Just finished zig-zagging the edges on the heart appliques on these 13 blankets for Colton's Angels. They've been sitting on my sewing table for 2 months, waiting to be finished, and I finally finished them! YAY!
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
August OPAM Finishes
Just finished zig-zagging the edges on the heart appliques on these 13 blankets for Colton's Angels. They've been sitting on my sewing table for 2 months, waiting to be finished, and I finally finished them! YAY!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Salem Days Quilt Show
Salem Days Quilt Show
Saturday, August 8th
10 Am - 2 Pm
The white church on Main Street in Salem, Utah
Please come join us for a fabulous quilt show! We've just starting getting quilts, and they are all fabulous!
Also, there will be a raffle with fabulous prizes:
Quilts
Wallhangings
Queen Size Hobbs Wool batting
Silk Flower arrangement (courtesy Sweetbriar Cove, 801-423-1876 to order flowers, fresh or silk)
For $5, you get 3 raffle tickets. The more tickets you get, the more chances you have to win.
What is the raffle for?
The raffle is to benefit Colton's Angels, a local group of women who get together every month to do humanitarian work. One of the projects they are working on is a Christmas tree for the Festival of Trees. The tree they are donating is in Colton's name, and will be Rock Band/Guitar Hero themed. Proceeds from the raffle go to Colton's Angels to assist with the purchase of the required items for the Christmas tree.
At the Festival, the trees will be auctioned off and sold. Proceeds from the sale of the donated trees go to benefit Primary Children's Hospital, a hospital in Salt Lake City that works with children and their families who need special care, or who cannot afford treatment.
If you would like to donate to this wonderful cause, please stop by the Salem Days Quilt Show and purchase raffle tickets. If you would like to donate and enter the raffle, but cannot make it to Salem for the show, please contact me and I will get you taken care of.
Thanks for your support!!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
"I had a bad day again"
That Fuel song could totally be my theme song for the day! Oh boy!
The day actually started off pretty good. I didn't wake up with a headache, like I normally do, and I was totally going to get a lot of work done today.
Well, we got to the shop, and I didn't really start on anything until after lunch (we didn't get there until around 11). It took me a while to put this quilt on for one of my clients, because I swear it is the biggest quilt I have done. Well, not the top, just the back. The whole thing has taken up all of my pins. Yes, all of them! I got the quilt on, and decided that I needed to plan how to quilt the thing.
Marshy was playing nicely in his play pen in my quilting area, so I carefully picked up the quilt top and the batting and laid it over the quilting table so it would not be a temptation for little fingers to try to touch, or for someone needing the compressor to accidentally step on.
About 15 minutes, maybe 20, later I got up from the other room where I was drawing to get something I needed. I was totally shocked to find that Marshy had managed to move his playpen, with him still in it, close enough to pull the quilt batting back off the back of the quilting table, and had been ripping GIANT CHUNKS out of my client's batting!! I screamed. Then I spanked him. We have had this discussion with Marsh several times before. Try fifty.
mom: Marsh honey, we don't eat mommy's batting. It's yucky. Blech! (as I dig batting from my own personal batting stash out of his mouth)
Marsh: just smiles and laughs.
This has happened quite often. This is why I deliberately put the batting up out of reach. The funny thing is that I didn't hear him move the playpen, and he has to jump and lean in order to get it to move. There isn't a wall between the area he was in and the area I was in, just a few cupboards making a barrier.
Marshy got put in time out in his stroller. He was not happy. He kicked me so hard in the stomach. He got an even longer time out.
I jumped in the car to go buy some batting from the local quilt shop. As I was driving toward the town, I thought to myself "mmm....I wonder if Jo-Ann's carries it?" So I called them. No. "Well if they don't carry it I'd better check with the shop." No. Nor the shop in the next town over, or the town after that. I turned around. By this time I was screaming to myself in the car to help me get rid of all of the anger and frustration before I got back to work. It didn't help much. I was really mad.
