All of this using Only 1 Moda Turnover

A big Table Topper,
a nice little Table Runner
AND a Pillow Cover ... with ONE Moda Turnover!
and... Jodi over at This That and the Other made them and is GIVING THEM each away!!!

Now how cool is that!?

Maybe I can pass off some of my luck to some of you... although it sure would be nice to win any of these beautiful creations :) They are made with Christmas Moda fabric but don't scream Christmas... making them great to have on display all thru the winter months ;)

Love from Texas!

Quack - Quack - I won ;)

Do you remember the beautiful Katie Cupcake Quilt I posted recently on my blog announcing about her quilt kit giveaway??? Well I didn't win the actual give-away prize but she did decide to give something else away to a second person and that SECOND LUCKY DUCK was ME!!! :) :) :)

Check out these S-E-V-E-N cute as a cupcake patterns that she is sending to me! SEVEN! I already have 3 of them in mind to give away as gifties to my quilting friends... and 1 for myself... I'm sure I'll think of a way to use or share the other 3 later ;)

Whooo hoo! Thank you Katie Cupcake!!!

Love from Texas!

A more than 24 hour day

This year I've had a great time learning embroidery and as you know I'm working on a redwork Block of the month project. The pattern is called "Quilter's Blessings" designed by Bea in Germany. Thanks Bea for the patterns! I'm lovin them!!!

And lookie at the two little girls that had a grand time playing with the water hose and sandbox turtle shell top in the backyard today? ;)

Love from Texas!

Guess What!!!??? Great News!

I have 3 Great News items to share with you!

Today I made my phone call that I had been dreading to Mississippi. Oh I didn't tell you that on the way up to KY while I was driving I got a speeding ticket? Really? I didn't tell you??

How fast was I going... oh that doesn't really matter does it... well OK, since you are curious and it also goes along with how come I'm including this in my good news... I'll tell you...

I was goin 86 in a 70. Shame on me, I know... I know... yes 3 kids on board... I should be more careful.. but honestly I was just trying to get on down the road while the gettin was good... all the kids calm and quiet.. David asleep on the floor... trying to shave off some time off of the "estimated arrival time" on the Garmin...

anyway -the reason it's #1 on my list of GREAT NEWS.... is b/c I was expecting the fine to be a LOT more than it actually was. I was thinking around the $350 range... don't ask me how I know how a speeding fine could cost that much *cough* Augusta, GA about 8 years ago *cough*cough*

Well guess how much I owe.... $192! :) Whew!

SECOND GREAT NEWS - I received an email today from the Bernina shop simply stating my machine is ready to be picked up.

what? ready? ALREADY? Does this mean it's not fixable? b/c they said there were several in front of me and I just drove it over on Wednesday... OH no I'm thinking...

I call and they said no, it's fixed... and will cost.....

are you ready for this? are you sitting down?

$18 + tax!!! When I heard that I jumped up and started jumping up and down WHOOO HOOOO! This must be my lucky day! Whew!

and the 3rd on my GREAT NEWS report is that my Daddy got to come home from the hospital today! ;) It was 10 days ago that they removed his tumor and 2-3 feet of his intestine. He's really had a rough time... but has had a great care taker, my step mom Clara. She's been with him the whole time and I know he's in good hands now at home too.

I just hope that he can stay hydrated now that he's home and not on IV anymore... and that his infection that he got in his incision will heal up and go away. Hard to believe that the whole time he was in the hospital he had next to nothing to eat or DRINK even... and now the Doctor has given him the green light on eating what ever he wants.

Thank you - THANK YOU - THANK YOU to all of my online friends that have already sent him a get well, or thinking of you card! It has really made his day to read over all of the states they are each from!

If you haven't mailed him a card yet but would like to - let me know by leaving a reply and your email and I will send you his mailing address. He was real excited that one of the cards was from over seas. He didn't remember who... but said he'd tell me next time we talked on the phone ;) they were just getting home and unpacked.

I know he and Clara will sleep so sound tonight ;) in their OWN bed. With no nurses, beepin machines, or other things going on...

