tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57353030995656562942024-02-18T21:38:49.124-07:00Quilting and "Other Stuff"Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.comBlogger167125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-2660723874355779272011-01-09T17:33:00.003-07:002011-01-09T17:45:40.538-07:00I'm so excited!!I'm so excited! For Christmas my hubby wrapped and gave me this kitchen wall cabinet. No, I don't need new kitchen cabinets! This is one of 5 matching cabinets that we will build a base, set the 5 on top of the base and secure them, and add a counter top! and I will have a dedicated cutting table!! Isn't the front of the door beautiful!! It is unfinished, and we went and bought stain to Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-79598360908862030392011-01-01T15:38:00.003-07:002011-01-04T17:45:29.207-07:00I love living in a small town!Just a quick post to share some things with you. First, just another reason I like living in a small town. Where else would Santa make an appearance on Christmas Day, and hand out Candy Canes to everyone??? They announced them selves with their siren. It was such fun! Then I want to share a garland I started making out of fabric Yo-Yos. I saw a picture in the "Holiday 2010-2011 issue of Quilting Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-19931034284567544382010-12-31T22:23:00.001-07:002010-12-31T23:54:31.671-07:00New Years 2010-2011.I'm sitting here, thinking about what I've accomplished this last year, and what I want to do this next year. I had really wanted to do more sewing, but it seems that once again, I've spread myself really thin. (I'm doing web sites for 3 different organizations besides my husbands business, and also on the board for one of these groups. Add the charity quilt group at church, the Cub Scout Den,Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-37053428227386265212010-05-19T18:13:00.002-07:002010-05-19T18:34:03.882-07:00Odds and Ends...My china hutch has finally been dusted/polished. No, not the quick, outside type cleaning, but the inside. Everything came out, mirrored back and glass shelved cleaned with glass cleaner, wood with wood cleaner, all items dusted/polished/cleaned as needed and put back inside. Door glass cleaned inside and out. It has needed this for a long time, and is now very sparkly! At least I've done Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-29110802892758263642010-05-16T23:27:00.002-07:002010-05-16T23:45:14.929-07:00MollyJust want to share a couple of pictures of Molly. She is making great strides in being a puppy. He is a pic of Molly and Jenny. The two of them were being silly as I came into the house from church. There were moving around so fast that I only got this one good picture of the two of them. Note that Molly's tail is UP! Finally! Every so often she forgets that she is scared of everything Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-75058890732607737972010-05-14T11:35:00.003-07:002010-05-14T12:08:51.881-07:00Introducing Molly!I'd like to introduce Molly to you. But first you need to know a little about Molly's story. She is currently about 7 months old. When Molly was about 4 month old, she had been abandoned. We know this because she was sighted in various places around town. But no one could catch her. This was in early March. There was still quilt a bit of snow on the ground, and it was below freezing every Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-56017429548723027512010-05-10T00:16:00.003-07:002010-05-10T00:31:28.252-07:00Bits of ProgressI need to make the blocks and sew on one more row to the bottom of this quilt. Then I'm going to call it ready for batting and backing! The reason the last row is not done, is that I will take it to my neighborhood quilt group tomorrow morning (Monday). I want to show them how I add the yellow corners on each block, then how I trim the blocks. One of the other ladies was just given THREE kitchen Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-25009139063698934932010-05-08T20:05:00.005-07:002010-05-08T21:23:33.316-07:00Quilt Progress and Train RideI now have all the "horse pieces" fixed down to my background. I took these pictures at night, so I'm showing you both the picture with flash that is very washed out, and the picture without flash that is pretty dark. Now that I added white socks on the horse, I wish I'd chosen darker "water" fabric, but it is what it is. Also on the left side of the picture you can see the wood-grain fabric thatVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-59132561887218955272010-05-05T05:49:00.002-07:002010-05-05T06:02:14.705-07:00Amazing what you can do when you can't sleep!OK, to be honest, the multi-colored center sections were already done. But I've cut the two yellows, and made the first 4 rows of six. (yep, there is one block on the fifth row.) Still need to sew the blocks together, but I think it will look pretty nice. This is a charity quilt. I'm using up scraps. This is a pattern from Bonnie Hunter's site called String-X Quilt. You can get the Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-4695210223945715582010-05-03T19:41:00.002-07:002010-05-03T19:49:38.820-07:00Current quilt - Horse picture...I want to share one of the current quilts I'm working on. It is a gift for a "secret sister" who loves horses and rides a black horse. I've never seen this horse, but I'm hoping this will look a little bit like the horse she rides. As you might be able to tell, I have the water reflection and the head bonded to the background. I have the legs just laid out of the fabric. Trying to decide if I Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-7007981782588443562010-04-29T15:31:00.001-07:002010-04-29T15:47:46.382-07:00Look what I started!!Hubby and I went to the local hardware store. He needed some wood/screws/putty etc, and I decided to shop. Well, I purchased a new bird feeder, but put the shepard's hook off to next week, because the clerk told me it would be half price. :-) Then I found a finch sock. I've never seen one of these before, but it contains a lot of niger seeds which I new my mom had in feeders for finches. This Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-25851053374153493762010-04-28T21:32:00.011-07:002010-04-28T22:31:40.026-07:00One Project FINISHED!Finally I have a finish to show you.... OK, it is NOT anything to do with quilting, but I did use my sewing machine. I have made 12 of these patches, and you see three of them below. The two not on the shooting pouches have just been glued on, and they will be dry tomorrow morning. That will make all twelve finished! Oh, what is SCTP? It stands for Scholastic Clay Target Program. It is a Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-33985198631074437312010-04-19T11:07:00.007-07:002010-04-19T11:31:58.843-07:00Orchid Update....Wow, just checking and it was April 3rd when I last showed you my oldest orchid that was sending up a new bloom... So 2 weeks later it has finally opened enough to show you the flower. This first picture is shows all three orchids. The new bloom is the dark purple one, and the branch of pink orchids is actually closer to the camera lens than the purple. If I remember right, the purple will turn Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-10341526867523965172010-04-14T20:37:00.004-07:002010-04-14T20:39:47.599-07:00Voting...I hope you are voting for the Williams Recreation Center... We are moving up in the voting, but I'm afraid it isn't fast enough. Please remember to vote everyday (log in before you vote or it won't count!!) There is a link to the voting site on the top right of my blog.Thanks so much!Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-6282176231686893882010-04-13T22:09:00.006-07:002010-04-13T22:44:26.450-07:00You don't see this very often; Or Flying Bell TowerThere are many other things I should blog about, but I just need to share our "fun" this afternoon. The church I attend is over 100 years old. The bell tower has been leaning more and more over the last several years. The culprit? A foundation that is failing. They didn't use to build things the way we do today. The foundation was repaired once before, but sadly is in need of more care. The plan Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-70208125978729701022010-04-09T22:45:00.004-07:002010-04-09T23:17:03.403-07:00Plans...I'm thinking I should start posting every month the quilty things I want to get done. I'm already at the 9th of this month, but it probably is better to start now than wait until the beginning of next month. So here goes:1. I've been trying to get a stock-pile of things to quilt, so I can take the machine I use for piecing in to get it serviced. At this point, I think all I have left is to finishVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-8162314054653002392010-04-07T12:00:00.005-07:002010-04-07T12:13:29.929-07:00Tulips, garden starts, and Quilt BlocksIt's been fun to watch the tulips grow in the house. I wanted to show you the orange-yellow one when it was open. I just love this color.My garden starts (tomatoes and cabbage are below. The tomatoes look like they are doing great, but my cabbage is a little sad. They have had a "greenhouse" lid over the top, but I've pulled that off for now. I learned a lesson in that one of the tomatoes Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-11061757722902848752010-04-05T23:53:00.008-07:002010-04-06T00:43:19.763-07:00Water Falls and Wedding RingsThe Wedding Rings that I want to show you is my latest quilt project. But first I want to show you where we went on Easter afternoon. First you need to know that most of the snow in our area has melted, but we still have spots of snow all over. The drift in my back yard is now only a couple feet high, but it is that last of the snow in my yard. When the snow melts around here, it flows into Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-52507728829753453312010-04-05T13:20:00.002-07:002010-04-05T13:23:54.320-07:00Are you voting?Are you voting for keeping our Recreation Center open for the town? I hope so. We were 41st in the 250,000 category, then dropped to 45th, and now we've made it up to 39th. We have to be either 1st or 2nd to get any funding, so please vote everyday. It will mean so much to so many people.http://www.refresheverything.com/williamsyouthcenterprojectThank you!Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-59663479301617369152010-04-03T21:50:00.004-07:002010-04-03T22:05:10.746-07:00Tulips and OrchidFirst I want to show you some of the tulips I have planted in the house. If you remember, I had too many bulbs last fall, and did not get them all planted. A couple of weeks ago I found they were starting to grow, so I stuck them in dirt. Now, I did not have enough pots, so I "made do" with anything I could find. Here are two of the cut off plastic gallon milk containers....I can't wait to Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-58877744033725784422010-04-03T19:14:00.003-07:002010-04-03T19:23:23.767-07:00First Sighting of Elk on the Golf Course!I was going to say this was our first sighting of the year, but actually this is the first time I've ever seen elk on the golf course! Deer, yes, lots of times, but this is the first herd of elk we've ever seen. As you can see, they are enjoying the grass that has just been "greening up". The bottom picture I should probably try to run through photo shop, tho I'm not good at that tool yet. It Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-20779773420823643802010-04-02T15:23:00.001-07:002010-04-02T15:24:42.188-07:00Easier Way to Vote.The direct link to our Williams Recreational Center Pepsi request is http://www.refresheverything.com/williamsyouthcenterprojectVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-18649106997756847352010-04-02T10:50:00.002-07:002010-04-02T10:58:33.219-07:00Please Help!Our little town has already closed the pool due to lack of funds. Now we are doing our best to keep our recreation center open for all our youth in town, especially our at-risk youth. Please go to www.refresheverything.com; select the Neighborhood tab; Select 'vote for "current leaders" ' and Select the $250,00 category.Scroll down until you see "Keep programs alive for at risk youth in under Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-43241026000311284322010-03-27T21:29:00.006-07:002010-03-27T22:08:36.899-07:00Quilting and OrchidsFirst I want to share progress on my quilting. I'm working on a Wedding Ring table runner. A couple weeks ago I showed you the arc segments laid out of the background fabric. Today I can show you a little progress:The arcs have been fused onto their blocks, blind stitched (by machine) down so they won't come loose. Then I added the "jewels" - the fabrics that form the squares at the intersectionsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5735303099565656294.post-40043857940571376152010-03-23T00:31:00.002-07:002010-03-23T00:44:12.176-07:00What have I been up to?? -Not quiltingThis week our Cub Scout Pack will have it's Pinewood Derby, and two of my Webelos Scouts will be crossing over to Boy Scouting. My den has both 4th graders, and 5th graders, and the two fifth graders have completed what they needed to for crossing over. To honor their accomplishments, I'm making what I call arrow plaques for them. Basically I take a 1x4 ceder board, about 3 feet long... wood Vickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832241599210438101noreply@blogger.com0