JeanieG

Great finds SBG! Love all your new "stuff"!

sewbizgirl

Tonight I made and posted some previous blocks: Farmer's Wife, Fern and Geneva. I'm skipping Flora because I just don't like it. It's always fun to post in those old threads and look at what you all did.

Now I have 24 left to make in order to be caught up, and we all have about 15 more to make together. It's a race against myself to see if I can get all the older ones made by the time we all finish the newer ones. I'd like to finish with everyone else.

QuiltingNinaSue

I am sure SBG, that you will finish with us, and then get the blocks set together! I love all your fabric, you have a 'good' eye to choose wonderful fabric pieces....love them. Tahnk you for sharing because I did enjoy looking at them. Now to see finished projects....LOL!

I am elbow deep in Georgia peaches! Worked from noon to nine peeling and seeded three bushel; now to process today. They were so delicious as I peeled them! Great for this winter.

Have a great day...and great memories from this day.

Honchey

Yes, I think the swap is a better idea..it would have been too much work for you Nina the other way..I will be shopping this week sometime..I'll swap with all of you so keep me on your lists..

I didn't go online at all yesterday and other than my DH being a miserable person with the ant bites all over his legs, God , they are ugly is all I can say..He has meds for the itching but they still itch...

We went to our community Pot Luck last nite and had an enjoyable evening..it's BYOB and after getting home I was in Bed by 9:30..I don't need to tell you why

I plan on being in my sewing room today practicing some FM on some scraps..I've discovered I really can't sew a straight stitch in the ditch..I was informed by my group that I had to quilt the one I put together..I started out doing a cross hatch diamond wise and they were so wonky I had to rip it all out..so I sewed along the seams and they don't look too pretty either..It is what it is tho..hopefully they won't ask me again...I will do the cutting & piecing & sewing but no quilting!!! Our group is the smallest that produces the most quilts by percentages...

SBG, I enjoyed looking at your fabric shopping....love the repro's.

Have a good day all, H.

sewbizgirl

Yummy peaches... When my parents were alive we would buy bushels to process. They loved "pickled peaches" and I hardly remember a holiday dinner without them. They were special. I like to make peach jam, too, and I've even put up peach pancake syrup! Happy memories with Mom and Dad in their kitchen, peeling peaches... the whole kitchen sticky!

Glad you ladies enjoyed my shopping trip! I always enjoy seeing what others buy, too.

Honchey, will plan on trading license plates with you.

Have a wonderful day!

JuneBillie

Beautiful fabrics SBG.

I want to find some fresh corn to buy around me. I can't do a garden anymore. I miss that so much.

I cooked a big dinner yesterday just for me and hubby, and even the fur babies got their taste of it. haha.. I haven't been able to cook much in a long time, and was give out. I did it though and that felt good for once.

Not able to do a lot, and my butt is getting bigger. Well, I started some mild toning exercises that I can start with to help that. I found one video taking a disabled or senior person through safe yoga. It's the only one I found that looked like it would work for me. I wish a indoor pool was close to us, then I would go there to work out.

QNS do we each purchase a license plate for all that are on your list and exchange with them?

It's a hot day here, but pretty. I am finishing a couple of little pouch bags for 2 great nieces, and then finish a couple of other things. Then work on my blocks. I am trying to find more things to store my scraps in after I sew, because I don't throw anything away.

I have so much to do in my house it seems impossible, but I know that is not true. I tell myself. One thing at a time.

Have a great Sunday everyone, and a great week ahead!

sewbizgirl

JuneBillie, I teach a senior yoga class! The main difference is I don't get them onto the floor. We start seated in chair and then do the standing poses. Sometimes we have a second chair in front to stretch legs on just like being on the floor, but without going down there! Senior yoga is a great idea for you.

Also I would highly recommend water exercise--water aerobics. It's so gentle on your joints but still burns calories and is cool and fun. It is many people's saving grace! If there is a YMCA in your area, they probably offer either Silver Splash classes or an arthritis water class for seniors. Really, any shallow water class would be great for you. Just tone down the more intense parts (if there are any). Our pool is outside but the class is only an hour and we use lots of sunblock!

QuiltingNinaSue

JuneBilly, you can trade as many bumper stickers that you want too. I give one for one. Honchey does too. I think SBG does, and JeanieG may too. So its whatever you want to buy and sent out between now and September 22, 2016. So don't break your budget, just pace yourself on your own speed... no rush or hurry about it. I would like to collect several...and from different states and places...a good variety of them. I can mail out more than one mailing to you as well, don't think the PO is closing down soon. Nice ot relax and enjoy the moments of our lives.

Yes, I took a nap after completing all 37 quarts of Georgia Peach canning and it felt good. DD just said that I sounded 'chipper' in the phone conversation just now. Have a good week, everyone.

QuiltingNinaSue

Ok, bumper stickers or licenses whatever you want to call them. LOL!

sewbizgirl

Ha ha... I didn't even catch that!

I'm envious of your jars and jars of peaches. You're my hero, QNS.

I'm getting my embroidery quilt put together today. Maybe I'll share a sneak peek later. This is all hand embroidery, by the way. I got the 'bug' for hand embroidery when I went to the Quilt Week at Paducah this Spring. I saw such beautiful samples that I ended up coming home with patterns! And I didn't stash them. (pats herself on the back...). Who would have thought I'd come back with a new obsession? But I do love the hand stitching. I think I'm going to hand quilt some of the tops I have too.

Today I found an old pattern I'd been looking for. I thought it was Herrschner's or Mary Maxim, but it was actually from Aunt Martha's. When I was about 10 my big sister's godmother made and sent her a beautiful embroidery quilt... each block having a state name, bird and flower. The alternate blocks were pink gingham. This was in the 60's. I have never seen anything like it since... and today I found the patterns for those blocks and ordered them. Yippee.