Scrap Quilting, Cats and a Road Trip

There is a lady in my guild that makes beautiful quilts out of bits and pieces.  That's what I'm working on when I have a minute.  Right now I'm doing a lot of binding to get some quilts ready for our local quilt show that is coming up the first weekend in October.

Sweetie Pie is just the sweetest

Buddy just needs to be petted all the time and is always into something he shouldn't be!

These are photos for a little road trip we took on Saturday.  I just drive, point my camera and shoot.  Sometimes I get what I hoped for and this time I wanted the barn.  Love old barns.

The soy beans are looking great.

The sky was amazing on this hot day!

Corn is drying up and it won't be long until the farmers will be in the fields.  Looks like a great crop !

This one I got part of the barn.

Trafalgar is a tiny burg

Straight shot down the road

 I'm going to attend my first Day Guild meeting this morning.  I can do this now that I'm retired.  The Day Guild has I think 70 plus members but the Evening Guild has 20 plus but we are growing!!

Friday I'll go to the Quilt Show in Rising Sun Indiana.  They are having it on a Casino Boat!  I had signed up for a fabric dying class but not enough people signed up - very disappointed!  I've been in contact with the instructor and she lives a little over an hour from me so I'm going to see if some other people would like to go to her studio for lessons on fabric dying.

I hope everyone is having a great week. 

Cats and Unfinished Projects

Here is Buddy Boy catching some rays

Here is Buddy under the couch and Sweetie Pie trying to figure out what he is up to now.

An unfinished project of houses.  I love house quilts and these are scraps that are fused to the backing fabric.  All this needs is to glue on a back and then binding.

This is a quilt that I made with a Jelly Roll and I love it.  At the moment I could not tell you where it is.  Time to get things in order and completed!!!

I love this flower

This is some fabric that I played around painting and stamping.  In September I'm going to a two day class to learn more about dying my own fabric and one of those days is a full day on making your own Batik fabric.  Really looking forward to doing the class.

This is a block of the month for the guild.  Each month there is a person who picks the block and the colors and then we make a block for her. 

 Next year we are going to do a block of the month and then you bring your block(s) in and your name goes into a hat and the name drawn gets all of the blocks!!  I think that will be a lot of fun and hopefully a lot of the members will participate and we'll have enough blocks for a quilt.  The block will be announced the month before.  One member volunteered to pick out 12 blocks and get the patterns for us.

We are also going to do an exchange of 5x5 inch squares each month so that we can increase the variety we have.

This is my 3rd day of retirement and I think I'm going to like it!!  We have a Quilt Show coming up the first week-end of October and the Evening Guild is in charge of the Boutique.  We have some very cute items that people have made.  I have several items to make yet.  

Our show is not huge but we do have a good showing of quilts (100 maybe) and there are some amazing quilters in both the day and evening guild.  Now that I'm retired I'll join the day guild also.

Have a great time with whatever you are doing and thanks for stopping by!!!

Trip to Brown County Indiana

I like to take photos as I drive.  I just point and shoot with one hand and drive with the other.  This was taken on Highway 46 going west from Columbus to Nashville Indiana.  The sky is beautiful at about 4:30pm.

Another driving photo

My Co-pilot

As we were walking around we saw this cute baby bunny in the weeds

Kat, Sa and Josie.

Sa is from Thailand and will live with me for ten months while she goes to high school.  She's a junior.

This is such a cute sign with the moss on the roof

This is shadows down a space between buildings that I thought were interesting.  Quilt?

A leaf sculpture downtown

In the state park the views are amazing

This is one of the look outs that you go up to the top level where you can see for a long way

                                         Top and bottom are more views of the park

The park has a lodge where you can stay and an indoor water park.  We'll do that in the winter.

This is a two leaves that we saw that were covered in little worms.  None of the other leaves had and worms.  I thought this was interesting.

No sewing but count down to retirement.  I work 30 hours per week and I have three more weeks.  I can't wait to really get into quilting and doing my own thing!!!  Have a great day/evening!!!

Garden Update, Welcome Sa, Flower Throw and a Christmas Throw

I showed a photo of what my garden looked like three weeks ago on another post.  This is what it looks like now!!

