Now, to go and see if I have enuf of the lighter green fabric to make either version! If I don’t, I will have to have another plan.
The setting triangles on the FS present an upcoming decision – what do I want to quilt there? It’s a pretty big area. Flowers? Leaves on a vine? Geometric? Abstract? I’m sure the quilt will talk to me as I work on it. It happens every time! The quilt seems to know what it wants.
As eyes get older, they require all kinds help. Like eyeglasses, good lighting, magnifying glasses and needle threaders! While doing some handsewing the other day, I realized how I’ve come to really appreciate the Clover Needle Threader. It is such a simple, magical tool that works every time.
Insert needle eye down. Lay thread in the slot. Push button. Needle threaded! Works every time.
When my 9 year old grandson was over one day, the Needle Threader was out and he asked what it was. Told him it was a needle threader and told him what to do and he threaded a needle and got that wonderful look on his face that meant he was impressed. And he wanted to do it again. And he wanted his mom to do it! Takes a lot to impress these 9 year old tech-savvy kids these days … yahoo for the Clover Needle Threader!
Wow! I’m happy with this block. There are over 200 pieces in it. And lots of match points!
It is a PaperPieced block and is from Sue Garman’s 2009 Block of the Month quilt from thequiltshow.com It is the center of the quilt. I did not want to commit to the whole quilt, but I sure liked this Feathered Star. I also made a block from Sue G’s 2008 Block of the Month quilt. It was appliqué. Made it into a one-block wallhanging.
Now to go into EQ6 and see what kind of layout I can come up with for this wonderful Feathered Star. I want to make a wallhanging and I know where I want to hang it, so I also know approximately what size WH I will be needing.
Now to go and have some fun playing in EQ6!
And if you want to make some super-easy-to-construct Shopping Bags that are good give-aways, here’s a link to my bloggin’ buddy Sunnie’s http://patchworkpie.blogspot.com/2009/08/fabric-bags-e-z-way.html tutorial.
The AOL Quilting Community had a nice newsletter back when the AOL Quilting Community was up and running on America Online. Now, some volunteers have gotten together and have brought it back as a monthly newsletter.
It has computer tips, quilting help, stories, quilt projects, links and other interesting stuff. Here’s the link to go and join up -http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ninepatchnews/join After joining, you will get the newsletter in your emailbox every month.
DH & I were pleasantly surprised to see Joan Rivers’ new TV show on the TVLand channel last night How’d You Get So Rich? It was very entertaining. The premise of the show is how many times have you driven by a beautiful (expensive) home & wondered what the owners did for a living to afford such a place.
Very close to our heart was the first segment about the inventor of Billy Bob Teeth. Yes, he made millions. DH bought a pair of those teeth many years ago and he enjoyed amusing the little grandchildren with those teeth.
One of our grandsons was so impressed with the teeth that he saved up his weekly allowance & bought his own pair of Billy Bob Teeth. When he had his school pic taken that year, he persuaded the photographer to take a second pic of him with his Billy Bob Teeth.
Life is being very ordinary, lately. I should be very happy about that -considering I’ve had a lot of very unordinary things happen in my life. Kept thinking that I’d blog when I had something interesting to blog about. Well, instead of never blogging again (cuz nothing interesting was happening) I think I should start blogging about my very ordinary life.
In my ordinary life, like a lot of you, I am interested in all different manner of this and that. Today I found Zentangles.
I don't know if you are aware of Zentangles. Robbie has some examples on her blog --
http://robbiespawprints.blogspot.com/2009/06/zentangle-time.html
Be sure and check out Robbie’s “wolves” -- her thread painting is awesome --
http://robbiespawprints.blogspot.com/2009/08/art-of-nature-quilt-pictures.html
She suggests to do a search on youtube for Zentangle. I did and was most fascinated by
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Nlz4XMxcs -- how to do a Zentangle Mandala.
There are other Zentangle videos that I want to view.
I doodle when I am on the phone. Usually on the newspaper that is on the table. Or on a scratch pad. DH can usually determine how long I've been on the phone by the amount of doodle on paper!
This would be good practice for free motion quilting. I have heard to draw, or doodle, on paper, the design that you are going to be FMQing in order to get into the Zen. I guess Zentangles would get you into a Zen.
