QUILTY THINGS FROM SNOWED IN SAO
Posted By drsao on February 2, 2010
There is something EXTREMELY MOTIVATING about being SNOWED IN. I have been doing BELLY DANCING, NAMASTE YOGA, and BODY SCULPTING on FIT TV every day – and having lots of fun (and yes I have been sewing!)
No pictures of my exercise adventure (THE DOOR TO THE BEDROOM WAS CLOSED TO KEEP OTHERS FROM HAVING FUN WATCHING!!!) Well, OK – here is a picture of SOMEONE ELSE doing one of the poses that I did! 🙂
Warrior 3 Pose
OK – so here are my quilting adventures so far….
I pieced a 12 1/2″ squares scrappy blue back for my Confetti Quilt (designed by Augusta Cole.) I have almost concluded that these scrappy sqaure backs are my FAVORITES. I would really be INTERESTED to know the brain chemistry that underlies preferences – but these BONNIE INSPIRED SCRAPPY BACKS make me extremely happy! sigh…..I guess squares stimulate my dopamine production!
Back to my Confetti Quilt
I put my 6 1/2″ block in the mail today for Dorothy’s GENTLE HUGS Quilt……if you are a member of the POCKET FULL OF MYSTERIES Yahoo Group, you will recall that Dorothy’s husband died last week while on a business trip. Many of us are sending blocks to make her a quilt. You just never know what each day will bring – so HUG your family today – and that includes the furry people as well!
Dorothy's GENTLE HUGS Block
AND TA DA…..I got the borders on my Ann Smith NEW YEAR’S EVE MSTERY 2009 Quilt……and the back is a LITTLE SCRAPPY too! I was going to put another orange border on BEFORE the butterflies, but it failed the audition and looked better with just the butterflies after the black. I made the top and bottom black borders 1″ wider than the side borders and the butterfly border 2 inches wider at the top and bottom than on the sides I thought that would make it LESS SQUARE looking – oh yes, and it is ACTUALLY LESS SQUARE! :):)
NYE MYSTERY 2009NYE Mystery Back
NYE Mystery Back
I am laughing so hard because my DH is worried about being snowed in for DAYS and running out of ground turkey for Pepper’s breakfast patties (cooked on a Foreman grill because of course Max could never feed Pepper dog food – SHHH – Max doesn’t want Pepper to KNOW that he is a DOG!)
I, on the other hand, am WORRIED ABOUT RUNNING OUT OF COTTON NEUTRAL PIECING THREAD. No quilter EVER RUNS OUT OF THREAD – but I AM ON MY LAST SPOOL………TIME TO PANIC!!! 🙂
Pepper THINKS he is a boy, not a DOG!
How you make me giggle dear friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And you just keep hummin’ along, although being out of thread would be a real show stopper!!!! That would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much worse than being out of bread, milk or even ground turkey, as for goodness sake, you can’t sew with ANY of them, tutu funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your quilts, as always, simply wondrous and I too agree, THIS dope-I-mean, simply LUVS scrappy backs, me too, me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My husband cooks for our two little Bichon’s – they don’t know they are dogs either!