Oh and one more thing... look what Jane is giving away! :) Click on over to get signed up - her drawing is for July 23rd. I've tried to make the photo larger to get a better look over these 30's and from what I can tell, I don't own any of these........yet! ;) Sure would love to add them to my stash!

Love from Texas!

Not a lot of sewing...but still lots to keep me busy

Not a lot happening now that my machine is in the shop again! :( Honestly I'm as dumbfounded about it as anyone else... and I know the ladies at the Bernina shop think I'm not telling the truth - but I really do not know of an incident where anything hit my machine!

I can't even think of a way that would be possible??? It's on the dining room table and that room is baby gated off from the twins... and Nora is only in there when I'm in there. Anyway - I cleared out the room last week b/c David scheduled workers to come in to repair drywall (you can see photos at our family blog)

and Saturday when I had some time in the guest bedroom to straighten up and do some sewing I discovered that the presser foot was sitting crooked on the feed dogs. and using my foot 57 the needle actually came down onto the presser foot metal! YIKES? HOW did that happen? I wish I had taken a photo of it.

So yesterday (Wed.) I drove it over to the Bernina Dealer... not sure how long it will take as there were a few other machines in front of me... nor do I have any idea how much it is gonna cost. :( It was just in for servicing and a new main board make over this past March.

Urgh, but enought about all of that... I'm just hoping I can borrow a friends machine or something so that I can finish up my 1930's Jewel Box Blocks for Crazy'boutquilts swap that is due to her on or before 8/1/09

I signed up to swap 3 sets of 8 blocks... and have "most of the work" done. If I get the machine back by the 26th I should be able to make the deadline...only need 8 more HSTs and 3 sets of 4 patches to get all of these blocks completed and mailed!

****CROSSING MY FINGERS, LEGS, AND TOES****

You may have noticed somehting new on my design wall (I'm la,la,loving that thing!) In the above photo is a look at half of the String Blocks I've collected from the HGTV Sunshine Quilters Group... I have a total of 74 scrappy around red and 4 scrappy around blue centers that I have collected for this years group donation to HeartStrings Quilt Project. I plan to mail them in the last week of July just in case there are any more on the way to me...

Speaking of mail - Just today I got two packages in the mail. Bardleysmom sent in these two blocks and my friend IowaLisa mailed me this panel. Lisa and I were roommates at the Circle of Friends Retreat in NH this spring and she told me she had a "source" ;) on where to get this discontinued pannel. I can't wait to make a wall hanging with it.

So what have I been up to, if I can't sew then... well organizing, putting away, cutting out blue tonal and red tonal fabrics for Quiltaholic's 2011 charity quilt project, putting away, and more decluttering, pinning together binding strips for when the machine comes back, matched up some nickels for 30's HSTs (I only need 8 more of those)

Did I mention putting away and decluttering?

I promise it didn't look this bad before I had to clean out the dining room and bring all of that upstairs.......and because I'm sick of stepping over a great big sack of shirts from the GoodWill... I've been cutting up "parts" ;) and then ironing some Kona solids I washed up recently

This is a photo of only a few of the shirts. As I cut I'm lazy and use my rotary cutter and as I get them dissected I push off into the floor and grab the next shirt... then when I'm ready for a cutting break I fold some... maybe I should do it as I go... but this works for me. I cut about 3 times this much more that you don't see. - and 1 of the 2 bags is now out of the floor! ;)

Oh and one more thing I did today in the sewing/guest bedroom...... I finally found my traced patterns of the Christmas Wishes blocks!!! Wooo hooo! Now I can finally get back to stitching! I knew I had them and the rest of the Quilter's Blessings all together in a White Binder... I just could not remember where I put that binder! LOL :P

I thought I had a photo to share with you of the Christmas fabric I bought when I was at Keepsakes in April... but looking back thru the photo file... I must not have taken one of my Keepsakes loot? or it's on a rescue disk... I'll pull it agian soon and take another photo of it to share ;)

I had a second 7" hoop to put the Christmas Wishes in... although I could really use a smaller one but I'll make due. Now I have two stitchery projects... one for in the van... and the other for... uham, for the bathroom :P it's my only time away from the kids... and why not be productive when I'm doin my business?! LOL

Hope that wasn't "TMI= too much info" :P

Love from Texas!