jelly roll quilt photo!

This is the quilt top I made with my FAB -ulous pals last Saturday. The fabric is Moda, Butterfly Fling and really says Spring to me. Once this is quilted up it will live on Alice's bed here...and NOT go home with her either...I intend on keeping this one :-)

Sunday I actually got outside and uncovered our poor daffodils and crocus...did some weeding and enjoyed the results.

Rain has returned in buckets...poor worms are having to learn to swim to survive.

I have been squeezing in hand quilting at work on short breaks...gets me away from the office noise and I am so enjoying the stitching.

I am working on organizing a few local quilting friends for a get together and quilt day before the end of this month...there is nothing more inspiring to me than sewing with good friends!

just saying...

How ever did it get to be March already? well, I continue to flounder with my camera and uploading photos and then finding them...some updates to my various camera/photo programs and I am not quite on top of dealing with trying to put any photos into this post. In fact, I lost my last post searching for the link to Saturday's entirely too much fun sewing time with my beloved FABS.

This year our challenge is sending fun stuff to each other for our birthdays. ah, a different kind of pressure/deadline! The January birthday FAB delayed her celebration and Saturday was it.

Oh the laughter as she opened her gifts "online" and we shared her joy and delight in each item.

Everyone did a fabulous job!!! One of the gals had come across the u-tube of this pattern and the birthday gal decided it would be so much fun to sew on her special day. And so we did!

Most of us followed the directions, but I think some of us would do it differently next time. I unearthed a several year old jelly roll I bought at market when it was here in Portland and was delighted with the result. And, the pattern used all of the jelly roll except for 18 inches...hurray for stash busting ! It's a Moda line called Butterfly Fling and when I have the mental energy I will post the top I finished. It truly did go fast...not counting time spent on joining all those strips.

It's off to work time and so...at the very least I have finally posted again with a mental exclamation to not take so darn long...as there is much more to be said...!

oh...note to last person that left a comment, you were a no-reply poster so I could not email you back and say thanks for stopping by...always enjoy a new reader...
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it's a new year...2011

The first day of a new year our wraptheminlove online group spends working on charity quilts...here is my finished quilt to kick off the year.

I also visited Tonya's blog and ordered her book-it will be here in about a week...a gift idea I did not share with anyone but so very much wanted...and now I will be able to enjoy it when it arrives.

Quilting mojo has returned...2010 saw many health challenges happen at once in my life...and I learned as you age, and you don't keep active...muscles and other body parts "lose" it...so now I am in the process of regaining lost functions which will enable me to fully live the life I want and love.

My sister asked what my word this year is...and after doing "balance" for 2 years, I decided on "follow through" for this year. I have many great ideas and intentions...and most of the time do not go any further with them than thinking about them...this year I will put into action many of them.

We often chose a theme for our home for the year as well....with M retiring later this year...setting the house in order is our theme- also known as less is more...!

We just finished having our living room floor tiled- with heating installed under the tile...cold feet will never be an issue (physically) again. I will share a photo of the floor in another post.

Last night Steve and Elizabeth (a former neighbor and dear friend) were married at about 12:05....thus their wedding date is 1-1-11...very cool. They are a wonderful and fun couple and we are so very happy for them...even if it meant we did not get home and to bed until 2 am!!!

It's been a pretty easy going day and tomorrow will most likely be more of the same...quilting/reading/sorting stuff/putting away/listening to music/and in general getting ready for the upcoming work week.

Thanks to all my friends who have accepted my being gone so long and are happy to see me back at my sewing machine and back doing again.