Another Weekend Without My Bobbin Case....

Drats....I'm starting another weekend without my bobbin case.  I'm too lazy to set up my old machine so this will be a weekend of no sewing!  What's a girl to do?  Well, I had an idea!

 

This will surely help my new year's resolution of completing some of my UFO's because I have about 4 applique projects that are on that list.  All but one of these are Block-of-the-month kits that I just never got around to doing each month they came in.  So my idea was to get caught up on my Applique!  I am going to do all of the January blocks in those Applique projects while I'm waiting on my bobbin case to come in.  Then next month hopefully I will have enough motivation to catch up on the February blocks....and so on and so on....or should I say.....

 

.....and SEW on and SEW on!

I Can't Find My Bobbin Case

First of all....Happy New Year! I know I haven't posted in a while but you know how the holidays can get! In fact it got so hectic in my sewing room that I lost my bobbin case! Seriously! I was up early one morning before Christmas, quietly working in my sewing room. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse kind of atmosphere. I was changing my black bobbin to white. I guess I got distracted, or got up and fixed another cup of coffee. All I know is that when I got back on task the bobbin case to my new Brother was gone! Vanished! I check trash cans, thread bags, under over and in every single inch of the sewing room. It has just disappeared.

So needless to say I didn't sew any during the holidays. Thankfully I was finished with any last minute gifts so the loss wasn't critical. The bobbin case has to be ordered but I hope to pick it up this week and get back on track this weekend!

I have several New Year's Resolutions that deal with quilting that I will share. Maybe making them public will make them happen!!!

1. Make a list of UFO's and start whittling it down.
2. Do more of my own quilting. It is what I bought the new machine for, after all!
3. Vow to not start last minute Christmas Holiday projects. All gifts must be done by Thanksgiving! Wow, this one will be tough because Quilt Festival is barely over and I always find something cool to give. But if I stop the pressure of finishing at that date it will make the season a whole lot easier. In fact, one of my other resolutions was to devote Nov. & Dec. to scrapbooking. These two months hold my boy's birthdays and I think it will seem special to them if I work on their books around their birthdays. See....I have a plan!
4. And last but not least, I hope to journal and record finished projects more frequently in this blog.

There it is! In writing! Wish me luck!

Two Months Later

Oh my goodness, yes it has been two months since my last post to this blog. Well, you know what happened don't you! School started! I'm back to work and the kids are back to school and sewing has become a luxury that I get very very seldom. So there hasn't been much to post about in terms of sewing.

But.....this weekend was the Houston Quilt Festival and it would take a major catastrophe to keep me away from that! Auntie came to Mum's house on Thursday night and then I took off a day of work on Friday, picked Auntie up and away we went for a full day of quilts galore!!! We started on the end of the show where the display quilts are located. These are a few of the quilts that caught my eye. I didn't get any shots of the big award-winning quilts because the crowds around them never got small enough to get a good shot.



My opinion, this year, was that there were less quilts to ooh and aaah over but it was a much easier number to work with. We leisurely walked through the quilts in about 2 1/2 hours. This was just in time for lunch which we shared with quilting friends who met us at the food court. Pictured in the last pic of the slideshow above are me, Auntie, Sue/MI, Betty/VA, Cyd and Judy. We met them again at about 3:00 for a Starbucks pick-me-up and talked about how we planned or have already spent our money in the vendors section of the show.

I bought a Kaleidoscope that has feathers in it and moves with puffs of air from an atomizer. I also bought some necessities like rotary cutter blades. But my eyes were drawn back to nonquilting stuff when we got to the embellishments. I bought a pretty silver/amethyst ring and a heart-shaped necklace pendant from a new vendor. The shape is made of shell or something to look like shell and then etched with a floral design. I could have spent the entire day at the booth picking out Christmas presents! And last I bought a kit with beautiful green fabrics in it to do another quilt for Doug. He loved his first quilt but keeps asking for a larger one and in green. That is a hard color to find, so when I ran across this collection I didn't pass it up.

This quilt show always inspires me to get in my sewing room and get to work! So I'm going to leave you now and go work on a binding for a special quilt a special someone doesn't know about yet! ;-)