Monday, May 30, 2011
Memorial Day 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Missing Normal
Well everyone at Stella Bella Quilts is missing our normal everyday life.
We are still living like mole people in the dark (well not the cats cause they can see perfectly fine in the dark thankyouverymuch).
We are completely sick of eating every meal out and having to drive to get food and having to drink Starbucks Via in cold water, which is better than nothing....
and better than chewing on coffee beans...
and definitely better than me not having any time of caffeine in the AM (see image right )
Not much else is new.
I did receive two great new quilt books in the mail. The first is Fat Quarter Winners by Monique Dillard.
You may have seen the blog hop for this book last month with Thelma of Cupcakes 'n Daisies
Lisa of Stashmaster, Nicole of Sister's Choice, and of course the author/designer herself Monique.
I love every quilt in this book! Really fabulous designs that would look great in any fabric type. Good clear directions and different sizes for each quilt. I highly recommend this book.
The second book is Jelly Roll Sampler Quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott.
This a another great book by my favorite jelly roll quilt designers! Along with the 12 blocks from the Jelly Roll Sampler Block of the Month that I made for Mackenzie (image at left). There are additional blocks, different size blocks, and different sampler quilt ideas. Another highly recommended book.You can even do a block of the month from the book with your quilting friends or challenge yourself to use up some of those stacks of jelly rolls (and I know you all have stacks of jelly rolls....)
I really hope to be back up and interwebbing and blogging as usual soon. Although I'm not commenting much, I am trying to keep up with everyone's blogs on iVan the iPhone.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend in the U.S.
We are still living like mole people in the dark (well not the cats cause they can see perfectly fine in the dark thankyouverymuch).
We are completely sick of eating every meal out and having to drive to get food and having to drink Starbucks Via in cold water, which is better than nothing....
and better than chewing on coffee beans...
and definitely better than me not having any time of caffeine in the AM (see image right )
Not much else is new.
I did receive two great new quilt books in the mail. The first is Fat Quarter Winners by Monique Dillard.
You may have seen the blog hop for this book last month with Thelma of Cupcakes 'n Daisies
Lisa of Stashmaster, Nicole of Sister's Choice, and of course the author/designer herself Monique.
I love every quilt in this book! Really fabulous designs that would look great in any fabric type. Good clear directions and different sizes for each quilt. I highly recommend this book.
The second book is Jelly Roll Sampler Quilts by Pam and Nicky Lintott.
This a another great book by my favorite jelly roll quilt designers! Along with the 12 blocks from the Jelly Roll Sampler Block of the Month that I made for Mackenzie (image at left). There are additional blocks, different size blocks, and different sampler quilt ideas. Another highly recommended book.You can even do a block of the month from the book with your quilting friends or challenge yourself to use up some of those stacks of jelly rolls (and I know you all have stacks of jelly rolls....)I really hope to be back up and interwebbing and blogging as usual soon. Although I'm not commenting much, I am trying to keep up with everyone's blogs on iVan the iPhone.
Hope everyone has a wonderful Memorial Day weekend in the U.S.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Good Thing I Stocked Up on Extra Fortitude
I'm back. Briefly. I missed you all and have been trying to read and catch up on my iPhone. Thank you for all your sweet comments, especially *karendianne who I need to get back to.
Where to start with the events of Friday, May 13th, 2011...
Things that had a high probability of happening that day but did not:
No one (human or cat) hurt or even singed
No one (human or cat) electrocuted
House didn't explode
No major smoke damage
No big flames
Things that did happen (short version):
I took Friday off of work because I was tired and stressed out and needed a mental health day. Day did not turn out as planned. I had a house fire caused by crossed Georgia Power service wires at a neighboring vacant house. The positive and negative wires crossed, sending electric current through the ground along natural gas lines and water lines to my house. Smoke. Melting electric wires in my house. Got two of the four cats out of the house. Fire department came and could not stop current, kept gas lines cool with water as the lines were burning white-hot until Georgia Power came and cut my power lines. Current still traveling through the house. More Georgia Power people come, finally figure out problem and cut service at vacant house. This stops the current from electrifying the ground, my house and everything touching the ground at my house, and some electrical surge problems and fried wires in the neighborhood. Total elapsed time of event: from a little after 12:15PM until 8:30 or so PM.
S., cats, and I are fine. My insurance is taking care of everything. Everything is fine and will be returned to normal. We were very lucky and very thankful that nothing horrible happened (see list above of what could have happened--no exaggeration).
