fighting with the cat for control of the keyboard, drinking coffee, and thinking about loading a quilt

Ended up straightening up my room, so I can work a little easier yesterday...Been hand quilting a queen size for my DD this morning..May just continue working on that the rest of the day. If not, I have a new purse pattern to work with..Depends on if I feel like taking it easy or actually do some thinking...
Sometime today I will be running out to Joannes to pick up a few things for my secret santa, and stop to look at a house for sale I am interested in...Hoping not to be out and about TOO long...
Have a productive/restful day everyone!!

Im looking to finish quilting a tree skirt im working on for my aunt for Christmas. i hoping to get it ready and shipped out so that she can have it for the first of December. I'm not sure how to finish the quilting so im playing around with ideas in my head. Hopefully will be able to add the first border to the quilt i am making for my dad for Christmas. Im also working on a small item i have been wanting to make, not 100% sure on how to do it so fiddling around trying to figure it out. It is a long weekend here in Canada (thanks giving) but i still work tomorrow for the time and a half pay. 78 days till Christmas. I had better also make a list of things i need done by then! AHH!

Rearranging living room furniture is what I'm doing, with DH's help if he ever gets up. For the summer months we change the furinture around a bit so the AC can circulate more fully but if I didn't have company coming tomorrow to motivate me it would stay that way until next summer. May in Jersey

It is one of a quilters best friends in the kitchen. there are all sorts of recipies online for a crockpot. It is just a slow cooker. for example I love to do a roast in mine. I just put the roast in with about 1/4 cup water and let it cook for about 8 hours. Them first nite I just have to make a microwave potatoe and a verggie or salad which I start about 30 min before DH walks in the door.(shhhhh! by the way. he doesn't need to know. he thinks I put in a couple of hours in the kitchen,hahahaha) the next nite I may add a little seasoning to some of the left overs and use it for mex night for burritos or tacos with maybe a salad or corn on the cob. the rest usually go into something like a stew or soup or mayne even a chilli. you can of course make smaller pieces of meats. I hear some people even make deserts in them but i haven't tryed that. but while it makes it fast to get in and out of the kitchen and it slowly cooks for 8 hours and doesn't need to be watched so that is 8 hours i get to sew or whatever. alot of my freinds put in a can of cream of mushroom soup and a dry package of onion soup mix and that will make the meat and its own gravy. then they serve it over mashed potatoes. it can be any kind of meat. i love making ribs in it the meat just falls off of the bone and take it out of its grease and warm some bbq sause to dredge it in before putting on the platter. that won't make it more than one meal cause it is all gone. lol. The worse part is the animals go crazy smelling the meat cooking all day.Of course my favorite part is it that once served up you can make it look like you put a lot of work in DHs meal while being able to do quilting or whatever instead of sweating it out in the kitchen. Yeah!!

I think this is a fairly common condition.

I'm trying to limit what I bring in - and move some of what I have OUT!

I'm sorting through some of the boxes of textiles I brought home from my Mom's estate.

I LOVE this, can't you tute how to do it?

Thank you, didn't see this before I posted my question.

I am staying home today, as not feeling the best. Am hoping to work on swap stuff, and misc. quilting projects.
Perhaps make a pot of soup later. Right after a nap! :)

I have never seen this before. What exactly is it? and how do I learn how to do it?


Teresa

Ended up looking for a no challenge activity today..working on hand quilting while I watch TV...Went to check out a house for sale, but was too late :( It was beautiful, great price, and sold by the time I got there..Guess that means God doesn't have it in his plans for me...Maybe if I keep quilting I can get this done by tomorrow night...It has been hanging over my head for way too long!

By now it is 4:25 pm in my local time, and I am working on a smoke ring for my daughter-in-law. She doesn't wear hats or scarves because the wind always blows them off. She said she would wear this since the wind will not be able to blow it off. I am using Knit Picks Gloss Lace weight yarn in the mermaid color on size 4 needles. It is really slow going. I have been working on it for over a week now and I am still under 10 inches.

Tomorrow is Canada's Thanksgiving. We are having our dinner this afternoon, so I'm baking buns and cooking a turkey dinner. Yum! Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian quilting friends!

I am cleaning up a gigantic mess from our booth at our first ever attempt at a craft fair.

I'm cleaning house - you know the fun stuff! Mopping floors, vacuuming, a few spots of shampooing carpet, with laundry started and now sitting down to check this website before I continue my cleaning (house can get pretty dirty after a weekend with family home all day). Once all of this is caught up, I'm sitting down to put the binding on my latest quilt project. This weekend moved my sewing room into a spare room we used to use for storage. All storage now outside in storage shed we built - (needs roofing shingles and a door still) - weekends are VERY busy around our house! I love Monday!

I have about a 2 ft. Area to finish on quilting my quilt. It is more customized than I've ever done so it is going much slower. I'm excited because it's turning out better than I thought.

I'm leaving for sisters' week in North Carolina on Wednesday so I'll do some banking and some other errands. Trying to decide if I should get a manicure or should I just come home and get some things done around here. I've almost finished packing so that's a good thing. I have to work at 11 tonight so at some point I have to get a nap in sometime during the day. Busy, busy, busy!

I would love to see a tute on how this is done. Is each trip sewn into the mesh or pulled through?

Rainy, yuk day here. I've been dusting and polishing and finally cleaned the filthy grate at the bottom of my refrigerator and got cobwebs down from my very high ceilings. I hate housework!

I'm cleaning my garage--obviously not right this minute--and by the end of the day, hope it looks and feels better. froggyintexas

I'm with 117becca, what's the "ruler method" for folding fabric? I need all the help I can get!

Quilting a customer quilt. I say I am at "work", but this is play for me!

I am working on a Christmas quilt which I have designed myself. I have it put together in three sections to make it easier to quilt it in the ditch on my sewing machine. Kind of a disappearing 9 patch plus.

As much as I should be finishing the bed runner I'm making for my mom for her birthday, I have to finish packing for my 12 day Florida trip! I'm bringing some hand work with me and happy to return home with my mom's 1948 Featherweight in pristine condition! Her 86 year old eyes just won't let her see where to thread the needle any longer.

Uh oh I have missed something somewhere along the line what is the "ruler method"?

[QUOTE=carolaug;5565370]I finished filling up one bin, so now to my other challenge...I do two rows a day on my latch hook rug. I use 1 to 1 1/2 inch scraps. It takes a lot of fabric...totally amazed how much it does use. The rug is nice and heavy. Once done I will use rug binding or burlap on the edge. Well off to do two rows and then I can bring to quilt. ; )
I have been doing a locker hook rug also. Took a class in it at our LQS, only wish I had gone back and forth like you are doing instead of going all away around. It makes each row so long, but it's too late now, I have 8-10 rows done. Yours looks real nice. I did 1 1/4" strips and found that pressing them in half helped when I hooked it.

I have three things that NEED doing. What I intend to to do is find a candle mat pattern to make for a dear friend's birthday next week, then on to assembling some quilt blocks I finished yesterday into a top. I have a half-basted quilt that I need to get back to work on too, but that probably won't happen today. Too many tasks, not enough time, lol.