Do you just plant one tire deep? I love this idea. Now I can collect some for spring!!!

mmac, you can built them up two high, beyond that it takes too much soil. Amazon had a paperback book on how to paint them, turn them inside out and various attractive ways of doing the tires. Soil mixture is similar ot what greenhouses use. You can create a tier of strawberry up higher, with smaller tires on top of one another.

Sounds like everyone is ready for a good weekend.

Hope to head to a quilt show tomorrow...have a good weekend. DS is coming for a couple of days on Sunday.

Lost the internet for a couple of days so I put together a mini version of the "POP" quilt..This is such an easy pattern..The rows don't "balance" out but it's perfect for a wheelchair lap 36" X 42"






Bev, what's going on with your DMom doesn't sound too good...I hope they can figure out the problem ASAP!


Nina, Are the tires safe for planting edibles..I hear they're banning shredded up tires from playgrounds, sports areas in schools because of the "bad" stuff that leaches out from them. Have you ever checked on this?

Some roads are still closed and the Cape Fear river my have gone over it's banks earlier today.. We need to get home soon..

Bev, hope they can help your mom and get that fluid drained off. The swelling sounds bad... and the breathing. Will be saying prayers for her today.

That's a really cute quilt, Honchey!

I'm up with the chickens today... about to leave for the craft fair. I brought stuff out there yesterday but forgot about half of my setup! So now I have to go early enough to do all the setup this morning before it starts at 9. Hope it's worth all this work and travel time.

Have a good day, everyone! :o

Sorry to hear of your mom's continuing health issues, Bev..

And Jeanie is back home...Nina is bringing in the garden treasures...Bonnie is off selling her wares...good luck today. Then Honchey whips out a quilt....very cheery, by the way...because she can't get back to Jersey...you gals get so much accomplished. Got over 15 quarts of meat canned and about 7 quarts of broth...some of that in pints.

Going to get bedroom and bath ready for DSis and then off to the Quilt Show...tomorrow have ham planned for dinner...kids up the road will be here, too so will set 11 at the table...

GIVIO... I can't send the reply I wrote to your pm because your mailbox is full. Please delete something and I'll try again later.

Gladie, you are the canning QUEEN! You are so prepared. What kind of meat do you can?

Well, the craft fair did pretty well by me. Way more than I expected. I'll tell you what women can't resist: Vintage Kitchen! They loved my retro style bib aprons, and my embroidered dish towels with the old 50's Aunt Martha patterns embroidered on them. (I'll try to have some oven mitts and casserole carriers made up for the next show I do in Dec.) I also sold a lot of the microwave bowls. Still have one stack left for the next show and then that's it for those for a while. I'm sick of mass-producing them.

These shows are a hard gig, but at least I had some sales to show for it. It's heartbreaking when you don't.

One lady who is on the board of the Mississippi Craftsman's Guild invited me to apply for membership. That was a great compliment and I think it means I can leave stuff in their shop, year round. Maybe I'll sell a few quilts that way.

Going to take it easy the rest of the evening and go to bed early tonight!

How about some pics of the aprons & dish towels Sewbiz.. I'm happy you sold some of your stuff...So nice to be recognized for your craft:) Good for you!!!!

I called AAA and finally the road we have to take going home is clear..It's another 40-50 miles out of the way but it's what we have to do..

Any news on Bev's Mom??

OK, You're having to cook for 11 persons ?? It's not Thanksgiving yet is it ? :)

I think SBG is still resting up after the long day of selling her wares. So glad SBG that the day was successful and the crafty people noticed you nice work. That's a good pat on the back and well done job.

Dublb, so glad to hear your DM is improving; keeping her in my prayers.

Honchey, what a pretty bright throw you have made. Its happy time to know you can go back to NJ when you want too with minor detours....less than a hundred mile detour is good news indeed.

Wonderful weather here, the Irises are still getting 'shower', the frost did not seem to harm them. Will can sweet potatoes and yukon gold potatoes early in the week. They will be so good this winter.

OK, what fun you have this weekend with eleven people at your table. Good company and good food was always a blessing in my family...too bad we retired up here and have no reason to cook for any non-existing company. Such is life, I guess. Miss the gatherings of company at Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's time. It was hard to cut back on what I cooked and served, but I am getting there. Less spent at the grocery stores , more to spend on quilting! Have a good week!

