Sew Day Saturday

Today is Sew Day for the QGA guild but I won't be going for very long. I have finished piecing all my stars for the Saints quilt so now I have to embroidery scores on each. My big BabyLock does not travel so I will be having my sew day at home.

However, I will be going to town to pick up Pape's new cpu. Watching him try to get his old, 10 year old, computer on the internet is painful (2 hours or more before it gets there and then 30 minutes to get on a site) so we went order a new cpu for him yesterday. It should be ready this morning.

My plans for today are to 1) embroider the 12 scores I have left to do; 2) work on the circles for the Dresden Plates.

I got up at 4:30 am which is too early for anyone to get up on a Saturday morning with nothing planned. But it is quiet so I worked in sewing room and next I will sweep hall and living room. Lee is shedding for the very first time in 5 years. It is time for a visit to the vet and a complete grooming. He says NO but I say Yes!

Lator, Gators. See you on Stash Report Sunday! Have a blessed holiday.

WIP Wednesday

I finished all 3 presentations and didn't have a heart attack. I was complimented on the information presented and the entertaining way I presented it. People from the Tuesday morning meeting even went home and told others that it was worth going to the night meeting to hear. One person even told me that they had expected me to give a very boring quiet dull lecture about labeling based on what they saw of my personality at the meetings, but instead got a action filled, entertaining, information packed, any thing but dull and quiet. She doesn't know it but she made my day and made all the research and preparation worth the effort.

It is a funny thing. I know that I am trained to speak since I am an accomplished Toastmaster with lots of awards to prove it and a 25 year veteran teacher of teenagers. But everytime I have to prepare and give a presentation, my head hurts, my stomach knots up, and I start doubting if I can present the information correctly for the audience.

I really become someone else when I am speaking and then go back to being me at the end of the speech. Maybe I should adopt a costume to wear when I speak. "Blanch the quiltgillor" mmmmm Then I won't be the one getting so nervous just the one researching, writing, and preparing. She would be the one who did the speaking. I really have to develop this idea since I would love to do more presentations on certain aspects of quilting.

I got to sew on my saints stars today....I didn't finish any stars since we had to go places and I had homework duty. But I have 6 almost finished and the flying geese made for 6 more. It should go faster Friday since I can finished 2 blocks and embroidery them while I construct the other 8 I will need.

I think I will use old dryer sheets to turn the circle centers of the dresden plates. Can't hurt to try!!!

I have a very busy Thursday planned and will need an early start to get everything done. From Doctor's appt. for Pape , trip to Spirit's doctor, trip to BR to pick up Kristin, (Pape will help her get paper work for her car), shortened homework duty, then trip back to BR to bring Kristin back, trip home, and racing if not too tired.

Well, lator gators! Have a blessed Thursday and a grand Weekend. See you on Sunday for Stash Report and Monday for Design Wall. I hope to have lots to show.

Design Wall & Stash Report Combo

I bought a new computer last week so as of this moment it does not have a word process on it so I do not know the previous numbers for my stash report.
Installation of programs will come after Tuesday probably Saturday.

Stash Report:

Added this week: 6 yards for the saints quilt

2 yards of fat quarters with veggie prints

1/4 yard of Halloween fat quarter.

Total this week: 8 1/4 yards

Used this week: 2 yards of black - squares of saints quilt

1 yard of black & gold - star points

3 yards of muslin for presentation sussies

Total this week: 6 yards

Net this week: -2 1/4 yards but I am working.

This past week I worked on my presentations and got thru the first one. With a few computer

problems, it went well. I found out where I needed to improve and what to add to provide more information. The guild members and the guests all loved the sussie I gave them to color. LOL

The hardest part of getting ready for these presentations is preparing the fabric for printing. Cutting the freezer paper, ironing the muslin, cutting muslin to size, and ironing freezer paper to the muslin was very time consuming. I got the 20 witches printed and the 210 mojoes printed

and learned lots about using Bubble Jet solution.LOL Tomorrow is the next presentation - the big one! Honestly, I have butterflies by the thousands fluttering in my bowels.

Other than the presentation, I have been working on my Saint's

quilt. I have embroidered the first 6 game scores and the center with batting on the back of each square. I intend to put the quilt together using a quilt-as-you-go method where there is different quilting on the back than the front. Hopefully it will work.

I finished the first part of the hand work on the dresden plates. Now I have to hand sew circles, arcs, and pacman symbols. All in all that is going well too.

Well off I go to set up old computer to print for presentation tomorrow. Hopefully, I won't have a

heart attack before the day is over. It will feel so good to get back to sewing especially since I am so close to actually quilting on two quilts..

Lator Gators. Have a blessed week. Check back tomorrow for up dates & pictures of me passing out.