Poodles and Quilts

A little sewing this week but more on bindings than making blocks. Did get some batik string blocks made. Need to make more but it's a start! And finished 3 quilts                       This is a 2006 strip club from my LQS This one is from the Top of the Month Program at another LQS Love the raccoon fabric! This one is also from the Top of the Month Program.  Tilly got in the act! Not sure what will get done this week. I do have 2 more to bind, but may save those for next week when are having the next redo done in the house-new floor in the family room!  We decided we liked the flooring we had put in the kitchen so much we wanted to carry it into the family room since it is basically one big room!  Our guy was able to find a cut that pretty well matches. It was now or never! So tearing up things again, but this time it is only for about 10 days! Back to Patchworktimes!

Another unproductive week! I got a few more blocks made for someone else and mailed off some fat quarters to a friend!  Then late Tuesday morning I was cleaning out one of those big garbage cans the city gives us. Went to dump out the water and the can slipped and scraped a good portion of my right leg right on the bone. The rest of that day was spent in a chair with my leg up so it would stop bleeding. On the good side I did get another quilt bound, on the bad side, not much else got finished! Galen got back Wednesday evening and we spent the rest of the week getting things done around here.There's a little more remodeling in the near future in the very near future! Used this week:                  2.5 Used to date   :                  72 Donated to date:                 30 Used and donated to date: 102 Added this week:      ...

I have a few finishes to show plus a couple Halloween blocks I have been working on lately!  I guess our 2 days of cool weather made me think of Fall. We had a little over 5 inches of rain last Thursday night and early Friday morning! And the high on Friday was in the low 70's!  Unheard of for this part of Texas in mid-July. Saturday wasn't bad either-low 80's!But now we are back in the mid to high 90's.  And I'll take that, only 2 days so far where we had 100 or above!  My Halloween blocks- Double Z is the first block and Sawtooth Star the second one. I wanted to show you that the light cream/tan is in fact a ghost! As I said earlier-also 3 finishes.  Remember that pile of quilts that needed binding? It's a little shorter, by 3!  That leaves 6 to finish! For those who have not seen a cotton field here is one near us. The cotton has been loving the rains we have had and is now starting to bloom.  I would say unless we get really ba...

I thought I might  get more sewing in this week with DH out of town but that didn't happen. Worked on some blocks, worked on binding quilts.  Nothing I can count yet, maybe next Sunday! Used this week:                  0 Used to date   :                  69.5 Donated to date:                 30 Used and donated to date: 99.5 Added this week:                  0 Added to date:                     36 Net:                                     63.5 Back to Patchworktimes

Mine is pretty much the same as last week-very little progress on the Texas quilt. So much for plans. Didn't even get any of the other quilts bound. Did have a fun late afternoon dentist appointment, not! Nothing was done that evening! We did get some plants trimmed and one of the flower beds cleaned up as in getting out all of the leaves that dropped this Spring.  I really like Live Oaks, they stay green all winter. But they drop their leaves in the Spring when the new ones are coming out. So we get to clean up leaves twice a year and the Iris bed gets inundated with them.   New week, maybe I'll have something to show on  Monday. Back to Patchworktimes

I didn't get much accomplished this past week. But I was able to give a friend 1.5 yds. she needed to finish a project. That's always good! Used this week:                  1.5 Used to date   :                  69.5 Donated to date:                 30 Used and donated to date: 99.5 Added this week:                  4 Added to date:                     36 Net:                                     63.5 Maybe this coming week will have better results. Galen is heading out of town Tuesday afternoon-more time in the evenings to sew. Won't be having to think about dinner!!!!! Back to Patchworktimes to see how others fared this past week!

I did have one finish last week, It is now at the quilters! Cross another strip club top finished! It's a little washed out looking in this picture.                                                        Cosmic Stars by Cozy Quilt.                                 Did a little shopping for Judy at the Natives of Texas plant nursery! If you want to read about our Texas Hill Country excursion on July 6th here is the link  day trip to the Texas Hill Country                       Now I am working on Judy's pattern    Texas Quilt   from Judy's free patterns.  The blocks have the first border on them, the outer borders are sewn together, just not cut into 1 3/4 inch strips. The sash...

We decided to treat ourselvs and take a day off from Round Rock and go to the Texas Hill Country. We are located on the Eastern edge where the limestone canyons give way to the Blackland Prairie. Raising crops to the East is a much better bet than to the West. That is Cattle Grazing land.Also for growing mesquite and cedars. It's much poorer soil due to all the limestone. Our first stop was in Johnson City for a short coffee break. Where we normally stop is right across from LBJ'S Boyhood home.  We have made many trips to the Ranch but have yet to stop at his boyhood home. We need to go to the ranch again as well, as the house is now open to the public. At the courthouse square in Johnson City they were getting ready for the big festivities. My camera was not handy at the time, everyone from very young to very old were wearing something in honor of the fourth and so were their pets. Saw the cutest little goats all decked out in red, white and blue! Of course the band was ...

I am going in the right direction once again. Yes, I did add a little but used more! We took off yesterday and headed to the Texas Hill Country. Round Rock, where we are, is on the eastern edge of the Hill Country and western edge of the Blackland Prairie. Good farmland to the east and land that is better suited for growing mesquite and cedar and grazing cattle to the west. Lots of limestone. One of our stops was Creations  in Kerrville. I was  very good! They did have some 1 yard cuts of batiks marked down to 7.99. You know where the 4 comes from in the added line! I was good, they had 10 or 12 others there-would have been real easy to bring the rest home! Got a couple of patterns and also a machine embroidery disk. Did I say how much I love that shop? DH took the girls for a walk. Used this week:                  11.25 Used to date   :                   68 Donat...