christmas vacation

i have been gone physically and mentally i guess i have burn out i think from all activity and my husband decided we would go away for christmas something i have never in 47 yrs done i always go to my momms for christmas so im going to bore you with some pics ok?

lots of star fish all around this area all colors and sizes i wnet down and collected a few for a cameo later before we left

christmas lights

my husband on christmas day snorkel

this was the secrets wild orchid preferred side in montego bay only a few min.from the airport since we only had 5 days usually we to stay in negril when we go to jamaicabut it takes over an hour to get their and obviously everyone goes to jamaica on christmas i hav never seen so many people in immigration ever they said its always like that on christmas eve

the front entrance

on the beach

 a pair o peacocks came around at breakfast

well thats it for today i have today off he had to work maybe get in some sewin

have a great ond

diana

buns and not much else

not much sewing or any fun stuff goin onwe make cookies and candy at work for the customers for 2 weeks and that kinda burns me out making for family

this is what i took to my work x-mas party last night i also made jambalaya and homemade sea salt caramels they melt in your mouth

it also snowed a little yesterday if you look close at the pic below

 my husband is working night so and im afraid to do any freemotion in the next room it does make a lot of noise going that fast i dont want to wake him

we are going out of town next week bought a new dress and its tiny and very thin so a little less food and a little harder workouts and extra runs this week my plan is to wear it the first night to dinner and not alot of getting up and down so as to not draw alot of attention to myself did i mention how thin it is and red ! im sure noone will notice just keep telling myself ILL NEVER SEE THESE PEOPLE AGAIN

 i still have to tell my mother we wont be there i think im done tho with shopping  i have to take my summer in the park quilt to be quilted this week i hope!

swimwear in december

can you tell these are the same without a code ?

do you know how hard it is to find swimwear in dec that fits and doesn cost a fortune hard but when you add incompitence( sorry for the spelling ) on the sellers part it is just my luck i find two that i like are not expensive at amazon and they are shipped fast i get them today and they are 2 of the same suit WHAT how i can tell the difference without looking at a number had to send back a dress today to i guess im done venting today

miss eloise quilt finished and brittle

i finished the label and sewed it on at work on sunday and snipped all those loose threads fixed a loose seam i foundand its ready to ship to florida today

i love the backing ins zoology i had  a hard time getting it everyone was out and i love it ists not

 direction and very busy for my not professional quilting skills thats a plus !

her name is so long i had to make another label i ran out of room



i did a design in the center and stipple around itan open leaf with a loop in each of the 9 patch blocks continued the swirl in the second border you cant see a swirls in thefirts white and did the leaf again in the outerim alwasy afraid the blueor whatever i mark with will not wash out after all that that would be awful to have permanant blue in those all whit blocks and i use 2 shout color catchers in the laundry when i use precuts i dont wash them before

i have to tell you about this brittle its got saltine crackers as the base cooked caramel topping bake it 8 min spread butterscotch chips on top then toasted almonds and is to die for !!crazy i know but as you can see th th left bubba thought it was a plate for him it will be on the cookie table today cant leave this at home i had to make more chex mix to i add extra butter and they love it

later!have a great day

diana

5 today

hard to believe it my little baby is 5 today on valentines day my husband drove me 3 hrs one way to pick this little bundle he was against it but i had had a hard time after haveing to put down my 11 yr corgy thought i would not want another house dog but i decided i needed another love we picked her up drove half way home and she began to cough terrible by the time i got her home and to the vet first thing i had gotten a pup with a bad case of kennel cough she was so tiny we really thought she was not going to live we held her and layed in bed with her i cant believe someone would let this get so bad they must have given her something to keep her quiet and it wore off later i was furious but already in love!and so was my husband now he takes her everywhere possible  and she is so spoiled her big brother bubba looks after also i cant imagine my life without a dog in it they are such comedians oh and my 5 cats well thats it for today getting some binding on i hope today
have a great one !
diana

