Kitty Kitty Round Robin

I have finished Lori's Kitty block today. Sent it off to the next person in line. These two little sweetheart kitties are hiding in Lori's Rose bush. Hope she likes it.

Kitty Kitty Round Robin

I just finished Lynn's Kitty block today. Her naughty kitty has taken a ball of yarn and had gotten it all over the seam of her block. I will be mailing it to the next person in line tomorrow. Got two more waiting on me. This has been fun.

I've Been Tagged Again

I have been tagged by Cathy,to show my sewing space. So here it is. The pictures are out of order but you will eventually see where I do my handstitching.



Here is where I store my fabric. I have marked each container with the 24 Step Color Wheel and all fabric is placed in its color family. I have a container for my whites and blacks too.

And here is my Janome 6500 sewing machine. I have never had any problems with this machine.

Here is my cutting table.

Here is a better pic of my design wall. I have a portable one I made out of artist canvas and then put some flannel over it. I use it a lot too. Right now it is just sitting there against the wall.

Here is my monitor for my computer. I have to get me another Pc but this will be where it will be at when I do. Behind it you can see my design wall.

This is my Janome Embroidery Machine. That poor baby hasn't been used a lot. I need to buy lots more thread. Every time I have tried to make something with it I don't have the thread color I need.

You can see the storage I have under the table.

Here is where I usually sit when I am doing my handwork. I need to buy me some cushions for that rocker instead of using the big pillow, but it works for now. (g)

Now I am tagging Candy, to show us her sewing studio.

My Meeting with Sherry

As most of you know, I met Sherry through signing up for Sharon Boggin's USA tour that will be going on next year. She seen I was from Bald Knob, and that is where she used to live. She lives in Little Rock now. Well, we have been emailing each other for a while now and we finally got the chance to meet. I was so looking forward to that. We had a very nice time together. We had lunch or should I say brunch, we both liked the sound of breakfast better. And we talked and Oh her CQ work is awesome. I think I may have been drooling. (g) It was so great getting to meet her. I couldn't believe all the neat CQ things she gave to me. I was in awe. I wasn't expecting that, but let me tell you I love everything she gave to me. It was like Christmas morning. I got an email from her, and one of her friends who lives in Searcy wants us to start stitching together. So we are going to set up a time to do that. This is going to be so much fun. Sherry said we would start our own little CQ group. I am all excited!!! Thanks again Sherry for all the wonderful things!!

This is a calander with different cq blocks, it came with step by step instructions to make each block for the month. It is awesome! Can't wait to get to stitching this up. The book is by J.Marsha Michler. It has wonderful info in it too.

This is an embroidery pocket guide of stitches. In my earlier post I posted the pocket guide of Crazy Quilt Stitches. These are so neat. I found out that my friend Sherry worked at Leisure Arts and helped to make these pocket guides. How neat is that.







As you can see all the wonderful things she gave me. And these cig silkies. My first time of having these. I can't wait to be able to make them into a block. Absolutely wonderful! As you can see below she has helped me add to my thread collection. I love everything.

I've Been Tagged

I've been tagged by Candy Harris.

I think I will have no problems telling 7 things about myself. My problem was finding five people to tag. But I found them. (g)

1. I geuss I was 6 or 7 years old when this happened. We lived in a big house in the country. My dad was a farmer. Well, it had been raining and it finally quit, so off I went to play outside. We had a huge front porch and I always loved running from one side of the porch to the other side where the tv antenna was and I would grab ahold of that antenna and swirl down to the ground. Now remember it had just got through raining. Well my dad talked on the cb radio every since I can remember. He had his cb antenna on the other side of the house toward the back. This house had a tin roof. Sooo... when I ran and grabbed the antenna and swirled down as soon as my feet hit that wet ground I was stuck...My body was shaking like crazy, and couldn't get my hands from around that antenna. I was screaming to the top of my lungs and finally mom came running out. It took her putting her two arms together and coming up with full force to knock me off that antenna. What had happened was dad's cb antenna had a short in it, and with the tin roof it traveled through to the tv antenna and once my feet hit that wet ground I was totally being electrocuted. Maybe that's what's wrong with me now. I fried my brain. (g)

2.I have been quilting for 7 years and was getting kind of tired of the same stuff. So I started doing some landscape quilts, learning to paint portraits on cloth with chalk pastels. And I had wanted to learn Crazy Quilting for a long time and just this year finally took the time to learn. I love embroidery and the design involved with crazy quilting.

3.For about a year now I have been studying color. I have taken four classes at Quilt University on color and have loved everyone of them. One of the classes I was taking with Lily Kerns ,she gave me the urge to try hand dyeing. Probably would never had tried it if it hadn't been for her encouragement.She told me the best way to study color is to do it, and she was so right. Thank you Lily!
So then I took a class with Marjie McWilliams and so glad I did. I took that class and now am involved in some dyeing groups on yahoo and love those ladies. We swap color swatches and have lots of fun together.

4.I have four sons ages 18,19,22,25 and two step sons 22, 30. And a DIL age 22.
And a soon to be DIL who is 20 and another one who is I believe 22. I might need to check on that one. (g) Anyways, I love them all so very much. They are the greatest.
I almost had them all at home this past Christmas. Only one son wasn't able to make it, and one soon to be DIL. We sure do have a houseful when we are all together. lol! But it is nice.

