Created by CJ

Life before coffee...

2012-02-08T14:41:42Z

Do you suppose the world as we know it would come to a tragic end without coffee? I’m sure my world would! This morning, I hopped in the shower, raced off to drop my schnauzer off at the groomer before 7:30, then onto the DMV to renew my driver’s license. I realized that something didn’t feel quite right, so I took a quick inventory and realized I was still wearing my house shoes.

Embarassing! Thankfully a new license only includes a head shot!

Yesterday I fell in love with Albert all over again. I had a new customer bring me a beautiful quilt she’d made for her daughter, and wanted an all over in my $0.015 psi category cost. I was able to take a dense design and enlarge it enough to fit into that price range, an option not available when using a paper pantograph!

What a sweet quilt! I used a pale green thread on this one, and Quilter’s Dream deluxe weight cotton. It’s heavy!

Then I decided I needed a treat, so I spent the rest of the day making myself a new purse. I almost love it, but not quite. I used Soft and Stable for the batting, which was awesome… especially in the handles! However, since it isn’t a fusible, I don’t care for the way my Moda Marble fabric looks a little “slouchy”. The home decor fabric for the bulk of it looks fine, it’s has enough body on its own. So I will need to either use all heavyweight fabric, or quilt the lighter weight cottons to the Soft and Stable.

This is the second time I’ve made this bag and I really like it! It’s a great size, has interior and exterior pockets, and no one writes a better pattern than Lazy Girl Designs, a full pictorial is included! This is her Margo handbag. The first one I made I use for a knitting bag.

Skunked!

2012-02-03T19:29:30Z

Last night was my quilt group get together. On my way home, just as I was about to turn onto our road, the car in front of me hit a skunk. OMG! Even though I managed to swerve in time to avoid it, the spray coated my car. I gasped and choked the remaining quarter of a mile home….

And there Jim stood in the driveway, waving a flashlight around like a maniac. He smelled the skunk from INSIDE the house all the way from the road! It didn’t occur to me not to park my car in the shop… which now also reeks of skunk.

This morning, when it stopped raining I pulled it out and I’m trying to air it out. OMG it stinks! So did I when I got out, Jim almost didn’t let me in the house!

Everytime I need to drive somewhere, I’m going to smell like a skunk. Isn’t that just lovely!

Playing

2012-02-02T18:58:56Z

I’m back to chopping up my Moda Etchings jelly roll strips. I had fun making the baby quilt using the strip tube method, and it seemed like a great plan for these jelly roll strips as well.

I put them together in EQ… although at this point the layout will likely change, and I haven’t even thought about border options yet.

Maybe I’ll mix them all up so there’s different colors in each block. Maybe I’ll flip them. Who knows. Isn’t it fun to play?