A Visit with Eleanor

Just stopped by Quilt in A Day while visiting in southern California and guess who happened to be there to see us and give us a little tour of the production studio, updates on the latest book, and a look at the photo shoot in progress of quilts for her upcoming Radiant Star book? Very fun!



And did you see the Stitchin' Heaven New Year's Twitter Party?
Wow!! 2010 is closing with exciting quilting adventures :)

Merry Christmas!

Isn't this lovely! It is a closeup of vintage table cloth from an estate sale that reminds me so much of a red one my grandmother had when I was a child. It is in good condition with a little toothbrush scrubbing.

Let me update you on what's been happening....teaching and more teaching until finally the semester is over! Nothing much was done in quilting nor dissertation :(

My track & volleyball diva also needed much transportation and our college international students also needed to eat!

This past week has been a marathon of much needed infrastructure repair. It was so exciting to see it finally getting done! I also had help with painting the entry now that the ceiling has been repaired.

Now that it is Christmas break I expect to have time to blog a little more often :) Should be fun!

My quilting friends - On a roll!

The most exciting news around here is what my quilting friends far away are doing. Coral launched her first blog. It is about her new quilt studio! Go by and offer her a warm welcome to quilt-blog-land! Dolly has been busy sewing on the machine. In fact a recent posting shows a beautiful use of 1/2 square triangles (plus a few squares thrown in) that I think Coral would like! And Coral has a photo of her BEAUTIFUL Sumac quilt posted too! Take a look. Aren't I blessed to have such wonderful and talented friends!
PS. The photos is from about 2 months ago, a quilt in progress, just to add some interest to this posting :) My quilting is all but non-existent due to school/work resumption. Heavy sigh...

Remembering Summer Days

...before my flower basket burnt up in the scorching dry heat these past few weeks. Thankfully it rained a little today. It has been SO hot and dry. And, happily and am back to those citrus wedges. Pinned a few centers together last night to sew on breaks today. YIPEE! Also moving my sewing and papers out of the dining room where they have been all summer, promised to do for my daughter before school starts. It will look much nicer. While I'm at it...thinking about re-arranging the sewing/study room too...hummm....

Beanies are finshed! Now back to those citrus wedges!

Seam Night!

SEAM (Sewing, Eating and a Movie) at Quilter's Corner in MWC was very productive!
I trimmed and squared up all circles and "stack'n'whack" squares for last year's Valentine quilt and sewed all the rows together. The evening started with introductions and yummy Mexican food at the restaurant across the parking lot. Then there were 2 movies "Fried Green Tomatoes" and Julia Julia. (est. date)

Beanie invasion!

This week the Citrus Wedges have been put on hold. There is emerald green thread in my sewing machine instead. I am sewing 50 beanies as a fundraiser for our local Habitat for Humanity who supplies the local university with these Beanies for incoming freshman in the fall. This is a long tradition in the university and when the company who formerly made these beanies was no longer able to provide them, volunteers from Habitat stepped in and have been making them ever since. This is my 3rd year to help but this time instead of sewing "parties" individuals take packets home to work on independently. It's going to take a while to sew all the bindings on. That is what I have left after a week of working on them (in the evenings). So far I have finished only 4 but all the others are together, just need the binding - the tedious part. My first ones are OK, but I am looking forward to improving my technique by the time I finish about 10 more :)