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Public Service Announcement Portion of This Post:
(I have all the following and it really helped in this emergency)
Please make sure you have an emergency or disaster plan and supplies for yourself, other people, and pets.
Make sure you have fire extinguishers (even though in my case this didn't help much but maybe helped a little).
Make sure you have good house/renters insurance.
If you think there is a problem, call the fire dept. and police immediately. They are there to help you and are the best people (who should be getting paid a lot better than they do)
Keep your phone by you at all time and know where your keys are.
*********************************************************
For those of you who want a long version of the event of Friday 13th:
I really needed a day off of work so mid-last-week I decided to take Friday off and stay home, watch Dr. Who and sew. About noon or so, I smelled a weird smell. Edgar Poe did too and we both were looking under the couch, thinking it was coming from the air conditioner. Nope. Lights flickered, TV flickered, and I went into the kitchen. An electrical outlet for my stove was smoking and sparked. Whoa! I grabbed a pot holder and pulled out the plug (note: you are not supposed to do this...). I took off the cover plate (don't do this either) to see if there was flames in the wall or anything. Nothing but still smoky so I called 911 for the fire dept.
Got cat carriers, grabbed purse and keys, and Morpheus and Gomez into two carriers and took them out to my truck into truck they go. Go back into house (you are not supposed to do this). Smoke alarms going off. Looked for Edgar Poe and Stella. Stella had crawled under the dust cover in the box spring and was up inside my bed. Saw Edgar and picked him up. He was WAY scared and bit my right forearm hard. Dropped him and he disappeared. Fire dept comes roaring up (from 4 stations with 5 trucks) and I have to get out of the house. There is smoky haze in the tall crawlspace under the house (at some point I had unlocked the door to the crawlspace and opened it up but I don't remember when).
Firefighters go through the house, up into the attic, under the house, all around, no flames, just light hazy smoke, they turn off all the circuit breakers and determine that it is an electrical problem and tell me to call electrician. House is given the all clear. They leave. I go into house, call S. (who is out of town), and call electrician. Cats get carried back inside and let out of carriers. My arm and shirt are a mess of blood so I wash it off and put some antibiotic ointment and a bandage on it. Change shirt.
Electrician comes, changes out outlet by the stove, the stove electric cord is melted. He checks the circuit breakers and checks the voltage coming into the house. Voltage should be coming in at 120 v. Voltage in my house is coming in at 202 v. We go outside and check meters. Voltage is too high. Electrician calls Georgia Power to come out and he notices that the neutral service line from my house to the power co. pole is snapped. Electrician resets the breakers that are OK at 120 v. and leaves.
Georgia Power guy comes and splices a repair to the neutral line. He checks voltage coming into meters. I asked him "Is it now at 120 volts not at 202?" He says "yes" and he leaves.Call S. and tell him story. S. is on his way home. It is around 3:30 or so. Maybe 4PM
No sooner had his truck disappeared down the road and I go back into house then all craziness happens. The wires in the closet with the circuit breaker boxes are melting and smoking. OMG!!! What the #$@%^#*!!! I grab fire extinguisher and spray the wires (note for future reference: fire extinguishers are filled with very fine yellow powder that makes a huge mess and gets all in your lungs--don't breathe at all if you use one in a closed space!) Alarms going off again. I run outside, S. drives up, I say "you need to help me" I give him the phone and I open the crawlspace door again. He goes into house and calls GA Power main phone # back. Smoke is coming out from under the house and I smell burning wood. I go back into house and say "call 911 the house is on fire" S. hangs up with GA Power and calls fire dept. I go to find cats. I find Morpheus (who was asleep bless his heart) and Stella. Into carriers they go and back out to the truck. Go back in and can't find Edgar or Gomez.
S. gets a hold of the GA Power guy that was at my house and tells him he has to come back. The guy says he'll be here in 30 minutes. S. says "I don't have 30 minutes! My house is on fire!!!!" (I love him for this!) Fire dept. (same guys, same trucks) come roaring up. They see natural gas lines are glowing white-hot and don't let us near the house. They turn off the gas at the meter and keep water on the lines to keep them cool. I am hovering and wringing my hands because Edgar and Gomez are still in the house. I call the electrician to come back to the house. Time gets very slow. Firemen go in and out of house. All the circuit breakers are off and there is still electricity coming into house. More wires are burning. The firefighters spray water in the closet with the breaker boxes. Electrician comes. Much puzzling on what is happening with the house.
