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Sunday morning

My driveway I walk. This morning will be I expect the slowest part of my day. I've been able to take a nice walk this morning since the temperatures are just so fall like, gorgeous. The breeze feels nice and the smells,  oh it makes me so ready for Autumn.  Then the other thing I was able to take care of was taking some time out to write this.  I know any stitching that I'll do will be this evening, just like yesterday.  I can say that Blake's binding is finished and now it's on to Ben's. After writing this, it's full steam ahead I'm afraid.  The bathroom floor finally is installed. Yesterday they didn't show up till 4 o'clock and we're here until eight putting in the new flooring.  Looks good,  I will have to do some touching up the paint on the walls and work on the trim a little bit but other than that I'm very pleased with how it looks.  The walk-in closet adjacent to the bathroom i

So Much for Plans

It was one of those days when you make plans and it does not happen Today they were suppose to start laying the new flooring in the bathroom. They came with all the flooring here but was lacking was the right adhesive for the bathroom.  Because I live an hour from Tulsa for them to go back to the warehouse and replace the adhesive would take close to 2 1/2 hours and that would not leave enough time for them to do my floor and get to another job they had scheduled.  So they will be back tomorrow to do the work. I was told that this adhesive is what is considered low VOC along with the flooring. Sure hope that is right.  I then just went to work on cleaning out the sewing room and let me tell you I have so much more than I realize just by looking at what's on the shelves.  All I was able to get done this afternoon was packing up the fabric and moving it along with project boxes off one bookcase and the project boxes off the other bookcase.

Sewing with A Friend

I have been very fortunate to made many friends because of blogging. I haven't been able to meet any of them but that doesn't stop us from keeping up with each other. Nothings as great as sewing with friends so why not do some sewing with long distance friends. So it came about by chance through discussing a pattern Karen at Quilts...etc  what trying to find out about that we are going to sewing along with each other a quilt using this block. It happens to be a pattern that has been around since the 1930's besides the update pattern by Jen Kingwell. The original pattern was printed in 1933 in the Kansas City Star newspaper. I had a copy of this pattern which is called Air-Ship Propeller .  I had a few years back while attending the Central Oklahoma Quilt Guild show I purchased a copy of the collection. This guild back in 1985 decide that they would collect the patterns and make the blocks that were printed in the Kansas City Star from 1928

What's Up 08.29.16

I don't know if anybody else feels this way but since I retired, I love Mondays. It's like the fresh start to a week. So on my What' Up day here I will finish putting on the binding for Ben's I spy quilt,  Want to add this, when linking up at Beth's Cooking Up Quilts that she gave a link to a link on a YouTube video on How to put on bindings. A very good one by Sharon Schamber. Here is the link and start on month #14  Farmers Wife 1930s blocks.  Then what I'll need to do is start cleaning out my sewing room for the carpet layers to come in.  What I'll do is going to show you the before pictures of my messy, crowded but happy place.  And then when all is done and said and have the room back the way I want it, I'll show you the after pictures. Haven't decided yet if I will post anything about the room in between, but chances are probably will, because it will probably take me a while. 

Sunday Best

So happy to be able to say and show something on this last Sunday of August, which is so hard to believe that another month has gone by. You know it's 119 days till Christmas, WowWee. My day is making, attaching and sewing down the binding on the 2 I Spy quilts. I decided to just use the leftover trimmed pieces from the backs. It will be a colorful binding don't you think. I like to start with a 2 1/4 inch strip, I find 2 1/2 too wide and 2 inch usually not enough. I had thought about putting it all on by machine but I like to do the last step by hand. Find it very soothing. So my afternoon/evening is near perfect in someways.  Hope yours is too. Linking up with Kathy"s Quilt

Summer retreat

At the beginning of this month, August, there was the annual Roaring River retreat. It's held at the Roaring River Park near Cassville, Missouri in the lodge that is located there at the park. A beautiful, wonderful place that I love going to. It's been going on for seven years which I have been able to attend the last three. It's such a great group of ladies and we have so much fun for four days.  I took this year one project and that was it I spy quilt.  I had over 250 circle to complete so I could put the tops together. So that was my task was to fussy cut these circles. And preparing them for the squares. I wish I could say after four days I got all 250  circles completed but I did not.  Did make a good amount of progress so when I got home that week I started finishing them. Enough of mine for now I want to also show pictures of what was going on around me by the other ladies so enjoy If

My third attempt

This has been such a busy, exciting and tiring month. Been able to finalize all the flooring and has it scheduled for installment next week. Had done cleaning and organizing and redoing the house all in preparation for the flooring plus the "little dude's" visit.  The "little dudes" were here this past week and boy was it so good to have them here. It went by way too fast as always, you just wish time would slow down when you have events like this. But we had a good time we were able to get a lot of Grammy and Papa time in. They left Tuesday morning and it's taken me a couple days to just kind of mellow out and get my footing back. I'm already planning their visit for Christmas. With all of my busy work with the house and riding around for flooring I was able to complete the Boy's I spy quilt.  Well almost completed, I have the binding to put on, but I still put them on their beds so they can enjoy doing I spy. Which just