LONG OVER DUE!!

Yesterday I purchased a memory foam top for our spare bedroom mattress....

Well...just look what it came in. Can you see the wheels turning?

 Well...today I am going to make something with that round packaging....stay tuned for the results even if it turns out bad I will show you.

 No worries about the paper it is sitting on, another project in the works.


 Now for the long overdue part. I received this in the mail when we were actually moving in, boxes were everywhere and life was in total turmoil.


 What a fun package to get during such a time.....but......I didn't post....so no time like now.

Isn't it adorable?

I won this over at "Red Quilts", Shelley did a fantastic job and I was so hoping to have it quilted before I posted about it but time is a ticking.  Check out her blog, she is so wonderful but is having her own turmoil and could sure use some quilty support.

IT LAYS FLAT!!!!! DOING THE HAPPY FLAT DANCE....

So I thought I was done with this quilt, waves and all but.... it kept haunting me so I put it in the wash....and this is what I got....

I wish that underarm wave was as easy to get rid of... Whohoooo So...yesterday I was going to spend the day blanket stitching various projects....hummmm that went out the window. I had so many things fighting for my attention, new ideas....you name it....so...I think I got two flowers blanket stitched and that was it. Oh well...tomorrow (today) is another day!

PLEASANTLY SURPRISED WITH THE TURN OUT OF THIS QUILT!

I don't know if any of you remember but after I got the third row on this quilt I went to wash off the marker that I used to mark the quilt and it ran everywhere. So much so that I had to put it in the washer. What a mess, I had to detangle threads....I was so disheartened. I didn't even want to finish this quilt but I decided to go ahead and do so. Here it is, a little wavy......

but I am pleased with how it turned out and the wave may leave when it is washed. I just did a big meander because like I said, I was not happy with this quilt and felt I was doing good just to finish it.

LONG IN THE TOOTH

Have any of you heard the phrase "A bit long in the tooth?"...well...this morning I woke up a bit down in the tooth...

.no reason

. So.....I thought....nothing will do my mental health more good than to clean.

 Now you all think I am sick!!!

 I love to clean, I love a clean home....that being said...it is not always so because I like to sew more. HA!!!!

 As I am cleaning I pull out my Norwex supplies, now I have no affiliation with Norwex except that I love it. Why am I telling you this?  Because I just cleaned my tub with the Descaler and it looks awesome!!!!

I cleaned my stove with the cleaning paste....AWESOME!

 If you are interested, my friend Linda sells it, you can go here. I guess that makes me affiliated with it since my friend sells it.


All that being said....I am now ready to enter the world of the living and not the I want to go back to bed.

Here is what I have been working on.....you will see the finished product next month during the "Dot on Dot" blog hop, Sept 10th through 21st....I am on the last day....Quilt Taffy is hosting it for Madame Sam.

So...after cleaning the house I walked down to the mailbox and look what was in it.  

A sweet friend sent me this book, the hardest part is letting it sit instead of me sitting and reading the day away.

This quilt is on the bed in the spare room.  Notice the pink????  My mother made the quilt and my sister from Average Quilter quilted it...she is getting pretty mean with that longarm of hers.  Notice the hand crochet table cloth on the right.....AVERAGE QUILTER!!  Yep...she made it.

Then today this quilt arrived...this is for my son James, my mother made this and hand quilted it.  I have mentioned before that she has made all of her grandkids a quilt and has hand quilted them.  She has 24 grandkids and I believe she only has two more quilts to finish.  

What a long post for someone who is no longer down in the tooth.  Have a great day and HAPPY Sewing!!

REINDEER GAMES BLOCK #8

You can find my pdf here.

 You can find Caroll's block here

I am a woman of few words today....will be adding a surprise to the giveaway pile!

MY CUTTING TABLE

I just wanted to take time to show you all my cutting table. It is an old credenza, it has one drawer and one shelf on the inside. I have all of my scrapbooking in there. The top was misplaced in our last move..... My husband wanted to throw it out.

I just couldn't do it....so this is what I came up with.

It doesn't look like much but it is on rollers, so I can move it around for convenience. I put a wood shelf plank on the top and as you can see and my rulers are in the side hole where the plank does not cover the opening all of the way. I love it...If I need a ruler, it is just right there for me and I have them in one place. No more hunting for them.

CIRCLE QUILT IN FANDANGO FABRIC SCRAPS AND WINNER OF FAT QUARTERS

I completed this today. I used the scraps from my fandango quilt top (haven't shown yet). This pattern is so fun, fast, and easy.

the winner of the fat quarters is Tangos Treasures I just need your address. Thanks so much for all of your comments and for coming by. I didn't respond to most of your comments, been busy running around with our 2 sons that are visiting. One son left this morning...so now I have more time to goof off. Whohoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!