I got back to the shop, and pulled out the phone book. I proceeded to call just about every fabric store on their list. Finally a girl at one said she thought they might carry it. (Apparently this is a hard to find batting?) She went back and looked on the shelf, and came back to the phone.
her: "yeah, we carry that."
me: prepackaged or on a roll?
her: prepackaged
me: do you have a queen size?
her: I don't know. Hold on.
she goes and checks.
her: yeah, we have a few.
me: how much are they?
her: I don't know. Hold on.
she goes and checks. At this point I am seriously thinking, "Why didn't she look at the price while she was back there? Good heck! If I'm calling about a product, I might want to know what you charge!"
her: ty-two ninety-nine. (someone in our shop was vacuuming, and I couldn't hear to save my life)
me: seventy two ninety nine?
her: no. ty-two nintey nine
me: what?
her. ty-two ninety nine.
me: WHAT?! SORRY I CAN'T HEAR, SOMEONE'S VACUUMING!
her: twen-ty-two-nine-ty-nine.
me: Okay, great thanks!
So, since this shop was close to my house, we went home and I dropped the family off and went over to get it. I got there, and do you think they had the batting? If you guessed yes, you are sorely mistaken.
I couldn't find it anywhere on their shelves, so I went to the counter to ask for help. I swear it was the same girl I talked to on the phone. She walked me back there and showed me their collection.
her: Here it is.
me: But there isn't the kind I need. Do you not have it?
her: Oh, I guess not.
me: Well when I called they told me you have it. I drove clear up here from ____ tonight because they told me you had it.
her: Well I don't see what the big deal is. What's the difference?
me: It quilts differently.
her: So?
me: It matters.
I then proceeded to call the remaining stores in that city. No one has it. I went home and called stores as far north as the county border, but to no avail.
There is one store that I was told might have it, but that they would be closed so I need to call them in the morning. If no one has it, I am seriously up poop creek without a paddle. I will try to repair the hole, maybe flip it around so that it is more towards the bottom, where there is a lot more excess batting. Maybe it won't even matter once I flip it! Oh wouldn't that be so nice?!
Oh, and also, yesterday we had a power surge in our building. Well, it was either a brown out or a power surge. Not sure, but it caused everything in the house to turn off. Well today, our brand new computer as of a few months ago, started to overheat. What the heck?! We bought the best cooling system to avoid this problem! So, in addition to the batting problem, I have to worry about how much I do on the computer because it could overheat and die.
And, our internet was streaming video super fast earlier today in really good quality, and now all of a sudden we can't watch anything online at all. It says our internet connection is so slow that we would not be able to watch the movie (Harry and the Hendersons on Netflix) without having constant pausing and buffering. Also, it won't even really let us utilize XBOX live on our XBOX. Mike tried to add my gamertag as a friend, and it made him do it several times before the internet actually let him do it. UGH! Electronics!! (Our PS3 is on its way home to us though, so we are happy to have a DVD and Blu-ray player again. Now we are hoping it doesn't go out a second time!) *fingers crossed*
Twilight is coming to theaters tomorrow....well, technically Friday morning at 12 AM, but do you think I get to go see it? Probably not. I'm so sad! I have seriously been waiting for this movie for forever (since I read the books) and I have read interviews, articles, watched online clips, watched music videos and trailers, etc. getting ready for this show. I was so excited. Now I'm just kind of sad. :(
Okay, enough of my venting and pity-party. I am going to be upbeat and cheerful tomorrow, even if I have to staple my mouth into a smile!!
Besides, it's the BYU-Utah game this weekend, at Utah, and I just have one fabulous thing to say:
The day actually started off pretty good. I didn't wake up with a headache, like I normally do, and I was totally going to get a lot of work done today.
Well, we got to the shop, and I didn't really start on anything until after lunch (we didn't get there until around 11). It took me a while to put this quilt on for one of my clients, because I swear it is the biggest quilt I have done. Well, not the top, just the back. The whole thing has taken up all of my pins. Yes, all of them! I got the quilt on, and decided that I needed to plan how to quilt the thing.
Marshy was playing nicely in his play pen in my quilting area, so I carefully picked up the quilt top and the batting and laid it over the quilting table so it would not be a temptation for little fingers to try to touch, or for someone needing the compressor to accidentally step on.