Georgia Power comes and cuts the lines from my house to the pole. Wires laying in my yard are still live (this definitely should not happen). Electricity is still traveling along gas lines and water lines. GA Power guy calls more GA Power guys. Firefighters go door-to-door telling neighbors there is a big problem. At a school two blocks away, there is a telephone pole that is supported by wires and the wires are red-hot and melting. The electrician says that there is a problem at a neighboring house that is causing all this. After much time, Georgia Power discovers the crossed positive and negative lines at the vacant house and turn off the power to that house.
Current stops. It's now 8PM or so. Most of the firefighters leave. Electrician leaves. GA Power leaves. I call insurance company. The last firefighters leave and we are given all clear. I clean up mess in the back hall and bathroom. We get flash lights and bottled water. Go to bed exhausted with scared cats. I realize that if I had not been home, I could have lost everything. I realize that at any time seriously bad things could have happened--while we were sleeping, while we were watching TV, while we were at work. I don't sleep very well.
Saturday--I think I was on the phone all day. My insurance is taking care of everything and will try to recoup my deductible from GA Power as GA Power is responsible for their service lines and maintaining them. By Saturday evening my cat bite is infected, my arm swollen and red, and I feel feverish. I probably should have gone to the emergency room but my health insurance won't pay for it, so I wait and go to urgent care Sunday AM.
Sunday--get tetanus shot and antibiotics. I think I was on the phone all day this day too.
Monday-Thursday--phone calls. Insurance is taking care of everything. Phone calls. All wiring needs replaced. All gas lines need replaced. Once electricity is back on, heating and air company needs to come check systems. Insulation around ductwork melted off and needs replacing. Who knows the status of all our appliances, electronics, my Bernina(!!!), etc. until electricity is repaired. I visit Becky and do laundry. I visit Karin and do laundry. My friends are wonderful. I take vacation days from work all week. Cats recover. I clean out my sewing room for something to do. I don't have hot coffee in the AM and drink Starbucks Via in cold water. I am quietly stressed out all week and just try to deal with the zillion of things that need to be done.
Friday--electricians start work removing all wiring. I am angry at the elderly lady who has been in a nursing home and left her house vacant for the past 8 or 10 years with the electricity on. I am angry at whoever are her relations for not selling the house and letting it deteriorate. Georgia Power guy says maybe squirrels chewed on the wires. I don't care what happened to the wires, they should have been maintained. I nearly lost everything. I go to Thimbles sewing group but I am headachy and my allergies are horrible from breathing dust and smoke and fire extinguisher powder. I get some ice cream on the way home and S. and I eat melted ice cream in the dark in my kitchen. This week deserves to end with my favorite Bruster's ice cream (chocolate raspberry truffle) melted or not.
The End
Where to start with the events of Friday, May 13th, 2011...
Things that had a high probability of happening that day but did not:
No one (human or cat) hurt or even singed
No one (human or cat) electrocuted
House didn't explode
No major smoke damage
No big flames
Things that did happen (short version):
I took Friday off of work because I was tired and stressed out and needed a mental health day. Day did not turn out as planned. I had a house fire caused by crossed Georgia Power service wires at a neighboring vacant house. The positive and negative wires crossed, sending electric current through the ground along natural gas lines and water lines to my house. Smoke. Melting electric wires in my house. Got two of the four cats out of the house. Fire department came and could not stop current, kept gas lines cool with water as the lines were burning white-hot until Georgia Power came and cut my power lines. Current still traveling through the house. More Georgia Power people come, finally figure out problem and cut service at vacant house. This stops the current from electrifying the ground, my house and everything touching the ground at my house, and some electrical surge problems and fried wires in the neighborhood. Total elapsed time of event: from a little after 12:15PM until 8:30 or so PM.
S., cats, and I are fine. My insurance is taking care of everything. Everything is fine and will be returned to normal. We were very lucky and very thankful that nothing horrible happened (see list above of what could have happened--no exaggeration).
*****************************************************
Public Service Announcement Portion of This Post:
(I have all the following and it really helped in this emergency)
Please make sure you have an emergency or disaster plan and supplies for yourself, other people, and pets.
Make sure you have fire extinguishers (even though in my case this didn't help much but maybe helped a little).
Make sure you have good house/renters insurance.
If you think there is a problem, call the fire dept. and police immediately. They are there to help you and are the best people (who should be getting paid a lot better than they do)
Keep your phone by you at all time and know where your keys are.