i know you know its dec 2 2012

i know its dec 2 but i cant believe i took the dogs for a run this morning in shorts and a tank i actually had sweat i think its almost 70 at 7am i have to work all day so it will probably be snowing tomarrow yooksome pictures to post but naturally they havent loaded to google so that will have to wait i went to a craft show yesterday bought a couple things a cute primitive tree and some really reallt good olive oil and some potpouri its called iscotti and it smells really good
will be sending some goodies off tomarrow to a friend and his platoon in aphganistan he dates my neice she really misses him
gotta go talk later
 diana

stitchers garden

so i promised pictures of stitchers garden ill refresh your memory this is an all applique quilt put out by my closest quilt store each block was prequilted on something called battilizer and then added sashing and eventually all sewn together i knew that i could not get the bulk of this huge quilt under my machinne and had a difficult time finding someone to longarm it and still be able to have it quilted and not go in debt to do it apparently stitching in the ditch is custom work and very very expensive really thats all i wanted done and echo around the appliques

and some shots of the owl quilt for eloise i had some thread issues that always fun NOT! 

so that set me back so i had to go over everything with a different thread because the sheen was different the blue will wash out  im thinking about finishing it with an allover leaves and swirl design or leaving it at just the single blocks quilted any ideas ? i have a couple xmas projects to bind i think by machine

also if you need a quick gift i found this adorable tutorial at northern deb of a ornament mug rug

and some random things we have a friend in aphganastan and we are sending boxes of cookies and stuff for the whole platoon for x-mas and i love this chap stick bought the remainder of the box im sending some chicken poop lip balm (theirs really no poop in it i hope )

have a great day your comments are always welcome
diana

not much to share

hi  hope everyone hada  great thanksgiving! went to my moms as usual my husband was actually off this year to go picked up my quilt pics to come got up early drove over an hour in the fog got to town half way through to store and realized i had left the other quilt to be qiuilted at home can you believe it !!! bad words insert here(   )did a little shopping it takes so long for me to get to a town with  a mall or anything i have so much i want to do hobby lobby etc it takes all day then an hour or more drive back home so yesterday i went the other way to town got some cute pillows at taget went to office depotwtook my little angel to petco she loves to shop to i never got to walmart guess thats next week so i got no sewing done i started sewing on the owl quilt using a new cone of sew fine and the thread kept shredding so frustrating if you ever have this happen changed needles cone position everything finally changed thread and had to go over everything because the thread is shiny UGGGtry again tomarrow

well off to get my workout in doin 5rd m100s geuss that makes it m 50s see ya

diana

stitchers garden whoohoo!

well my longarmer called my stitchers garden is done leaving soon to go pick her up soo excited im also gonna do a little x-mas shopping if time allows need to get some done

husband had a heart doc appt yesterday got yelled at again for using a tanning bed but its in my basement and i so enjoy haveing a little color but hes right they are dangerous and bad on skin 

 have the baby quilt all ditched out and now to the quilting but what to do ?

got my machine back nothing wrong just normal they said im fine with that two peolpe looked at it and two sewed with it that have the same machine  be back soon see ya happy thanksgiving 

diana

nothing new boo hoo

i was hoping to show my newly quilted stitchers garden she had told me no later than the 15th of nov but and thats how i roll when i called on wed. the first thing she said is oh diana im trying so i knew it wasnt done but thats ok i had already planned on going to quincy so i went anywayshe said next weeki have my eye on the new janome 8900 i have the 7700 and 6600thought i might trade the 77 for it the accufeed foot drags a little on thicker and where seams meet and that is part of the design to go over those things im taking it up on monday to have the repairman look at it i had one but i dint think he really knows anything except cleaning because it never changed after he looked at ithave to work all weekend its deer season here out of state boys everywhere hopefully a big tip weekendi guess thats all i have to say today have a good day

diana

under cover

from this to this

it is 54x76

49 blocks 6"blocks

24 fence rail 21 nine patch and 4 solid

i have had this fabric and pattern put back since 2009 i didnt remeber what i picked for where did not have enough snowflake fabric for behind the heads so i made it all my own im happy with it and it took less than a week  

it is supposed to be nostalgic noel fabric by pearl louise krush

didnt take long at all after the 9 patches were sewn.  i ironed the applique pieces after work this weekend  my husband worked and was in bed early i try do get some quiet work done i cant quilt the machine wakes him uptheir mouths have to be stitched then sew down heads then ill finish im hoping to get my stithers garden back this week she said no later than the 15/th

also i bought 2 new craftsy classes www.carolannwaugh.com heres the link click on workshop at the top and she has a link for 50% off 2 seperate classes14.99 what a deal!woohoo !

