A little inspiration

This wonderful quilt

was on display at the Metro Parks Quilt Show and I just thought it was wonderful. I had thought I would like to try this pattern. I was very excited when I found the transfers at Pat Catans a couple week ago. I think that this might be one of my winter projects. I just love looking at quilts.

Sunday Summed Up

Sunday was a fun day. I got up early and cooked a nice breakfast for Larry. This suprised him because he is usually the one to make breakfast on Sundays and he usually has to work at getting me out of bed. Not sure what happened. We spent the whole day inside and it wasn't even raining or cold. We just did some little jobs around the house and just rested all day. It was fun.( Oh wait, I already said that) I spent most of the afternoon picking up my sewing room and occasionally stopped to check out what my bloggy friends were doing? hehe. I was going to post a pic of my sewing room, the newly picked up version, but decided it still wasn't picked up enough. Maybe another time. I was able to fold up my wool and put it in a cabinet that I had in the basement. I was happy to get that organized alittle. I still have a lot upstairs that I am using on my current project.

I also started sewing some charms together to try out my new "lil twister" template. I was on a role when Carlee came running into my sewing room, at a 100 miles an hour, carrying a stuffed animal in the shape of a beagle puppy that was making snoring noices. As she run under my sewing table she hit the cord to my iron. It fell on the floor and broke. Soooo no iron-no more sewing today. This is what I got done so far.

I guess the next step, after I get an iron, is to sew on the borders and then cut out the pinwheel blocks. I thought I would make a little version first to see how I do. Well, I hope you all had a great weekend and that you are enjoying your monday. See ya later it is time to get ready for work.

Random Thoughts

Well, all 40 circles are sewn. It didn't take long at all. I am happily surprised. I was planning to paint the frame with a black paint and frame the piece and that was that. Now I think it needs something, maybe a saying on top or something. So I will continue to look at it on and off and see what inspires me.

I got this lovely wool at a thrift store a couple weeks ago and thought it would make a cute stuffed pumpkin. Now I am wondering if I should make a penny rug out of it. Do you think it would be too busy? I thought I could use mostly black and just use this as the scallops on the ends and maybe an inset piece on the top. SOooooo one more thing to think about. I always do this.

I am excited about working on my new pattern by Whimsicals. I posted about it on Wed. I thought I would show you the last pattern I did of hers. I messed up on the letters when I made this years ago. I didn't reverse the letters before I ironed on the fusible web and I had used up almost all the material soooo I just made do with them. You might not have noticed but I let the cat out of the bag anyway. I am still happy with this little wall hanging. I took it down to put a fall one up. Just thought I would have alittle show and tell.

I hope whatever you are doing, you are having fun. Goodnite

Some flowers bloomed last night

Some of you might have seen the new pattern that I got yesterday. I was having a hard time deciding which one to do first. I finally decided to just pick something right away and get something done tonight. So this is what I got done last night. I just have to sew around the 40 little circles. I thought that I might start to make one for me and make another one to try to sell. I got to thinking that most of the time I buy alot more fabric for a project than I need. I thought that I would be able to make two of these basket blocks out of the scraps of wool that I bought yesterday. I am not sure if I could sell one or not but I thought it might be fun to try. I don't know much about etsy. I need to look into it and see how that works. I have so much in my stash and collections that I think it would be fun to make some extra money to start paying off some bills. I was reading an interesting post the other day. She buys things at the thrift stores etc. and sells them on ebay and makes out pretty well. I find alot of neat things at the thrift stores and I am starting to run out of walls to decorate. lol. Maybe I should try this selling thing. Does anyone do this? I could use some info. Hope everyone is having a great night.

Today was my trip to Berlin, Ohio. It takes us about an hour to get there from my place. I can't believe what a beautiful day it was. The weather couldn't have been nicer.
The Quilt shops had a ton of inspiration...just what I was expecting. We visited I think four different quilt shops but my fav was The Country Craft Cupboard. I found some scraps of wool and a very cute pattern. I am excited to work on everything....

I have been eyeing this pattern for a while now. I just love her designs. I saw the pattern and then realized that I already had a book done by Teri. Small world huh.

I also have been wanting to try this lil twister thingy. I kept telling myself I didn't need the pattern...I could figure it out...but I have never fiddled with it...soooo I got it.

