Machine Quilting, Tutorials, Quilts of Valor, and A Lot of Quilts!
I hope you all have some finishes ( or nots!!) for me to go visit and ohh and ahh over!!
I did not get a finish.. but! it's all good - there is a lot in progress!
Saturday we had a workshop with Carla J, and she was amazing. She taught a new to me technique of piecing, and I really enjoyed it.
It wasn't paper piecing, and it wasn't applique - but others in our group who had done that type of work were able to draw from that experience. I haven't done any Paper Piecing and VERY LITTLE applique - so I was the newbie
Sunday was Mothers day and lookie here - I made out like a bandit!! haha Mothers day Morning was spent in the Urgent care, someone had a little accident Thursday, and Saturday night her foot swelling had not gone down and the pain had gotten worse so her son and her spouse made her go to urgent care,
The doc in urgent care was the nicest I have ever met, He gave me a shot of tramadol (pain meds) right away and I might have fallen in love right there. I have never had that before, and I rarely take any pain meds - so it worked quite well.
Anyways - there is a reason I was in pain... I broke my foot... so! Sometime this week I get to go to the ortho to learn about what is next - other than the pretty black boot they put me in. He did tell me that I need to expect at least 6-8 weeks to fully heal... has he not met my dogs????
We walk a good 5-7 miles a day.... how???
Ah well - Lil Bit brought me quilt magazines and he got me the one that Carole ( From My Carolina Home ) has a QOV pattern in!! I was so excited... its like he read my mind when he saw the patriotic Quilts.....
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It is that Time again - graduation, and so many folks love to have a T shirt Quilt to commemorate . I made this one for a clients daughter - and it was fun to try to incorporate her dance uniforms in there.... the sequins were tricky !
Also - Tuesday Night we started rain , that turned to snow, and I was so happy. But this made me laugh: This is my tree line on Wednesday:
We got a lot of moisture and it was wonderful - its okay if it rains some more.. I joked - the recipe for a snowstorm is - Forget to Tarp the hay, Forget to disconnect the water hose, and send the hubby out of town - I swear the minute that mans plane took off... rain turned to snow. 😆😆
Now it is your turn!! Link up and let us know what you Finished ( or not) and brag about it!!!
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We had one of our competitions - and it was a Blast!! for real haha!
It was the end of the winter series. When we started this sport I started on my ol' Man Ro
Ro is 28 years old, and I love him to pieces - he was my husbands Calf Roping horse, then moved to Team Roping, then he had a hip Injury so I rehabbed him and we got him all healthy and I used him for Mounted Shooting.
| Ro - calf Roping - in his Hey Day |
The best thing about him, he was consistent and not fast. I mean - he was fast, just not as fast as top competitors. Which Is JUST what I needed. Not only to learn the sport but to build confidence.
One day I read my Chocolate Fortune and it said to try something new. So I decided to try to compete on my mare Croppy. K had been competing on her, but he had switched to our Blue Roan, so Croppy was kind of missing out. I decided one weekend to let Ro Rest and take Croppy - that was 10 months ago ( photo is our first competiton together)
Fast forward to Saturday - she and I won our series and we got a belt buckle!!
This is us posing after we got home, so pardon the sunburn, the stink, and the dust... haha! Roanie Mare ( left) had to get in it too, because!! I have one competition on her now.
I took her Saturday , and decided to try her. Oh! My! Gosh!! She is way too fast, I am way not able to keep up with her speed yet - but it was sure fun to try and see what we could do.
I have a list of improvements to work on now!!
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.. and we decided to do it outside. We have not seen rain very much at all this year, and you know what?
I think we tempted fate - because it drizzled the WHOLE presentation, and then - when we got ready to leave ... it stopped ...
I had hoped to pull the rain to my house! ( this presentation was 45-50 miles away)
There is a Gorgeous Veterans Plaza in this town - and it was a perfect backdrop to the presentation.
I had bios of each Veteran and it was so cool to learn about each one. But what is always more fun to me, is to see their faces when the Quilts are shown. I am always so amazed at how each quilt finds just the right Veterans for them.
I enjoyed meeting these Vets, and was so impressed that none of them looked like the drowned rat that I looked like in that drizzle... just a funny... my hair actually went flat instead of frizzy - so that was a positive!
To find out more about Quilts of Valor or to Nominate a Veteran - go to QOVF.org and look around. I hear we are almost to our 500,000 quilt. That!! is amazing!!!
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Happy Friday!!
Hope your week has been wonderful!!!
I finally finished my own Marching Stars!! I am so glad - and I am not sure where(or even why!!) I stalled out - but! we are done now!!
You can find the Pattern to Marching Stars Here: All the steps
We have been trying to teach Pound Puppy to be a SnooperModel too.... but she hasn't quite got the hang of it!!
That is my Big Accomplishment for the week.. I'll be back to tell you about our QOV presentation we had yesterday, and We have a competition this weekend... so I won't be able to get into the Orange yet for the Rainbow scrap challenge - but its on my list!
Did you know today is May 1st? May Day!! when we were little kids my Mom would help us make little baskets full of goodies and we would go deliver them on my grandparents porch... thinking we were sneaky - we would ring the bell and hide.
I think we forgot that Moms car, parked out front of their house probably gave it away ha!!