July 2008

Happy Anniversary to US!

July 31, 2008

This picture was taken . . hmm, I don’t know where or when this picture was taken but I think it was taken shortly after we got married or shortly after Chad and I moved to Kentucky. It looks kinda like my sofa behind us but I never had curtains like that. And, since I [...]

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Feeding the Family

July 29, 2008

With the cost of groceries skyrocketing, I try to come up with ways to cut back. I keep a magnetic pad on the side of my fridge and anything we need, we write it on there. Chad and Vince were always saying “get this or that when you’re at the store” so now they know [...]

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Weekend Progress

July 28, 2008

Remember I showed one block I had made on Saturday afternoon?  I got all the blocks finished Saturday night and Sunday.  Even though the blocks are all done, I’ll have to put them away and save the rest of this project for another day. I had been wanting to make this quilt totally scrappy.  Being [...]

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A Man, A Kid & A Dog

July 27, 2008

Looks like he got plenty of sleep! But . . why is he in my quilting area anyway? Looks like he maybe didn’t get enough sleep. Looks just a tad grumpy! Those all nighters with the guys are hard on a young man who likes 12 hours of sleep! And . . why is he [...]

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Stash Report – Week 30

July 26, 2008

Nothing was added this week! Mostly I was quilting for others this week. I did get one of my own tops quilted so the backing fabric took 5 yards. I worked on a scrappy quilt today and think I used about 3 yards (that’s a guess), so I used 8 yards this week. Look how [...]

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Not Enough Sewing Going On

July 26, 2008

The only plans I had for Saturday were to sew!  That’s all I wanted to do . . sew!  Nothing was more important to me than sewing on Saturday.  The entire week had been spent at the longarm and I was about to die to sit down at the sewing machine. Chad has a friend [...]

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