2017 in review

It's been a LOOOOOOONG time since I've blogged, so I've got a lot of catching up to do...

We'll start with photo collages, okay?  That should help speed things along and get me back to finishing the hand-sewing of binding on those last few UFOs for the year...

So there was the UFO challenge.  I put 13 quilt tops on my list, the first one being done just before 2017 started (the elephants).  Then came the other 12.  Some months I got behind, but in the end, they're ALL quilted.  Two still have the hand-sewing portion of the binding to be sewn down, but since it's literally 5 degrees outside, I'm happy to stay inside, under a quilt for a holiday weekend!

Some of the photos aren't great, but I wasn't good at keeping up with photographs either.  So the hubby and I went into the back room where there's a good amount of natural light, but also some junk and not a lot of room, so pardon some of these being less than awesome photos.  (There was also a lot of whining from the hubby - and the comment "I'm being REALLY good" was heard about a dozen times...)

What's on the backs?

In no particular order.  I had a lot of fun with backs this year!  (Well, most of them.  Some are rather boring...and that one that looks grey/tan is actually orange.)

Want to see some of the quilting closer up?  I'm getting more confident and a little better!

Some of these I blogged about and there are better photos there.  Some...nope.  (And where's that photo of the red and turquoise one?  That looked awesome...)

(oh there it is, hiding...look at my awesome swirls!)

(and while we're looking closer, let's look at the quilt that's been renamed "Nope" because it was so difficult and refused all the quilting ideas I had...

...Lexie is helping with this photo, but I really like (most of) the quilting I did!)

And hey, where's that turquoise quilt.  That quilting was kinda awesome too...

Okay, enough showing off...

And it seems I take a lot of on-the-longarm photos and post them to my guild's facebook group.  I snagged a few of those for fun...

(That last one there is a quilt on the longarm on the left, but the combine editor chopped it off, but I thought you'd like to see Emma helping.)

And since I had to photograph so many today, how about a photo of the aftermath?

Speaking of cats helping...

We adopted a 10-month old kitten this fall.  She's learning how to cat from her older brother and sisters.  Her name is Gabby-Don't-Eat-The-Pins.  Or Spazarella.  As you can see here, they all help.  (And I'm a little miffed that the one with the orange is chopped off cause that was a nice one of Emma and Luka.  Ah well, what do you want for free software?)

There were also four baby quilts...one of which I took zero photos...oops!

None of these are the quilted, finished quilts.  See - I was bad at the whole shebang this second half of 2017!  But these were all loved, three of the four were surprises, too.  (Though two of the recipients had gotten quilts for previous kids, I'm not as close to them as I was the first go-round, so I'm sure they weren't expecting it.)

Then there was the 40th birthday quilt that my hubby decided needed to be done about a week before the surprise party.  Thankfully I have a closet of tops, so we just had to choose the right one.  He picked this one:

And because I did such a great job of taking photos, here's the last photo I have of it before we gave it away.  It's actually a 13th anniversary of her 27th birthday party gift.

Yep, I'm awesome.

I challenged myself to make one dolly quilt a month for a charity my guild contributes to that gives out gifts to needy kids on Christmas.  Santa rides a fire truck around town on Christmas eve and visits the right houses.  Any young girls get a doll, a few outfits and some sort of blanket - knitted, crocheted, quilted.  My guild donated over 100 quilts, but it was in big part because I extended my self-challenge to any members of the guild who were interested.  Most didn't make 12, but even just one more than they might have made otherwise made a difference.  I ended up donating 13, but also gave away 4 to other little girls that I do know.

The collage below has a couple of the favorites I made, plus a good number of what the guild donated spread across the whole floor of our meeting room.  A floor that, when a king-size quilt is spread out on it, makes the quilt look small.  This was no small feat for my guild and I'm super proud of us!

I participated in a block exchange this year.  I didn't remember to take photos of all the boxes as they came to me, but here are a few:

I guess I'd better quick go take a photo of what I got back...I'll be back in a minute...

I'm owed one, but here are my blocks. I asked that each person make a house.  Any kind of house.  In whatever colors they wanted.  Whatever size they wanted.  The DQ (Dairy Queen) block cracks me up because the gal who made that one owns the local DQ and said that feels like home the months it's open because she's there more than her real house!  And the one below...that's an outhouse.  Bill is quite a character and his wife cringed at his insistence to make this block for me, but it's Bill.  100% Bill and I love it.  They're all so awesome.  These blocks are on my 2018 UFO challenge list to get them together into a top.  If I don't have the missing block when this number is called, it just won't be in there, I'm sad to say.

