What I am working on today...

I am on Spring Break this week and had plans to do so many things. Ha, what was I thinking. I never get most of the things get to most of the things on my list.

In July Bonnie Hunter posted her Summer 2013 Leader & Ender Challenge. I have lots of scraps that I feel guilty about so I decided to play along. I worked on it here and there- cutting a little, then sewing a little. I like to have all the pieced cut for a project so this week I decided to cut all the pieces. I want the quilt to finish around 85x95 so I need 224 blocks. I have been cutting, off and on, for 4 days! I have about 200 more 2 1/2" light squares to cut. Then I need to mark the light triangles for the HST units.

BH Summer 2013 L&E - cutting

BH Summer 2013L&E - more cutting

BH Summer 2013 L&E on the design wall

I put some of the blocks up on the design wall to see how it looked. I am pretty happy with it. Hopefully I will be able to quilt it this summer.

I did get some fabric shopping done this week.

So I hope to get borders on this baby quilt before Spring Break is over.

 

I am still not able to add pictures to blog posts on Firefox. I am using Internet Explorer and it does some weird things to my blog posts.

Design Wall Monday

I haven't posted for a while. But, I am on Spring Break this week so today I have time.

I had posted earlier that my Mother-in-law is currently in a nursing home. One day she had an appointment so I took a quilt to wrap around her. She has had a stroke that has caused paralyses of her left side so putting a coat on her is difficult. The quilt ended up staying with her at the nursing home. It is her favorite colors - black and white with a little red. Her pillow sham didn't match the quilt so I made one to match.
I used some motifs on my embroidery machine to quilt it.



The kindergarteners recently learned letter Q.

Part of my job duties is a Shared Reading/bathroom break. Each class comes with me for 20 minutes for a bathroom break and I read to them during this time. I try to read books that reinforce what they are learning in class. Well, of course, I had to read books about quilts during letter Q week!
One of the books I read was The Handkerchief Quilt by Carol Crane. It is about a school that needs repairs due to broken water pipes during a freeze in the winter. The community makes a quilt to raise the needed funds. The quilt they make is Cathedral Windows.

I made this little piece to show the students what a Cathedral Windows quilt would look like. I also took in some of my other quilts. We talked about shapes and colors (math lessons in kindergarten) that are used in quilts too.
They all seemed very interested and loved looking at and feeling the quilts and the tools used for quilt making.

I am also working on this little quilt. The blocks are left from another quilt.
A co-worker is expecting a boy the end of April and I think these blocks will be just right for a baby quilt. I hope to get this finished this week.

 

First, I need to clean off the quilting machine. Seems that no matter how hard I try I just cannot keep things from piling up on here.

Well, I guess I better get busy!

I hate...

I hate bras.

I hate buying them.

I have to try them on every time to find one that sort of fits.

I hate the price of a good bra. It just seems like so much for not much fabric.

I know, I know there is more to a good bra than it appears, but I still hate the cost. How much fabric or yarn could I buy with that money! :)

 

 

I hate wearing them.

I never seem to be able to find a really good fit.

I have all the problems pictured in the image above.

Bulges where there shouldn't be.

The back band slides up, or cuts in, and is just painful sometimes.

I know I need to lose some weight and this cold winter weather has made my skin dry and that doesn't help.

The straps slip down. I really hate that!

 



 

I hate washing them.

I wash mine in a mesh lingerie bag. I hook the back straps closed.

They still come unhooked and get hooked in the mesh and twisted and tangled up. What a mess.

 

 

I hang them up to dry.

That takes time and I always seem to be out of clean ones

before the washed ones are dry.

And, no, that is not me in the image above, but that is how I hang my bras to dry.

 

At home I sometimes go without, but that would not be appropriate at my job.