Half day Thursday

This is just an experiment to see how the new Blogger interface works for me. I think they added bugs to the OLD one just to get people to change over! I had SO much trouble this morning. Including this DOT right in the middle of the post. It does not show up when I publish, but its kinda LOOKING at me! Creepy! lolol

I will be in the car most of the day even tho I didn't take the boys to school this morning. They have a half day, then want to go get pizza with their friends, need a ride home, then a ride back to school for baseball practice, ride home, ride to the Athletic store to get their uniforms, one needs to come home and the other one needs to go to soccer practice! There goes QUILTING for the day! WHEW! I better get dressed!
             (did I tell you I'm NOT FOND of half days???)

an experiment...gone RIGHT!

I have been eyeing Judy's QOV sew along for February. I really have NO BUSINESS starting something new, but there it is! Its pretty, its RWB and gold...oooh! It looks like FUN! OK, so now you know I already have my fabrics picked out! HA! Here is my dilemma: The 1st step is flying geese...and with a different color on each corner. Here is how I figured it out! THIS is my favorite way to make flying geese. I get good results..and NO fabric left over. Literally, you have nothing left over unless you trim off dog ears and square up a bit. The problem is that you get two of each:

                                                                           #1

#2

I only need #2s.

   This is how you  lay out the squares in the original method. I need color placement! Here is how I fixed it.

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 Cut all 5 squares on the diagonal. To get your size, refer to the link above on my favorite method.

                                                                                                                  place one triangle on each end, matching the points on the END. In the middle they will overlap, that is OK. Sew your regular 1/4 inch, being gentle with the bias edges!                                                                                         

 press GENTLY towards the triangles

cut on the diagonal, matching up the point on the bottom to the dip between the colored triangles.

                                                add the appropriate color on the other side

VOILA! 4 flying geese with the color in the RIGHT PLACE!

                                                              and nothing left over. Heaven!

(just FYI, Blogger is not playing nice today. That is why the text it all over the place! If you have any questions, just e-mail me!)




   

(I think the sound is too slow. If it is, listen for the 'evil laugh'. Its WAY delayed and VERY slow! Too funny..but the picture plays at the right speed!)

Here is a short video of Chewy seeing our DD for the 1st time in a year. She was only deployed for 6 months, but with 2 3 week + excercises and a 6 week school. Add on a move and all the prep for a deployement, he came to us February 2011. I miss him terribly, but more than that I'm SO thankful that he was glad to see HER. She worried that he would not want her. That was NOT the case!

Note the little tail going a mile a minute, his little paws went RIGHT around her neck and he would NOT let go! Too sweet!

Design wall Monday ..on TUESDAY!

Here is my design wall Monday offering..

but I"m a day late and a dollar short!

I HAD this on my wall,but I could not find my
CAMERA!

This was a New Years Day Mystery

on Patchwork Planet. I was disappointed that I didn't

download ALL the clues..so I almost didn'+t know how this

all went together. Luckily I saw some pictures, and fiddled with the

layout. 

Now its on to working on the border! Any suggestions?

                                                                                 

slow Sunday

What do you get when you have had a CHALLENGING weekend (20 teens at your house till after midnight doing something called 'Epic Mealtime' -TRUST me! Its nothing that a normal human being would eat. BUT, they did and they left a messy house/kitchen/stain on my log cabin design rug and 3 shot glasses of congealed bacon grease in my refrigerator. Seems they were gonna do bacon grease shots. :::Shudder:::. IF this happens again, it will be a once a year thing. Oh, and the rug will be safely stowed under my long arm!), Then feeding the 7 that stayed the night. Yesterday I had my long arm chapter meeting. It was closer to my house this time, so was not a HUGE time drain. I enjoyed it and came home ready to do a bit of sewing. (You will see THAT progress tomorrow on Design Wall Monday). So, I wake up with a headache. I have been a 'tolerant' mom, so what do I get for my troubles?

                                                                        

WILD DOG!!!

Oh, You think he looks cute? (well, he IS that!) You think he looks MILD? (well NOW he is!) He is sleeping now. But with a headache and 2 sleeping teenagers..he was a WILD MAN! He is going home with his mom this week. She has been deployed since August and just arrived stateside on Tuesday. He has been with us since last February, so almost a year. I WILL miss him...just not that noisy on a Sunday morning with a headache!