I think this will make an easy and great baby quilt for my friend at work. Has anyone tried this?

Last but not least, I just loved this bundle of wool. Such pretty fall colors. So many ideas...Where to start..... Wish me luck.

A fun day planned tomorrow.

Tomorrow is my day off and hopfully will be an exciting day. My mom and two of her friends and I are going to Berlin Ohio. There is a wonderful shop there that I love to visit. It is called the Country Craft Cupboard. It is filled to the brim with samples of the patterns that they sell. I love to see the projects in real life. They have a wonderful wool section. I am hoping that when I leave that store I will be filled to the brim with inspiration. lol I don't doubt that I will be filled but I don't know if it will help me accomplish anything though.

I usually try to make a game plan before I visit this shop. I tend to get easily side tracked and then I can't make up my mind on what I should purchase. I really shouldn't buy anything. I have so much already. Maybe I will be good next visit. lol.

I think I will focus on patterns. I have plenty of fabric and wool. I need to have a plan on how to use up some of my stash.

I am excited about taking some pictures of the fall beauty that seems to be unfolding in my neck of the woods. Hope to have some exciting tales to tell tomorrow night. I hope you have some also. Good night.

Looks Like I will be making a Baby Quilt

Just found out that a lady that I work with is going to have another baby. Her oldest daughter just got married this past summer and her youngest child is 10 and she is a couple months pregnant. I would have been alittle freaked out but she seemed very happy. I am glad for her. I haven't decided if I will wait til she finds out if it is a boy or girl or if I will just make a quilt for either sex and just start now. I am known as a bit of a procrastinator so who knows.

I can't believe the difference in the fall color just over the last 3 days. There is beauty all over the place. God is good. Have a great night everyone.

Need Tech Support

Okay all you wonderful bloggers. I have a question for you. I have visited a number of great blogs and one thing I would love to incorporate into my little site is this....To have a picture on my sidebar and if you click on it it would take you to a post about the item in the pic. I love on http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/ and www.behindmyreddoor.com/ they have this feature. Anyway, does anyone know how to set that up? Is there a way to have a slide show with picasa? I know that is a separate issue but that is something else I would like to have. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Have a great week.

A Change of Plans

The original plan was to cover my new found basket/ camera case with the swan hooked rug that is in the bottom of the first picture. Isn't it funny how pets always have to lay on your craft projects? I am not sure if funny was the right word? Anyway, today I couldn't figure out how to do it so I decided to not waste anymore time and try something else.
This is what I came up with. I just did a crazy patch for the top piece.

I lined the inside with some extra batting for my camera.

I made a coordinating checkbook cover/wallet. I was hoping to do something with rug hooking but it just didn't seem to work out. Oh well, maybe next basket.

It has been a good day

I am glad that so many little things got done today. I started out the day working on my rug. I am really enjoying this new frame. While I was enjoying the morning my two dogs were trying to get a chipmunk or something out from under our outhouse. I am sure the critter was long gone but ding and dong sure didn't think it was gone. Carlee was so dirty when she came in. I thought since it was pretty chilly I would wait til it warmed up a little to give her a bath. A few minutes later she came in dripping wet. She was hot so she went for a swim in the pond. So that was it she went in for her bath right them. Then it was Marley's turn then Maddie. Fun Fun Fun.

I also got to go to the thrift store, found a few things. Came home and weeded some flower beds. Then Larry came home and we put the nets over the ponds and waterfall to keep the leaves out. It has been a great day. I hope you had a good day too.

New project

I am glad to report that our visit with Larry's family went very well. They decided to start for home around 1:00 this afternoon. His mom was pretty tired by all this. I think she had a good time though.
I had my parents over for an early dinner. I decided to draw up a new project. I still have alot left to do on the swan, but I can't really do any more til Larry gets the top finished sooooo on to the next thing. Here it is. What do you think? The plan is to put this on the floor in our new bathroom. It measures 23X27. I think that will be a nice size. I hope you are enjoying the end of the weekend!

Day 1 of Vacation

I ended a good day working on my swan. I am happy with the water but not so sure about the swan. I am not sure if anyone else will realize that it is a swan.

Here is a shot of Larry and his mom today. We all had a nice visit and I am looking forward to more of the same tomorrow. (I guess it already is tomorrow.) Have a good night!