ONE OF MY TALENTED SONS

My Army son sent this foto to me tonight.


He took it at the arboretum here in Houston last month. I don't know where he gets this talent, but he's an excellent photographer, don't you agree? No website yet but there's one in the works.




Take it easy. I have three grueling days of work ahead of me, starting in the morning. Twelve hour shifts each day. But still, I thank God for my job. Things could be worse.


Have a wonderful weekend! I'll check back Sunday.

Kathygirl

Buy My Son a Tree

My son Ken has his own blog. Hey, it's a pretty good one. You will enjoy it if you go on over there and take a look.

He came up with an idea. Instead of the "If you like this post, buy me a beer" he prefers a tree.

So I added a link down on the left of my blogspot so you can give this guy a tree. Go take a look and if you need any advice, you can Ask Ken.

May we hav tree pleez?

Kathygirl

Finally getting to the quilt

My daughter is putting the thumb screws to me.

She wants her quilt.

Now mind you, the Other Daughter.. well HER quilt is stuck in the Netherworld (lovingly called The Closet) because I hit a snag with it. And SHE never mentions it.

But this here daughter, she's the baby.

You know how they are.

So I started tonight.

First I decided not to use my Janome, but will serge the whole thing. So I managed... don't ask how... to get it out from behind and around and through.. and dusted it off, did a trial run. Not up to specs. It runs fine but the stitch was a bit of a pucker. Unplug. Move.

Out comes the Brother PQ1500. This is a real workhorse. I also had it behind and over... had nick nacks on it for goodness sakes. Dusted it too and polished it up, had to get the book out because it had been tooooooo long!

And so I started. Just a simple thing. This quilt is for the guest room. My daughter has applied to be a foster parent. So the quilt must be equally suitable for boy or girl.

Last time she was in town, we went to Joann's and fabric shopped. Got the fabric. There it sat. Too much text messaging here. So I decided to use simple 8" blocks with no sashing. And my friend will do an all over stipple for me, it will look nice. And I can get backing with a faint design, then it can be reversible. That sounds good.

Got a few blocks together and it didn't take much to see that I will be hunting for additional fabric, cause I didn't get enough! sigh.

Our dog-person Nikki gives it her stamp of approval.

So guess where I'll be tomorrow? Yuh. Joann's. They'll be glad to see me. I do a lot of selling for them while I'm there, just making suggestions to this stranger or that... oh, you know how it is!!

Later, y'all

Kathygirl

Our quilt wings its way to Saskatchewan

My yahoo group sent in blocks and I put them all together for Jodie of JDSClipart. Her little cutie, Izzy, is seen here enjoying her quilts and diaper bag. Isn't she something? A real live doll.
Why can't everyone do something like this? Are you in a group in the neighborhood or on the internet? Round up some people and have them send in blocks. People LOVE to do this stuff.
Put them together like I did and then finish off the quilt. It brings a lot of joy into someone's life. I have a luv quilt myself that I received from an internet group. To say it's special is a total understatement.
Life is short. Make a difference in someone's life.
Think about it.
Kathygirl

Welcome to my little cyber space in the digiworld

Welcome to my little place in the universe. I'm just an average Jane, got my own little website where I offer digitized embroidery designs... and my group site with a nice number of members.
So why a blog?
You tell me! What's the big deal about blogs? Who cares what a stranger thinks? Who cares what I think?
Well, maybe someone does. Or maybe you just need a smile every now and then.
What's my focus?

SEWING!
MACHINE EMBROIDERY!
TRICKS OF THE TRADE!
and other musings.
What about the Dreaded Netherworld... CLUTTER!
Excuse me while I go gag.

Speaking of clutter. Where does all the space go? When I got this house, I loved how BIG my room was!! Now it's MINISCULE! Okay. I have unfinished projects, lovingly called UFOs... several block of the month sets that I just had to have and I knew that I would certainly finish them. NOT.
You know that darling fabric that shouted out BUY ME!!! Yuh, I bought it and it's sitting there and goodness knows what I'll make with it.
I got this brilliant idea. Go to Goodwill and get jeans to make a rag edge quilt. The day I went, jeans were fifty cents each. I got the 12 largest sizes I could find that were in good shape. I haven't even cut them yet. BUT THEY'RE THERE IF I EVER DECIDE TO.
Now I am to the point where my books are taking over. My friend Cora, who tells it like it is, even ruthlessly.. says "But do you need it?" So I went to half.com and found out that some of the books I was going to get rid of were selling for over $100 each. So nix on that idea, Cora. Then she came up with a really good idea. Make bookshelves under the window. She said her father used those glass cubes for the spacers and boards for the shelves. This is workable. So this is my project. As I look at the area lovingly called "the floor" but in truth is "the books" I can see them all orderly in fancy boxes on my new shelves. First I have to price the glass spacers. I suspect they are not cheap. And so maybe they will be something other than that, but they will be SOMETHING... and I'll actually see my floor again. The good side of this is that the carpet looks like new under those books. Yes!
I'll keep you posted on this project.
Kathygirl