I also joined the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  I decided I was going to make 144 cats.  Well, I didn't realize when I joined I was going to make 144 cats.  I decided I was going to make these cute cat blocks.  And then I realized how small they were and how many it was going to take.  But making 13 each month (December is put-it-together month) wasn't all bad.  Of course, I didn't make a dent in my scraps, but whatever.  I had fun.  And, for the most part, kept up.  Enough that it December, I did put the top together!

They made a big, pretty, rainbow-ey stack.

I had fun at my guild's sew-in in mid-December figuring out a layout (without the help of real cats, thankyouverymuch) and then worked my tail off to get the top finished.  I have 3-day weekends both this weekend and last weekend, so my goal was to have all the 2017 projects ready to quilt for the Christmas weekend and get them quilted.

This was the second quilt on the longarm for the weekend!

It's done!  The binding is about 1/4 done and that's where I'm headed soon - more binding!

(I did get all the 2017 quilts quilted and the machine-side of binding sewn on all of them!)

It's big.  Like 70x80 or bigger.  I L.O.V.E. it.

What's on the back?

I found this in a fabric (not quilt) shop in July.  I stood there, literally squealing over this, knowing exactly what I was buying it for.  My mom rolled her eyes.  I bought the bolt.  Bring on another eyeroll.  Guess what?  It was the PERFECT amount.  I did no calculation, just hoped and figured I'd make it work somehow.  (My mom believes in using leftovers and junk for quilt backs.  As you can see from my earlier collage, I do not.)

And then there was the squirrel.  Er, sheep...

And what's on the back of this quilt you ask?

More sheep!  (How could anyone seriously NOT buy this for this quilt?  I mean really?)

This quilt came together very fast.  I was motivated and absolutely love it.  It's on my couch right now and has been washed about a dozen times already.  It is AWESOME.

Some other projects?

I repainted my bedroom and hung the APQ Swap Quilt on the wall!

...well, I guess you'll have to imagine the swap quilt on that wall behind the bed because apparently I don't have a photo of that running around...I swear I had one...  But hey, you can see my Cherrywood quilt is getting used!  (And it's WARM!  I haven't used my electric blanket yet and we've had overnight temps in the negatives for about a week now - even in my drafty old farmhouse!)

And I know those pink flannel sheets with bunnies on them make you all jealous of my decorating abilities!

I got some awesome new shoes...

And I quilted a quilt for my mom to give to my dad for his birthday:

He liked it.  You know, for a guy.

There were a few other tops worked on and a few of those made the 2018 UFO list...

As you can see, one quilt in particular is getting a lot of months.  Because paper piecing.

But you can also see I'm planning to do the Rainbow Scrap Challenge again this year.  I'm going to make the Patchwork City quilt. The one done in all brights.  I've got it broken down into colors and have a few extra months to catch up.  There are only 75 blocks this time around (yes, I'm laughing at "only 75" too), but many have templates and all sorts of new challenges, so I figure a few extra months to catch up can't be bad.

And finally, the Bird Seeds quilt I started this summer needs almost all of the seeds appliqued.  If I do 2 a week (which isn't really that hard - it's the prepping of the applique pieces that is the real task), I'll be done by the end of the year.

Lofty goals?  You bet.

Can I do this?  You bet.

What if I don't?  There's always the 2019 UFO challenge!

Happy new year and happy quilting!

Katie

PS By my count, that's 20 large quilts (plus the Boy Scout one) completed this year.  Plus I think 17 dolly quilts.  What a year!

april UFO done

I have a few projects to share, but first let's start with the important one.

The April UFO.

Somewhere in the middle of 2015 the Vintage Farm Girl quilt started popping up all over Pinterest.  I was in love from day one.  I went looking to find out what this pattern was and found out that not only was the book just coming out, but there was a quilt-along on the designer's blog, too!

Quick order the book.

Quick shop the stash for appropriate fabrics (and maybe buy a few super cute fat quarters).

Quick get some white for background fabric.  A big piece of it so it all matches without hassle.

Dig in.