This is the horse feeder I'm using and it is really growing.  I think I this will become a strawberry area.

                                         Some of my Gerber Daisies - Love them!

                                        I took this to Monday night sewing and I think I'll put the
                                        bright pink as the border and the other tan and pink as the backing.  This
                                        was made several years ago and never finished.  I'll show you when it's
                                         done.

                                         My granddaughters with the sign they made for Sa who will be
                                         my exchange student for the next 10 months.  Sa is from
                                         Thailand and she is so sweet.  She fits right into our family.

                                         This is another throw that was made a long time ago.
                                          I had to do some ripping out and resewing to make the
                                          rows the way that I wanted.  I'm thinking about doing something fall
                                          or Halloween so it can be reverse able.

                                          Have a GREAT week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Things to do with fabric you love but don't want to cut into

I loved both of these fabrics and felt like they should not be cut.  I stapled these onto canvas and now they are art!!  I look for canvas in thrift stores that is inexpensive and just cover it up.  I also paint over used canvas.

Another HOT HUMID day in Indiana!!

One in every Bunch Quilt, Fair, Chicken Stroller and Sweetie Pie

I really need a new camera!!  This is a quilt top that I'm working on.  I thought I had it almost completed but I think I need a couple of more rows at the bottom for length.  This quilt is called "There's one in every bunch" and as you can see I added white around one block and decided to put it in the quilt.  The white was what I originally was going to use but then I deceided to go wild with Kona Tangerine!!

Part of our quilt group set up at the county fair and these two ladies are hand piecing a old old quilt.  Carol in the blue hopes to have it done in a couple of more years at the fair.  She only works on it at the fair and had decided to name it "The Fair Quilt"  There are some fabrics that date back to the 1800's.  Joyce in the light floral top does amazing quilts with tiny and I mean tiny scraps.

Carol is setting up her 1923 Singer so that we can let children make a pillow.  We had a lot of fun with the kids and sometimes we had all three sewing machines going.  The little kids were so proud of their pillows!!  We'll do that again next year.

This is Pam and she made all of the quilt tops that are hanging except for the one by the fan which is my quilt made of selvedges.

Part of our booth.  

We ended up giving out information to around 40 people.  We had three new people at a meeting on Tuesday but one had found us on Facebook.  We love new people and new ideas!!

Here is a young lady with her stroller and two chickens.  I need one for my cats!!

Last time I showed you my big Buddy Boy so this is my Sweetie Pie.  Her name fits her perfectly!!

I hope everyone is having a great week.  I'm going Sunday for orination for my exchange student.  She is from Thailand and is 16 years old.  New experience for me but my 16 year old granddaughter wants to be an exchange student so I thought we should host a student also.  It will be easier once I retire in August.  Very exciting!!!  I'll keep updates coming.

Things Painted and my Garden Tubs

This is a table top that I painted

This rocking chair had been painted black so I painted it red and covered the seat with Laurel Burch fabric

This is an old fiberglass cow tank that a farmer gave me and it is now my big garden spot.  This was about 2 weeks ago.  Wait till you see it now.

Trying to lay out quilt blocks on my bed but I always have this guy by my side helping.

These are horse feeders that I purchased to use as part of my garden.  When my son-in-law gets around to thinning out their strawberry patch this will be my strawberry patch.  Do you see that I'm trying to have everything at a height that I can weed it easily and not have to do a lot of bending down?  I'm so happy I did this!!

This is my old dresser that is now in the living room to hold the tv.  Like my tv?  I said I'd never have a 50" tv but I went into Target and this was on sale for $242.00 and the picture was great.  I asked why it was so low and the kid didn't know.  He brought it out and said that there should not have been a sale sign on this tv but since there had been he would give it to me at that price.  Savings - $150.00!!  I don't have cable anymore but this has Netflix and other options right on the remote. The cats has a tv on the floor to the right to watch videos and they love them.  On the left are some of the cat toys.

This dresser was bad looking when I bought it for $4.00 at a garage sale.  I cleaned it up, primed and painted it and it is so nice now.  This is for my granddaughters room that may soon become the bedroom for an exchange student.  I painted the walls, we took up the carpet and pad and it looks great.

All for now!!