About 15 minutes, maybe 20, later I got up from the other room where I was drawing to get something I needed. I was totally shocked to find that Marshy had managed to move his playpen, with him still in it, close enough to pull the quilt batting back off the back of the quilting table, and had been ripping GIANT CHUNKS out of my client's batting!! I screamed. Then I spanked him. We have had this discussion with Marsh several times before. Try fifty.
mom: Marsh honey, we don't eat mommy's batting. It's yucky. Blech! (as I dig batting from my own personal batting stash out of his mouth)
Marsh: just smiles and laughs.
This has happened quite often. This is why I deliberately put the batting up out of reach. The funny thing is that I didn't hear him move the playpen, and he has to jump and lean in order to get it to move. There isn't a wall between the area he was in and the area I was in, just a few cupboards making a barrier.
Marshy got put in time out in his stroller. He was not happy. He kicked me so hard in the stomach. He got an even longer time out.
I jumped in the car to go buy some batting from the local quilt shop. As I was driving toward the town, I thought to myself "mmm....I wonder if Jo-Ann's carries it?" So I called them. No. "Well if they don't carry it I'd better check with the shop." No. Nor the shop in the next town over, or the town after that. I turned around. By this time I was screaming to myself in the car to help me get rid of all of the anger and frustration before I got back to work. It didn't help much. I was really mad.
I got back to the shop, and pulled out the phone book. I proceeded to call just about every fabric store on their list. Finally a girl at one said she thought they might carry it. (Apparently this is a hard to find batting?) She went back and looked on the shelf, and came back to the phone.
her: "yeah, we carry that."
me: prepackaged or on a roll?
her: prepackaged
me: do you have a queen size?
her: I don't know. Hold on.
she goes and checks.
her: yeah, we have a few.
me: how much are they?
her: I don't know. Hold on.
she goes and checks. At this point I am seriously thinking, "Why didn't she look at the price while she was back there? Good heck! If I'm calling about a product, I might want to know what you charge!"
her: ty-two ninety-nine. (someone in our shop was vacuuming, and I couldn't hear to save my life)
me: seventy two ninety nine?
her: no. ty-two nintey nine
me: what?
her. ty-two ninety nine.
me: WHAT?! SORRY I CAN'T HEAR, SOMEONE'S VACUUMING!
her: twen-ty-two-nine-ty-nine.
me: Okay, great thanks!
So, since this shop was close to my house, we went home and I dropped the family off and went over to get it. I got there, and do you think they had the batting? If you guessed yes, you are sorely mistaken.
I couldn't find it anywhere on their shelves, so I went to the counter to ask for help. I swear it was the same girl I talked to on the phone. She walked me back there and showed me their collection.
her: Here it is.
me: But there isn't the kind I need. Do you not have it?
her: Oh, I guess not.
me: Well when I called they told me you have it. I drove clear up here from ____ tonight because they told me you had it.
her: Well I don't see what the big deal is. What's the difference?
me: It quilts differently.
her: So?
me: It matters.
I then proceeded to call the remaining stores in that city. No one has it. I went home and called stores as far north as the county border, but to no avail.
There is one store that I was told might have it, but that they would be closed so I need to call them in the morning. If no one has it, I am seriously up poop creek without a paddle. I will try to repair the hole, maybe flip it around so that it is more towards the bottom, where there is a lot more excess batting. Maybe it won't even matter once I flip it! Oh wouldn't that be so nice?!
Oh, and also, yesterday we had a power surge in our building. Well, it was either a brown out or a power surge. Not sure, but it caused everything in the house to turn off. Well today, our brand new computer as of a few months ago, started to overheat. What the heck?! We bought the best cooling system to avoid this problem! So, in addition to the batting problem, I have to worry about how much I do on the computer because it could overheat and die.
