Tim,

I have missed seeing your wit and humor or am I looking in the wrong places. Are you on vacation or on vacation from we ladies? Let us know what you are about these days.

Suzanne

Maybe he took flight with all those flying geese he was working on :!: :lol:

Y'all,

I am in the middle of a huge, very visible project here at work that eats up most of my daytime hours. We are coming to a brief breathing point, but I am going to be crazy busy for the next 6 months.

My free time has been absorbed with getting the flying geese panels done (they are), and put into the squares for Homeward Bound (I still have six more to put together). Once those are done, I have a couple hundred HSTs to finish sewing and trimming, then joining together for borders. In the mean time, I thought.. hmmm. a quilt for my daughter's 12th birthday would be nice. Something simple like Double Irish chain. Now if Patrice was on the west coast, she would have kicked me in the head and made sure I knew what an idiot I am. It is going along well, I have a drop dead date of 8-19. There is a vacation planned for the beginning of August though that will probably screw me up.

In the mean time, the yard is starting to look somewhat like Jurassic Park, the dogs need baths, the bird cages need cleaning, the kids are raising all sorts of Cain, and I am getting 6 hours of sleep a night.

I do visit the board occasionally, and try and input what little I know.

tim in san jose

All that and still 6 hours a night! :lol:
I bet my grass is taller than yours! I think the MIL is going to cut it for hay! (ok, maybe not, but it's getting tall!)
Busy, busy, busy me, too!
good luck!

Sounds like you have it under control :lol: If you could make do with less than 6 hrs, you could get a lot more done! Is the missing toe still giving you pain? I hate that she did that to you. She usually does not get that riled up :wink: :lol:

i'm taking good care of it, though, in case he ever offers something worthy to trade for it.
:mrgreen:

We have no grass, at least none that's suppose to be there. Front yard, all garden; side yard all garden; back yard, half garden, the dogs destroyed what grass there ever was. Trees popping up everywhere.

I think I am going to take a couple of half days and get the chain saw out. Those are my kinda days.

tim in san jose (you don't grow things here, you kill off what you don't want to grow).

several hundred 2 1/2 inch HSTs that I might not ever use? You might not like the colors though....

tim in san jose

all right tim in san jose, what exactly are hst's . forgive me for not knowing. i'm just not up on compu. lingo.or is this some thing my 9 yr. old could but shouldn't tell me. ...thanks tia sarah

*L*

Half Square Triangles.

A square with a line down the diagonal. One half is one fabric, the other half is another.

tim in san jose

aaaagh, i should of know that. oh well thank you for the info.

that's a decent opening offer, but you'll have to sweeten the deal a bit. i have my own pile of UFOs already. what else you got? 8)

Just think how long it would take you to sew them into a small good sized quilt. Your time must be worh something. I'll throw in a case of Coca Cola and a large spool of dark brown thread.

tim (limping) in san jose

make that 2 cases of Diet Coke and Hot Pink thread and you have a deal.

coupon expires at midnight tonight
8)

I wanna see the toe first. We were very attached.

tim

LOL :lol: You guys have me in stitches

he's the one who's gonna need stitches if he ever gets his toe back.
:mrgreen: :wink:

no dice. cough up the goods or it stays right where it is. 8)

so now I have to send you the HSTs, the thread and the Coke, AND I have to send Shelly something for the stitches?

Geez, this is getting expensive.

tim (trying to toe the line) in san jose

DIET Coke. pay attention.

and ... now you want poor Shelly to sew your toe back on for you? gettin' kinda whiney and needy there, fella.

i'll cutcha a break. you can send everything parcel post instead of next day air. that's the best i can do.

but ... really ... leave poor Shelly outa this. sew yer own toe back on.

men! they expect us to do everything ...
8) :roll:

DIET Coke. pay attention... Standard male ADS here.

men! they expect us to do everything ... Well, yeah... but I give great directions. I'll tell you how to do it.


tim in san jose

LOL :lol: He'll have to travel a jolly long way to get me to do that job. And even then I'd be in two minds :mrgreen:

Hey Tim, I have my right hand available and working well to help with the pulling of weeds and cutting of small trees. I even have my own bow saw and rolling stool to work out in the 'gardens'......just send the plane ticket and I'll give you a helping hand. I don't need first class, but I don't want to be in the very back of the plane either, k? You do have the hammock in back to rest in, right?

You'll get at least another hour of HST work in if I take care of the weeds, right? No child care though, you'll have to find one of the other gals to handle the 'cain raising kids' I'm just not going to have time if I have to kill off the things you don't want to grow.

I'll start packing now, k???
Sharon

I wouldn't give it to him till your paid just give him a peak at it

Youl'd better keep that right hand away from Patrice.

Child care? I put them girls to work.

tim

At least we finally got Tim to crawl out of his hole and talk to us.

Tim,

I believe you may be a trifle confused on the definition of an easy quilt. Especially for a 12 year old girl, unless she is one of the few that actually appreciates hand made as opposed to mall bought gifts.

Rail fence, easy
Basket weave, easy
4 patch, easy
9 patch, easy.

Log cabin, can be done easily, though I have not mastered it yet.

Double Irish Chain.....I'm thinking you were drinking too much Irish Coffee while contemplating and easy Irish quilt for her!!!

Glad to see you back, if only for a bit.

Melissa

true enough ... not a "logical" choice of pattern with so little time to **nish. but you have to admit it shows how much he loves his little girls.

i think i'll praise him for that. :P

but he still hasn't paid up so the toe stays on ice.
8)

what kind of toe are we talking about here? did tim really lose his. if so owww i'm so sorry for you.

Thats why he wasn't talking! He is hunting a replacemtn as we speak :!: :wink:

what was the lastest offer to get his toe back.

a few hundred Half-Square Triangles, 2 cases of coke, and some hot pink thread.

but he keeps forgetting i want DIET coke and he keeps whining about wanting to see his toe first. he tests my patience.

all i can say is ... he's lucky toes don't have ears.
8)

Well yeah. I have 15 7x7 blocks to make, 7 are already done, it takes me about 45 minutes to finish each one. (I am taking my time and making sure the checker board pattern lines up). Then there are 15 setting squares, I suspect they will be about 20 minutes each. 60 or so HST for the boarder, and then the top is done. After that, I found a nice fabric for the back, sew it on and start quilting. Probably just do the major seams in the ditch, then do a diamond hatch for all them squares.

It's in the bag. It's the other quilts that are being neglected. Not a problem if I don't start anything else... Winter don't come for quite awhile. It's not like this is Butte or anything. I do sort of have a deadline for Homeward Bound... It's next to be finished.

And the quilt selection.. My 12 YO will appreciate it. She is not a mall rat. She is a history nut! She recently got her first pair of blue jeans. I don't know where that reluctance came from since her Mom and I both wear Jeans all the time.



tim in not cold san jose

I still think that you should perhaps consume less Irish Coffee. Hee Hee.

I did start a new project. I can't believe I was thinking of your feet at the time. But all I had in my head were the feet on top of the quilt in your avatar thing.

So I hunted up a pattern with appliqued hands and am adding a pair of feet to the bottom. Should be tre cute. WHENEVER I CAN GET THIS STUPID TOP DONE!!! It's seems simple enough, but I was unaware of an aversion to randomness. Had a little help with someone who loves to do "random crap" as she calls it. Now if I could just get the pitter patter of 6 feet to knock it off so I could have some quality time with my machine....

More grumbling.

Maybe I should send it to Tim.

He seems to have an easy button.