Posted By drsao on January 27, 2008
I have a recommendation for a light hearted book – great for reading in an airport. It is SUZANNE’S DIARY FOR NICHOLAS by James Patterson. It is a love story – and, in my opinion, it is wonderful LIGHT mind candy. I understand that James Patterson wrote this book based on his own moving life experiences. If you are susceptible to being moved to tears, this will do it for you! Along with the tears, I also experienced suspense and joy. James Patterson has a website….www.jamespatterson.com. Happy reading.
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Posted By drsao on January 26, 2008
Now this probably isn’t going to seem very exciting – but it is only the SECOND thing that I have ever embroidered on my sewing machine. I put these cute little pumpkins (see the picture below) on the back of my denim jacket. I did it today in a Machine Embroidery class taught by Trude (at the QUILTER’S CORNER in Midlothian, VA.) It is amazing to sit back and watch the machine just do its thing.
The pumpkins were taken from a REDWORK Embroidery Card – and I learned how to insert the card in my Duetta today! Every NEW step is cause for celebration. (If any folks EXPERIENCED in the art of machine embroidery happen upon my blog they are going to be groaning and rolling their eyes about now, no doubt.)
Two projects down and many more to go – HOPEFULLY!
My friend, Ginger, is going to help US learn to do more so that we can make WONDERFUL quilt labels! At the rate that I am going, I doubt that there will be much more in the way of machine embroidery (other than quilt labels) on my blog……although I once had visions of embroidery turning up on everything in sight – including but not limited to family member’s underclothing. My daughter would have LOVED THAT (she will probably recall the year 2005 when I drew little flowers and happy faces – and her initials – with a black permanent pen on her unmentionables!) It HELPED me when sorting the laundry – that is all that I have to say for myself! And by the way, I am NOT doing the laundry anymore either! 🙂
Here it is – my pumpkins on the back of my jacket! Now, I am asking myself – “SELF, why did you put these pumpkins on the BOTTOM of the BACK of your jacket…….?” Who knows, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. 🙂
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Posted By drsao on January 26, 2008
I have been working on my Carolina Crossroads Mystery Quilt…….block 7 and beyond This is what the block (this is 1 of 25) looks like!
I have had so much fun putting all of the blocks out on the floor to get a preview of what it will look like when finished. I am so excited about this quilt – I think I am really going to like it a lot. I actually had to concentrate and ask for family EYES to make sure I got everything put out correctly! I jokingly say that I have SPATIAL DYSLEXIA because sometimes I get confused when trying to put my quilt blocks together.
Here is Cuddles TinkerBELLE, our 3-month old kitty, sitting innocently on the quilt. She seems to be fascinated with all of these colorful toys……I saw her try to flip a block in the air with her paw!
I turned my back to iron a couple of the blocks that I had sewn together and out of the corner of my eye I saw a ball of black fur SLIDING across the floor surfing on one of the ring blocks!
Cuddles TinkerBELLE had so much fun running and jumping on the blocks and then SLIDING across the floor on the blocks that I didn’t have the heart to stop her. I just hope I can put the Carolina Crossroads Mystery Quilt back together again! 🙂
I wish all of us could have this kind of SIMPLE JOY……although running and sliding on quilt blocks on a hardwood floor may not be the safest kind of SIMPLE JOY for non-furry folks! 🙂
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Posted By drsao on January 26, 2008
My mother recently broke her arm. The cast is off, but after weeks and weeks of disuse, a person tends to protect the injured member and avoid using it (I.E. it is stiff and it hurts.) To help my mother REMEMBER to use her fingers, I made up this song.
TO THE TUNE OF IF YOU ARE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT CLAP YOUR HANDS.
If you’re typing or you’re wiping (your nose), use your (left) hand
If you’re brushing or you’re flushing use your hand
If you’re sitting or just spitting, it really is so fitting
If you’re eating – I’m REPEATING – use your hand!
Silly, you say? Perhaps – we will see if it works! Sometimes silly produces smiles – that leads to motivation – that leads to healing! If the physical therapy song doesn’t help her arm, maybe it will help her spirits.
A MERRY HEART DOETH GOOD – LIKE MEDICINE.
That is my mantra!
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Posted By drsao on January 23, 2008
I made a humongous – and I mean REALLY humongous and ginormous quilt for my parents. It is 138″ by 138″ and Valerie (my favorite long arm quilter from A NEEDLE RUNS THROUGH IT in Goochland, VA) said that it was the largest quilt that she ever quilted. She did a fabulous job on the quilting (pattern – Flowers.)
The pattern is WILD IRISH ROSE from MISS ROSIE’S quilt book (and I created the borders using paino keys and square blocks so that it would fit my parents’ CA King bed.) I loved making this quilt and am pleased that it actually fits the bed. My WILD IRISH ROSE quilt now resides in Kansas City, MO with J.B. and Marjorie Albertson.
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