Design Wall Monday Jan 23

Good morning! How was your weekend? Mine was fairly quiet. Remind me of that when we have 2 boys in at least 3 sports! I'm sure you will hear about it!

On Saturday night we went to see the US Men's soccer team play Venezuela in a friendly match. They are getting ready for pool play to qualify for the World Cup. They played it the Cardinals football stadium...with the ROOF open! I only had my sweatshirt jacket on...so I had to go look for a cup of coffee. I was never FREEZING..but it was SO windy outside. I am working on being hoarse this morning, so wondering if that is why. It was a good game. We had 13 shots on goal to their 3, but didn't score till stoppage time at the end of the game. I forgot my camera, so only got one shot of the field on my phone. No idea how to get it OFF the phone! Final score? USA 1- Venezuela 0. A good time was had by all the occupants in MY car. (oh, well NOT the 20 mins we SAT in line in the parking lot not moving an INCH. What a lesson in patience! The 16 yr old NON DRIVER sitting next to me giving me advise didn't help much either!)

Here is what I'm working on today:

The request was a baby quilt. When I asked boy or girl, not known. I asked colors or theme

and was told Dr Seuss. Love it!

I found a FQ pack and also purchased some yardage

here is the backing. I used up the fq I didn't use on the front with a few pieces left over. My  favorite are the two with all the names of the books!. Now to get it loaded and quilted. Hopefully that will happen today. I have to clean off the long arm and get it all oiled.

Head on over to Judy's Design Wall Monday to see what others are up to today!

CHAOS!

I had happily driven to the grocery store. I'm making sauce to freeze for eggplant parmesan to be made at a later date. SOMEONE is having a birthday and requested eggplant. Actually he asked for it at Christmas, but I was not up for that much cooking in the small amount of time we were in Texas. Also, shlepping the sauce two days in a car didnt' appeal to me either. So, off I went to get tomato puree and peeled tomatoes. I even stopped to get gas. And THAT my friends is when it happened! CHAOS!

I stopped to talk to a neighbor
Erin called from Qatar on my cell phone
I said goodbye to the neighbor.
as I drove in the driveway, my cell phone DIED
I madly dragged 3 big tomato cans and an ice cream into the house
   (not wanting to miss her if she called back!)
3 boys need eggs before soccer practice
dogs start barking MADLY
yard guys arrive, make alot of noise, thus stirring up dogs to
BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK
son fusses at me for not leaving the icing out for the cinnamon rolls
   (HELLO? they were 3 INCHES from the pan! and do we not know
    how to use a cell phone???)
Erin calls back (yay!)
talk to Erin...on a cell phone thats plugged into the wall!
  (did you know you cannot scramble eggs when you are talking
   on a phone that is plugged in across the room? Remember those days?
  I didn't like them either!)
hand phone to her brother
scramble eggs
BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK
son grumbling about cord (me TOO!)
son fusses at me because he thinks I don't know how
  to turn up the volume on the cell phone. I don't tell him
  he has just turned up the RINGER volume, not the ear piece
 volume and that I'm not THAT DUMB!

BARK BARK BARK BARK
son hangs up the cell phone.
I dash outside to pick up after FOUR DOGS so the yard guys can
   well....DO THE YARD


....son;s friend drives boys to soccer practice (did you just see
  him sprout WINGS???)


SIT....BREATHE....Try not to wig out! (the dogs have settled, the yard guys
   are gone, the boys are at practice). Relative quiet...for the MOMENT!



I think I need a nap...oh..I have not started the SAUCE yet! And later today,
I 'GET" to host a version of Epic Mealtime (search THAT on YouTube...warning!
bacon overload and not the cleanest language, but son thinks its WONDERFUL.
He BETTER clean my kitchen!)

I'm not holding my breath that this won't happen again today! I better get that sauce started.
An hour in the sewing room is called for too!

Design wall Monday Jan 16, 2012

I have decided to enter this wall hanging in our AZ Quilters Guild show

in March. I'm working on the center now. How about an opinion? I know I'm going to do a star to

echo the big star, but I cannot decide on the color.

Do you like the chrome yellow (same as out side round of the star)?

Or do you like the dark orange (same as 2nd round just inside the

chrome  yellow?

I would appreciate your opinion!