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ally had much time to research another photo edit program the one time i sat down to try to find something i was overwhelmed by 1 monthly fees 2 a lot of language i didn t understand and 3 its un user friendly aspects if you have any suggestions i m all ears i know i can download directly from my iphone to my blog but i can t type well on that small keyboard i d rather post to my blog on my pc so until then i m all caught up on the minick simpson bom portage lake waiting for month 10 i have all the blocks finished on the fat quarter shop sew sampler bonus blocks the one where a recipe card came in each month s sew sampler box just need to put that puppy together i started sewing a quilt from the miss rosie s farmhouse favorites book and honest to pete i made so many mistakes cutting and sewing this last week that you d a thunk i was a newbie quilter all is well now and i m looking forward to heading back to the cottage today to sew some more on that two weekends ago i had delivery and set up of the handiquilter simply sixteen it doesn t take up a lot of space and i ve been having fun playing with that using the ugliest fabric in the world found in my stash rolls eyes i m waiting for the rear handles and ruler base and then i ll be good to go no desire to be a blue ribbon quilter but just thought i could get some of these smaller quilts and charity quilts done myself the big or special quilts will still be sent out the weather has been so beautiful in my tiny town but we have a rain storm expected this afternoon i m hoping the remaining pollen from the oak trees will be washed away i had the worst allergy attack and was really feeling puny for two weeks but a visit to the doctor and four prescriptions later i feel like a new person i have a box of anti viral facemasks in both the house and cottage for the next time things pollinate around here heck penny was even sneezing but i seriously doubt she ll tolerate a facemask that would be a kodak moment if i would be able to post that picture i ll be on instagram at krz4kwlts hope to see you there happy april posted by vicky at 6 38 am 8 comments sunday february 05 2017 trying real hard i m trying real hard to get back in the swing of things i ve been trying to catch up on some things that i fell behind on when i was feeling so puny today i am going to prep the next appliqued block for the minick simpson bom portage lake i caught up on all the pieced blocks yesterday except for one block i need to make four copies of the pattern for paper piecing and found my printer wasn t working it s new but may just be out of ink i don t know anyway i ll get that copied this week and get it done i just love this quilt i forgot to take a picture with the lastest blocks today i am also going to finish catching up on the bonus blocks that the fat quarter shop gave us in the sew sampler monthly mailings there are ten so far and i m working on the eighth one there are three sizes on the block card and for some reason i made the wrong size yesterday i had more than enough fabric to make another block from that fat quarter but really the wrong size sheesh the part i hate most in the quilting process is actually cutting the quilt so i m going to take a weekend and cut cut cut queued on the cutting board is raspberry blue and olio by carrie nelson of miss rosie s fame and martin place by minick simpson maybe a baby quilt or two that ought to keep me busy sewing for a while my biggest problem is the squirrel factor i don t need to explain that one because i m sure everyone has experienced it from time to time i thought and thought about the next few projects yesterday and got real frustrated when i figured out i can t make everything so i decided to just focus on what i have already purchased fabric for and the others can wait i don t need to be making the same thing everyone else is doing right now off to the cottage the day is wasting away posted by vicky at 6 38 am 8 comments saturday december 31 2016 happy new year penny and i would like to wish everyone a happy new year we have decided that 2017 is going to be way different for us we re both going to stay healthy for the whole year to once again quote my late mother whatever you do on new year s day you do for the rest of the year tomorrow i plan on quilting giving penny lots of hugs and laughing a lot oh and having black eyed peas for health and cabbage for wealth just want to make sure i cover all the bases i hope everyone has a safe and fun new year s eve and that 2017 is a fabulous one for you posted by vicky at 7 11 am 6 comments saturday november 26 2016 hi there it s me i don t know what happened as to why i haven t blogged in such a long time well i know what happened it s called life i felt so badly for so long and couldn t quite put my finger on what it was a general malaise i would get home from work take penny out and then go lay down months of this i finally made a doctor s appointment and after