QuiltingNinaSue

Thank you all for your kind words. The PC quilt is at the same place where I took this one. They are back logged, so it will be late September before it is done at the LA quilter. Last time was $450.00 and this time will probably be more. She did each block individually and it looks great, just cannot get it to show up in a picture.

Today we finally tackled the big deep freezer and cleaned it out put back in reverse, so the bottom items are now at the top, corn is all over to one side (had more than I thought!) and freezer burned meat is on top to uise first.

Refresh my mind when you can on your favorite colors, 'cause I am now sorting the fat quarters, etc., pieces down to two and half inches...as soon as you can. That will customize the box more for you...believe me, I do have all the colors on the color wheel! The totes on the shelves now are new projects acquired in the last year from www.Smartquilters.com and local area QS...like the Quilted Windmill in Pella, Iowa. Inspiration to finish current projects so I can start on them. What you cannot see is the West guest room wall loaded up from South to North with totes of more projects, plus the ones in the QR closet, so no need for a F A R T trip for twenty years! Sure enough! I will never miss what I am shipping out to you all. If you want to limited my 'give away' that is all right, but all of it is going out the door....to one new home or another! Its all cotton quilting fabric.. Honchey has limited what she wants, which means I am sorting those fabrics and dividing it by half...maybe to JeanieG. Blends, prints, and all colors are going and gone. Some are 5-7 yards done to less than a yard. Adn two and half inch strips.

On my bucket list is the Savannah for BIL and Dh; Floral Irish Chain quilt, two log cabin quilts, two wall hangings that might turn out to be quilts, four stack and whack quilts, ..or more...tone on tone log cabin, rooster quilts, and so on down the list.to the smart quilters kits for Lone Star, etc., about five different quilts there. And that is not touching the two book cases of quilt books plus, other quilt patterns. Like the four big notebooks of free quilt patterns...yep, I have collected too much to finish in twenty years! Its been fun sewing iwth FW quilts on QB with you all. Seems like a good way to thank you' all for putting up with me on the trail.

Have a good day and a good week everyone.

sewbizgirl

You are so sweet and generous, QNS. I would love a box, but not a huge box, please. If you send too much, I can always share with my charity quilting group, "Love, Piece and Joy Quilters". We have a stash room at the leader's house that we can "shop" from at any time. It will all go to good use for others.

Any colors are fine. Personally I can use more of the blenders, solids and small prints to go with the larger prints I seem to have collected. Don't fret over it too much or make it a chore.

Not long ago I stuffed a big bag full of fabrics I had too long and didn't really like anymore, and passed it on to a newer lady in our Love Piece Joy group who didn't have much of a stash yet. She was so delighted and it felt great to free up some space for other fabric. So I know you are enjoying the big 'purge' you are doing! It's a good feeling.

sewbizgirl

Don't listen to those lovely bolts on the shelf!

I just posted a link in my sig line to my Boom swap photo album. I have made all 19 blocks to trade, with other people's fabric, plus one of my own. I'm done! It will be over a month before we mail them and get ours back tho. It's been a lot of fun to make one and be done, with each fabric. Great for trying out block patterns. They are all 12.5" blocks.

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QuiltingNinaSue

Good morning to all! Have a wonderful Day with unexpected good things happening! I am counting my blessings and find my cup is overflowing with blessings! It takes less muscles to smile than frowning.

sewbizgirl

Good morning, Nina Sue! Thanks for that positive start to my day.

oksewglad

Last night we were deluged with rain...not sure how much rain, but county seat received 7 1/2", town south of us received over 10... we are in a flash flood emergency...water is over the road just north of DS as well as a half mile to the west of us..we're going for a little drive to see how it is. First day of school cancelled due to weather..we're not in danger, but have fields with water backed up in. My quilt day with QBuddy has been postponed...guess I will find something to do at home...

QuiltingNinaSue

Stay 'safe' Ok, glad to hear you are fine and family is fine. Crops are always a gamble because of Mother Nature and her tricks she pulls off. I have see it all my life, happen time and time again.

We counted our blessings, and hoped for better another year. Although it really hit home a few times, like when parents had to pick up their children in a row boat or Hummers in Corpus Christi, Texas. And we teachers had to figure out a way home through the flooded streets. . . or leave the cars in deep water for wreckers to rescue them. Ocean side become a little too close when that happened. Or our last Christmas there on Padre Island when they closed the J.F.K. Harbour bridge and we had no power on Christmas Day...no heat and 12 inches of snow on the ground. It had not snowed for one hundred years, until then. When someone offers to rent or lease you a place to live and hands you an 38 page lease to sign...D O N ' T. You cannot win even they broke the agreement by not solving the heat problem 'cause they did not have heat either.

dublb

First my class in Midland didn't make. It was supposed to take place on Sat.
The manger of the Midland LQS & I discussed a change. We are talking about doing technique &/or theme classes. We will get together & discuss it in detail on Sept 3rd. My mind is already percolating w/ideas.

We are gonna go back to Midland this weekend anyway. We need to sign some other papers for the house. We will come back & check on the cat on Sun then we will go back on the 31st for dove season. It looks like I am gonna do some more work on my GFG's.

sewbizgirl

OK, be careful and stay safe! There's always lots of fun fabric to play with at home.

Bev, it sounds like you will still be traveling back and forth for a bit. Are you teaching classes at the Midland quilt shop?

We have been noticing that we haven't seen much of our neighbor, a man with a small horse ranch. Today we found out he died on June 1st! We had no idea! The neighbor on the other side of him didn't know either. The place was getting run down, the pastures going to weeds, and there were less and less animals all the time. I guess someone has been selling them off. They had so many dogs! Wonder where those poor things ended up. The barn area is still overrun with cats. I guess they can feed themselves on mice and moles. What a shock and sobering reminder of how fleeting life is. This man was only 62.

givio

Oh, my! First droughts, now floods...
QNS, I always enjoy your positive comments. Wow, a 38 page lease! There's a guy that doesn't have much trust in humans....
SBG, weren't you just telling us a man at your church died unexpectedly? Wasn't that you? And now your neighbor too. A lot of people don't know their neighbors so well in this day and age, not like they used to when I was young, anyway. I wouldn't know if my neighbors died... not like I would have known if Mrs. Geovanes had died (our neighbor when I was 10-years-old).