| Last Updated: 05/03/03 |
GREETINGS!!!!....
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
MCC Twilling
Quilt Update:
Well, we finally got it onto the frame. Took a couple of Thursdays
to get all the marking done. Boy, all those squiggly swirls! Had to
cut the top down a little, too long. Wouldn't fit on any frame we had at
the church. Took 6" off both top and bottom borders and it's still
88" x 116". Good queen size.
Lorena's getting pretty salty at this twilling stuff. Now she's using threads of different colors, different backgrounds, different patterns, even a Sunbonnet Sue & Overall Sam pattern. I'll have to take some pictures of those for you.
For those of you who are new to this site, this is quilt top given to us by Mary Fast of Guymon, Oklahoma. She did all the work. We're doing all the quilting. When it's done, it goes to the Oklahoma State Mennonite Relief Sale in Enid, next November for the auction there.
Here's a couple of pictures you don't want to miss: These photos have caused quite a stir on a lot the forums this last month. It's an ad for a quilt show in Florida. Hope they keep the pictures posted: http://www.suzannesquilts.com/Photo_Gallery_Closeups/quilt_mobile1.htm
Do you remember the worm song? At the risk of losing all of you from this site, thought I'd share a short item. People keep adding new and wonderful pattern sites to the web FREE. Makes my job even harder to stay competitive. When I come across another site, I get a little depressed (not really), and I say I'm gonna' go eat some worms. That's what I used to tell my kids when they were complaining, whining and wouldn't stop. I'd sing the worm song I learned as a kid at summer camp. It went:
Everybody hates me, nobody likes me, I'm gonna' eat some worms.....
Long, skinny, slimy ones--short, fat,
juicy ones....Itsy-bitsy, fuzzy-wuzzy worms!
(Gulp) goes the first one, (Gulp) goes the second one, Ooo! How they wiggle
& they squirm.
Long, skinny, slimy ones--short, fat,
juicy ones...Itsy-bitsy, fuzzy-wuzzy worms!
(Earp)goes the first one, (EarP) goes the second one, Ooo! How they wiggle &
they squirm.
Long, skinny, slimy ones--short, fat,
juicy ones...Itsy-bitsy, fuzzy-wuzzy worms!
If you're still with me after that, I must say that song always worked with my kids. In a related link to that, a nice gal at Cyber Quilters Forum submitted this: http://www.countrywhispers.com/icefish. Check it out!
TRUE CONFESSIONS
of a QUILTER: "I was kicked off Alex Anderson's chat room!!"
Have you every tried one of those HGTV's live chats? I thought it
would be fun to talk to Alex, or at least try to. She was suppose to be in
the room at 3:00 EST, so I went there 5 minutes early and waited. There
was already about 8 or 9 names present when I got in on the first #1 room.
Hard to figger' out what was goin' on, but you wait on the HGTV moderator to ask a question to her from one of us and she replies. So there was a moderator reading the questions to Alex. Anyway, it was REAL SLOW to load her replies. It would take 5 minutes of staring at the screen between questions and answers, waiting. So I had better things to do, so I jumped in and asked the question, "Do you give manicures to all the guests on your show just before taping?" (Have your ever noticed that about those hand close-ups? I knew the answer because a lady who was a guest once told me it was a requirement to get your nails done)
I wanted to see her answer, if she got a laugh, or if she was "amused". I entered it and clicked on the "say" button.
A few seconds go by, nothing new. Then all of a sudden, I'm in CYBER-NeverNever Land! A window appears with the HGTV logo telling me I have to type in the administrator's name to re-enter. I say to myself, "What the.." Then another pop-up window loads on top of that one that is totally blank and I get an error message of some kind.
So, I re-enter HGTV's site and chat room URL. They put me in duplicate room #l0 (no access). By this time they are on question #7. What happened to questions 3,4,5, & 6? Oh well...
I guess they were "not amused".
