On hold and ...

This is an experiment my quilting sister told me about using the very small pieces to make a piece of fabric. What do you think? It was fun and I can see where I could improve on it. I have no idea how I will use it. But doesn't it look like a mosaic? Sort-of? I'm not clever enough to make it actually look like a picture or anything specific, but it is a novel idea and it satisfies my urge to never throw out the small bits and pieces and to make something productive out of them.

I'm thinking about another quilt. Already! Likely this one above. I'm a little stymied on the striped one, so I am organizing my fabrics. Talk about time consuming. First they are all stored in the crate, in different boxes and tubs depending on when I routed them out of my too crowded kitchen/craft space. I found some, but not all, in my forrays to find. But I found enough to satisfy my need to gather together. I made an appalling discovery...I habitually added to my pile without preshrinking when I got them home. OH NO. I have many (I mean MANY) to shrink and press before I can procede into any kind of production. Well that is probably good as I do not want to have two projects going at the same time. I really want to finish the stripes before I begin the next quilt. And it is getting warm enough to spend time in the crate doing my mosaics...

Riley Who?

We have a dog. Yes we said we would NEVER have an indoor dog. Well gobble, gobble, gobble...more words to eat. She is an indoor dog and we are crazy about her. Riley is her name (well, actually Riley Poo) and she is a miniature poodle. White and fluffy after her bath. Soft and patient while we brush her. Mad and distant when you finally finish and release her. She is the laziest dog I have ever seen. Thus the pictures of her sleeping ALL the time. she still hates her Kennel, which we insist she sleep in at night and stay in when we are not home. We have had her about 7 weeks now, after being on "the list" for 6 months. She loves to go in the car. The boys pass her around and Adam trained her at "school", which she tollerated, but did not love.

I sound like a quilter!

It seems like that is all I talk about, but... I took the blocks that had the Aspen tree trunks as the black and white and ripped them apart and put a REAL black and white stripes in the middle and like them much better. So the aspen tree trunks are relegated to the brown stripes pile.

My sister and I were talking about putting the blocks a different way so I arranged some in the way we discussed and took a picture ...

I don't like them as well, but it's do-able.

I am so anxious to put my blocks together, but I still have 18 to do and I still need fabric to make the last 11 black and white stripes. My quilting sister says to wait till I have them all done and can lay them ALL out to decide what order to sew them together. Soo... patience!

Quilt again!

We had a couple of extra days off of school last week. I guess since we have not used our snow days they gave them to us anyway, because our High school boys went to State wrestling tournament in Denver. Well Fri. I decided I would work on my blocks. I worked 2 three hour sessions on Fri. and again for about three hours Sat. then Mon. evening after FHE and everyone was snoring, 3 hours more. I finished another 34 blocks. That means I only have 28 left to do, whohoo!!

Water

This might seem rather long, but it is such good information that I wanted to share it. Our School nurse sends some good stuff home and I learned a lot from this.

Water

#1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated (Likely applies to half the world population).

#2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger.

#3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism by 3%.

#4. One glass of water will shut you down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.

#5. Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.

#6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for 80% of sufferers.

#7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page!

#8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decrease the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%; and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Are you drinking the amount of water you should drink every day?

Quilt block comparison.

I posted a picture of the quilt a few posts ago, and told my sister I like the color coordinated blocks better than the random ones. I finally got some pictures to show the difference.

See if you agree with me... this one is all browns on one side and greens on the other,

and this one is all reds. Compare those to these two that have no rhymn or reason to them. ( I still need to trim them!)

I really like the first two better, but I will use them all.

I'm up to 58 blocks.

Quilt update.

I now have 47 quilt blocks done... well not DONE, I still need to press and trim, to get them ready to sew together. I showed them to someone I work with and they thought they were lovely. We even laid some of them out and they still did not think it too busy, so maybe there's hope I'll like the finished project. I AM having fun with it.

Still no car.