lost photos

my strips for 9 patchesfor snowman blanket

me starting to get off my course leftover strip made a cute ornament project in progress

the beginnings of my add

the front and back freemotion practice

also front and close up this is feather swirl below my thread kept shredding on this one couple changes and donea video that the greenfairy did awile back i just love it                  

 the front

the back>>

and this a x-mas project table runner i did last yr that i need to bind i also played around with different quilting on a throw i will bind and show later

on another not the greenfairy has a sale going on go check it out

A-A-D-D HOW TO TELL YOU HAVE IT

I SWEAR I HAVE ADD I START SOMETHING AND IT DOESNT TAKE LONG IM OFF DOING SOMETHING ELSE MY GOOGLE HASNT UPLOADED THE PICS I TOOK AS USUAL!

I STARTED THE SNOWMWN IN BED AND HAVE IT ALL CUT AND PIECES SEWN HAVE TO MAKE ABOUT 24 9 PATCH BLOCKS EASY RIGHT IT WONT TAKE LONG

WRONG I DECIDE TO SET UP MY TABLES DOWNSTAIRS TO BASTE THE TWO QUILTS SO I DID ONE HAD TO FUDGE THE BACKING USED A TWIN GOT IT ALL ALMOST PINNED GUESS WHAT THE BACKING WASNT PAST ONE END AND YES YOU GUESSED IT I HAD TO UNPIN THEY WHOLE THING ANOTHER HOUR LOST AND FRUSTRATED UGG!!

SO THEN AFTER THAT I BASTED THE HUBBLE HAD BETTER LUCK AND THEN I WAS GOING TO SEW THE BLOCKS TOGETHER NO I THINK ILL DO A LITTLE FREEMOTION QUILTING PRACTICE ON MY ORPHAN BLOCKS THREAD SHREDDING AND ALL NEEDLE CHANGING CUSSING!! BUT I GOT IT LINED OUT EVERY THREAD IS FINICKY AND I SEEM TO HAVE TO SAY A DIFFERENT TYPE NEEDLE FOR THE DIFFERENT WEIGHT I HAVE TO TELL A SHARP NEEDLE AND SILK THREAD I NOW CAN DO PEBBLES AND THEY LOOK GREAT THE 50# STILL DOES BETTER OVERALL QUILTING THOI LIKE ROBINSON ANTON

THAT IS WHAT I USED IN THE BEGINNING WITH MY JANOME

SOME OF THE CRAFTSY CLASSES ARE ON SALE RIGHT NOW AND THEY HAVE REALLY HELPED ME WITH THREAD AND NEEDLES WWW.CRAFTSY.COM  WHICH ONE TO USE FOR WHATKIND OF QUILTING

I MADE A QUILT A FEW YRS AGO AND COULDNT FIND THE PATTERN SO I WENT SEARCHING I REMEMBERED THE FABRIC WAS BLACKBIRD DESIGNS AND THE NAME GARDEN PARTY REALLY IS A PRETTY QUILT AND PRETTY EASY IF YOU WOULD LIKE THE SITE ISwww.unitednotions.com and then garden party blackbird designs it should take you to the download sorry

ok well the pattern isnt there anymore but if you click free patterns they have other

well goin to bed soon have a goodn ight everyone

thanks for stoppin by

diana

clean floor and workout complete

im not sure if anyone reading these posts does any type of exercise heck im not sure enyone reads these posts!!but if you are and do i thought i would post it today

i was a little hard on myself today since i only 2 rds of arms yesterday so i ran 1 mile as fast as comfortably possible 11 min

then did 3 rds of a 10 and 50 sec hiit 6 excersises

and 3 rds of 10 and 50 sec abs exercises by the second rd i wanted to quilt and the second rd of abs my stomach was screaming but i finished and feel great it all took 50 min.