Out
with the Old, In with the New:
Remember
HenryCat? He was the subject of last November's newsletter. Well, in
February, it was warm outside, unseasonably warm, and we decided to let him out
of the house for a little while. You remember Henry was cross-eyed and was
kept inside for his own protection. Henry was quite the Romeo, and we felt
sorry for him being so "frustrated" all the time, so he went out
occasionally, but usually no further than our garage or back yard. This
time he wandered off and we haven't seen him since. We suspect he went to
the neighbor's farm which is about 1/4 mile. Since then though, we've had
several cold nights and an ice storm, so we've more or less given up hope that
he'll be back, what with the coyote population around here. Or maybe
there's more women over there than here. He's been in our house for
several years now. He'll be missed. But not for
long...........
Meet
Frosty. Seems when HenryCat would visit outside females he would waste no
time. We have THREE litters of kittens out there in the garage right
now. And they all look like Henry! One mama abandoned her 2 kittens
on one of those cold, cold nights. DH (dear husband) rescued them,
half-frozen. He managed to save this one with a little CPR believe it or
not. His sibling didn't make it. Frosty is now 3 weeks old. DH
has been bottle feeding him, and keeping him in a box kept warm with a heating
pad on low setting. Seems to be thriving now, except for the last inch or
so on his tail. Guess it was frozen off. So now we have Frosty in
the house. Oh, joy.
Update 3/4/02:
Here's
a more current shot at 4 weeks. Looks just like his daddy, don't he?
Except this one is not cross-eyed! Shown here wrestling with his foster
daddy. Amazing what a little PetLac will do for newborns, huh?
What's
New?
New Free Block
of the Month: Starting this month is the Simple Scrappy Pleasures
quilt. This is a super easy quilt top, made from your scrap pile.
Great for beginners. Measures 80" x 88". Lots of
Half-Square triangle units on one border. Then rows of simple
blocks. Blocks are 4", 6", and 12". It's a 13-month
project, so you'll learn a little patience before it's over, ha! But
that's what quilting is all about, patience practice. This is a great
project for using up scraps of plaids, stripes, checks.
It's also available on the pattern page in a 40 x 44 wall hanging.
And don't forget Granny's Tip of the Month for March!
May you always have a quilt in the hoop, I try to.
Cya,
Claudia
February 28, 2002
ARCHIVES:
August,
2001- Premiere Issue: Explanation of Website Categories, Picture
of Author
September, 200l - Eden
Mennonite Sewing Society, Oklahoma MCC Relief Sale Link, New House Hunting
Pattern, New Ozark Mountain Night Pattern, Call for Guest Gallery
October, 2001 - Plett's Plot,
Sewing Society Follow Up, New Quilter's Alphabet Pattern, New My Stars &
Bars Pattern, Free Block of the Month Project - House Hunting
November, 2001 - HenryCat, My
Stars & Bars Free Block of the Month, New Easy Eights Pattern, Granny's Tip
of the Month
December, 2001 - MCC Relief
Sale, Enid, Oklahoma; Quilter's Corner, Auction Bay, Featured Quilt, Other
Quilts, 10,000 Villages, Twilling, Finished Simply Amish Quilt, Free Block of
the Month - Easy 8's, New Heart Trio Pattern - Appliqué
January, 2002 - New Year's
Resolution; Website Reviews: Bead Creative, Quilting with a Passion,
Webshots, Lancaster Gen. Store, others; Quilters Mall Crawl; Free Block of the
Month - Calendar Blocks
February, 2002 - Grandma's
Buttons Lap Quilt, weather box, Quilt University.Com, Fran Iverson Gonzalez,
Hawaiian Ice Breaker, Paypal Added, Connecting Threads, New Pattern - Proud
Mamas, Free Block of the Month - Heart Trio Table Runner
(Copyright © 2001, 2002 Claudia E. Plett, all rights reserved)
home........free
BOM.......tip of the month.........patterns........misc
4 sale........
long
arm patterns........links........order
form........ask
granny........gallery
