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Mystery Quilt

March 25, 2008
I pulled out a ton of fabric today trying to decide what colors I’m going to use for the mystery quilt. Thankfully, several people have put up photos of their selections. One big problem I have is is a lack of darks. I can definitely do the brights and evens the lights. I refuse to buy anymore fabric. If it looks strange, so be it. I’ll post a picture when I have made up my mind, maybe tomorrow.

We made it to Goodwill today. We really filled up the car. We got rid of most of our work clothing and some lamps and chairs. I left the blankets and towels in the car. I’ll take them to the animal shelter next time I’m in the area.

I am really getting behind on my blog reading for several days now. There seems to be so many other things I want to do. My site needs a little cleaning, too. The baby gift is almost done. I just might put in a picture anyway. I really like it and it’s made out of my favorite yarn.

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Kevin is Coming

March 24, 2008
My grandson will be here Wednesday for a few days so I thought I had better get the room straightened. I couldn’t get to the bed or the table where we put the spare TV. We decided to go to Goodwill to get rid of some of the stuff. Doug dumped everything on the dining room table so that I could make a list and now it is all out ready to go tomorrow. We need to go to the supermarket anyway. After making the bed, I recalled how he slept at the other end last time. If he doesn’t like it, he can always change when he comes.

I got some embroidery done this afternoon. I bought two sweatshirts at Walmart the other week to embroider. You can’t beat seven dollars even if they were not colors that I would normally buy. Here’s the back.

I have to find something cat related for the front. I found some houses that I like for the other shirt. After I finish them, my machine is going for its annual physical. I am so glad I have another machine to use. I just joined a mystery quilt project. We’ll see how that goes.

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Goat

March 23, 2008
I was watching the geese on the creek this morning when I goat walked by. It stopped, looked at me, and then kept right on walking. You would think that it did this every day. Too bad my camera wasn’t handy. Linda called me a few minutes later to see if she had been seeing things. I tried to act all innocent like I had no idea what she was talking about, but Doug was laughing his fool head off so it didn’t work. We found out later that it belonged further down the river and the owner was trying to round her up. One of my other neighbors, didn’t even know what it was. Her husband doesn’t let her out much. I guess there’s a reason he doesn’t.

The cake turned out pretty darn good, but I am not certain that I will make it again. I think I will need a more flavorful fruit or better strawberries. Those big suckers were rather mild.

Powdered sugar everywhere.

We had leftover chicken for supper. I cut up the rest for potpie. I think I can get two good sized potpies out of what is left–one for us and one for Win. Jenn called me last night. She had helped Win give Biscuit her worm medicine. I am not certain she really needed it at her age, but Win needs to learn to be a responsible cat mother. He all ready knows what kind of food she likes and doesn’t like.

Here’s Elvis enjoying the warmth of the desk lamp. I could probably leave it on all night. His fur is really warm right now. We clipped a few of his claws earlier. When cats get old and inactive their claws can curl into their toes making it hard to walk so we check on them about once a month.

I put bugs on one of Doug’s sweaters today to cover up holes, but some holes were too big and I’ll have to do some extra stitching on them.

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I’m Such an Idiot

March 21, 2008
Yesterday, I was two-thirds through an embroidery design when the needle broke. After changing the needle, I tried to continue the design. It was in the wrong place. I could not think how that happened. I pulled out the stitches and started it again. The same thing happened. What the h**l! I did it all over again with no luck. What was wrong? I did everything that I could think of. I finally turned it off and finished making supper. I had that chicken to contend with. Around 5AM, I woke up. While taking care of the call of the wild, I remembered what I forgot to do. This afternoon, I finished the design and all it took was two clicks to recalibrate it. I really do know better than that. It is something that I have had to do on occasion. Where was my brain?

I decided to try something new for dessert tomorrow. It’s called strawberry meringue cake. I made the cake part this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon, I’ll make the strawberry whipped cream. The cake certainly looks interesting.

My grandson is not happy with the picture that I put up of him so here is another one.

How’s this, Kevin?

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Hearts

March 19, 2008
I managed to get the hearts sewn on to the runner this afternoon without any help form the peanut gallery.

Here they are all sewn and ready for embroidery.

Instead of making a separate label, I put this directly on the backing.

I found this cute heart and some little flowers. Maybe I’ll add another cat or two.

Christine has received her mittens. She says they fit perfectly which is always a relief. Now, she has offered to make me a woodcarving! She asked me what I wanted. There is always cats, but I like elephants, too. And giraffes. I like to watch the big birds as they float on the wind. But not geese. They are a pain. Although the babies are cute. All yellow and fuzzy. Pigs are kind of cute, too. But, I wouldn’t want any of them in my house, so I think I will stick with cats.

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No Sewing

March 17, 2008
I had hoped to get the heart sewn on to the table runner this afternoon. The hearts were ironed down and the sewing machine was threaded with just the right color. But I had to do a few other things first. When I got back this is what I encountered.

So I guess I’ll go cut the binding if Zip is done with it.

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Gotta Go

March 13, 2008

It’s time to cross the pond once more. It’s sunny this morning, so it should be pretty driving over the bay. I’m still not awake. Doug snored off and on last night and kept me up. I hope to be back before Sunday afternoon so that I can go to knitting group. No sewing club again this month. They always manage to pick a day when I am not around. Are they trying to tell me something?

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Hair Color

March 13, 2008
Since my crazy ex-girlfriend disowned me, I have not been able to get hair color that I can use, so I have decided to stop for now. It will interesting to see how grey I have become. My husband has been thoroughly white for years(and it’s really thin, too) so I still won’t look like an old lady. I have been able to find just about everything but hair color here that has not been animal tested so I guess I can live with grey hair.

I started on a sweater for me last night. I started on a sleeve. That way I don’t have so much to tear out if I don’t like it. I like it so far. Doug wants me to do one with stars.

Pretty, huh?

I did some quilting today. It is so different from dressmaking. You have to be so precise and I like to just wing it. I need to sew, but I don’t need any more clothes. I never would have thought that I would ever say such a thing. I am hoping that I will get this quilting thing down.

Ready to sew together.

It’s kind of lumpy.

The borders are on. Now I have to cut out and applique the hearts. That’s my favorite part. I like to embellish. I also want to embroider a label. I think I have a cat one somewhere. I may also embroider some more hearts and flowers. And, to think, I actually managed to take all these pictures without any cats.

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Taxes

March 10, 2008
I started the working on the taxes this afternoon. Doug started putting stuff in and got frustrated. This happens every year. So he ran around getting all the information together(even though we have a place where everything is supposed to be) and I input all the rest of the crap. I’ll finish tomorrow. The worse is over.

When we came in from our walk this morning, I decided it was time to change this:

to this:

. I wish I had one for St. Patrick’s Day, but I do have a green Easter egg.

I started my St. Valentine’s Day table runner. I like the colors, but I had an awful time cutting the 6 1/2 inch squares. They kept changing to 5 1/2 and 6 inch squares. It was making me crazy. That would be a good list. “Things That Make Me Crazy”.

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Not Much

March 9, 2008

We had a lot of rain last night and today.  We never had a low tide.

         Two hours before high tide and it’s already over the neighbor’s bulkhead.  Ours is about a foot higher. 

I got some old quilting pattern books.  By old I mean 5 to 15 years.  I also bought a pattern with tiny buttons with it.  I liked that idea because I have no idea where I could get them.

 Well, that’s about all I’ve got today. 

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