Dublb, please email or PM me your change in email and address. Thanks.

Yup... I slept in! Got a text around 7 telling me our Sunday School teacher was out of town today and the sub. teacher was sick with a stomach virus. So I rolled over in bed and kept sleeping. Really needed it, too.

Can't believe it but I did not take a single picture at the show! I guess I was busy... Everything is packed away now as the next show isn't until Dec. 3rd. Now I know what sells best and will try to get a few more of those things made. In the meantime, I have GOT to get some quilt tops quilted and finished. My inclination is to sew more tops. Have got to put the brakes on that until I get some finished, including the FW30s quilt.

Here are the aprons I brought back from the show:

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This one is made from vintage tablecloth fabric:
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oooooh, I can see why they were a big hit at the craft show. You did a great job making those aprons. Nest time when you set up your booth, you can take a quick photo of it and share with us!

Thank you. I also let my FAVORITE embroidered towel get sold without taking a picture of it! It was a cowboy doggie riding a hobby horse... done in redwork on a pretty striped towel. I loved that one and it was a lot of embroidery-- an old Aunt Martha's pattern from the 50's. Here are two fingertip towels that have the same doggie, but only his face, not a full body illustration like the other one.

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These are some of my others that I had left. They sell like hotcakes but you can't make them like hotcakes. They take hours to embroider.

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Sewbiz, The kitchen transfers, teapots etc with faces..who makes the patterns?

Honchey, they are old Aunt Martha's designs. I bought them from someone on either Etsy or Ebay... who had millions of them! Somewhere, somebody is producing those again. I'll try to track down my seller and let you know. You can search for Aunt Martha's transfers in the mean time, too.

Jeanie, yes I do them by hand. For mass production and sales, machine emb. might be more practical, but I don't like it. To me it looks so machine made... it really looks quite different from handwork. If you have an embroidery machine and love it, you'll have to please forgive me!

Here's one place that has the transfers for $1.50 each.. Some are cross stitch so watch out.
http://www.acmenotions.com/aumahotirtr.html

Here's another one... I think this is where I bought my transfers, actually:
http://www.colonialpatterns.com/

You're right, they are! Big as tanks and so expensive too. At the craft show two girls had brought two large embroidery machines and were set up to embroider different things they sold. They must have been filling orders all day because those machines ran all day and were so LOUD. Just one running sounds like a 4-wheeler is in the middle of the room, idling. I left with such a headache from that noise all day long.

Good morning, ladies, remember me???? I have been following all your posts--my gosh, you ladies make me tired with all you accomplish. Beautiful quilting and non-quilting pics--love them all.

I haven't been sewing much. MrJan & I are finishing up some remodeling projects and cleaning out more of the basement. How in the world did I accumulate so much *crap*? MrJan builds storage units for everything; I hadn't opened some of them in years and when I did, all I could think was "why did I save that?". Lots of trips to Goodwill, donations to Viet Nam vets, etc. Finally seeing some empty areas. But then my neighbor (a former quilter) brought down boxes of fabric, books, etc.---just what I don't need. I kept 2 bolts of muslin and gave the rest to a friend's church quilting group. (There was a full bolt of yellow and lime green checked polyester--what would you do with that?)

Take care everyone. Enjoy your days, do something you love.

SBG, the dish, spoon and teapot brought back happy memories to me as DGM had dish towels like that. I gave away all my Embroidery floss...had a skein of every number in a tool bolt/screw holders and several nice projects and patterns 'ca use of my eye sight. Enjoy ahile you can. Life does go on, and I have turned my attention to what I can do.

Yes, JanRN, things do 'stay around' and then you wonder whey did I keep that? I have finally discarded what I should have twenty years ago. Now to do breakfast. Have a good one.






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Hi Jan! Great to hear from you! Know what you mean about the accumulation. Every single thing that resides in our basement could be thrown out or given away (if anyone wanted it!). Probably ditto for the attic.

I can't believe you let that bolt of checkered polyester go! Why didn't you keep it and make leisure suits for everyone in the family? :D :D :D Ha!... That stuff is so icky. I see quilts from the 70's made with it at flea markets, a lot. I doubt if it will ever biodegrade in a landfill... ever. At least she had some good muslin you could use.

