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Design-Wall Monday…

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plus a bunch of other stuff:

Wow!  It’s been a month since I posted here.  I feel like I should bring a note from my doctor — well, maybe from my mom’s doctor.  Right after we got back from Texas, my mom had a stroke.  I’ll spare you all the details, but a lot of my time has been spent driving across town to the hospital/care center.  She’s doing better physically, so that’s good news.  She’s really working hard at it!

I’ve been doing a major redo of my sewing room.  It’s still in the disaster stage, but it’s looking like a smaller tornado went through than what it initially looked like.  Well, I thought I was doing pretty well until I couldn’t find my iron this morning!  That’s a pretty large item to “lose”.  Still haven’t found it.

There’s nothing on my design wall!  Actually, there’s NO design wall.  I’m not sure I’m going to put it back up.  I seem to prefer the design floor instead.  So on my Design Placemat today is:

this little project.  I’m going to Christmas Club this morning, and the rule is you have to work on something Christmas related, as in a gift or Christmas-themed item.  So I guess this will be a gift! I found a kit in my closet made by Sandi Andersen over at A Legacy of Stitches.  When Sandi moved from our area, she gave away a number of items, and I got this little pincushion pattern from Sandi with the felt included.  I WAS able to find my embroidery floss in my sewing-pit/soon-to-be-fabulous-sewing-room, so I have a project to work on today.  YEA!!!  And a special “Thinking of You” to Sandi as she is dealing with some medical issues as we speak.

I want to give a special “hi” to my newly found cousin Judy S in San Antonio.  I was able to meet Judy for the first time on my way to JudyL’s quilt retreat back in February, and she is a lovely, caring lady.

And I’m on Weight Watchers.  I started right before mom’s episode, and I’m determined not to let anything derail me.  So far, so good — 9# less to carry around.  I love their recipes!  It’s challenging trying to lose weight when your eating partner needs to work to keep his weight up.  I wish we could just do a “fat transfer“, you know, like transferring funds from one bank account to another!

And more on all of this later.  I know you don’t want to hear about my whole month in one blog post.  I know I wouldn’t be able to handle it!

Check out JudyL’s blog for lots more Design Wall Monday posts!

–Sue

 

 

Monday's Design Wall

Design-Wall Monday

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Or more precisely, this week, Design-Chair Monday.

Here’s a drawing of my January Color Palette Challenge quilt, with the borders I came up with last week.  It’s now going to be a queen-sized bedspread.  The ribbon border is a slightly modified border from Judy Laquidara’s 60 Pieced Quilt Borders book.  (By the way, you certainly don’t have to use EQ to use Judy’s designs.  Her quilts and borders are ready to go, right out of the book.)  If you DO use EQ, her borders are a great jumping-off point to play around with.  And a bargain — 15 quilt patterns and SIXTY pieced border patterns.  I bought a pattern at a quilt shop last week along the way to the Brownwood retreat…$10 for one pattern.  Anyway, this book probably will never make it to my book shelf; it will be close at hand by my computer.

I have my flying geese done for the pieced border, and one side of flying geese sewn together.  The rest of this top should go together pretty quickly.

Bop on over to Judy L’s blog to see what other quilters are up to this week!

–Sue