And, our internet was streaming video super fast earlier today in really good quality, and now all of a sudden we can't watch anything online at all. It says our internet connection is so slow that we would not be able to watch the movie (Harry and the Hendersons on Netflix) without having constant pausing and buffering. Also, it won't even really let us utilize XBOX live on our XBOX. Mike tried to add my gamertag as a friend, and it made him do it several times before the internet actually let him do it. UGH! Electronics!! (Our PS3 is on its way home to us though, so we are happy to have a DVD and Blu-ray player again. Now we are hoping it doesn't go out a second time!) *fingers crossed*
Twilight is coming to theaters tomorrow....well, technically Friday morning at 12 AM, but do you think I get to go see it? Probably not. I'm so sad! I have seriously been waiting for this movie for forever (since I read the books) and I have read interviews, articles, watched online clips, watched music videos and trailers, etc. getting ready for this show. I was so excited. Now I'm just kind of sad. :(
Okay, enough of my venting and pity-party. I am going to be upbeat and cheerful tomorrow, even if I have to staple my mouth into a smile!!
Besides, it's the BYU-Utah game this weekend, at Utah, and I just have one fabulous thing to say:
LET'S GO UTES!!
WAHOO!!
(I went there for 3 years....I feel like they are still my team.)
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
New Club, New Friends, Work, and Quilting
So, I don't think I've really belonged to a "club" really. But tonight I joined one. It was really fun. Most of the ladies knew each other, and I knew some of them through Angel. It was fun to meet new people though. The 11 of us went to dinner and laughed and talked and ate...and ATE....and ATE!
Then we got down to business. We will meet every month, and we are going to be doing humanitarian work some of the time. It sounds like it will be very fun, and very fulfilling. We discussed several different projects we would like to work on: from tieing quilts and donating them to a local hospital to helping feed orphans in Liberia, Africa. All ideas were good, and the only thing we felt bad about was that we couldn't do all of them this year. Fortunately it looks like this club will be going on for a while, and we'll have plenty of time to do all of the projects we would like to do.
We have decided to meet once a month, and it will be fun to get together next month, and hopefully start working on one of the projects. We would like to start on the quilts for the local hospital. First, we need to find out what exactly they need. Then we need to figure out fabrics and stuff. I've decided to donate a roll of Hobbs heirloom batting, should the quilts be needed, and we proceed with that project.
Mike babysat Marshy while I was at the meeting, and when I got home baby was NOT happy! Apparently he had been crying for quite a while, and was very happy to see me....although he kept saying "Daddy! Daddy!" I think he really just wanted to not be in bed. Little stinker....it was almost 10 PM! I got him out and let him watch some Baby Einstein's on TV to calm him down. Surprisingly, it worked IMMEDIATELY! Mike was so tired and a little stressed, because he has to get up at 4 AM tomorrow to be on the road by 5. He is driving this week, and is trying to get as much done as he can. He has a new boss based out of Colorado, who he has never met, and his boss will be in town Thursday and Friday and wants to meet with him, so that means he loses two days of work. We go on vacation on the 19th, so Mike is really stressed about finishing his drives by then so he just has to process data at the resort.
I put on the 2nd of one of my clients' quilts today. It is pretty scrappy, which makes it kind of cute. She used an interesting mix of brights and not-brights. It will look cute when it is done, though. I'm doing flowers in the scrappy squares, with fun vines and leaves and flowers in the borders. I hope she likes it! I finished her first one on the 4th. It was scrappy too, but mostly all brights (with a few random Christmas prints and non-brights thrown in). On that one she had done little rectangles, and then an almost solid blue fabric for the sashing and borders, and backing. As soon as I saw it I thought that it looked like a bunch of brightly wrapped presents. I've never quilted ribbons and bows, but I attempted it (totally prepared to unpick it all and start over with something else) but it turned out so dang cute! She told me that if using different thread colors looked good, to do that, so I did. I made the boxes face all different directions, and used 7 different thread colors. It turned out so cute! Again, I really hope she likes it! It was such a fun, scrappy quilt, and now it is a fun scrappy quilt with brightly wrapped boxes all over it! :)
I still have a few other quilts to finish before I go on vacation. One of them, Mike's cousin brought over for me to do. Her ward was tieing quilts, and she found a quilt that someone had pieced together, and she told them they couldn't tie it because that would ruin it. She asked me to quilt it for them, and I said I would. She brought it over yesterday. I'm hoping to get to it by the middle of next week. One of our close family friends brought me a quilt last week that I have to do before I can do that one. AND THEN! I get to quilt my 5!! YAY!! I'm really hoping to have them done by the end of the month, but if I can't, I'll settle for the end of August. I also have one more of Mike's aunt's to do, but she won't be back in the area until September, so there isn't too much pressure to hurry and get that one done yet.