5. I am so excited. I have signed up for Sharon Boggins 3 Day CQ and 1 Day Building Stitches class in Dallas in May of 2008. Sharon is touring the US next year. Dallas will be her first stop. I can't wait. As a matter of fact, signing up for Sharon's class and talking in the forumn, I got an email from Sherry Ford. She saw that I was from Bald Knob, and she used to live here. She lives in Little Rock now. Well, we have been talking back and forth and this next Tuesday we are going to meet each other. I am so excited. Sherry also teaches crazy quilting. She is going to Dallas too, so it's going to be so neat meeting her next week. That reminds me, I have to get signed up for Sharon's
Sumptious Surfaces class.It sounds like lots of fun.

6. Am I there yet? lol almost. This may be a little harder than I thought.
Ok, I had just gotten a brand new Jeep Liberty. I think I had it for three months. My husband and one of my sons' were camping at Marianna fishing. Well I was going to meet them there. I was on I 40 and come across some construction work. Everyone was at a complete standstill. Well, we got going again and all of a sudden a standstill. I got to noticing in my rear view mirror, it didn't look like that semi was slowing down at all. I said nope he isn't so I turned my wheel toward the empty lane and almost moved to that lane but thought well he may go over there. Well, here he came and then I thought wow he missed me, then all of a sudden WHAM!!! That jeep shot out like a bullet, I went skidding on my driver side, then on my top, then on the passenger side then finally landed back on the wheels.If I had not turned my steering wheel, I would have got slammed into the mini van in front of me. I thank God everyday that I had my seatbelt on. The window on the drivers side broke completely out, when I was sliding on the top, the windsheild was only held together from the glue. Needless to say my Liberty was totalled. Before the ambulance got there I had the policeman call my husband and I hadn't gotten to the hospital long when they showed up. I went back with them to the camper, cause it was lot closer to go there than to go home, and then the next day we went home. I was sore for a while but was very thankful I walked away from that accident. Even the ambulance driver told me just the week before that wreck didn't turn out as good as mine did.

7.I have made so many friends online in my yahoo groups. I have tons of emails everyday, but being there is so much fun. Doing my heart swaps with all the wonderful ladies there. Round Robins in another group,learning all about CQ with such a bunch of wonderful ladies there, learning embroidery from that bunch of wonderful ladies. And dyeing lots and lots of fabrics with the wonderful bunch of ladies in my dyeing groups. Hey guys you're the best!

Now I've tagged:

Annette

Flora

Deanna

Cathy

Dawn

Secret Sister Package

In my CQ4Newbies group, we had a secret sister swap. Well , my very dear secret sister had some major life situations that prevented her from being able to send the swap to me. Not only was she having health problems of her own. Her mother and father were very ill and her sister in law was terminally ill. At the time I didn't know who my secret sister was, but I thought it might be her. Well Judyth voluntered to help if anyone wasn't able to send to their secret sister. Judyth had health problems with her husband Ray at that time. Judyth kept apologizing to me about not sending my package. I told her not to worry that I understand these kind of situations and that I don't hold grudges over anything like this. Judyth did send me some wonderful fabrics, a fairy book, button, and the most beautiful red fabric kit to make a block with. She sent me so much stuff I wasn't able to post it, but it was beautiful things. She also sent me my kitty things for my kitty round robin. Marianne is now able to be online, and we are so thankful for that, It is so good to see her back. She emailed me saying she had a package for me. I explained to her what had happened, and told her that she didn't have to . But that she could if she wanted to , and these lovelies arrived in the mail yesturday. I am so thrilled with everything she sent me and am so thankful for everything she gave me. I love everything. THANK YOU MARIANNE!!! And THANK YOU JUDYTH!!!

How cool is this? A pocket guide Crazy Quilt Stitches. It shows different stitches, shows you different stitch combinations, and even tells you what kind of threads to use on different fabrics. AWESOME!!!!!

Isn't this some beautiful ribbons?



Such beautiful rayon threads. Can't wait to do a project with the scrumptious colors.



Such wonderful laces and the cross stitch butterfly is so pretty. I can see this in lots of blocks in the future.



Such wonderful fancy threads. So much neat threads to enhance my blocks with.

What kind of Flower

I took the test of What Kind of Flower are you and this is what I found out about me.

You Are a Canna
"You stand up for what you believe in, even if it gets in the way of what other people think. You are proud of yourself and your accomplishments and you enjoy letting people know that."

Spring block Swap

Drum roll please! My first start to finish cq block. I am very pleased with this block. Hope whomever gets it is happy with it. It's hard to let this go, but it will be heading off in the mail this week. In our CQ4Newbies group we are doing a spring block swap. I am very slow. But at least it is finished. (g)

Fun Day of Dyeing

Finally got the chance to dye some fabrics. I have been wanting to do a 66 step pyramid. Well, I am almost half way there. This is the first three rows of them. I used Turquoise, 12 Light Red, and 3A Clear Yellow. This was fun. One more setting and I will have them done.