listening to me for a couple of minutes she sent me next door to the hospital to get a belly ultrasound when it was over the tech said he needed to call the doctor and left the room he came back in and asked me to follow him and he led me to admitting what uh uh no way the doctor called me on my cell and said my gall bladder was about to explode and it needed to come out well i protested all the way through admitting because my dog was at home alone and my car was in the parking lot you know what they totally ignored me anyway just an overnight stay a couple of days home to recuperate and another few weeks to get adjusted to once again having a body part removed i think i ve finally turned the corner although i m still a little scared to eat certain things but as they say all s well that ends well so i haven t been sewing at all i ve read new quilting books i ve ordered new patterns and fabric i ve read hundreds of blog and ig posts no sewing at all that s about to change i have two months of portage lake bom to get caught up on thank goodness it s all piecing with only a tiny bit of applique i have two months of sew sampler bonus blocks to do and i have several backings to make i m going to get all of the above done before the end of the year i decided that in 2017 i was going to teach myself to english paper piece the inspiration was minick simpson s market release quilt lake effect love that quilt the pattern is not out yet but i saw that laurie had the template and hexie paper pieces on her site so i ordered them oh my i wasn t quite prepared for the package that arrived yesterday i don t know if you can tell from this picture but included were two acrylic templates and about a bazillion precut papers that is not an exaggeration a bazillion the six sided elongated hexie template and a teeny one that s an irregular triangle teeny i had to study the picture carefully to even find them in the quilt yep they re there oh my gulp okay so i kinda got scared maybe i need to try an easier project first so brenda riddle regrammed an instagram post from sweet girl studio about a kit she was offering out of brenda s fabrics i m on it just regular hexies i can easily learn epp on this project she said with confidence she that s me well that package arrived i m feeling all confident when i opened the package and then i fainted beautiful brenda fabrics and two packs of 1 2 hexigon papers one half inch as in 5 really but you know what i m up for it up for both of these projects i m just trying to wrap my mind around turning the seam allowances on that tiny triangle in laurie s quilt and the 1 2 hexie on the other one wish me luck in other news thanksgiving was quiet here i cooked a ham and my favorite smothered green beans and potatoes i wasn t so sure how the green beans would work without my missing body part so i put in lots of potatoes i ate a little and my freezer is stocked with quick meals i totally forgot until the next day to cook baby yellow squash it was a tradition in our house growing up my mother would say that we had to have squash because that s what the pilgrims ate my dad would a l w a y s reply you ought to know you were there we always groaned rolled our eyes and as i got older i starting saying it along with him a happy memory we re so busy at work as it s tax season i truly believe we have some of the nicest citizens here of any city in the country we re a small enough community that i remember a lot of them from last year i will have my one year anniversary on 12 10 doesn t seem like a year does it and two years since i moved here anyway being busy sure does make the days fly by that s about it for now i have a lot of catching up to do both in the cottage and on my blog more posts to come happy thanksgiving posted by vicky at 1 50 pm 18 comments wednesday september 07 2016 august through labor day 2016 it s bad when you wait so long to blog that you just name the post by the month sheesh i got a good bit done during this period but not as much as i had hoped there are several projects in the planning stages and i can t wait to get started on those first and foremost the devastating floods in south louisiana there are some communities still under water i don t mean to make light of the situation but this is kind of how we feel now please keep our state in your thoughts and prayers of course rising waters and lots of rain bring out the neighborhood beasts this scary creature greeted me as i opened the door to go to work a couple of mondays ago he didn t want to move and he was between the house door and the car door i finally got him to leave by remotely honking the horn i know the neighbors appreciated that immensely and yes that is an extremely poisonous cottonmouth moccasin i m real wary of where penny and i walk now heading back to the cottage a couple of weekends ago to sew i loaded up the little wagon with two bolts of fabric and other goodies that arrived in the mail the umbrella was loaded up because i always get caught back