One Creative Family

Between everyday life with ups and downs, I have been in the sewing room thinking. Our quilt guild is having a row by row with in the guild. We broke up into groups of 6 and as a group choose theme, and each had to design a block. The dimensions of the block I chose was 5.5×28.8 inches. I had seen this done before so I started drawing out what I wanted so here it is. I am going to add a little bling to it.

The wings are a little on the 3D side. Photo doesn’t do justice.

Today it is raining and so I am trying to get more motivated to do something new. Craft fairs are starting in about 4 weeks and as usual I am making candy all morning and bowl cozies and things to sell in the afternoons UNLESS we have errands to do and then we play hookey from making.

I hope everyone is taking time and just play. Think that will be later today

With the weather saying Spring has finally sprung I am getting more and more organized to get the most done. I get up Monday thru Friday get granddaughter off to school, then home to make 2 batches of peanut brittle(each takes about 45 min to an hour), then off to the sewing room. My brain starts running faster than I can keep up with it, so I have a notebook and make my lists. From those lists my planner is filled with things to do daily. With that said I did leave one little thing out of the schedule…..yes you are right this BLOG! I feel like Charlie Brown…. Aaarg!

For Easter Destiny and I made 36 fabric eggs to hide. We did twice. She knew I wasn’t the Easter Bunny because she came to her house and didn’t need to come to our house. We had a great time with most of the family. Grandkids didn’t all get to come, but we enjoyed the ones who were with us.

I know I have written about Jethro, our Granddog. Well last month he got a little brother. His brother is 1/2 Great Dane, and 1/2 English Mastiff. His name is Maverick. Maverick is about 4 months old and already is 30ish pounds. I will leave you with a picture of the two dogs playing in my living room. I hope everyone has a great day.

The sun is shinning and birds are singing here these days. It is great outside. I only hope it stays this way. The day started off in the low 30’s and will get to be nice and warm in the 70’s. With spring in the air it means Craft Fair season is upon us. I am trying to get ready for that. I have been looking for more ideas, but started on Peanut Brittle. Alicia has been experimenting with non-nut Brittle. She has used bacon and Edamame. They have turned out really good. Mary is turning tumblers with glitter and expoy. These will be new to the booth and not sure what else we will be making.

It seems as though our days are filled, but there doesn’t seem to have not so much to post about. I will try and have a little more to say.

With Spring here we will be visiting the Zoo more. That seems to be out go to. We enjoy it as much as the grand kids. We haven’t been able to spend much time there since Covid. The last time we went we took Destiny. She had a fun time feeding the animals.

Hope you have a great day out there

When I was working I would be spending my Spring Break doing anything I wanted to do after spring cleaning the house. Mother in law and I would take a day going to yarn shops and going to garage sales. Now jump ahead 7 years and I have retired and another granddaughter here is our Spring Break is filled with baking, making fabric Easter Eggs and indoor campouts.

Sorry floors aren’t very comfy for this grandma.

Today we’re making lemon and white chip cookies. Then going to an Estate sale. They are advertising craft items so maybe we will find something I don’t have, and can’t live without.

I hope everyone has a good day

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I finally finished the Sea Glass quilt and have been doing a happy dance.

This was a fun quilt and I have found out my son wants one this size, but more “Rustic” Once I figure this out I will start on one for them for Christmas. This week is catching up on some UFO’s. Last week I did some drawing for an applique I want to make in the future. Growing up we spent LOTS of weekends on my Aunt and Uncle’s Ranch. So I want to try and applique the house for the center of the quilt and then the different cattle brands the family is using now and over the years.

On a very sad note. My heart and prayers are with the people of Ukraine. I don’t like feeling so helpless.

