I have included a link to the chocolat pattern if you want to give this project a try.
You got it Dude!
FWQAL week 2
This week we talked about Marti Michell templates and showed how you combined different templates to get additional shapes. I MUST ADMIT I am a strip piece kind of girl. I don’t use many templates. BUT, I am a convert. I will show you the entire process after Week 3 of classes. Just wait until you see what Marti has done for us all to make this so easy!
These gals in class are such troopers by letting me take their pictures and post them on the www.
no class is complete without a sonic cup in the background |
eladia and mariza |
Summer House Project
A layer cake of Summer House byLily Ashbury was distracting me. I wanted to make something but did not know quite what. This color palette is not my normal look but I just had to make something, anything!
Then I remembered Cynthia Lammon’s project on the moda bake shop shown above. I was immediately inspired. When I have this ” quilt fever” sometimes I am not good at reading the directions, I just jump right on in. Somewhere I missed that Cynthia did this project with a charm pack instead of a layer cake. By then it was too late, I had already matched up my fabrics in sets of two and was pretty determined to cut and sew on Summer House immediately! And I did!
Move the center square to the back of the set of 2 fabrics as shown below. Sew together.
The layer cake is 10″ so you will have a bit extra once you put the blocks together. Trim to 9″ squares.
Block finishes at 8 1/2″
fabric cooking
I am doing so she will be able to document it for a museum someday.
BUT I had toDUNK it just to see
you don’t mind “messing up”.
some of the shades. But there is something so unique about the pieces that you can’t
help but fall in love with their “special aged characteristics.” Bleaching fabric or Rit color remover
works just like baking cookies. Once you take the cookies out of the oven they continue
to cook. The fabric continues to fade so remove in time to let it keep cooking.
Also anything wet such as the fabric appears darker. It will be lighter when dried.
You can always bleach it more.
it’s Friday
This makes me smile and I will confess I got up and danced a jig in coppell, texas
Today I am Rich!
My cup runneth over or maybe more appropriate is…
I am a stuffed pig! I mean that in a good way.
Thank you, Sandy!
Sandy Gervais will be starting the hop on Sept. 6th. So Mark your calenders and see what interesting tidbits these designers have to share with you.
I know many of them may whine and complain about the things I make them do
AND
the questions I make them answer.
Have no fear, I will just sit here and
know that I am as
“happy as a pig in mud”
or something like that.
Follow me and I will keep you up to date with the details!
Toddles for now!
Saturday morning with the nicest niece
My niece Kennedy dropped by to spend a few nights with us before the summer was over.
Saturday mornings in a house full of teenagers is a very quite place to be. Kennedy, not wanting to miss a thing, stays up late with the older crew but is still a fairly early riser to see what “Izzy” is up to.
She taught me how to make duct tape flowers pen toppers.
She learned this craft in camp. Yes her camp was in Texas. If you are not from Texas, you may not understand that Duct Tape is a “staple in this neck of the woods”.
It is available in all different widths and colors.
(NOTE TO SELF: Get some Duct tape for Grant and Misty’s wedding gift.)
A quick google and you will find these any more uses for the handy tape. The list could go on forever.
I have listed a few and highlighted my favs in red.
Remove lint from clothes.
Grocery rant
Guess what Costco has?
64 count PK. of toilet paper
56 oz. Plain or peanut m & m’s
36 ct. Dr. Peppers
Breakfast croissants
Awesome ice cream bars in the deli
Beautiful flowers
Jumbo vitamins and razor blade refills
Yes self check out lanes.
I have a Costco 4 miles from my house and a Sam’s 4.5 miles the opposite direction from me. So it is not about location, but rather brand preferences. Prices and selections are pretty similar. I prefer Costco because you wheel your cart to the check out lane, a staffer loads your jumbo bulk items on the belt, and with the ease of a single swipe of a plastic and your items are boxed and bagged ready to take home.
Now they have self check out lanes just like all the grocery stores. I must confess I am a bit critical of the grocery store experience. At 15, I was a cashier at a major grocery store chain. We actually had to push buttons on a register and even multiply in our heads sometimes! We did everything but deliver the groceries to our customers home and unload them! All through school I worked the graveyard shift. There was no self check out. Back then, I wish there was a self check out, so I did not have to strategically plan my nightly trip to the restroom when the store was empty. I still today remember all the produce codes and can scan an item better than the next guy.
A friend of mine is on a gluten free diet. She told me she orders all her special diet foods through amazon.com. She has a standing order delivered to her front door weekly.
CAN YOU SAY HEAVEN?
I love technology and probably couldn’t do without it. However I do miss the days of the good ole’ fashioned milkman.
Have a good week. I have to go unload all my groceries.
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really?
I have all my mom and dad’s letters from when they were first married. My dad was on the road traveling and he would write home to “Ruthie”. In our world of instant communication, these letters talk about the weather, where he stopped along the road to eat, people he met and of course how much he missed his favorite child (ME). This was also the time of no cell phones! Tonight I am going to read through the letters and write some of my own artistic letters and send them through snail mail.
Have a good one.
-lissa