In Flight progress...

The afternoon consisted of a lot of relaxing and putzing on the computer, but I also made some more progress on In Flight by completing the piecing and pressing of the 120 hourglass units. The corners need to be cut yet and then pieced into blocks before these units are complete.

Taking a small dinner break right now with the girls; a lil' bit of a schmorgesborg (pizza, corndogs, tacos).

Then....FRIDAY NIGHT SEW-IN!
GOAL: the next phase of In Flight.

Everything is working out PERFECTLY! Thank you MURPHY!!!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT when life finally fits!!!!

To start----volleyball season is over. yay :0) some "me" time has returned. (SOME only---I still have Statistics to prep for every weekend)

Secondly --- Bonnie K Hunter's Roll Roll Cotton Boll mystery is beginning tomorrow. This is AMAZING TIMING because we have the DAY OFF OF SCHOOL TOMORROW!!! :0) Yes! That means---bright 'n early, I'll be up on the computer hitting refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh until the clue gets posted!!! :0)

Thirdly --- DH is leaving for the opening weekend of Deer Rifle season early in the day, so (other than keeping an eye on the girls), the WHOLE DAY is MINE!!! :0)

And Finally----(tieing right in to the third)----It's FRIDAY NIGHT SEW IN tomorrow night!!!!

Be sure to head that way to sign up if you have the evening available!!!!

***smiling at the Gods***

THANK YOU for making everything fit so PERFECTLY for once!!!!!

I ONLY foresee quilting quilting quilting tomorrow!!! :0) (with a lillll' bit of "mommy-ing" to the girls)


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Friday Night Sew In

Now that it is TRUE Friday Night Sew In....
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First, I APOLOGIZE, APOLOGIZE, APOLOGIZE for not having any pictures with this post...but I'm at my parent's house again........

DIAL UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLD BACK YOUR HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't have the patience to wait for the pics to upload; besides, my Mom just went to bed and I don't know where her card-reader is.

I spent the day with my girls, sister and Mom, garage saling for 6 hours! Lots of goodies and summer clothes for Cassie. Whew! Now she can actually have clothes that FIT her, rather than looking like she needs to be trying out for the next Daisey Duke role!

I also hit Hancock Fabrics and actually didn't buy out the store! I think I only came away with about 17-18 yards; I'll have to get back to you on that one Sunday Night :0)

So....now.....tonight....
At 7:00, I headed to my Mom's lower floor and started pluggin' away on the Quilts 4 Kids kits that arrived just before leaving the house yesterday afternoon. One kit was Doggy themed, one "Olivia," and the third is a bright, pink "peace" theme. I was able to put together BOTH the Doggy theme AND the Olivia quilt tops tonight before needing to call it quits because the girls needed to get to bed. {{they sleep on the pull-out couch that is on the lower level.}}

Having three girls, I KNOW the "Olivia" show, and I had the theme song playing in my head over-n-over-n-over again while piecing the top. It was kinda hard NOT to have it in my head because Olivia is printed all over the fabric.

It's SOOOOO fun to run the material through the machine; fun, new fabrics that I don't have to count towards (or against) my stash useage.

Okay...I'm off to see if anyone else has posted already tonight.

Family Reunion tomorrow and then heading back home sometime on Sunday evening. I probably won't post again until Sunday night....so....

HAPPY WEEKEND EVERYONE!

Our own lil' Friday Night Sew In...

Yeah, for those of us who don't READ the closest...we realized that the Friday Night Sew In held over at Crafty Vegas Mom isn't until NEXT FRIDAY! But, some of us still perserved :0)

After dinner, before heading downstairs, DH, myself and Cassie played a game called "Easy Money." Cassie kicked our butts; that little turkey has beginner's luck!!!

But, when I eventually made my way downstairs, I spent much of the night working on the borders of the Too Good to Cut Challenge. TRUST ME--I wanted to stop more than once and move on to something more "fun." ANYTHING beats measuring, cutting and sewing on borders (FOUR sets of them).... but....as I said....I persevered and finished up the entire top!!!!
Too Good to Cut (54.5" x 79").

The fabric line mostly used was Robyn Pandolph's Moondance.

And I did find myself chuckling when it came to the final border. As I was hunting through my stash for the perfect outside border, I saw this pink toile and LOVED it! But, ..... LOL..... I didn't want to cut into it because it was "too good and pretty!" After another 15 minutes of looking through the stash, I finally said....."DUH! That's the name of this challenge! Cut into it already otherwise it'll just sit on the shelf for another year+!"

So....anyone have a great name other than Too Good to Cut??? I've considered Moondance because of the fabric line. What'cha think? Have a different name suggestion?


OH! And as I was taking the pics of the top, I noticed this lil' drawing on the wall under the light. Cailtyn must have hung it this afternoon when I was chain-piecing away! How funny!


With the TooGood top done, I wasn't ready to hang up the rotary cutter yet, so I dug out the fabrics I set aside for the Dizzy - QOV Mystery and started cutting all the fabric out. I wasn't going to cut everything out originally, but it's nice to have all the pieces ready to go. Two clues have come out since the cutting directions have been posted, so I think this is what I'll work on when I have some quilting time downstairs this weekend.

OH! And I can't wait until my Stash Report on Sunday! I'll be back in the black for sure! I'm sitting at 10.826 yards used this week due to all the cutting I've done over the past two days!

Happy Weekend!

Friday Night Sew-in : signup

I haven't signed up for the Friday Night Sew In before, but why not??? I plan on sewing anyway!!! Head on over and join in for a chance to win some giveaways.