Final Finish for November

This is for a friend that loves cardinals. Her birthday is in a couple of weeks. I used Jona's Apron in an Hour Tutorial. I have a fat quarter left so I might make a hot pad or maybe trim a kitchen towel to go with the apron.


The only thing left on my November list is NOT going to get done. It isn't even going to get started! I'm pretty pleased with the progress made this month and I'm already thinking about what I want to work on for December.

We had a great visit with College Girl. It was a short trip for her but she will be home again in two weeks for Christmas break. All of the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone now so I guess I need to start cooking again tomorrow.

Praise - college girls travels were safe and she is back at school and already busy studying.

Prayers - for my son and the final day of deer hunting season tomorrow, that he would be safe.

Ahead of schedule

Well at least on the Glace quilt, that is. My goal for November was to have this to the quilt sandwich staqe. Here is that step completed;

Then I decided to go ahead and quilt on either side of each seam;

and a close up of the results;

There are a few other projects on my November list and if I set this quilt aside I just may get to work on them.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and hope you are enjoying the leftovers!

Praise - college girl made it home safely!!!

Prayers - for safe travel tomorrow for our friends that will be taking college girl back to school. It will be a long drive for them.

Kona Cotton Thanksgiving

I've been drooling over Kona Cottons lately and tonight I decided to see which colors said 'Thanksgiving' to me. This is what I came up with (images from Fabric Shack);

Clockwise from top left: Amber,Spice,Garnet,Ivy.

I think it would have taken me longer to figure out if I had gone to the Robert Kaufman site and looked through all of the Kona Cotton Solids colors. Maybe next time.

Praise - work/training went well according to the boss and I will go back on Monday.

Prayers - for those in our church body who are traveling this week for Thanksgiving.

November Tag

Kelly has asked the Charming Girls Quilt Club to share what we are grateful for as this month's tag. Some serious, some fun and frivolous.

A- Amazing, Awesome God

B- Bible, Blessings beyond measure

C- College Girl

D- Dark Chocolate

E- Eternity in heaven

F- Family, Friends, Forgiveness (and Fabric)

G- Girlfriends

H-Hubby, Home, Health

I- Internet (where I've met wonderful people)

J- Jesus

K- Kona Solids

L- Laughter

M- My son

N- Nature

O- Oatmeal

P- Pastor & his wife

Q- Quilts, Quilting

R- Relationship not religion

S- Salvation through Jesus Christ, Seasons, Snow

T- Traditions, Tutorials and those that share them

U- Unconditional love

V- Victory in Jesus

W- Word of God

X- X's and O's

Y- Yards and yards of fabric

Z- Zillions of other things


The other hobby that I have is scrapbooking. In fact, one half of this room is dedicated to scrapping and one half is dedicated to sewing. Whichever one I am taking part in at the moment overflows onto the other side of the room though. I really haven't scrapped much at all in the last five or six months though.



Praise - that I have so many things to be thankful for!

Prayers - for my first day of on the job training today. That I would be able to understand what it is I will be doing and perform with some level of competency.

Making Progress- Glace'

Getting so close on this quilt and I'm loving it a bit more with each step. I got my son to hold the pieces up for me because trying to get a good shot of it on the table was proving difficult. Since it has been snowing out all day and the sun has set now I had to use flash. Hopefully when it is all finished I can get a nice shot of it outside.

My first pieced back. I realize it is simple but ya have to start somewhere, right??


Praise - I got a part time, work from home job! I wasn't even looking for one.

Prayers - for the discipleship group that my son is a part of. That these three young men would take to heart what they are learning and studying and apply it to their lives to glorify God. Also for their leader, to stay true to the the Word and continue to be an example of a Godly young man.

Another finish and some progress

The yellow curtains are finished and on their way to college girl! I even had a curtain rod handy so that I could take a half way decent picture. I'm telling you they aren't anything exciting but college girl and her roomies are excited to have them.
Sure is nice to have a tall son to help out in times like this. ;)

It snowed on and off yesterday and it was snowing a bit when we went to bed. This is what I saw out my window when I woke up this morning. These trees are right off the deck outside of my bedroom door. I was facing west when I took this picture.



It looked like it was getting breezy so I JUMPED out of bed (BEFORE 8 on a Saturday no less) and ran downstairs for my camera. I wanted to get a picture before all the snow was blown off of the trees. I LOVE snow! I turned to the northeast to take this picture. Yes, I was out on the deck in my pajamas and it was about 34 degrees.



My views are somewhat limited in this house so most of my scenery shots will be from this same vantage point. Once in awhile I'll take pictures out the front door or even from the front driveway but the scenery off the back deck is much better.

After jumping out of bed, running downstairs and standing on the deck in 34 degree weather my blood was pumping! There was no going back to bed for me. I got dressed and got on the treadmill for a couple of miles. Seriously!

I finally started working on my next project, another MBS Scruffily Quilt done with Glace. I thought I liked the fabric just fine but when I got all the layer cake blocks placed on the ping pong table I fell in LOVE with this fabric! Okay, I admit it doesn't take alot for me to fall in love with fabric. Some reds, some chocolates (some people call that brown),some damask. I ask you, what is not to LOVE??

Then I laid the charm pack blocks on top of the layer cake blocks. Once I got over the fact that they were now covering up a good portion of the other great blocks I was loving it! Now the real test...UNROLL the Glace Jelly Roll!!! I have never UNrolled a Jelly Roll before. Oh, I HAVE Jelly Rolls. I just don't unroll them. Yeah, I know. But to cut off a 2.5" square of 36 strips I was going to have to unroll this one. Gulp. So I did it as neatly as possible and stacked the strips back up as best as I could. When I had all the squares cut I rolled the strips back up. It isn't easy to do. That might explain why it isn't so pretty. I just couldn't imagine leaving them all willy nilly in a drawer. I had to attempt to roll them back up and put the twill tape around them. So anyway who wants to go on a Moda field trip with me and see just how those are done??

Here are my blocks all laid out (not easy to get a picture of);



and here is a close-up of one of my favorite prints in the line, the chocolate with paisley (only because I am not to the red damask yet);


I finished sewing 12 of the blocks. I could have done more but decided to have a pizza and movie 'date' with hubby. I hope that I can get the rest of the blocks sewn tomorrow and start on sewing the blocks together into rows.

Praise - for SNOW! It reminds us of how Jesus Christ has washed us white as snow. The snow I see outside just covers up the dirt underneath but Jesus has washed our dirt away!

Prayers - for my son while he house sits for friends. He needs to keep the fire going, feed the farm animals morning and night. Praying he is able to get his chores done and get to church on time.

Surprise projects reveal

Now that college girl has celebrated her birthday and opened her gifts I can show two of my finished projects. I sent Kelly the pictures of the fabric and patterns for these so that no surprises would be ruined.

College girl LOVES Hibiscus flowers so some comfy, flannel jammie pants were in order. She probably put them on soon after opening them since she said she had had so many cupcakes. She had lots of friends making her day special.


Here is the pillow that I made using Allison's tutorial. All those leaves are made from scraps from the quilt that I made this summer for college girl's dorm room.


I feel like I've made good progress on my November goals and I hope to sew today too. Monday and Tuesday were a bust as far as sewing goes. I'm trying to decide which project to work on next. Decisions, decisions.

Praise - College Girl had a GREAT birthday and was showered with love by so many of her friends and family.

Prayers - For a man at church waiting and hoping for a diagnosis for what ails him. That a doctor that knows what needs to done will be made available to him. That he and his wife would rest in the Lord.