I was just playing in the sewing cave today. I didn't even bother getting dressed either lol!
I bought a new circle cutting but my rotary cutters do not fit in the grooves. Darn it!
Here is the new track lighting DH put in the sewing cave. We have two light heads are haligon and each of the other three have different bulbs to see what I like the best.
I got my Dh into watching some of the cake making shows. So while it was too cold for him to sit in the car while I was at Joannes he picked himself up a few frosting tips and bags and some fondant, and made some butter cream frosting. This is his first decorated cake ever. I think he did a great job.

Pink Lemonade

Beena Named this quilt for me when I just had the blocks. Pink Lemonade! Thank you! I did not like this quilt as I was making it. Oh I liked the individual blocks but I thought they were so blah on the design wall. I missed them with a charm pack, and other 5" blocks and just couldn't get inspired. When I added these borders I fell in love with it. There was contrast! Pink Lemonade it became. Beena nailed it and put me in mind of the green leaf fabric I had. I am thinking of just putting a pale yellow flannel on the back to quilt this with no batting ( since I have no batting in the house and a pile of flimsy tops yelling at me to finish) As a light weight summer throw I don't really want it to be too heavy.

As soon as I finished that one I was looking at Bonnies Quiltville.com and so started playing with crumbs. I never thought of chaining them.

Chaining the crumbs really makes it go so much faster.

Here is my mess and some crumbs chained together. I keep my iron right next to my machine and press right away.

Something totally off topic, I belong to paperbackswap.com and just received a new Stephen King book. Duma key. I did not even know he had written another book.

Spring and stars

I haven't been posting much in this last week,. Just lurking around reading everyone Else's blogs. There are some very talented people out there. I love the quilt Reading out loud Quilt! Some nice give a ways, and I am so glad Tonya's Pokey is not letting her sew much. lol There is a small quilt fabric store in town that sells grab bags of scraps. I decided to do something with some scraps. Here I have made some stars and don't know what to do with them. I have been just making these till the inspiration hits me to do something grand.

I snapped this picture one morning on my way to work. It is the sun shinning through a sprinkler wheel line.

The cherry orchard just burst into bloom over night. Bees swarming all over the orchard just sings with their buzzing.

It smells so good but really makes my nose itch like crazy. I did not know I had allergies till this year.

A little bragging today!

I finished sewing all the sashing and put a bright border of cherries on this quilt top. I love it. Next week I will have to piece together a backing get batting then take it to work to use the big tables to get it based. I bought some spray basting a while ago and haven't used it yet. Anyone else use it? I would also like to thank everyone for their comments and encouragement. Well what I really wanted to brag about is my lovely daughter. Today is her 23rd birthday and I have been doing some reminiscing. She was my first pregnancy. I had toxemia and my grandmother had died the day before she was born. I felt a little scratch scratch inside on my left side and my water broke just a little bit. I told my dh and he jumped out of bed and brought me a stack of towels thinking it would be like a hot water heater flooding. lol

No big contractions so I sent him back to bed and I sat up waiting for a few hours. Finally went to the hospital in the morning and was induced. The child just refused to be born. By evening they decided to do a c-section. It was a stormy April night and during the operation the lights went out in the operating room....and didn't come back on.... Doctor finally asked the nurse to get a flashlight because he was touching the baby but wanted to see. Flashlight, baby born, lights came on finally.

Dd and I both were sick with a strep infection. So I did not get to bring her home for a couple of weeks. Pumping breast milk from congested breast was a joke. ( I later in life had a 300 head goat dairy and really felt for those poor does that had congested udders lol) Finally got her home then had shingles so bad I thought I was being skinned alive. I had worked so hard at pumping breast milk there was NO WAY! I was going to stop breast feeding to take pain pills. I got rid of the painful part of shingles with my mind in two weeks time. grrr.

My dear daughter has had her ups and downs. The day before her 9th birthday she was diagnosed with type I diabetes. ( her little brother had been diabetic for 6 years already she knew what was involved)
She started losing patches of hair about a year later. Her doctor told her she was pulling it out. For quite a few years we were able to hide the bald spots.(turned out to be alopecia totalis. she has no body hair) By the middle of her sophomore year in high school she could not hide it anymore so we shaved what was left off and she wore funky hats and bandannas. We had gotten her a wig. She did not like it, it was fake and everyone knew she was bald so why hide it. In her middle school year book she was pictured as girl with the prettiest hair so for high school she got all her friends to nominate her for it again and the boy that won with her wore a fake bald head to be pictured with her. I brought her up laugh at yourself first before others do.

We had our normal mother daughter problems near the end of high school and after. She went to the local community college and messed up and dropped out. Moved in with a boyfriend they are still together 4 1/2 years later (he also came with two children so I was made an instant grandmother) She got her CNA and started working at the local hospital in the CCU. Plus working two or three other seasonal jobs. She is now in charge of the diabetes support groups and education at the hospital and volunteers at Camp Hodia every summer (a diabetes camp for kids) She just started back going to college last week. I am so VERY Proud of her!

Her brother goes to college at the University of Idaho about a 5 hour drive away. My daughter and I have driven up there for Mom's weekend every year. I love have all that one on one time together with her. We are going again this year in two weeks. Knowing my daughter as an adult is one of the most wonderful things in my life. She is a super wonderful person I am so proud to know.

She loves to take pictures of herself. lol So many things to overcome and she has so much confidence.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISSY MOMA LOVES YOU!!!!

Look what a clean Sewing Cave can do

Last weekend I organized the Sewing cave. While I was going through the scraps this is what I made. I love making funky stars and a had a couple wonky houses so there you go. I had some black squares, different sizes and a couple different prints. I still used them in the stars they went together ok. The white sashing I had to bring out of the stash and still need to finish it. As you can see the strips are not yet sewn together.

I still need to figure out what color I want to border it with and how I'm going to quilt it. I want to try free motion quilting with my sewing machine. I have never done free motion on a project this large. I have quilted many 12" blocks that I made into raggy quilts.

Now on a different subject. My beloved ER ended last night. The retrospect they did before the show was more emotional then the show itself. I thought it was anti climatic, I was not impressed. I will miss my ER friends of 15 years.

Well it is spring. Rainy, windy, hale, then sunshine and rainbows. Still cold but this is spring. Front yards have turned green like over night.

OH YEAH! IT'S FRIDAY!!!!

More Bright parts made in the Sewing Cave!

I keep adding more parts to this quilt....I told myself I wanted to keep this one small enough to hand quilt with out being buried. hmmm Well I am use these "sawtooth strips to devide the larger blocks. I decided to add a strip of flying geese to add a center line to the quilt.

I started sewing the parts in rows and found I needed to make a couple more liberated stars.

This is Princess servaying her domain, but it isn't her good side. (by the way the HUGE tv that over powers my liveing room is the one we brought home from when we had to close the bar lol)

Ah Here is her good side.