Time Flies...

 
 This has been sewn into a flimsy, but no picture of that. "What border?" is the nagging question, Larry and I cannot agree....


Time flies...and I'm dragging these days, but school has been a joy to get back into. One teaching friend described it as getting back in the routine, so it's a good tired, not a stressed one. I agree. Cute students, teaching with a great staff and getting hugs from those little guys, it's all good. One little gal must have told me 3 times today that I was just beautiful-ha! Made me lol every time. I think it called "looking through the eyes of love",  you can't beat that. But on second thought, I was wearing fushia pink slacks, and a pink and purple shirt - a little girl's dream colors- ha,ha~

Hi to you, sweet Norma!

I've neglected saying hi through sheer lack of time.  Norma said on facebook, "I can tell you are back to work, less posts." :-}

Still sewing by bits, but the only pictures I've taken in the last week is of the kids in my classroom for the 1st day's picture. I get them printed out and use their photos all year for the board in the room that says, "Second Grade is the BEST!", made for me by none other than my favorite live-in artist, my sweet Larry.

 

~ the built in, almost finished cabinet...the shelves and not finished baseboards ~

Sewing room, uh, not done. I think I need to hire out for helpers, maybe you'll get a home cooked dinner in return? LOL No promises...!

The air conditioner has gone out at home, hopefully it will be repaired tomorrow. Thankfully, we've been too busy to be home, plus there has been a bit of a break in the weather.

We lost a dear friend in a tragic motorcycle accident. It has saddened our church family, we love his family like our own. He has a wonderful testimony for the Lord, and we know we'll see him again, but it is such a loss. Larry was honored to do some art for the special services. Jesse was a young man, a 24 year veteran for the Los Angeles Police Department. "Heaven's getting sweeter all the time"... this is the song running through my mind these days....

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Tomorrow is Back to School night, and there is always projects you want to have done so the parents can see you're trying to teach and have art around the room. Jeff and Lydia helped today by making folders for tomorrow's meetings, and hanging some apple mobiles from the ceiling. Hanging colored creativity always adds some fun to the room, and the kids are so proud ~

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Okay, I fired up that camera to share these current 15 minutes of sewing:

From the red and white swap ~21 star blocks!

I was totally inspired by Annette of Sunshine Yellow's blog, who also had participated in the swap!

...and this is my sketch of a block I've been admiring, seen here and here, and too cute for me to ignore!

 

I'm using redeemed squares from my pineapple blossoms, plus other half square triangles I've sewn to go along...using a "Triangulations" cd purchased for 25% off, great deal!

 

Especially, since my redeemed squares measured an odd 2 3/4" and I wasn't willing to throw that 1/4" away, the cd made it easy to make more hst's the size I needed...and that made me happy!!











"Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is." Jeremiah 17:7

Tuesday's Design Floor

I'm still in summer mode here, and here is the sewing to prove it!

The little twister cherry runner top is done, I need to quilt it.

See the little cherry cornerstones? :-}

I know, I didn't use all the fabrics I showed before, but they didn't play well in the pattern. I may need to try something else with those...





The "Pineapple Blossom" was waiting for me to figure out the sashing and wonky star, I think it's gonna work out, hope so, anyway.

I'm not sure after I did it, what do you think? Anyway, I need to lay all the blocks on the bed today, and figure out the placement. You may recall, this was a Block Lotto challenge for May, originally from Bonnie Hunter....

I like the extra texture that comes from the white-on-white pieces ~

I appreciated the design and kept it going for the month of June, ha ha! Lydia keeps telling me this one is her wedding quilt. She says,"With so many quilters in my life, I didn't get one wedding quilt!" (I had to remind her of table runners and wedding dresses... ahem...)

I've finished 10 squares for the Block Lotto for July, that's the limit for the month for exchange.

This "Liberated Checkerboard" has to be the most fun I've had sewing a block, Sophie's step by step pictures on Flickr made it so-o easy... I may have to do more of these ~

TTFN!
tah-tah for now!




"O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together." Psalm 34:3

Progression

Today is a bit of sewing this and that. That Pineapple Blossom pile has grown to 32.

"Squaring up" the bonus blocks in the evenings

The "blossom" square has a bonus of 4 half square triangles that could be used in a border...

or something else...jus' thinkin'....

Today is my bff Beth's birthday. She asked me for a table runner using some cherry fabrics we both were collecting on our recent Fabric Acquisition Road Trip (can you figure out the acronym on that one? hehehe). Beth has a sweet spot for cherries ~



I've been trying to figure out the twister for Beth's table runner. With the inspiration found here
at my cyber friend's blog in Ontario, Canada, I've worked on a practice block.

Photo taken from The Cozy Quilter's blog; cute, huh?


I am sharing my practice one right now, Because I was so excited it worked!!

mine: a 4patch of charm squares, framed with 3 1/2" white border

fabric swiss cheese :-} my homemade template is 3 3/4"; to make it,
I measured 3/4" from each corner, and drew a line connecting each mark.

Here are the cut squares laid out. Warning, this is a real quilt puzzle!


Uh-oh! I think I sewed something wrong...maybe if I flip it...


no, that didn't work, either! I guess I'll be ripping a seam.




Ta-Dah! Now, I'll try the cherries!

In the house, the storage room went from this ~

to this, oh, so nice to have a clean slate, so to speak. More to come later.

Hope your day is a creative, happy one!




Psalm 9:1 "I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all Thy marvelous works."