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Lavish Christmas Gifts

December 14, 2010 · by

My husband!  The ever so thoughtful gift giver!  Who wants him?

He sent me this email.  If I weren’t so nice, I’d have included the portion of the email that shows his email address so you could all tell him just what a great guy you think he is.

And because the link won’t work in the picture, this is what he found:

What I’m really wondering, is why is he even looking at weed eaters since I recall that he got me this very green one for our anniversary and another one for my birthday . . both in 2010.  I do not need another weed eater.  He does not need a new weed eater since he never weed eats or edges.  Chad does not need a weed eater because he surely isn’t going to do yard work around here.

Some husbands think when they don’t know what else to get their wife, they’re always safe if they buy jewelry.  Apparently my husband thinks that when he doesn’t know what to get me, a weed eater will surely suffice.  NOT!!

Vince is a very good husband but he definitely needs help with gift buying for his dear wife, don’t you think?

· Filed Under: Home & Garden · 32 Comments

Mustard Greens

December 14, 2010 · by

As I drove into Mom and Dad’s, the first thing I saw were the orange trees.

And the grapefruit trees!

And, a row of mustard greens.

Before I left, Dad picked a bag of oranges, 3 bags of grapefruit and a trash bag full of greens.  Yesterday I cooked a big batch of greens for dinner and canned the rest.

Seven quarts of mustard greens.  I’d sure like to have about 50 or more quarts but it takes a lot of greens to fill a quart jar.  They mash down to nothing!  I kept adding greens and when I’d pour hot water over them, they’d shrivel down to nothing.  I’d add more and they’d shrivel down again.  I’m going to try to plant some in the spring but they get tough and bitter as soon as it gets hot so my timing will have to be just right to get a good crop of spring greens.  My timing never seems to be perfect . . on anything! : )

· Filed Under: Home & Garden · 3 Comments

Monochromatic Challenge

December 14, 2010 · by

Don’t feel like you have to do everything but here at Patchwork Times, in 2011, we’re going to be hosting:

  • Stashbusting Reports
  • Design Wall Monday Reports
  • UFO Challenge
  • Monochromatic Challenge

For the Monochromatic Challenge, it will be similar to the UFO Challenge in that I will draw a number on the last day of each month.  The corresponding color will be the quilt you work for the next month.  That post will also have a link box for you to share your monochromatic piece for the previous month.  Your piece can be a quilt of any size, a wall hanging, a pillow case, a pillow .. whatever you want to do.  The whole point of this challenge is to get us out of our comfort zone and try something new and hopefully use the stash.

Monochromatic Challenge

I am going to put up a clickable button on my sidebar so participants can easily find the info/projects but don’t feel like you have to copy it.  I don’t want to take up your whole sidebar with my projects but I do intend to stay real busy in 2011 and am hoping some of you will play along with me.

We’re going to do this January – September, have a couple of “special” colors for October and November and take off in December.  Add a background (white, ecru . . whatever background fabric you’d like) if you want to, or add black.  Really, do what you want just so it’s kinda monochromatic.

Here are the colors we’ll be using:

  1. Red
  2. Orange
  3. Yellow
  4. Green
  5. Blue
  6. Indigo
  7. Violet
  8. Pink
  9. Brown

October will be a two color quilt.  This is NOT a two fabric quilt.  Say your colors are red and green.  You can use as many reds and greens as you’d like, along with a background or black fabric.

November will be black and white with one color added.  Use as many blacks, as many whites (or ecru) and as many fabrics of ONE color as you’d like.  Examples:  black, white and red or black, white and green or whatever third color you’d like.

· Filed Under: Quilting · 16 Comments

UFO Challenge Clarifications

December 14, 2010 · by

To grab the UFO button, go over to the button I show on my left sidebar and you should be able to copy the html text beneath my button and copy it into a text widget on your own sidebar.

For this challenge, you do not have to gather up or count ALL your UFO’s.  You need one per month, or two per month, depending on what you want to do.

If you’re a hand quilter or don’t have a lot of UFOs to finish or if you have some hug projects needing completed, you can break it down.  Example:  #1 could be to hand quilt 2 blocks on your red, white and blue quilt, #2 could be to hand quilt 2 more blocks.  Or, #1 could be to get the applique prepped for the last two blocks on a 2007 BOM.

If you do not have a blog, you can set one up for free and not much effort on several locations . . wordpress, blogger, etc.  Or, you can open a webshots or flickr account and link to your pictures.  I will not set up a flickr site for everyone to use.  I will have the link box and participants can link up there.  Many quilters maintain excellent blogs and this is another way for others to find their blogs.  Setting up a flickr account would bypass a lot of great blogs so the link box will be what we use for the UFO Challenge.

Participating in the challenge does not mean we are committing to only work on UFOs and not start new projects in 2011.  I don’t think I could make it through a year without any new projects.

If I missed any questions, please ask again and I’ll answer them.  Looks like we have a lot of participants!

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