Lori Holt, the designer, had us make two blocks a week.  We went through the book in order, which to my OCD brain, worked rather nicely.

I more or less kept up and posted on Instagram.  Not so much with the blog...there were a few posts in September with lots of blocks...

I chose to make the 6" blocks because I'm crazy.  Well, okay, I didn't know it was crazy until after I started.  I just liked the idea, okay?  (I still like it, but I'm also still crazy.)

There were a lot of little pieces.  A lot of fussy piecing.  But with the exception of one block that I feel is too dark, I LOVE every single block.  (And my dislike is not of the block, but of my color choices.)  Yes, all of them.

Some are traditional blocks given a new farm-y name.  Some are blocks Lori designed herself.

The book is well-written.  The instructions are spot-on.  Lori provided a lot of side-projects with each weekly blog post and lots of beautiful photos of everything.

Most weeks, I enjoyed making the blocks.  Some weeks were harder for me than others (less a quilty problem, more due to personal garbage), but once I dragged myself into the sewing room, things usually got better.  (That's a lesson I keep having to remind myself of - true again this weekend, though there was less dragging and more needing-a-shower-ing...)

I got the top together at a retreat in January of 2016.  My mom was working on the same quilt, 6" blocks, and my friend Colette was also working on her quilt (12" blocks), too!  My mom was using more traditional 30's reproduction prints and quickly tired of the teensy pieces (which is funny because usually that's her thing!) and Colette was using a black background and slightly more traditional colors (versus my bright 30's-ish (heavy on the -ish) fabrics) so it really looked different.  Sadly I don't have photos of either of theirs, but I know for sure Colette's is done.  Not sure about my mom...

Anyways, I stalled at the borders.  I didn't want to do the flying geese border.  I didn't want to make so many stupid geese.  And I didn't like the wide outer border.  And I was stalling.

Finally I decided I didn't want a border and bought backing fabric - December 2016 - you know, only 11 months after the top was done.  It was a debate between the orange I used in the pumpkin and a teal-blue.  Both had been purchased as fat quarters at the local quilt shop and both were in the sale room by the time I decided to buy backing.  Bonus.

Blue won.  While I loved the orange, this one just seemed more appropriate.

I think I purchased the fabric before I knew about the UFO challenge, but maybe not...it's dated December 26th (the photo)...

So it was first to go on my UFO list.  I love this quilt and I wanted it finished.  I kinda dreaded putting it on there, but I kinda dreaded putting ANY of them on there.  But it's getting easier each month to get the quilts done.  Well, last month was a struggle, but less for using the longarm and more for deciding what to quilt.  Usually it's both.

April 1st the Vintage Farm Girl UFO number was called.  April 9th, a Sunday, I quilted it.  It's not very big (43x55" maybe?), and I decided to do an overall pattern because I'm not good enough (yet) to fussy quilt 6" blocks that are all different.  And really I wanted you to see the blocks, not focus on the quilting.  (Though Colette did fussy quilt all her blocks (her 12" blocks, thankyouverymuch) and I love what she did, so it made me second guess my choice, but I'm NOT ripping anything out!  And though she's had her longarm less time than I've had mine, she's quilted a TON more quilts than I have in that time, so she's a lot better with the fussy stuff - part of the joy of being retired, I guess?)

Anyways, it took me until this past Wednesday, the 26th, to finish sewing down the binding (why do I procrastinate such an easy step?) and call it done.

Wanna see it?

The photo looks a little dark, despite being taken outdoors in daylight, but I love it.

Wanna see some of my favoritest blocks?

You can see the quilting better here, though I feel like that turquoise thread looks like it's bleeding in the photos.  And the white is not a true white either, though it is in real life.  Since when can't you take good photos outdoors in broad daylight?  (Maybe it's time to replace my camera?  It is about 15 years old...)

In other news...

At our guild meeting Thursday before last, we exchanged boxes again.  This month I'm making 12" churn dash blocks.  Her only request, aside from size, is no solids.  She only wanted one block each, but there are 8 or 9 blocks in the box after just two people (other than the owner) have had it.  So I guess we're over-achieving.  And I had to giggle because some of the blocks took the "no solids" to a whole new level.

