I won’t have much access to a sewing machine this week so my design wall will stay be staying the same, but since I wanted to include a photo, this is Pinwheels & Posies. 

I love this quilt.  Purple always makes me happy.  My friend Betty and I took a class from our friend June in the summer of 2007.  We challenged ourselves to make our projects out of stash.  I bought the light green; I had everything else.

Betty wisely made a table runner.  Me?  Not so wise.  This is a throw-sized quilt containing 13 of the pieced pinwheels (all done) and 12 of the posies (blocks are pieced, but not all the applique is done).  Let’s see, 12 blocks, 12 leaf or “bee” pieces per block = 144 pieces to applique down.  I don’t think I did the math before I started this project, as that’s a lot of pieces for someone who avoids applique like the plague!  If I ever get a tatoo, it will say, Born to Piece.

I’m also back to knitting socks.  I wound some interesting yarn into balls and I’m going to do a little knitting.

Sue

ps:  I added the UFOs I’m working on — you can see them by clicking the “UFO” button at the top of this page.

I’d like to be, but somehow I just don’t fit that mold.  (I would also like to look just like Sandra Bullock, but that isn’t happening either.)

My friend Pam B. can out-Martha Martha.  Earlier in my life I would have aspired to be more Martha-like — no, make that more Pam-like (I like Pam).  Now, not so much (on being more Martha-like.  I still like Pam). 

Our house looks lived in, and I have time to sew and play.  Play and sew.  Lunch and play.  Sew and lunch.  Shop and lunch.  Sew and shop — oh, the possibilities are endless.

I’m off track from where I wanted to go this morning though.  I am in awe of Judy Laquidara who writes books, does customer quilts, designs and shares the pattern instructions she writes (no small feat, let me tell you), is now a keeper of chickens, cans yummy goods, freezes, bakes – okay, THAT’S where I was going today.

(Jim, if you’re still reading this, there’s ice cream in the freezer.  Help yourself.  You don’t need to read the rest of this post.)  Judy recently blogged about the wheat she buys and grinds into flour and then bakes into whole-wheat bread that looks to die for.  From there, a discussion on whether or not to wash your wheat first and why Judy does it ensued.  (Read Judy’s post here for the answers.) 

I think about things like this a lot while I’m taking frozen bread dough out of the freezer to thaw overnight on the counter.  But, see, I have things to do!  (See paragraph 3.)

While picking up a pizza from Woodland Take & Bake a couple of weeks ago, my aunt and I (no, I don’t even cook much for company) noticed a “U Bake” store a couple of doors down.  The store has every kind of dough, pie, pasta — whatever you can freeze — ready to take home and either store in the freezer or prepare.

This morning I made the cinnamon rolls (with the cream-cheese frosting they also have available).  Okay, NOW I get to post a baked-goods picture like Judy!!!

Well, I have to go get my second cup of coffee.  And please, nobody needs to point out that I will never look more like Sandra Bullock eating this kind of breakfast!

Sue