2012 July 11 — Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

The Joint Kindle Account

July 11, 2012 · by JudyL

Last night I finished a book. It was a good, love story . . I’ll do a review of it later. Not too long ago, I wrote about our joint Kindle account and all the crazy titles that I find in there. So, it’s past my bedtime but I need to read for a little while before going to sleep so I was on the Amazon account, looking to see what I could download. Since getting the new Kindle, I haven’t had the wifi turned on much so most of my newer titles aren’t in there yet.

Vince is sound asleep. Speck is in the chair next to me sleeping. I’m casually going through the list of books in our account and trying to decide what I want to read next. I find this!

Huh? Screwed Up People? Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People? I look around this house. Only two of us live here. It doesn’t say “Working Successfully with Screwed-Up People” or “Shopping with Screwed-Up People” . . it says Living with Screwed-Up People!

There are two ways to look at this. (1) He thinks I’m screwed up or (2) He knows he’s screwed up and he thinks I should read this book. Somehow, I’m thinking it’s Option #1.

He’s already asleep. Do I wake him up and have a discussion about this? Not a good idea. I’m not that screwed up!

Always trying to be the optimistic one, I thought . . maybe I ordered the book. Maybe someone told me it was a funny book and I ordered it so I looked at the list again.

Look at those titles! I can assure you that not a single book on this list is of interest to me except maybe “Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People” because if he thinks I’m screwed up . . well, he’s really screwed up!

I think tonight is a good night to go to bed reading a magazine and forget about downloading something for the Kindle.

Do you think I’m screwed up? Wait . . don’t answer that. I’ll just go out in the morning and ask the chickens what they think! Smile

· Filed Under: Worthless Chatter · 13 Comments

Loving My New Guest Room

July 11, 2012 · by JudyL

Wait til you see what I’ve done with my guest room! When I say *I*, what I really mean is Sherwin Williams’ ChipIt! and Vince! And in that post, leave a comment about a picture you’d like to “chip” for a chance to win a $1,000 Visa gift card!

You know I’m using my Ruby picture -

Today Vince and I were in Big Lots, which has become one of my favorite stores. I was passing down an aisle and I turned and looked and saw this chair!

Vince said it has too much gold but I think with the Sand Beach colored walls and the yellow-y beige carpet, this chair would be perfect. Only problem is . . the room is kinda small. We’re waiting for one more piece of furniture to be delivered and then I’ll make a decision on the chair.

When I whipped out my “chipped” picture of Ruby, there was a lady standing there and she wanted me to explain to her how I got those color chips next to my picture so I explained to her, then I gave her my blog address and told her how to find my ChipIt! posts and suggested she visit our local Sherwin Williams store.

What do you think? Does the chair go with my palette or not? Stay tuned . . you’ll see my whole new room soon.

· Filed Under: Home & Garden · 36 Comments

I Did It – Applique

July 11, 2012 · by JudyL

Kinda . . The first block I did for the Christmas Town Sampler, besides my own, was Sheryl’s block. It’s such a pretty block.

When I say I don’t know how to applique . . I mean I really don’t know how to applique. I want to applique and I know I could do it if I practiced but I just don’t want to take the time to learn. I guess I just want to blink my eyes and do perfect applique. That’s a bad attitude, huh?

Thank goodness Sheryl told us to cut our background square larger. I knew to do that but had forgotten but since I always read instructions before doing anything (stop laughing!), I cut my square 14″.

Don’t even ask me how long I’ve had this Steam-A-Seam2. I don’t even know why I bought it. I think I was supposed to use Steam-A-Seam Light but that’s not what I had so . . I used what I had.

Considering my fear of applique, I think I did pretty good. I did make a boo-boo.

My first choice of fabric for the holly leaves was too light. At first I said . . what the heck . . I’m leaving it. But then I knew it would always bug me and I’m going to love this quilt so I pulled off the light green holly leaves and replaced them with a darker green fabric.

I didn’t do any stitching yet. I’m going to wait til the end til all the applique blocks (assuming there will be others!) are done and then when I put on red thread, I can do all the red stitching, and when I switch to yellow, I can do all the yellow stitching.

So . . what do you think about my applique so far?

· Filed Under: Quilting · 26 Comments

July Color Palette Fabric

July 11, 2012 · by JudyL

For my July Color Palette quilt, I had a plan but after making my first block for the Christmas Town Sampler, I may decide to make a whole quilt using that block. I like it a lot!

These are the fabrics I pulled for the project.

If I end up making the current CTS block, I think I’ll change out that green stripe but . . maybe not.

Are you making something using the July Color Palette? If so, do you have your design chosen? Have you decided on your fabrics? Even if you haven’t done the previous palettes, you can start with this one!