PIGS

Not only a finish of a PIG (project in grocery sack), but timely too. With the 4th of July coming up real soon, there was no better time to get this done than now!

This is one, from my favorite Peeping Cats patterns at Angie Padilla's, that I adapted to make a patriotic theme. If you have followed my blog, you have surely seen them done in many of different styles and seasons. That's the beauty of this great pattern.

Another one of the great things I have to share, is my new light. I recently was introduced to Ecolux LED Lighting for my sewing machine. What can I say, but WOW!  This is the greatest thing I have ever bought. It makes the lighting on my Bernina spectacular. Go check this out over at the Cotton Club. You will be happy you did.

Enjoy!

Another PIG done

I am finally getting back to my game plan, of actually finishing some things. I drug all my unfinished projects out earlier this year, only to stack them in yet another corner and "not" do anything with them. Gheez, even the best layed plans can fail. How does that happen??? 

But yesterday I put the finishing touches on this very old "PIG" and we can check Calendar Cats off the list and consider it done. This one is so old that I have even managed to loose the book now! So, I really don't have much to tell you about it, other than it is really a cute little thing completed. If I remember right, part of the issue was finding all the cat eyes. That was a challenge, until last spring when I was in Alaska. I found a shop that was clearing out a huge bag of the things, cheap! So now I have eyes for quite a few of these quilts and no pattern to be found! Doesn't that just figure. LOL!!

I have even cleaned out my book shelves and still not found the darn thing. But all was not lost, because in two weeks our little quilt group is having a garage sale. Get this, no money changes hands, you just take your quilt things you no longer want or use and put them out for someone else who might want them. We all get to shop each others "stuff" or "crap-ola" as I prefer to call it!  hahaha  I seem to have quite a few bags of my treasured Crap-ola, to take along. Bonus!!! I have room on my bookshelves now.   It's a great way to trade away things you really don't want anymore, and pick up some new things in the process. What doesn't manage to find new homes will be donated to a quilting organization of some kind. Sounds like everybody wins on this one. Better yet, we pot luck, so I am looking towards some great grub while I shop! Yum Yum!

On that note we had a new place open in Denver this week. Wooden Spools quilt shop. We went to visit the other day and were very excited with it. They have a pretty unique concept. They purchase your old fabrics that are in good shape (fat quarters or half yards) for $1 a pound then resell them for $5 a yard. You get rid of your stash you will never use and someone else gets great fabrics for a good price. All nice quilt shop quality fabrics. I spent a fortune the other day on fabric, while my friend cleaned up on brand new yarns that they bought for a song from a closing shop. All the savings get passed along, and it's fun to look thru things. We had such a good time that tomorrow, we are taking an "It's a Wrap" class there. Watch out for a new project soon, if all goes well that is!

And yeah, I know my book shelf is great, and my fabric shelf is exploding! Guess I better start sewing some more.

All the Better to See You

Well, I finished up another one of those PIGS (projects in grocery sacks) that have been lying around forever. I had such a good time thread painting on him, that it makes we wonder just why I let it sit in a bag for so long????? Now I am wanting to start yet another new project, but I have promised myself, I would not do that until I get some of these others done. :-(   :-(   Hate it when I have to discipline myself!
I do have a couple of quilts that need to be done for some friends, my ,mini-swap quilt, and I need to finish up my projects from the classes I took at MQX, then I will be back on the road with my half done projects again. So I guess there really isn't time for anything new is there?  :-)

You will see that my blog has changed a bit again, thanks to some great advice from a blogging friend. Thank you so much Diane for sharing your web designers tips on what works best for viewing web pages. I hope that all will find this much easier to read. The white letters on the black background did make your eyes roll, now that I think about it!  :-)  It is so wonderful to have such a great network of blogging friends to learn from. Bloggers really do bring out the very best in people. We share our trials and tribulations in everything we do, to make life easier, as well as inspiring each other along the way! While we can all have issues with technology from time to time, it has been such a driving force in bringing so many of us together, that I can't imagine where we would be without it. If I haven't told you before, thanks for being there. Every blog I have read has enriched my life in one way or another.     

     

OH MY!!

Yikes, even I am shocked at what I managed to drag out of a cabinet. Drat those darn cabinets, they just hide way too many sins! I have updated my list of  "PIGS", and now it looks like I have my work cut out for me. I hate to admit it, but there is another cabinet, that I know has a few very old things in it. Maybe after I get this pile done, I will search in the nooks and crannies of that one!  Maybe, that is!

Time to finish those pesky PIGS

I hope everyone enjoyed their Easter. It was quiet here. The boys were gone so I took the weekend to finish up all the little projects that have piled up over the years. I decided it was time to address those bags boxes, and piles of past projects. You know, those we just had to start, only to become enchanted with yet something else, so they get stacked up and pushed into a corner. While cleaning out thoses corners I found stacks of fabric, that I distinctly remember carefully picking out, but now I have no idea what it was even for! I have racked my brain, to no avail!

So no more for me. From this point on, I am putting my projects in Ziplock bags, with the pattern and anything I bought for the project. Not that it is going to help me with what I have already managed to collect, but hopefully as I get thru all the projects my mind will remember where some of these other things go!  :-)

In the mean time I have logged quite a few of the unfinished PIGS (projects in grocery sacks) and posted them on the the left side bar. As I finish them up I will log them as done, and my goal is to get thru this list this year. It's a hefty goal! I am the queen of "side track" when I see a new quilt in my local shop or at a show, but I am going to put my best foot forward and try to get thru these things. I will be posting my results as I go. I find that having a commitment helps me. Hopefully in my quest to finish up things, it will inspire some of you too. I get such great joy in reading blogs from quilters and find so many motivating ideas thru them. Let's all dig out our PIGS and dig in! I'll show you mine if you show me yours!  :-)  Anyone up to the challenge??

My first finish is this Purple Mystery Quilt from Patchwork Planet July 2009. The piecing has been done since that day, and I can happily say that it is now quilted. While it took way too long,  the timing is great with Spring on it's way. The flowers are just starting to come up in my garden and the snow is finally gone!  :-)