I chose some funky fabric combinations earlier in the week, making sure none of my fabrics read too much as solids, and woke up this morning inspired to get them done.  I've had a busy, rough week at work and really needed something that I enjoy and sewing a rather simple block fit the bill.  I didn't even bother to shower before heading into the sewing room - I made three blocks and then decided that it probably wasn't appropriate to wear penguin-adorned pajamas all day and went to remedy that situation.

While showering, inspiration struck.  (Seriously, all my best, craziest ideas happen in the shower.  Maybe I should just move my sewing room into there?  It's a fairly large room - do you think the hubby would notice?  Or mind?)  I had pulled out a bright yellow fabric to inspire me for my May dolly quilt.  Thinking seeing it on my cutting table for a few days would help me decide what to do.  I'd already perused Pinterest and found something I liked, but that shower.

I should have taken a photo sooner, but this funky floral (we'll call it turquoise because the background is) started screaming that it needed to be paired with that yellow and in churn dash blocks.  Four of them, two in each way of assembly, no sashing, for a dolly quilt.

Well, who am I to argue?

The hubby dragged me out for lunch (oh the horror!) and when I got back, I had had time to do some math and figure out how large I wanted these blocks to be to get a reasonably-sized dolly quilt.  (A 9" block should do nicely and be easy on the math.)

A short while ago I took this photo:

Emma is very angry with me.  I am not feeding her.  I had been not feeding her for about an hour at this point (let me assure you, she is NOT starving to death, though you might think so from the effort she puts into getting fed every few hours), so she was rather annoyed that I was taking photos of THINGS and not FEEDING her right NOW!

A few other fun shots from my day...

The messy cutting table before I started (I'm not very good at putting my stuff away)...

And a photo after cleaning up and sewing the churn dash blocks...

You see those cat toys on the box?  Those were made from some small-ish scraps.

I also had another helper.  Emma likes to be between me and the sewing machine.  Luka decided he needed to be on the cutting table.  Like every 2 seconds.

Emma was also not helping with the block assembly...

("hi mom. i see you are sewing some fabric with cats on it. those cats do not have any actual fur on them. here i will help")

But when it was all said and done, these two "helpers" got the toys.  (The other two cats minded their own business and are generally not pests.  But that is not why they didn't get toys.  I just didn't have any other appropriately-sized scraps.)

See the cat toy under her head?  (there's a green arrow pointing to it)  She's all tired out from playing with it.  Photos like this make her look so sweet.  She's a stinker and a pest.  But she's also a good snuggler when she's not STARVING to death.

The hand-sewing side of the bonus April dolly quilt quilt needs to be done yet, so I think it's off to watch some Netflix and get that done.  Monday brings a new UFO number and a new scrap challenge color, so I'd better be ready!

Happy quilting,

Katie

the projects from Thursday...

After I posted on Thursday, I was still getting the go-ahead to stay home, so after I ate lunch, I went back to the sewing room for more play time!

First I made a block for a gal in our guild who moved away last fall.  We'd been given a square of background fabric and instructions and were to provide the other fabrics in colors of our choice.  (I should have taken a photo...silly Katie!)  It was due in June of last year.  I knew I had it way back then, but time got away from me.  And since then, I've kinda known I had it, but it was kinda buried, too.  Buried enough that I could kinda ignore it.

Thursday afternoon, it wasn't so buried any more.  (So much for my efforts at finishing things...look where it gets me!)  So I decided I'd make the block and send it off to the gal and surprise her.  It's in the mailbox now, so don't anyone tell her yet, okay?  I hope it's not too late to make it into the quilt - the others in my guild thought probably not and got a good giggle at my late finish.

I also quilted the first of the three dolly quilts I made in February.  Today I sat down and finished hand-sewing down the binding.

The quilting and binding part may take longer to finish than what I have each month and I'm okay with that.  The top construction is really what I'm aiming for each month.  I may pay for that come October, but since there are three others spray basted with bindings ready to go, it's just a matter of deciding to quilt them.  They don't take long, as I quilt them simply.

Saturday was the one-day quilt retreat/fundraiser.  What a blast!

First, I may or may not have sewn those other 6 blocks for the block exchange that I may or may not have cut out earlier in the week.  And I may or may not have had to rip out just one seam to get them constructed to my satisfaction.  That may or may not have taken a good portion of the day.  There may or may not be photos, but if I share photos, that proves they exist AND spoils the surprise.