there when it starts raining and i never seem to have one august was also a month for celebrating i think i finally hit the magic number and i m officially an old lady now but i have to say that this wonderful chantilly cake sweetened the day my thanks to my co workers it was a double celebration because my boss birthday was the next day fun i m really enjoying the monthly sew sampler boxes from the fat quarter shop i made this cute table runner from two charm packs included in the box a couple of months ago the fabric and pattern are by lori holt i m determined to stay on top of the portage lake bom from minick simpson each month has several blocks in it needless to say i got off to a rocky start i can t watch lsu lose their opening game and applique at the same time i took the stitches out the next morning repositioned it and restitched i always say i have to do everything twice i spent a week pulling fabric and playing around with some pattern ideas the time was well spent because i m almost ready to start some cutting the august sew sampler box had the fat quarter shop s newest book the jolly bar book i purchased some jolly bars and started sewing this weekend the first quilt in the book has no cutting just a jolly bar and a layer cake it was going together so easily and then this happened this is a picture of what the screen on my bernina 750 looks like right now i heard a couple of loud metal clunks and it stopped dead in the water it was labor day after all so i guess it needed a day off so it s off to the shop for this honey and i ll get out another bernina to sew on until it s fixed another thing i ve really enjoyed in the sew sampler boxes is the bonus blocks the fat quarter shop put together for purchase 12 solid fat quarters to use on these blocks i m right on track with the five months received so there you have it five weeks in my quilty world i m having so much fun and that s what it s all about posted by vicky at 4 59 pm 7 comments monday august 01 2016 a new month begins i have to say that it felt good to get into the cottage and get some things accomplished in july of course i wanted to do more but i ll take it i pulled out the metro scope blocks and finally got them sewn together i thought i was finished with the top but it looked funny it took me two weeks of pondering it to finally realize it needed a final white border sigh so that will go on this weekend the backing pieced and i ll call it good until i can get it to a quilter i finished lucy by miss rosie i totally adore this quilt of course i still need to give it a good pressing and stay stitch those edges if in fact they are wavy once the pressing is done the backing is out and ready to piece and then it s off to be quilted a funny thing happened on the way to the finish the last cream snowball block that i picked up to attach had a hole in it what it looked like a factory defect and i m surprised i hadn t noticed it when i was doing that block i took out the scraps and didn t have a piece big enough to cut another square so i pieced it i figured it wouldn t show at all once it was quilted a little later i went into the stash closet to look for something and this bolt caught my eye yes a whole bolt of that minick simpson dot that i love so much and the exact same fabric that i had just pieced together to get my snowball square i even surprised myself on that one a week ago the first month of the portage lake bom from minick simpson arrived saturday i got up bright and early and made the whole month i really love this quilt and i m anxiously awaiting month 2 i m sure it will have a large appliqued block on it but i figure if i get it prepped as soon as it arrives i can needle turn it at night during the month and still stay on track that s my plan and i m sticking to it i have started cutting out a table runner pattern that came in the june sew sampler box from the fat quarter shop i hope to get that done next weekend but not until i piece backings and get the final border on metro scope so all in all not a bad month i m ready to forge onward in august and i hope it will be a productive one too posted by vicky at 5 07 pm 15 comments saturday july 23 2016 july sewing not a lot of sewing this month but i am easing back into it after a year and a half with nothing going on but bindings and applique lucy i am further along than this picture and i plan to get her finished up this weekend lucy is a miss rosie pattern that she released just before going to work for moda the fact that she also made up a kit was icing on the cake carrie nelson and lissa alexander are about the two most talented folks i know for pulling fabrics from different lines and making gorgeous quilts whenever i can i shamelessly snag their kits as i know i could never come close to the awesomeness of theirs yes i m a follower the top was just tossed down on the floor by my sewing machine and isn t laying flat i can see a wave in the outer border in 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