Pajama Day!

It is 1:30 and I am still in my jammies! Wow-I haven't done this in years, without being sick. I am may be in my jammies but I am not lazy. The new house has 4 bathrooms. An hour was spent cleaning 4 toilets, 6 sinks, 1 tub and 2 showers. Thank goodness the child is crazy and loves to clean the toilets with the disposable scrubbing bubbles things so he is actually a big help. I also worked on buying fabrics for my next project: http://quickquilts.com/curiss/nov08/modernmission/. I will be using the Shangri La Moda fabrics-a red, brown, blue and 2 of the ivory tonal. There were 7 total that I wanted to use and my stash gave me 3 of those between FQ's, Jelly Rolls and Charms. Ebay was once again able to save the day and offered me the remaining 4 pieces. Hurray!! I then looked into the Clover fusible bias binding and was stunned-the 28 yards needs is going to cost 40 bucks! Sheesh-oh well. Now I wait for the Slug, aka Mail person, to deliver my treasures.

The gazillion pink half 1/2 square triangles have formed themselves into a VERY pink flannel snuggle quilt for ME-one guaranteed not to end up in the "Man Chair" or on Zack's bed. It is way to pink for either of them to be willing to use it. Ha ha ha!! I did find some nice pale yellow in the clearance bin at my local quilt shop yesterday. Hopefully this will tone down the pink of it-because I have to agree with the boys it is a LOT of pink.

Well the jammie day is over and I must go shower. There is a Halloween Party at Bucknell University that I promised Zack we would go to.

The intent was....

Who in the world knows!!

No good explanation for all these 1/2 square triangles in flannel. Hmmm must have been a girl baby blanket in the works at one point-cannot remember who the poor little girl was/is that is now without a homemade quilt. I hope that I was able to purchase something as meaningful.

The new plan is to finish the pinwheels which was not the intended pattern-in the bag with this plethora of flannel was a Quilter's Cache printout of a butter fly. What was I thinking-all these blocks all that hand embroidery!! Once finished I think I will keep it for myself. It is pink so I wont have to worry about Zach or the hubby taking it-almost guarantees that where ever I put it down it where it will be when I go to retrieve it the next time. Plus Zach has a moon blanket that is a flannel top and a flannel backing that is tied together and I love that blanket but it is too short to cover chin to under toe. Can't you just imagine the toasty-ness as you read?!!

The Joann Fabric BOM has found a home-in the family room on the spare bed. It looks cute. Zach refers to this as his "TV Room"-"The Man Cave". It houses a TV the PS2, the Wii and his toys. If I could only convince hubby to relocate the PS3 down there-then the 69" TV would be all mine!!! Yeah I don't think it is possible either but I can dream.

Connecting Threads has their books 40% off so I have been wanting the Victory Quilts book for a bit now purely because of it's theme. I ordered it last week and still have not had it arrive. I checked to make sure it had been sent and also to make sure I used the right address-yup and yup. So the delay is the Slug...watch it come tomorrow when I will have no time to pour over and savor the pages of Eleanor's creativity. Also Cre8tive Quilter (http://cre8tivequilter.blogspot.com/) mentioned doing a virtual something with a pattern from the book. Even better-incentive to complete. A little competition never hurt anyone.

Where did the time go?

Wow! Time certainly did fly-I can't believe it has been 4 weeks since my last post.

We moved and are slowly settling in and unpacking. We have so much more room than we had at the other house. As we were moving we realized that we had stuff we never unpacked (pictures) because we had no room. In this house we will have to be careful to not buy to fill because eventually we will move again. We would eventually like to be in a slightly milder climate.

Soccer started so Tuesday and Thursday nights are practice while Saturdays are the game plus I am taking a 12 week class on Tuesday nights for my SPHR certification. So whenever possible I need to study so that the money spent on this along with the exam fee are not wasted.

I have gotten some sewing in-mainly just a surprise piece and bindings on some very old UFO's. During the process of moving I organized my sewing stuff and found the 2004 Thimbleberries BOM pieces that I was doing as part of a class. I ended up moving to PA before the classes were finished so I am missing all block from the last 2 books-it was a 4 book series. I was able to find the books on EBay and now am searching for the fabric to somewhat match. My goal is to at least find similar colors versus trying to find the exact fabrics that went along with the books.

Here are pictures of my new sewing room. I love it-now if things would just calm down so I can use it!! Once Soccer finishes I think we can get back to sewing-just in time for holiday sewing.