Stay safe and enjoy your days

Yesterday was a beautiful day. Sun shinning in the upper 30’s, lots of things accomplished. Met our oldest Granddaughter’s future In Laws, who are sweet people. Who could ask for more? ME…….I have been asking my sewing machine why it doesn’t like the thread I want to use for the quilting on my Sea Glass quilt. As long as I quilt in 1 direction it looks beautiful, but change directions thread breaks. I’ve changed needles, tension, rethreaded, everything I can think of to no help. Just for the fun of it I have tried 3 other threads and it travels beautifully. I feel like Charlie Brown when Lucy keeps pulling the football away as he almost kicks it. I guess today I will head to the quilt shop and get some other thread and get to work, or just use one of the many I have in stock. If you have any ideas, please let me know. I know it is something I am doing wrong. What is your favorite thread and why?

Today is Valentine’s Day so I honestly hope everyone has a very blessed day.

5 degrees is what the day is starting out to be. You know sometimes cold is just cold and the temp doesn’t matter, well that is where I am today. Got the bird feeders filled and fresh fruit out for the Cardinals and Blue Jays and seed on the ground for the ground feeders. Peanut butter balls with dried fruit and birdseed, and nuts for the squirrels and any bird who wants it. By this afternoon we will look like the old Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds” The front and back yard were filled with them.

Finally got the Sea Glass quilt top finished and ready to quilt. I will be looking at it for a while to see how to quilt it,

This is on a Queen size bed and after trimming it measures 97×97″. I may not let this one leave the house.

Now to work on Princess Destiny’s dress. Will post a picture when finished.

Stay warm.

This morning I was awaken by the phone ringing. My 2nd child was calling and when she gets frustrated she yells. With this said she is yelling in my ear how she got stuck on her way to work because someone decided to turn around in the middle of 4 lanes of traffic and cars are trying to stop and not hit anyone. So I calmly talk to her and let her rant util she is able to get unstuck and be on her way to work. Last night we got some rain then snow on top of that, so very slick. Glad she made it ok, but so much for a sleep in day.

Got butter out of the freezer to thaw out and will get bread dough on to rise in a while and then some hot Chocolate Chip Cookies sound pretty good, doesn’t it?

:Outside my sewing room window at 7:30am. Yesterday I cooked a pot of beans and made some Chili. Will be great left over tonight.

Everyone stay warm and safe today.

I’ve been working on my Sea Glass Quilt, and it is growing, and growing, and growing. I have never made a Queen size quilt without a pattern and so this has been interesting. I saw this quilt on Facebook and then decided that I knew how to make the Log Cabin and so I got my fabrics, decided on a size and went to town. I started with the longest piece and made that so it went from corner to corner of the bed and worked my way out. I have 1/2 the top finished and realized this thing is going to measure 115″ by 115″. A little big, but my thinking didn’t take into squaring it off so in making the triangle pieces hubby suggested we just cut off some of the pieces to make straight edges. Sounds good till he said just make sure you make it long enough. I hate it when he puts ideas into the brain and then walks away laughing. I came and looked at the drawing I made and then decided my original plan was what I would do. The old Fart love teasing. LOL

Hopefully today I will be getting this finished today and then can figure out how I will be quilting it. This is gonna be a day of listening to KC Chief’s Football game. And I will sew.

Now to change some bad habits and get my days organized. I like organization, sometimes chaotic organization but a good routine to get all I want to do done in a day or at least close to it. Lately it has been just sitting and getting nothing done. I don’t like that. Oh well enough gripping. It is a beautiful sunny 35 degrees today and I will enjoy it, maybe get outside some. Have a great day.

Woke up to snow outside. Getting more snow, so quilting today and working on a puzzle with Hubby. For Christmas our oldest daughter got us a Mystery Puzzle. There is a booklet with a story with hints as to who done it. You put the puzzle together without a picture of what it is to put all the hints together and solve the mystery. This one is Murder By The Pyramids. So much fun.

This morning I woke up to this outside.

This means I am not going anywhere, so I will be working on my quilt. I love the colors and it is going together really well.

I love this. Hoping that a name for this will come to mind as I sew, but we will see as I go. I think next time I would cut the strips 2.5 or even 3 inches wide instead of 2. Makes the blocks bigger. This one finished 8.5 inches. This needs lots of blocks. Oh well.

Can’t wait to get to sewing so have a wonderful day. I sure am.