Tomorrow I am going to see if I can talk to the lady who owns the new local quilt store about maybe helping her out if she needs quilting done, and ask her if she will let me put some business cards in her shop. I would love to expand my client base. That would just be awesome!
So, I just realized that this post was a lot to read....and I will try not to do another post like this without any pictures for a while. In the meantime, I'm off to try to get the baby to bed, and then I'm going to do some work on ebay. G'night!
Then we got down to business. We will meet every month, and we are going to be doing humanitarian work some of the time. It sounds like it will be very fun, and very fulfilling. We discussed several different projects we would like to work on: from tieing quilts and donating them to a local hospital to helping feed orphans in Liberia, Africa. All ideas were good, and the only thing we felt bad about was that we couldn't do all of them this year. Fortunately it looks like this club will be going on for a while, and we'll have plenty of time to do all of the projects we would like to do.
We have decided to meet once a month, and it will be fun to get together next month, and hopefully start working on one of the projects. We would like to start on the quilts for the local hospital. First, we need to find out what exactly they need. Then we need to figure out fabrics and stuff. I've decided to donate a roll of Hobbs heirloom batting, should the quilts be needed, and we proceed with that project.
Mike babysat Marshy while I was at the meeting, and when I got home baby was NOT happy! Apparently he had been crying for quite a while, and was very happy to see me....although he kept saying "Daddy! Daddy!" I think he really just wanted to not be in bed. Little stinker....it was almost 10 PM! I got him out and let him watch some Baby Einstein's on TV to calm him down. Surprisingly, it worked IMMEDIATELY! Mike was so tired and a little stressed, because he has to get up at 4 AM tomorrow to be on the road by 5. He is driving this week, and is trying to get as much done as he can. He has a new boss based out of Colorado, who he has never met, and his boss will be in town Thursday and Friday and wants to meet with him, so that means he loses two days of work. We go on vacation on the 19th, so Mike is really stressed about finishing his drives by then so he just has to process data at the resort.
I put on the 2nd of one of my clients' quilts today. It is pretty scrappy, which makes it kind of cute. She used an interesting mix of brights and not-brights. It will look cute when it is done, though. I'm doing flowers in the scrappy squares, with fun vines and leaves and flowers in the borders. I hope she likes it! I finished her first one on the 4th. It was scrappy too, but mostly all brights (with a few random Christmas prints and non-brights thrown in). On that one she had done little rectangles, and then an almost solid blue fabric for the sashing and borders, and backing. As soon as I saw it I thought that it looked like a bunch of brightly wrapped presents. I've never quilted ribbons and bows, but I attempted it (totally prepared to unpick it all and start over with something else) but it turned out so dang cute! She told me that if using different thread colors looked good, to do that, so I did. I made the boxes face all different directions, and used 7 different thread colors. It turned out so cute! Again, I really hope she likes it! It was such a fun, scrappy quilt, and now it is a fun scrappy quilt with brightly wrapped boxes all over it! :)
I still have a few other quilts to finish before I go on vacation. One of them, Mike's cousin brought over for me to do. Her ward was tieing quilts, and she found a quilt that someone had pieced together, and she told them they couldn't tie it because that would ruin it. She asked me to quilt it for them, and I said I would. She brought it over yesterday. I'm hoping to get to it by the middle of next week. One of our close family friends brought me a quilt last week that I have to do before I can do that one. AND THEN! I get to quilt my 5!! YAY!! I'm really hoping to have them done by the end of the month, but if I can't, I'll settle for the end of August. I also have one more of Mike's aunt's to do, but she won't be back in the area until September, so there isn't too much pressure to hurry and get that one done yet.
Tomorrow I am going to see if I can talk to the lady who owns the new local quilt store about maybe helping her out if she needs quilting done, and ask her if she will let me put some business cards in her shop. I would love to expand my client base. That would just be awesome!
So, I just realized that this post was a lot to read....and I will try not to do another post like this without any pictures for a while. In the meantime, I'm off to try to get the baby to bed, and then I'm going to do some work on ebay. G'night!
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