Finally Friday...

I am going to finish my block of the week (Heart and Hand) and post the last two weeks. Boy was this a busy week or what? My living room has been repainted, Katie's room has been repainted except for the closet with the hole in it...I picked up my new car last night...Jeanne and Connie will be relieved to know it is a SEDAN...no more horrible incidents in Shipshe...at least none that we can blame on the car...PHEW!

JoAnn's shop has her One Stop Shop Hop starting tomorrow...you should check out her website. http://www.fourseasonsquiltsmn.com/Special_events.php. I think it is a hilarious idea and I hope she does VERY well!

Two birthdays coming up this month...Jeanne and JoAnn....what fun is that?

One more very exciting thing! Katie and I had our first two sales in our ETSY shop. We are pumped and I am hoping that eventually I will see the floor of my sewing room....

Parties!!!

Holy Moley do I have a busy weekend...it is tough being a social butterfly, let me tell you. My friend Carey is having a 3 kid birthday party today. I am heading out to Farmington once I get my behinder off this chair and into the shower. Then, my sister-in-law has a big birthday celebration tonight...and tomorrow is Girlfriend Day at the shop. JoAnn and I are attending the class. We are making Christmas Stockings. I am so excited!

I have fallen behind in my applique. I am going to have to get myself in gear so I don't miss the BOW deadline Sunday.

I hope all my friends are doing well!

Busy weekend!

Yesterday, my friend Hester and I went to St. Cloud to spend some time with our friend Lois. We sewed and talked and ate and had a good time. Hester is visiting from California and didn't have any projects with her...so, good kid that I am, I volunteered several of my own! Hester finished hand sewing the binding to my Vienna Nights quilt and unsewed the wavy borders from my Holiday Inn quilt.

I love you Hester! What an unpleasant task...and she offered to do them both. I am a lucky kid to have friends like Hester and Lois.

I will post pictures of Vienna Nights when I have the label put on and the cat fur taken off.

Today is busy with a work related emergency. No rest for the wicked...

Oh yeah...Katie and I are cleaning out the sewing room...and we have stuff for sale on ETSY... http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6799827

And, finally, here is a picture of the Challenge quilt with borders attached. Isn't it pretty? I am going to take it to my Dear Jane guild meeting tomorrow night and give it to Kari for quilting. Our show is in September!

DJ Challenge Quilt

I cannot believe how beautiful all the challenge quilts are. I can't wait for our show in September. Here is the center of my quilt. I have to get my camera out and have Katie take a picture with the borders on.

We had a great time at the retreat. Eight people finished the centers of their challenge quilts. Check my webshots to see them all. The pictures are in the Dear Jane Retreat 2009 album.
http://community.webshots.com/scripts/misc.fcgi?action=invitePickup&uri=album/288514140ojpKqq

RETREAT!

I am here in St. Joseph with a dozen of my friends working on Dear Jane swap quilts. We have taken over the lower floor of a dormitory in St. Benedicts College and we are making a mess! JoAnn and I went to breakfast at Kay's this morning and were fighting over a cinnamon roll...then I got my own so we were too busy to fight anymore.

I am going to lay out my version of the challenge quilt this morning...I will post a picture or two later.

Happy weekend!

Dear Jane Quilt Camp

OMG! Fun is being had here in St. Joseph....I am not making much progress but I am having a great time with my friends. More later...

Drudgery...sigh...

I am wasting time, putting off cutting fabric for the Hawaiian Pineapple quilt I am making for a class sample. I don't feel like cutting fabric. I would rather be working on applique. Sigh....

OK, I have wasted enough time. I need to pack for my Dear Jane quilt camp. I am leaving on Thursday morning and need to be ready to go! I am going to work on my neutral Dear Jane, my class sample and will be taking some applique with me for fun.

I also want to get back to my Women of the Bible quilt. I have the new patterns and want to see what I can make out of them all together.

To work!