Don't be a stranger! We are still chatting here.

Me too... I remember that stuff fondly. Everybody who saw them at the craft show stopped to comment. Many mentioned the ones that had days of the week and a different chore for each day on them. My favorites are still the animated dishes.

Well, I need to go tend to the supper. I'm working on a big pot of 'from scratch' chicken noodle soup. Yum. Hoping the pot lasts for several days.

Oh still laughing about the checkered polyester...my BIL calls quilts made with such fabric...nuclear blast quilts..cover yourself in one and you will be protected from nuclear fallout...

DSis#2 and I had a great day...road tripped to buy some apples...spring frost destroyed the blossoms on our trees...a day spent full of laughter...

Nuclear blast-proof. We all need at least one! (not.)

I remember every Fall in New England Dad would take us on long rides in the country to buy apples. The foliage was beautiful and the smell of the apple farm stands was something I'll never forget. I LOVE that memory. We lived in Massachusetts from about 1960 to 1973. There were so many apple farms! Mostly McIntosh, as I recall.

Somewhere on the road out there was a restaurant with some gas pumps that we'd pass. It had a big sign that said, "Eat Here and Get Gas."

Love laughing at our memories....we came across a Norwegian corn maze...2 single stalks of corn about 15 feet apart roped together with a clothesline with a start and finish sign at the ends....Sis did get a photo..

Ha! Too funny... :D

Hi Everyone, Got 2 2 gallon ziplock bags of scraps ..Separated them by size, shape, length etc then decide to play a bit..some of the stitchers, including me haven't done alot of machine applique so I thought this would be a good way to earn to go around curves and angles...then we can sew each block with different color sashing and come up with a really cool kids quilt...

Those are cute, Honchey. Did you turn all of those edges? Or use fusible? How did you do it?

If you'd like some more scraps, I have a bunch I just 'culled'. I went through my bin of novelty scraps and pulled out any that were smaller or narrower than 2", to be thrown out. I decided not to keep anything smaller than 2" anymore, because I just don't use them. Would you like to have them?

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Yes, Sewbiz I would love the scraps and Thank You...

the triangles I just dotted them with the glue pen and the other I used Sulky heat N bond..I didn't turn any edges..
some shapes I used the buttonhole method one I did a zigzag stitch and most of them I sewed inside the edge of the shape..I'm kind of new with the machine stitching..I really love to do them by hand but these are too small for my fat fingers.. I didn't want to sew the little pieces for these scraps..I want to do something different then I thought of just putting them on a large piece of fabric but then I would have to turn it around alot..too bulky for me..smaller blocks are perfect for this..easy to turn around..I could even line up the triangles in a flying geese design.. A checker board design using squares..just basic shapes... sash them with different colored strips all around then sew them all together..no cornerstones..just simple & easy..

I'll PM you my address..Thanks again for the offer...

Got it. Lets be sure to show off our scrappy quilts as we make them! :)

Very pretty, Honchey.

My day did not go as planned. Dh has developed a blood 'pool' behind his left eye retina, and we are trying hard to get him an appointment in DM asap. Work on that again in the morning, bake and can sweet potatoes, and sew in the QR. He cannot get in Thursday when I am going up, so praying for good news. Both of us are completely bushed and think the good neighbor was too tonight. She drove over three counties in Iowa to the eye and back again. Priceless.

Have a good week, folks.

I'm so sorry NinaSue. Hope your hubby can get in and get taken care of tomorrow. It's great to have good neighbors. You are right... they are priceless!

Huggs & prayers going out to Bev & her Dmom, QNS and Mr QNS.. Ah, Life can be a real struggle sometimes..

I'm puttering around the house packing up my stuff tonite and tomorrow..give my neighbor what's perishable in the fridge in the morning..freeze some water bottles for the cooler..gather the goodies for snacking on the ride home on Thursday..Time really flew by this time down here.. Back to the gathering & packing.. H.

Bev, sorry your mom is still not doing well. Hope she takes a turn for the better soon! I can totally understand your being exhausted.

Honchey, have safe travels when you leave on Thursday. Hope everything is good at the house when you get home.

Hi Everyone,

some of my wrapped rope projects.. The little cube storage unit I put together and my latest acquisition.