*********************************************************
For those of you who want a long version of the event of Friday 13th:
I really needed a day off of work so mid-last-week I decided to take Friday off and stay home, watch Dr. Who and sew. About noon or so, I smelled a weird smell. Edgar Poe did too and we both were looking under the couch, thinking it was coming from the air conditioner. Nope. Lights flickered, TV flickered, and I went into the kitchen. An electrical outlet for my stove was smoking and sparked. Whoa! I grabbed a pot holder and pulled out the plug (note: you are not supposed to do this...). I took off the cover plate (don't do this either) to see if there was flames in the wall or anything. Nothing but still smoky so I called 911 for the fire dept.
Got cat carriers, grabbed purse and keys, and Morpheus and Gomez into two carriers and took them out to my truck into truck they go. Go back into house (you are not supposed to do this). Smoke alarms going off. Looked for Edgar Poe and Stella. Stella had crawled under the dust cover in the box spring and was up inside my bed. Saw Edgar and picked him up. He was WAY scared and bit my right forearm hard. Dropped him and he disappeared. Fire dept comes roaring up (from 4 stations with 5 trucks) and I have to get out of the house. There is smoky haze in the tall crawlspace under the house (at some point I had unlocked the door to the crawlspace and opened it up but I don't remember when).
Firefighters go through the house, up into the attic, under the house, all around, no flames, just light hazy smoke, they turn off all the circuit breakers and determine that it is an electrical problem and tell me to call electrician. House is given the all clear. They leave. I go into house, call S. (who is out of town), and call electrician. Cats get carried back inside and let out of carriers. My arm and shirt are a mess of blood so I wash it off and put some antibiotic ointment and a bandage on it. Change shirt.
Electrician comes, changes out outlet by the stove, the stove electric cord is melted. He checks the circuit breakers and checks the voltage coming into the house. Voltage should be coming in at 120 v. Voltage in my house is coming in at 202 v. We go outside and check meters. Voltage is too high. Electrician calls Georgia Power to come out and he notices that the neutral service line from my house to the power co. pole is snapped. Electrician resets the breakers that are OK at 120 v. and leaves.
Georgia Power guy comes and splices a repair to the neutral line. He checks voltage coming into meters. I asked him "Is it now at 120 volts not at 202?" He says "yes" and he leaves.Call S. and tell him story. S. is on his way home. It is around 3:30 or so. Maybe 4PM
No sooner had his truck disappeared down the road and I go back into house then all craziness happens. The wires in the closet with the circuit breaker boxes are melting and smoking. OMG!!! What the #$@%^#*!!! I grab fire extinguisher and spray the wires (note for future reference: fire extinguishers are filled with very fine yellow powder that makes a huge mess and gets all in your lungs--don't breathe at all if you use one in a closed space!) Alarms going off again. I run outside, S. drives up, I say "you need to help me" I give him the phone and I open the crawlspace door again. He goes into house and calls GA Power main phone # back. Smoke is coming out from under the house and I smell burning wood. I go back into house and say "call 911 the house is on fire" S. hangs up with GA Power and calls fire dept. I go to find cats. I find Morpheus (who was asleep bless his heart) and Stella. Into carriers they go and back out to the truck. Go back in and can't find Edgar or Gomez.
S. gets a hold of the GA Power guy that was at my house and tells him he has to come back. The guy says he'll be here in 30 minutes. S. says "I don't have 30 minutes! My house is on fire!!!!" (I love him for this!) Fire dept. (same guys, same trucks) come roaring up. They see natural gas lines are glowing white-hot and don't let us near the house. They turn off the gas at the meter and keep water on the lines to keep them cool. I am hovering and wringing my hands because Edgar and Gomez are still in the house. I call the electrician to come back to the house. Time gets very slow. Firemen go in and out of house. All the circuit breakers are off and there is still electricity coming into house. More wires are burning. The firefighters spray water in the closet with the breaker boxes. Electrician comes. Much puzzling on what is happening with the house.
Georgia Power comes and cuts the lines from my house to the pole. Wires laying in my yard are still live (this definitely should not happen). Electricity is still traveling along gas lines and water lines. GA Power guy calls more GA Power guys. Firefighters go door-to-door telling neighbors there is a big problem. At a school two blocks away, there is a telephone pole that is supported by wires and the wires are red-hot and melting. The electrician says that there is a problem at a neighboring house that is causing all this. After much time, Georgia Power discovers the crossed positive and negative lines at the vacant house and turn off the power to that house.
