Anytime sapdoggie, be glad to share. Sounds like your dinner and movie date was great, really nice to have those kind of friendships. Makes for pleasant evenings. The quilt didn't get wet but had about 6 yards of queen size batting that went to the garbage. Seems like it's all dried out this morning so I can move all the furniture back in its place.

Morning ya' all! I hope today finds you in good form. I am feeling perky which is a good thing. Every other day I have dialysis and well its nap time for le brat all day long after. This is my weekend Sun and Monday so I am like this energizer bunny :) imagine me with energy!!!

I love the sneak peak fabrics OMG I want your pumpkin fabric pick me pick me for that runner! oh wait I do the picking lol. That wouldn't be fair. We have a great group of swappers signed up 29 at this moment and still more to come I hope. Its nice to see so many new ideas and concepts .. if I sewed everything I pinned on pinterest well my house would be filled to the brim with things. and I would never sleep. ever. I wish on the paper piecing items but I need a physical class to learn it in. I tried the Carol Doak (is it Doab?) video but it didn't work for me. I want someone to come hold my hand while I figure it out. The points you can end up with are amazing and they make me drool when I see the elaborate designs that are out there. sigh... piecing the old fashioned way is my big style. lol and stitch in the ditch.

On a dinner note I made this dish I saw on food channel yesterday. Spaghetti and meatballs but the guy used turkey, beef and pork (tiny amount) and a simple tomato sauce on top. The recipe called for bending some broth, garlic, parsley and roasted eggplant and adding it to the meat to keep it most. no eggplant here so I roasted zucchini and they came out delicious! super moist. big 4 inch meatballs, browned them, then roasted them then added them to the sauce. I scored. Steve ate a HUGE plate of them. Guess whats for dinner tonight too? lol. love those nights where you just turn on the stove and bingo dinner is ready :) oh oh and we are having this huge salad to go with it compliments of Jaba's tremendous garden. Zucchini! Cucumbers! Fresh onions! and I have put up some of those marvelous raspberries she shared. I am one lucky duck here reaping the rewards of all their hard work. Reminds me of that book the little red hen.. she did all the work and everyone wanted to eat her bread.. uh oh.. don't read that Jaba! I would if I could come help. Next year maybe a patch in the garden for me! (she has a big garden).

I took a paper piecing class but the pattern I chose had way to many tiny pieces and I didn't enjoy it. Later bought Thr Carol Doak book and love making her blocks. Bigger pieces made the difference for me
terriamn

Hey Brat, good to hear you are feeling good. My husband went through about 6 months of dialysis after his heart transplant and all he could do after was sleep the day away too. God gave us a 2nd miracle, his kidneys came back to life. His transplant doc keeps a close eye on them, he even wrote a paper on Don because he never experienced someone's kidneys coming back like Don's did. I told him they are stubborn German kidneys. Don't want to get too personal but is there a possibility of transplant in your future? Even after I went back to work I took Don to dialysis at 5 each morning and for my lunch hour I picked him up and drove him home and tucked him in bed. He said he didn't mind it, the people at the clinic were super, they put him in a room by himself because if the suppressed immune system, but it was terrible hard to watch him and the other people that were there every Mon, Wed and Fri. Love your neck of the woods, we were in Cody last summer when we went out to our niece's wedding outside Yellowstone. Of course we went to the Cody museum and loved touring the town. I have some great pictures of 2 big antlered deer eating apples in someone's front yard. We stayed at that cute motel that has log cabins, one of the nicest places I have ever stayed. And after the Cody museum I was starving so we asked one of the workers where we could get a good meal. She directed us to the restaurant just as you are coming into town, the one down by the rodeo grounds. I am vegan and wanted something substantial rather than just salad. The chef came up with a super meal and I was one fat little happy camper. So here's too Cody, beautiful place. I would think gardening would be decent there, probably needs a lot of watering? Oh, and don't give up on paper piecing. I just finished 111 blocks for my farmers wife quilt and never would have done it if I didn't have the paper piece patterns. All those little pieces and points came out great when done on paper. I love paper piecing.

Here's the paper piecing project I'm working on Brat! It's a BOM at one of our LQS. I have learned so much and feel quite proficient now:)
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Oh my gosh, those paper pieced blocks are gorgeous!!!!

Jan

What beautiful blocks!!!!!

Thank you ladies! I love PP now. It's just following lines and everything comes out so crisp and all of the points are sharp. Makes me look like a much better quilter than I actually am :)

i'm thinking of joining. redgarnet is trying to talk me into it. I ck in with you all the time, it looks like fun. let me see if I can make room in my somewhat busy sewing/quilting/embroidery schedule

tlambing, those PP blocks are so beautiful, look at those gorgeous fabrics.

I am a PP fanatic, most of my projects are made this way now, although I use a very lightweight interfacing instead of paper as I don't have the patience to pick the paper off afterwards.