A Birthday Give-away

Quick, there are only a few more days! Run over to Debi's blog and enter her give-away for her Birthday. Aren't birthdays fun??!!!

Just In Time

Tomorrow morning I will attend my BOM meeting. And just in time, I have completed this month's block! Later I will have to show you all the blocks, but I'm pretty happy with the way this one went together, and want to show you. I took two pictures, one with flash, and one without. This is the one without flash, it is a little dark, but the flash washed out the green plaid fabric. I thought my corners all came out very nicely, and the block is just shy of the 12 1/2 in that it is supposed to be. Yippeeee! And tomorrow (or Sunday) I can go back to finishing the placemats!

Have a great day tomorrow!

A little more progress

The placemats and napkins are getting a little closer to done. Actually the napkins are done, and I'm pretty pleased with them. I now need to bind the placemats, and think I'd like to do a piped binding. Of course, the instructions from the class I took must still be in a box somewhere in the garage, so I'm trying to wing it. I found some instructions using google, but they are not quite the same. I'm trying to figure out if the piping and binding have to be bias, or can they be on-grain. Sure would be easier on-grain, and the placemats are square, so I think it should work... Hmm, maybe I should just do one first, and see how I like it. OK, that is what I will do. So maybe tomorrow I'll get that done.

Have a good night all.

Too many miles!

OK, I thought when we moved from Phoenix and got rid of our 20 mile commute each direction that we would put less miles on the vehicles. It does not look that way. 2 months and 4 days ago, I had my car serviced, and today the maintenance needed light came on. Sure enough, we have put more than 5000 miles on the car in that length of time. Good Grief! Of course, the car is getting a lot more miles on it than the truck is, so maybe we are still traveling less. Seems like a lot though. How about the rest of you? Are you cutting back driving because of oil prices?

I thought I would get some sewing done today on the napkins, but I spent this morning covering the office while my DH was in a training session, and then this afternoon we ran to Phoenix, had our camp staff meeting, and then just got home a little while ago. It is a long trip. Glad we are home.

Here's to getting a few hours to sew tomorrow. Take care all, and have a great day tomorrow.

Satisfaction in Progress

There really is satisfaction in progress! This afternoon I finally settled down to work on my mom's placemats and napkins. Actually I just worked on the napkins tonight. I have one completely done, and the other five are ready for their final top-stitching. I may finish these tomorrow morning. Then I need to make the binding for the placemats, and get it put together. thinking also that I should make a hot pad that matches to put under hot pans that are set on the table. (OK, scope creep just crept in! But it will be worth it.)

Also talking about my mom, I'm so happy for her. She recently ordered, and will soon receive one of the fairly large sewing table by Koala! She found a good sale, and bought it for herself. I think she will love it, and she deserves to have a great sewing room.

Take care, and have a great day sewing tomorrow.

And the Winner is...

Karen at my local quilt shop was nice enough to be my "official" selector of the give-away entries. We were having so much fun, we drew not just one, but two names for this give-away.

In first place, the winner of the 4 fat quarters and the porcupine quill stiletto is: da-da-da-dum:

Nadine!

And the second name drawn is: Miniature Quilter! I will be sending a porcupine quill and a mystery FQ your way.

I will need addresses for each of you. I'll send you a private email shortly.

Congratulations to you both. (This was so fun, I'm sure I'll do another give-away again.)

I'm not a flake today!!

The give-away that was posted on March 10 is now closed. (I actually set a timer so I would not miss the noon deadline for entries into the drawing!) There are 18 names that I have put on slips of paper, and will take to town to have some "Official" draw the winner. I'll post the drawn winner this afternoon.