Next, I pulled out the Candy Bracelets blocks.  All I had left was to sew the last set of lost-square triangles onto the corners of about half of the blocks.  In my prep on Thursday, I'd cut the squares, so other than drawing the diagonal line as a sewing guide, I was ready to roll.  But it seems every time I get rolling on this project, something comes up.  I was hoping Saturday wouldn't prove another false start.

It didn't!  I finished sewing on all the corners about the time everyone was packing up to go.  I decided it was a good stopping place for me, too.  I couldn't be happier!

Tonight while watching some Netflix, I trimmed all of the lost corners and now they're ready to press.  (Emma kept looking in the bucket of trimmings like it was something she needed to be a part of...that cat...)

You can see in the photo there is one block that has been pressed open.  The finished blocks look like this:

...and they alternate directions.  Once they're sewn together that white on either side will be skinnier and it should be the same width all the way around the center "O" shape.  At least I sure hope so!

Next up is to lay these all out and decide where each should go.  I think this might be a good project to work on (sewing rows and then into a top) at my guild's quilt show next weekend.  In addition to quilts hanging, we have a few workstations where we sew.  It generates a lot of conversation from visitors, but I need something that doesn't require lots of cutting or pressing, as things that are hot, sharp and/or require cords should probably be limited!  (I wanted to take my red rainbow scrap challenge cats, but it's probably better I don't!)

I'm a little frustrated with myself on this project, though.  In trimming those lost corners, I realized I used the same green twice.  It's in the stack twice.  I looked at all the fabrics.  I washed them.  I pressed them.  I refolded them.  I cut the block pieces for them.  I sewed the blocks.  I pressed the blocks.  I cut the lost corner pieces.  I sewed the lost corner pieces.  Never during that process did I realize I'd used the same green twice.  It doesn't really matter, and there were quite a few fabrics between each of them in the stack to distract me, but I feel quite foolish for not noticing!

Tomorrow is back to work for me.  I went in Friday after sunup and managed to get my equipment hooked up to the outlets that had power (we had partial power and it was strange which outlets and lights worked and which didn't...it seemed there was no rhyme or reason, but I had quite a few functional outlets in my area (though no lights - I took the clamp light from my bed to work with me!) so that was nice) and figured out we just had to plug the phone and internet stuff into a functional outlet to get that working.  I plugged in some space heaters and started the one test that really needed to be run.  It takes 35 minutes.  At 33 minutes the power went completely out!  Thankfully, my computer and the machine that was reading the test are both plugged into a 5-minute battery backup, so it finished.  I had to do some quick thinking to get the results to save on the desktop (because no internet again, so no network!), but I consider myself very lucky.  Otherwise, we'd have been calling customers on personal cell phones and apologizing and offering free testing!

The power came back on around noon - the complete shutdown was due to repairs taking place nearby, which meant full power was coming!  About this time, we'd done about all we could with no power and had decided to go to lunch as a group.  Despite the power returning, we went anyways.  It was a nice time to bond as a group and gave the building time to warm up.  It was a late evening taking care of a lot of odds and ends when we returned, but unless something went wrong after I left, Monday should be closer to normal for our troubles.

The next two work weeks will be shorter for me - I have Friday this week off to help set up the quilt show and the following Monday to recover (it's Saturday and Sunday).  It sounds great, but I know I'll be busy both days.  I'll try to remember my camera so you can enjoy the quilt show with me, but I promise nothing!

Happy quilting!

Katie

what a weekend!

I kinda wish all of the challenges I've decided to do didn't all announce new info on the first of the month - it makes the first weekend crazy!

(But maybe it's good so I plan out the rest of my month and know what I SHOULD be doing in my sewing room when I go up there?)

The UFO number for this month is #9 - that's "Retro:"

I don't have a back for this one and it's a relatively newer UFO, but it's on the list, so here we go.

Off to the quilt shop Saturday afternoon to find a back.  I started in the sale room, but nothing there appealed to me enough.  For some reason, I had it in my head that this back was going to be red.  Don't ask why.  I can't explain that idea.

I looked and looked and looked.  The store owner tried to help and has such a different style, it's hard.  (I just want to look, okay?  Thank you for your help, but sometimes I just gotta do this myself!)  She actually suggested the one I purchased, but from a distance I wasn't sure it was what I wanted and I had to rule out a bunch of other ideas, first, too...

It makes me think of olives.  And the pattern on the front...well, we could say it looks a bit like martini glasses.  So I guess it's fitting I put olives on the back, right?