Current stops. It's now 8PM or so. Most of the firefighters leave. Electrician leaves. GA Power leaves. I call insurance company. The last firefighters leave and we are given all clear. I clean up mess in the back hall and bathroom. We get flash lights and bottled water. Go to bed exhausted with scared cats. I realize that if I had not been home, I could have lost everything. I realize that at any time seriously bad things could have happened--while we were sleeping, while we were watching TV, while we were at work. I don't sleep very well.
Saturday--I think I was on the phone all day. My insurance is taking care of everything and will try to recoup my deductible from GA Power as GA Power is responsible for their service lines and maintaining them. By Saturday evening my cat bite is infected, my arm swollen and red, and I feel feverish. I probably should have gone to the emergency room but my health insurance won't pay for it, so I wait and go to urgent care Sunday AM.
Sunday--get tetanus shot and antibiotics. I think I was on the phone all day this day too.
Monday-Thursday--phone calls. Insurance is taking care of everything. Phone calls. All wiring needs replaced. All gas lines need replaced. Once electricity is back on, heating and air company needs to come check systems. Insulation around ductwork melted off and needs replacing. Who knows the status of all our appliances, electronics, my Bernina(!!!), etc. until electricity is repaired. I visit Becky and do laundry. I visit Karin and do laundry. My friends are wonderful. I take vacation days from work all week. Cats recover. I clean out my sewing room for something to do. I don't have hot coffee in the AM and drink Starbucks Via in cold water. I am quietly stressed out all week and just try to deal with the zillion of things that need to be done.
Friday--electricians start work removing all wiring. I am angry at the elderly lady who has been in a nursing home and left her house vacant for the past 8 or 10 years with the electricity on. I am angry at whoever are her relations for not selling the house and letting it deteriorate. Georgia Power guy says maybe squirrels chewed on the wires. I don't care what happened to the wires, they should have been maintained. I nearly lost everything. I go to Thimbles sewing group but I am headachy and my allergies are horrible from breathing dust and smoke and fire extinguisher powder. I get some ice cream on the way home and S. and I eat melted ice cream in the dark in my kitchen. This week deserves to end with my favorite Bruster's ice cream (chocolate raspberry truffle) melted or not.
The End
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Blogging Break--Back Soon
Hi everyone! Well I am dealing with a household emergency that started with a very lucky, unlucky Friday 13th. I am fine, cats are fine, S. is fine. Everything is OK; I just won't have electricity and internet for awhile. I'll post when I can and I'll be doing some hand stitching this week.
Hope to catch up with everyone via iVan the iPhone in the next couple of days:)
Hope to catch up with everyone via iVan the iPhone in the next couple of days:)
Monday, May 9, 2011
Too Many Books and A Funny for Cat People
Hello and happy Monday (happy because it's one day closer to the next weekend...) I don't have anything new sewing-wise to show today. Yesterday, inspired by Laurie at Crazy Aunt Purl and the fact that my local library was asking for donations for a book sale, I went on a wild tear and sorted through my way-too-many-books book collection. Being a English literature/history/anthropology/historic architecture/cookbook/general collector-type person, all my book shelves were overflowing into piles on the floor (let's not even start to discuss quilt books OK?). I am happy to report that five, full, paper grocery bags of books went bye-bye out the door to new owners and there are no longer piles of books on the floor (however some shelves remain double-stacked).
Why is it so hard to get rid of books? Does anyone else have this problem? What are your attachments to books? I think I still have the university mentality that I'll need some of them for reference again. Or maybe it's because I spent hard-earned money on them. Or went digging through used-book stores for this book or that book. Or because I love how eclectic collections of books make a house a home.
Do you think people find personality clues about people from the books on their shelves (thinking "oh how weird" or "well she's well read" or "doesn't she ever dust??!!?" ?
Some books I'll probably keep forever (author-signed books or my absolute favorites), but others I wonder why I keep hauling around from place to place when they are readily available elsewhere (Stephen King, I love you, but I'm talking about the 200 lbs. and endless linear feet your stories take up).
Has anyone gotten rid of physical books and replaced them with e-books yet? (I really can't imagine this world but probably need to visit every now and then...)
Comment away....I'm really interested.
And now for something completely different....a very funny slideshow for cat people out there courtesy of Slate (via S. who emailed it to me) follow this link to (the tongue-in-cheek) article:
Cats of War: The Pentagon's top-secret feline special-operations program, revealed
PS: This would be right up Edgar Poe's alley but Stella would beat him paws down in stealth.