having salsa chicken w/brown rice for lunch i love it made it and took it to work and they scraped the crockpot out clean .if anyone wants recipe or routine

 just leave a comment

 thanks have a great day diana

snowmenand why i dont wait to buy patterns anymore

today i really do need to get a little house cleaning done and i have to get a workout in today the 4.5 mi.and allday at workk sunday really zapped my energy yesterday but i think after that ill get out a couple things i have had stuck back on my to do list ( for yrs)i got a hobbs batting the other day i didnt notice what a high loft it was so i thought i would just tie this quilt at the corners of the blocks i think it will be cute that way this was in fabric trends 2009 and i even bought fabric tucked it in a container all together

a couple goodies i got from primitive gatherings they are wool projects but i think they will be fine in cotton

i have learned if i see a pattern i better go aheas and get it after the last ordeal with the thimbleberries pattern i got off ebay its out of print i saw it at my quilters she was quilting it for someone it was so

cutewith the pumpkins and leaves she even did pillows

some purse pattersn and tote i found the other day the tote i got from hancock of padukah that is where i usually get batting

and the other day i did a few orphan blocks ditched the seams with clear thread to practice quilting on before i start the orphan summer quilti did it with my free motion foot on i think it was much faster and the clear thread was a little finicky but i played around with tension and ggot it real low i got it doneyou cant see if you ride up out ofhte seam if you get it right back it was great i also did the appliqui owl in invisible thread no more changing thread everytime for this girl

now i cant wait to sew binding on my peppermint quilt i played with all last year hoping you have a wonderful day

craftsy

i just ordered the quilting negative space by angela walters on crafsy if you have ever taken and online class you will enjoy these they are very helpful this is the 4th class and they have a free blocks that you can get they have online to i just learned how to stitch in the ditch with clear thread and let me tell you after adjusting the tension its great you dont have to worry about matching thread i am doing it freemotion to you cant see if you have a small boo boo and get out of the ditch a bit i cant sew straight to save my life but actually freemotion i am getting better they also suggest sewing every seam and then quilt i have a bunch if orphan blocks lying around so im practicing on them i can use them for table toppers etc im  having a ball also appliqued the little owl and freemotion embroidered the saying on it much faster than by hand

i also got a couple new patterns and thinking of getting the snowman blocks back out and starting on them again ive had them for yrs the are appliquie one for each month www.modabakeshop.com i might enjoy them now the link is supposed to be down here oh well ill never figure out blogger you get it

pics to come also i saw the moda bake shop has a cute charm pack scarf tut  you must check it out waould make nice x-mas gifts for bosses teachers inlaws etc.have a great day today is my long run day 4 mi. i think ill head for the treadmill not the most enjoyable place but this is my 10 hr work day  too so ill be tired before i go this time change alwasy makes a long day also and its cold!

have a great day!

diana!

short summer quilt

i have been looking at the leftover blocks  i had from (sitp) quilt trying to decide what to do i have several strips left and white jelly roll and it was so fast i thought i would start sewing and really do it scrappy i seem to have a problem with scrappyi just cant do it im afraid it wont look right so here i go like i dont have other things to sew!

see those two hst right in the middle the orange and the yellow together i cant stand it i have to rip it out the whole row! why its just for me i am going to practice quilting on it its 62 square 

here it is i probably could have finished it in 2 hrs but i found another block wrong it really is and easy forgiving patterni cut the jelly rolls and sewed end to end and used white jelly roll for borders

all leftover i bought 3 jelly rolls because i didn want the big one scrappy i needed some similarity in the blocks

enough for 4 pillows i really had leftover if you scroll down you will see the difference in the two quilts

this is what the mailman brought new thread im going to use the clear for stitching in the ditch and 

the rose color is for the lettering on the owl quilt

but im not sure its thick enough i bought some silk and trilobal poly superior off there site not as fast as red rock thread one day longer

well thats about it for me today some ironing of fat quarters maybe before bed

see ya diana

free motion and halloween pictures

i little freemotion practice i need to embroider on the owl quilt i think i might freemotion it soo scarey i could ruin it but ill never know if i dont try wish me luck i gues i can always rip it out

i got my first bom of sew spooky finally!! its been on backorder i have pics later

pics of my beautiful ghost

 i know i know im a little weird

jeanie

bride/nun

and then a little frosting for being such a good model

she prefers duncan hines cream cheese (so do i )shhhh