(and I have a dot problem...)

Pieced and ready to roll!  Er...quilt!

Another bit of good news?  I made the binding for this quilt already!  I didn't remember it, but there it was, hanging up with the top, so yay!!!

I also worked on my February dolly quilt.  I pulled this orange frog fabric from the bag of scraps a while ago.  It's the last of the screamers, but the bag is far from empty.  (There are plenty of good candidates, just not so vocal about their needs.)  I shopped the stash and had a few greens that would work, but liked this one best - particularly when I considered the pattern I planned to use.

I wanted to make pinwheel blocks (well, a version of them) and found a tutorial online that worked well for my idea.  It makes two sets, so I thought alternating them would work.  I'd end up with an extra block, but that would go somewhere eventually...

Oh, ugh!  I do not like that.  It appears that I just sewed strips together and these pinwheels took a lot more work than that.  I want it to look like the pinwheels!

Maybe with sashing? (Use your imagination here - I'd choose a color other than that of my cutting mat, of course!)

I went to bed with this sitting on the table.  I wasn't satisfied and I had no idea what other color to add for sashing.  And I still wasn't sure I was keeping the pinwheel design well enough - it just looks like a tessellating pattern now.  I though sleeping on it might help.

Well, it did, but not quite in the way I thought it would.  On to layout #3...

So much better!  I didn't have enough of the froggies for setting triangles, but thought this orange worked nicely.  (Shopping the stash again!)

But wait!  What if I make those setting triangles with a part of a green pinwheel in there so the secondary design continues into the setting triangles?  Ohhhh!!!

Yay!  Win!!!

But now I have those other blocks...hmmm...

And then there were two.  I'm not entirely sure I love the second (particularly that extra green on the outside - perhaps the setting triangles should have been green here? but that seemed like too much green), but if you only see that one, you'll never know the other one is cuter!

They'll need quilting yet, but it's only the 5th and I'm off to a good start on this project!!!

And then, because I'd been such a good girl, I rewarded myself with digging through my scraps to pull fabrics for this month's Rainbow Scrap Challenge color - Aqua!

I wasn't sure how much of this I actually had.  It's a color I usually lump in with the green pile or the blue pile of stash fabrics, so I had to sort through both (gasp!) to find what I wanted.  Turns out, I'm gonna be okay...

...or is this pile messier?...

This is such fun.  As I was pulling these fabrics, I was remembering quilts I'd made with them.  Some of them have been in my stash for quite a while and some are newer, but they're going to make some beautiful cats!

I think I might wait on these until my Saturday sewing day (two weeks out yet), as that seemed like a good, fun project to take last month.  And there's always Candy Bracelets to work on at home until then.  Or quilting and binding Retro.  Or quilting and binding the dolly quilts.  Or, you know, housework.

In addition to this fun, I took two of my kitties to the vet yesterday.  Two separate trips because I only have one carrier and there is NO WAY these two would tolerate sharing a carrier!  Skitter was due for her rabies shot, Luka just due for a checkup.  Skitter has lost a pound, but could use to lose more.  We weren't trying, but the doc isn't too worried.  Luka has lost two.  Not good.  He also had full anal glands (not normal in a cat) and one of them was infected.  So he came home with antibiotics.  After this violation, the vet tech (as good as a doc in my book!) brought him back and I let him get back in his carrier and hide.  A short while later the vet herself came in and said he has a heart murmur.  Like a really noticeable one.  It wasn't there a year ago.  So they want to pry him back out of the carrier and draw blood.  Poor guy!  So nearly $300 later, two cats are home, recovering.  (They seem to be doing just fine and other than Emma hissing at them because they smell funny, none the worse for the visit.)  We don't know what's up with Luka, but I do know humans can live with a heart murmur for a long time and Luka is 12 or 13 and seems to be having no trouble chasing his sisters and begging for treats still, so I'm not going to worry.  When the bloodwork results come back, we'll know more and I can ask the vet a few more questions, but I'm not sure there's much to do.  Love him, snuggle him, feed him and enjoy his company, just like I always have.

And now I should probably go shower and maybe venture to the grocery store.  The hubby is working this weekend, so I have until about 2:30 today to myself.  I really don't want to spend it buying groceries, but we've gotta eat something...

Happy quilting!
Katie