Better than nothing

My evening was taken up with a hair appointment so by the time I got home I didn't have much time to quilt. I got a little bit more done on the yellow shirt and that is better than nothing!

I have a dentist appointment today to hopefully get my gold filling cemented back in. I am thinking maybe something else is going on and that is why it fell out. I will let you know tomorrow!

Started on the Harley quilt

First thing I had to do was mow and trim the grass last evening. It was long! Of course, I just got started with the trimming and the string trimmer ran out of string. It was a struggle to get the thing apart. I managed with the use of a small hammer to get it apart and get the string wound on the spool. At least the mower started on the fourth or fifth pull. After the front was done, I had some dinner watched the news and went to bed. I was tired. This morning I was up early and got started on quilting the Harley quilt. It isn't much, but it is better than a stick in the eye! I wanted to nail down the logo first. I find that if I quilt the background first, a large logo like that poofs up and is harder to get flat. You can just see on the back of the quilt the lines I quilted around the logo.

31 days to get this quilt done. Yikes!

I think I have lost my mind!

It was a busy Easter! I did spend time quilting on the 16 patch quilt and it is now 65% quilted. I did fold it up and put the Harley quilt next to my sewing machine. I will start quilting it tonight. I have 32 days to get it finished.

Saturday I went to visit family and take them to lunch. There is a quilt shop where they live so I had to stop and shop the moving sale. I think I have lost my mind with all this fabric shopping I have done lately! I found great fabrics on the $2.99 rack and on the 40% off the last lowest price rack. Everything else was 20% off. The lady prices most of her fabric at $8 and $9; a few are priced at $10. I need to make more baby quilts so I bought yellows, pinks, blues, and aqua with the thought of lights, mediums, and darks to go with what I already have. I have most of the fabric washed and ready to go. I ended up with 35.38 yards for an average of $5.26 a yard before tax.

I took the family out to Texas Roadhouse for lunch. It was nice because they weren't very busy at 1:30-2:00. I brought my leftovers home. Later on that evening I was hungry so I put my leftovers on a plate, put them in the microwave, then went downstairs to eat. I was looking at my rice and there was something odd in it. I found a gold filling! At first I thought someone at the Roadhouse lost their filling in my rice, but I felt around my mouth and here it was mine! How it ended up in my rice I have no idea! I am just glad I found it and it doesn't hurt. I called the dentist and left a message. They will call me today and hopefully I can get in quick and get this taken care of. Yes, it is quite a chunk of gold!

Sunday I went to my brother's house for lunch. I passed out boxy pouches again this year to everyone and they were all happy to get another one. I received an 8" chocolate bunny and some other treats.

I also came home with a check for fixing those clothes a while back and more things that need fixed including a drapery panel that the side hem came apart.

45% quilted

Quilting the 16 patch quilt is addicting. I just can't stop! I now have 41 of the 90 blocks quilted.

I am down to 35 days until I have to have the Harley quilt

done, so I guess I had better switch gears and start working on it this weekend.

Have a wonderful Easter!

Better than nothing

I had a long day yesterday. I left for work at 5:30 a.m. and didn't get home until 5 p.m. You do the math. I made some dinner, did a load of laundry and only had the energy to run thru one bobbin on the 16 patch quilt. Getting a little done is better than nothing!

I did get the woven iron on interfacing I ordered from HomeSew. I use this for the boxy pouches. It is 60" wide and a little over 5 bucks a yard. I bought 5 yards. I think this is the best woven iron on interfacing I have used.

I finally got around to contacting Cuisinart about the pan I bought in December. Here is the pan with mac and cheese in it.

I like this pan except that the bottom is not flat. When I go to stir something without holding a handle the pan rocks and spins. That drives me crazy! I had to send customer service pictures so I put a ruler across the bottom so they could see that the bottom was not flat.

I couldn't find an All Clad pan with the two grab handles. All they had was one with one grab handle and one long handle. The two other All Clad pans I bought have flat bottoms and sit on my glass top perfectly. Yes I paid a lot more for them than what the Cuisinart pan cost me, but I still wasn't expecting the Cuisinart pan to have a rounded bottom. We will see what happens with this.

More babies

More babies means giving more baby quilts. I got the labels on two quilts and they are ready for gifting. This is the last girl quilt I have on hand and I have three more boy quilts. I guess I had better get busy making more girl quilts.

I spent some time last evening doing some cooking and I cleaned my kitchen floor somewhat. The floor is tile and it needs a good hands on my knees scrubbing especially in the grout lines. That is a job I am dreading. At least the steam mop got the tiles looking much better.

Progress on the 16 patch and Harley quilt

I got a bit more quilted on the 16 patch quilt. I now have 31 of the 90 blocks quilted.

I still need a few more safety pins to finish pin basting the Harley quilt so I will continue to quilt the 16 patch until I get enough pins. If I just didn't have to go to my job every day I could get a lot more done! LOL!!!