically make.

I'm sitting here trying to put together what I would like to accomplish this next year.  I will try to post it when I figure out what I want to get done. I have a whole year to figure it out. I've already told my husband that I plan on doing more quilting.  He told me that it was fine with him.  He told me that I need to spend more time doing what I like and less time running with the children/grandchildren.  I also want to spend more time with my dad.  That can be tough though as he keeps very busy.  He will be 72 this year.  I don't want him to slow down though.

Good bye to 2015 and Hello 2016!  I hope that you are an improvement!