Why is it so hard to get rid of books? Does anyone else have this problem? What are your attachments to books? I think I still have the university mentality that I'll need some of them for reference again. Or maybe it's because I spent hard-earned money on them. Or went digging through used-book stores for this book or that book. Or because I love how eclectic collections of books make a house a home.
Do you think people find personality clues about people from the books on their shelves (thinking "oh how weird" or "well she's well read" or "doesn't she ever dust??!!?" ?
Some books I'll probably keep forever (author-signed books or my absolute favorites), but others I wonder why I keep hauling around from place to place when they are readily available elsewhere (Stephen King, I love you, but I'm talking about the 200 lbs. and endless linear feet your stories take up).
Has anyone gotten rid of physical books and replaced them with e-books yet? (I really can't imagine this world but probably need to visit every now and then...)
Comment away....I'm really interested.
And now for something completely different....a very funny slideshow for cat people out there courtesy of Slate (via S. who emailed it to me) follow this link to (the tongue-in-cheek) article:
Cats of War: The Pentagon's top-secret feline special-operations program, revealed
PS: This would be right up Edgar Poe's alley but Stella would beat him paws down in stealth.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Civil War Block Catch Up (Again)
I was way behind on Barbara Brackman's Civil War Block of the Week so I spent most of today catching up. (These are in order from newest to oldest blocks).
This week's block is Missouri Star. I love this block with the two-color star points.
Math is not my strong suit although I did take calculus in high school I think I forgotten 97% of the math skills I learned. I think those skills were replaced in my brain by lyrics from songs from high school. You never know when you may be required to repeat song lyrics from the Dead Milkmen. Priorities you know. (any Dead Milkmen fans out there?)
OK moving on...
This block is called The Comfort Quilt and I used some indigos and shirtings. Barbara suggested using these colors for this block to reference woven coverlets used during the time period.
This block is called the White House. I used a fancy Jo Morton stripe that looked sort of presidential, a gold from my box of scraps (I have no idea when or where I got this fabric but I think it shows up in quite a few of my scrap quilts), and another Jo Morton blue fabric that reminds me of photos of the Blue Room in the real White House.
This last block is called Fort Sumter. Again, I used a color scheme suggested by Barbara. The center square represents the fort (although the real fort is a five-sided fort), the blue represents the water of Charleston harbor where the Ashley and Cooper rivers meet, and the red represents the firing on the fort from Charleston.
I am so glad I am all caught up on this and I can't believe I was so behind.
This week's block is Missouri Star. I love this block with the two-color star points. I especially love these flying geese units. 
These units remind me of cat ears. Wouldn't it be fun to make a quilt with lots of little car ears? Someone would need to figure out an easier way of making these than the method in the BOW though. That someone should not be me.
Math is not my strong suit although I did take calculus in high school I think I forgotten 97% of the math skills I learned. I think those skills were replaced in my brain by lyrics from songs from high school. You never know when you may be required to repeat song lyrics from the Dead Milkmen. Priorities you know. (any Dead Milkmen fans out there?)
OK moving on...
This block is called Union Square and I used two prints from Barbara's Civil War Reunion fabric line for the nine-patch.
This block is called the White House. I used a fancy Jo Morton stripe that looked sort of presidential, a gold from my box of scraps (I have no idea when or where I got this fabric but I think it shows up in quite a few of my scrap quilts), and another Jo Morton blue fabric that reminds me of photos of the Blue Room in the real White House.
I am so glad I am all caught up on this and I can't believe I was so behind.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
UFO Challenge April
Sound the trumpets and stop the presses!! Yes, I actually finished my UFO challenge for April!!!
It may be because Judy delayed posting until May and I had a few extra days (but don't tell Judy OK?)
If this photo was taken with a heat-sensitive camera, you may see that it was hot off the ironing board (but don't tell Judy OK?)
So I am finally on the score board : UFOs: 3 Me: 1
Woo Hoo!
Fabric is a Neptune honeybun designed by Tula Pink for Moda. Pattern is Camille Roskelley (aka Thimble Blossoms).
It may be because Judy delayed posting until May and I had a few extra days (but don't tell Judy OK?)
If this photo was taken with a heat-sensitive camera, you may see that it was hot off the ironing board (but don't tell Judy OK?)
So I am finally on the score board : UFOs: 3 Me: 1
Woo Hoo!
Fabric is a Neptune honeybun designed by Tula Pink for Moda. Pattern is Camille Roskelley (aka Thimble Blossoms).
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