Feedsack Fabric Sale and I have already been blessed

I am selling all my vintage feedsack fabric to pay for the car I bought for Claire and Sophia. After I bought the car for them, the father of these two angels told me he went to move his wife's car and it died. So all the money I make from selling my feedsack fabric will go to help me pay for this car for the girls. I want to get the car paid off as soon as possible so I can turn the title over to the parents. Until then the car is in my name. I already had a wonderful lady buy a doll quilt and she was so generous - she wanted to help the twins and I feel so blessed already!


Getting Claire ready to be weighed

Sophia


E-mail me at paltier@rpj-aps.com with an offer for the piece your intested in. Friday morning I will award the fabric to best offer. If two people want the same piece and one offer is higher than the other, the higher offer will win. I don't want to get into a bidding war - if that was the case I would put this on e-bay. I will post more fabric every day until all of it has been posted. Once you have won the fabric I will e-mail you my address, you send me your check including $1.00 per piece to help with the postage. As soon as I received your check which will have your address on it, I will mail you your fabric. If you get your fabric and are not happy with it, contact me and we will work something out. I want you to be 100% happy with your purchase. Thank you in advance in helping me out with this mission!

Item D: I have one piece of this fun clown feedsack. It measures 43" x 36" and has one small brown spot.



Item C: I have two pieces of this red, green, and cream floral. There is a little brown spotting on both pieces, but there is lots of useable fabric. They both measure 49" x 36". You can buy one or both pieces.



Item B: I have one piece of this pink, navy and white crackle print. It is 36" x 43" with a 5" x 6" piece cut out of one corner. I used that piece in my Millennium quilt.



Item A: I have three pieces of this blue and pinky coral floral
41 1/2" x 36 1/2" there is a small hem at each end of this piece
38" x 36"
42" x 36"
You can purchase one, two, or all three if you want.

The dress

I have been doing everything and anything to avoid fixing this dress! I finally made myself turned off The Karate Kid - the old one which I have seen before and I was watching just to avoid working on the dress. I took in the sides of the bodice and next was taking out the pockets in the skirt and putting them back in. It turned out not to be as difficult as I had imagined. I just took it one step and one pocket at a time. Then I got the skirt sewn back onto the bodice at the side seams where I had to take it apart for moving the pockets. I still need to smooth out the top of the bodice where I took the side seams in. The front and the back don't match anymore. I do have to take in the interfacing with the boning in it to match the new size also. Then it will be onto hemming. Besides the dress, there is an underskirt with two layers - one is a polyester type fabric with a small rolled hem and the other is netting which I can just cut off. I probably won't have any time tonight to work on it since I am delivering the car tonight. Since the dress is being picked up Thursday night, that leaves me Wednesday night to get it done. No messin' about on Wednesday!

Back from Charm, Ohio

We had a busy two days at the quilt shop. The area was crowded with lots of people and parking was hard to find. I bought a few things - 15 yards of Kona snow that was an excellent price and some fabric pictured here for pillow cases for nieces and nephews for Christmas.


I bought 3 yards of the black with white dots at 20% off $5.00 a yard and almost 11 yards of the fabric with the guitar lingo at the same price. I plan on keeping the guitar lingo fabric for my nephew's graduation quilt which will be 6 years from now. It was such cool fabric that was perfect for him (he is the fantastic guitar player) I just had to get it.

Purchase

Yesterday at lunch I decided to buy this


for Claire and Sophia.


A family member had twin girls and the mother had a junk car. I could not let her worry about taking those two babies in a possibly unsafe car.

Now I need to pay for it. I plan on selling all my feedsacks, Cat's Meow buildings, vintage quilts, and some of my dutch wax african fabric sash to help pay for the car. I will let you know when I get my e-bay account set up. If you are interested in any of these items, contact me before I put them on e-bay and maybe we can work a deal. Please pass the word around for me. I know the quilting community is so fantastic and will support me in the effort to raise some extra cash for these two precious bundles! Claire weighted 4.47 and Sophia was 4.06. They were born at 34 weeks so they will be in NICU for a few weeks. They are both breathing on there own - Claire is doing really well, but Sophia is having some breathing issues.

No pictures post

I have been busy with a family member lately - nothing bad - so I have not been home much to get anything done. I am heading to Charm, OHio on Friday and Saturday to work at Miller's Dry Goods Quilt Shop and work during Charm Days. If you come to the store please say hello to me! I have blonde/light brown curly hair, glasses, and usually work at the cutting table farthest from the door next to the quilting fabric. Most of the women that work are Amish, so I will be pretty easy to pick out!

I thought the dressers were done

Well here they are with their hardware on. I didn't realize until the green dresser was delivered that I should have painted the bottom stretcher. I may have to do a little touch up work to cover that up. The farther away you are from it the more noticeable it is.

Saturday an x-cousin came with her daughter and brought me a bunch of alterations to do. I am not looking forward to doing them, but she had been a good friend over the years so I will do it for her.

Third coat was the charm

After mowing the grass I headed back to painting. I know these probably don't look any different in this picture from the last picture I posted, but they really look good now with that third coat of paint. Instead of rolling it on I brushed a coat on then laid it off with the roller. Finally the coverage I was looking for. I will still need to put a third coat on the baseboard trim on the green dresser and a second coat in the green drawers, but I feel like I kept to the schedule fairly close and will have this job finished for the weekend.

I have a couple a pairs of pants I need to hem for pick up by someone tomorrow and while I was at a meeting for 2 hours and 45 minutes I made out my impossible list for the weekend. I will just cross things off as I get them done and see how much I can accomplish. Have a great weekend!