Sigh...

Remember I said I'm on a cross stitching thing now and quilting has taken the back burner? Well, I decided to order some of my favorite patterns, I adore Prairie Schooler patterns and I guess I decided I didn't have enough already, so here's a picture of more that I ordered and got today. I still have 15 more in a pending order! Goodnight! I also guess I decided I needed some fabric to stitch all that stuff on, so look at that pile of linen I got. All of this was from 123 Stitch, so at least I did get a little discount. I swear, I can't just do anything half way, I have to go all out 150% when I do stuff!

Ok, I obviously need to go do some cross stitch don't you think?

Friday at last!

Gosh, I thought this week would never finish, TGIF as they say! Well, at least next week I have a short week to look forward to and a 4-day weekend, yay!!!

Well, now my quilting has taken a back burner because cross stitching has gotten it's claws into me again. And then I came across this on a cross stitcher's blog and I just knew I HAD to work on this. It's providence, I had already ordered all of the patterns that it takes! Isn't this just the most magnificent stitchery you have ever seen? Well, I think it is. And now there is a blog-along specifically for this project, so if anyone is interested, you better go join, these things sometimes fill up fast when the word gets out.

http://psabcbee.blogspot.com/

I have made some progress on the teeny tiny cross stitch I am working on, I will post a picture of it later, no time right now.

Ok, I have lollygagged enough, I have to get ready for work or I'm gonna miss my train. Tootles! And Happy Friday!

Christmas in November

I got home tonight and picked up the mail and there among all the danged bills was a package from the Fat Quarter Shop. Hmmm, I ordered some Rouenneries fabric, but it's going to my office and it would be a way heavier package, so I figured it was the final BOM that I have with them. Sped home from the mailbox to open it and look what I found from my BFF Colleen just because! Talk about a surprise, I didn't see this one coming! Thank you Colleen, that was soooo generous of you!And yes, I finally got a new camera over the weekend. I wish I could get the danged thing to put the right time though. I guess I'll just turn that off. I have one of those printers that you can just plug the memory card into to upload pictures and it's driving me nuts because it won't work for some reason, I'll have to tinker with it some more. I got this picture by putting it on my laptop and emailing it to myself because I like to blog from my desktop computer.

I have been doing some cross stitching, when I get something worth showing, I'll post about it.

Giveaway Winner

I said I'd have the drawing for my giveaway today, so without further ado, I went to a random generator and the winner is:

Happy Cottage Quilter said...
Oh what fun. A surprise giveaway. Please include me in your giveaway :-)
November 1, 2009 1:24 PM

Please email me your mailing info and I'll get the package out to you!

Well, my trip to Oregon was eh, ok. My mom and I aren't the best of friends, that's all I'll say about that, so it was a quick visit with lots of "button pushing" on her part. A bit of family drama too. But also a bit of quilt shopping, so that made me happy. I always have fun quilt shopping with my sister-in-law. I actually was pretty good. My main purchase was a Rouenneries kit. This line of fabric seems to be a very popular line. I can't wait to make mine. We saw it at the shop in Sisters and the two shops in Bend, at one shop the person who sewed the shop sample apparently had a lot of scraps left over so she added a 6 inch scrappy border all the way around, and dang was it pretty, and it makes a much larger quilt. My sister-in-law and I both got the kit, is it ever pretty the way they packaged it, I bought extra yardage to put the scrappy border on mine too. I need to hurry up and order the fabric for the backing while it's still available out there, I have this thing about the backing matching the front. I told my sister-in-law we need to have a contest to see who finishes it first.

I am so glad I decided to take today off work too. The traffic was horrible driving home yesterday. It was hard for me to leave Oregon where the temps were in the 40s and come back home to summer-like weather again. I told my husband someday I want to move to Northern California, they are having their autumn up there! We're supposed to get in the 80s again today.

No pictures, still haven't gotten that new camera!

Pattern Giveaway

I was going through and visiting and reorganizing my stash of patterns and came across several that I no longer love so I figured I might as well have a giveaway, because someone else might love them. I thought I would make it a surprise grab bag sort of giveaway, it has an assortment of pieced and applique patterns, I'd say mostly applique though. If you want to get in the drawing, leave a comment on this post and I will have the drawing after I come back from my fast turnaround trip to Bend, Oregon to visit family (and Sew Many Quilts). How about I hold the drawing on November 11. Here's a picture of the surprise package. Important: If you want to be included, you must make sure you are not set to no-reply or include your email address in your comment where I can reach you, if I have no way of getting hold of you, your name will not be included in the drawing.

Yes, I know, I still need to go buy that new camera!

Tootles.

Here it is almost the end of October, amazing how fast this month went! Tomorrow is my daugther's 23rd birthday, amazing where THOSE 23 years went! Ugh!

I haven't been doing much in the way of quilting. I am doing a 9-patch swap with a couple of my bloggy friends, totally fun, but that's about all the sewing I've done lately, at least it's something. I've been doing a lot of organizing in my sewing room, but what good is organizing doing me? I have been organizing my patterns and good grief are there a lot of great ones that I forgot I had. My bloggy buddy Colleen and I are challenging each other to get a few Cheri Saffiote-Payne quilts done next year since she is our all-time favorite designer. I think we both have just about every one of her patterns. Is this a lot of patterns or what? These are ONLY her patterns! Not the greatest picture, it was with my phone, my camera died and I still haven't bought a new one.

I need to make some of those! I don't even want to think about how much money is in that pile of little brown envelopes!

Next Friday, I'm making a quicky road trip up to Bend, Oregon to visit family. My mom had her 90th birthday this year so I need to visit her. And, my sister-in-law is already telling me we have to go to Sew Many Quilts. I love that store, I can really get in trouble there. I went there last year during the Sisters Quilt show and I left them a lot of my money! LOL

Well, got to run, I don't want to miss my train because I was blogging!

Tootles.

We went to the air show out at Edwards Air Force Base yesterday, man was it hot on that tarmac, probably 100 out there at least. Well, after sitting in the huge dry lake bed they use for the parking lot for FOUR HOURS to get out when it was over, I looked over at my husband and said if he EVER asked me to go to an air show with him again, I'm going to beat him within an inch of his life! You'd think he'd learn, after two years in a row going to see the Blue Angels at Miramar down by San Diego and waiting for 3 hours to get out ... I guess it's a guy thing. Well yesterday was horrible, it was bad enough that we couldn't find my truck, after he was SURE where we parked it. After wandering around for an hour we finally found it, then to sit and wait to get out, goodnight. Never again!

I had this cute little Peeping Tom looking in my kitchen window this morning. Not the greatest picture, I had to take it with my phone, I MUST go today and get a new cheapy camera for blogging. My old one finally died.

Well, I'm going to go do some house chores now, then I'm going to try really hard to get up in my sewing room and work on some 9-patches for a swap I'm having with a couple of friends. They are sewing me into the ground and I haven't even made one yet, yikes! And I'm the one who suggested it!

Tootles!