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| My husband got this Iphone several months ago but never bonded with it. He has gone back to his old phone and I've changed from my Blackberry over to his 'old' iphone. I think that I'm really going to like it. |
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| I did splurge on one of these covers. It is pretty and I feel so techy. I may be a grandma, but I've always liked gadgets. |
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| How's that for a lot of F's. It is a bit mish-mashy, but I'm liking it. I think it's almost the same size as my Scrappy Lattice, about 103 by 115. (I purposely put my new chair in the picture, I thought 'everyone' ((I'm an optimist, it may only be a couple of people, lol)) would want to get another glimpse of my modest triumph and be amazed that it hasn't fallen apart yet.) The light stars show up pretty well, and if you look closely you can see the dark stars. |
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| I like my Que Sera Sera Border, it is truly "what will be will be". True scrappy spirit. |
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| My company left Sunday and so I've begun putting together my Borgasmord. I have 5 of the 8 rows assembled and in person it looked more chaotic, I was afraid that if anyone asked I'd have to point out stars, but in the picture I can see the stars more readily, I like how pictures can give you more prospective on things. |
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| My niece and I made our trip to Ikea while she was here. She hadn't been before and of course neither had her kids, but they all loved it. While we did the upper floor the three girls stayed in the children's center, then we got them out, had a delicious lunch and did the bottom floor. The kids wanted to return to the children's center, but it was too crowded and they had lost their spot. I got this chair, some seat cushions, a bit of fabric and a couple of other small items. My niece and the kids all got some goodies, too. I put this chair together myself, I was pleased with the chair and with myself. My DH has had more issues than usual the past few months and so I'm having to do things that he would have done in the past. I could have asked one of my grandsons or waited for a visit from my brothers, but I decided that "I am woman". Now it is on to replacing a shower head and a toilet seat and I know that I can do it, lol. PS I even sat in it to sew together my Borgasmord and it didn't fall down. |
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| "Borgasmord" I think that many times about things that are random and varied and that I like, and people always look at me like I'm crazy (When I say it out loud). Do any of you remember Morris and the Underwood ham commercial? When I was making this I thought of it and thought that may just be the name of this quilt (my scrappy Star Struck). I liked the scrappy border on this quilt and thought what if I did a Jelly Roll Race type start with my 2 1/2 inch scraps and then at some point stop (I did 8) and cut them into sections to use for a piano key border. I was afraid when I was gathering scraps that I wouldn't have enough, but I think I have enough for a coin strip down the back, to keep me knowing up and down when I make the bed. Genius, or at least I hope so, lol. Now that I have a method and a name, do I have a copyright, another joke. (As you can see, if I don't have the TV on I have too much time to think my weird thoughts) |
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| As I was cutting and sewing I also found myself singing Que Sera, Sera, do any of you remember that song with the beautiful Doris Day? Thus, the second part of my possible title, do you think it's too much and I should just stick with Borgasmord? |
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| It made a nice tidy little stack if I do say so. Next question, will the finished quilt be a scrappy delight or a mish-mash nightmare. The suspense is part of the quilting fun. |
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| A few each morning while everyone else was sleeping. Now I have 56 - Not bad at all. |
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| Now on to borders, I'm figuring on a 2 inch border, a scrappy piano key, and then a slab border. Scrappier and scrappier. |
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| Yesterday we got quite a rain and when we got home there were 7 sandhill cranes enjoying the puddles in the pasture behind our house. |
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| The last big storm had some wind and you can see the dirt where the trees were, and behind the living tree you can see where they bulldozed the dead trees. |
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| Sometimes it's hard to see where one starts and the other ends. I think there are 3 in this picture. |
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| The first 9 blocks of my Scrappy Star Struck. Unfortunately, I think some of my lights are too dark and some of my darks are too light, but I'll persevere and I don't think I'll mind too much in the end, it is scrappy after all. I need to find more scraps and cut more though, next time I'll know that when you use the chisel die on the accuquilt for this quilt you need to cut all the fabrics the same. No folding them right sides together and then cutting, I have a pile of chisels that won't fit in as they are cut wrong. I'll find something else to use them for though, so not a big problem. |
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| I answered a question on Ravelly1's blog and today I received this really pretty fat quarter. Not bad for a good guess, and it matches the skillet I bought today, too. |
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| I got this set of king sized flannel sheets on ShopNBC, supposed to be regularly 99 for about 29 dollars, and free shipping. I think convervatively that comes out to about $1.50 a yard for good quality flannel. Partially, it is destined for the back of my Star Struck, but I'm sure it'll be on the back of 1 or 2 others, also. I pictured honeysuckle as more yellow, but peachy is ok with me, too. The King Tut thread was in my package that came from Hancock's of Paducah. |
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| This was the rest of my Hancock's order, all on sale for $3.98 a yard. The stars on my Star Struck will be scrappy, but all the small triangles will be the red and grey. The peacock feathers are for the border, and the gold polka dots for the inside border. I see another scrappy binding in my future. I can't wait to see it, do you get that way when you're working on a quilt? |
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| My Scrappy Lattice is finished and I love how it turned out, Old-Timey looking as all get out. It may be one of the two or three favorites that I've made. |
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| Sorry about the bad lighting. |
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| It's huge on every side, but it hasn't been washed yet. I don't think it'll be too small if it shrinks a few inches. |
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| The back, not gorgeous, but it's flannel and cozy and the band of scraps lets me know which end is up. I won't have to write in sharpie pen "short" so I'll know how to make the bed, that's what I do to some sheets and mattress pads. Everything about this quilt is scrappy, even the binding. |
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| This is 12 of the 30 string blocks that I'll need to do another lap sized Roll Roll Cotton Boll from Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville. I thought that since it's been put away awhile and Angela from Soscrappy is having blue this time for her Rainbow Scrap Challenge that maybe it would be the kick in the behind that I need to get back to working on my string blocks. Unlike most quilters, I don't like to do string blocks much, although I love the looks of them in a quilt. |
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| These are some of the leftovers that made me decide to go for another one. This one will be pinks, blues, browns and from the looks of things, some greens. |
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| The little HST's will be light blues and dark blues, and there will also be some dark blues in the blocks, it's been so long that I'm not sure where at this point. If you want to see some more blue from quilter-bloggers who actually know what they are doing, Soscrappy has a linky. Click on this. |
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| Not very good lighting on my pillowcases, the one on the right is very washed out. The backdrop is my Scrappy Lattice that I basted yesterday and the pillowcases I made today. They are for my niece's little girls, the ones who are getting new quilts when we see them later this month. PS. Here are a couple of good tutorials for the pillowcases. I didn't do the band trim and I also topstitch the cuff after I sew it on to the body of the case. I don't like little gobs of fraying material lumping up inside, so I encase it in stitching. You can see the topstitching on the first two cases since I was too lazy to change my thread and did it in gray. http://www.maryquilts.com/pillowcase/ http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltpatternsprojects/ss/easy-pillowcase-pattern.htm |
