DVD or recycled shirt shelf ??

I have been cleaning.  I think this is a pretty good use of an old DVD shelf.    

    

Doesn’t the closet look so organized.   All of the shirts I have are dis-assembled and folded.  I don’t think there is much room for more.  And those blue draws have 1.5, 2, 2.5 and 3.5 inch strips.  And they are all FULL TOO!!

A few of the shirts ended up here  -  its far from done, the goal for this one is to cover a queen size bed with NO bed skirt. 

Who came up this that idea?  Isn’t a bed skirt just an excuse to not finish a quilt?

I’m back

A quick update on the girls quilts.  Their baby sister has one coming too, so I think they will not see these till their birthdays in Feb.  

Riley’s will be quilted by Labor Day – and with any luck Audree’s will be sandwiched so that I have something to keep me busy on my trip to FL.  (if I have enough of that blue – I’m sure it will be pieced.  ugh…)

Its a block – a BIG block

I like it!

the garden

Have you heard?  We want to move to our property in MO….  But with all the issues with John  arm were here till he is released by the Dr.  And then there’s selling the house.

So this year we planted my snow pea and a little lettus. Yah, you cant see the lettus – it did NOT grow. 

  

And then there’s the rasberries.  These pics were taken 2 weeks ago.

We have taken about 6-7 cups in the last week and a half and there still comming.

 

Partially done,

This one is 8x8 and I really don’t like square quilts – so I’m not sure what I’m going to do about the boards.  Why is this always the hardest part for me? 

My husbands grandmother use to make scrappy 9 patch quilts for everyone in the family.  And she used ANY and ALL scraps.  I think that every one in church that sewed gave her their scraps.  This is what I’ve been working with!

   

 

The pattern is Florabunda – Bonnie Hunter has the pattern posted on her blog.

July 2011 Storm – Northern IL

Did you hear about the storm that went thru the Chicagoland area last Monday?  Over 850,000 were without power for extended periods of time.  Our house was without power for 2 and 1/2 days.  But there are still some without power today. 

We had 2 trees that were “topped”.  The wind was so strong that the tops of MANY trees were just sheared off. – hence the no power.

And here is the top of this tree – It took John 3 day to clean and then burn this.  Now we can work on the choke cherry tree that landed on the fence.  There’s always something to do around here. 

Buried Treasure ….

My husband has been spending a lot of time with his family recently. They are going thru his grandmother’s farm house. No one has ordered a dumpster so, last night he came home with a pickup truck full of trash to be set out for our local collector!

But he had a few small boxes to bring into the house???

Look what he found mixed in with old news papers and to do lists.

Can you see that group. This is the group of ladies that stated the Piecemakers Quilt Guild out of Springfield MO. There is a nice story about how the guild was started.

 

 

And a pattern for this!

Come back to see what else is in those boxes….