Mare's nest: No School today!

Thursday, October 25, 2007

No School today!

My youngest daughter and quilting partner had a school vacation today. Unfortunately I had to work, and her dad is working nights, which means sleeping during the day, which, sadly, interferes with our sewing time (Our sewing room is just across the hall from the bedroom.)
Nice run on sentence wasn't it?
Well, genius' that they both are, daddy brought Vanessa's sewing machine, the ironing board, and cutting board downstairs to the dining room so she could sew!

This is what I found when I came home from work~ She got 23 scrappy 9 patches done for her next quilt!

She is going to do the disappearing 9 patch for this one. I love that she is as into quilting as I am!!

Life is Good!

8 comments:

Susan Freebery said...: I am so jealous, I am positively Green! You sure got a winner, there, Momma Green!; October 25, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Faith said...: I love the warm brown block ideas and wow I love your artwork too gosh imagine those as fabric designs to use on patchwork that would be extra yummy; October 25, 2007 at 11:01 PM
Leigh said...: Go Vanessa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would think I had died and gone to heaven if my dd took up quilting with me :-); October 26, 2007 at 12:07 AM
Elaine Adair said...: What a special pleasure to see your young 'uns following in favorite paths.; October 26, 2007 at 11:14 AM
Sweet P said...: What a wonderful DH to see that DD can sew while he is sleeping. Her patches look wonderful.; October 27, 2007 at 6:49 AM
Kim said...: such pretty blocks- and you are quite lucky to have a sewing buddy in your dd- mine tried to embroider pillows this summer and got bored-; October 28, 2007 at 8:11 AM
swooze said...: Excellent! What a good dad!; October 29, 2007 at 2:28 PM
Susan @ Blackberry Creek said...: Love your story about being one of the world's smallest quilt guilds.

Happy Halloween!; October 31, 2007 at 8:34 AM

Three pennies a day

I have been trying to give my three cents worth lately. I read about this movement to change the world by 3 pennies.
What you do is, every morning you put three pennies in your left pocket. During the course of the day if you do something nice for someone you move one penny to your right pocket. So, it can be something big and nice, something unexpected and nice or even something small and nice like opening the door for a stranger. Then at the end of the day your goal is to have the three pennies in your right pocket.
Kind of neat huh? Just a little pocket reminder to be nice to people and go out of your way a bit. I also tell myself sometimes, "ooo that wasn't a nice thought, I should have to move my penny back!" ;-)
I hope whoever reads this has a three penny day.

Up date on one of the Worlds Smallest Quilt Guilds

Our membership is now officially 50% bigger than previously noted! My good friend Susan from Florida is now an official member of the guild. Initiation took place at the International Quilt Festival in Chicago. Flori, as she is lovingly called in our guild brings a special imitable style to our most exclusive guild. She hob-nobs with Alex Anderson, rubs elbows with Pink Flamingos and knows me! Guess that last part wasn't too humble now was it? ;p Flori is our official Officer in Charge of Coffee and she did her job remarkably well at the festival, finding coffee for us when the situation was getting quite desperate. She also found coffee fabric which was quite the feather in her cap. Well, it would be if she was wearing one. Good job new officer!

History of One of the wolds smallest quilt guilds

I once believed I belonged to THE worlds smallest quilt guild, 2 people- my favorite cousin and myself. Then Mary Stori came to my local guild as speaker and she pointed out that she and a fellow quilt friend were the worlds smallest quilt guild. So, I had to revise my thinking. ONE of the worlds smallest quilt guilds consists of myself and my favorite cousin, we don't have regular meetings as the distance is a bit far for either of us to commit to on a regular basis. She lives in gorgeous Colorado, with a spectacular view of Pikes Peak, I live in lovely Wisconsin, within a short drive of beautiful Lake Michigan.
As a guild however, we are working on 2 or more round robbins. I say 2 or more because I forget exactly where we are with them. I have 2 at my house, and if I remember correctly she has 1 at her house. When we get together, usually in CO, we do a lot of quilt retreating as she has a longarm machine. We don't pay dues, and we haven't decided yet which of us is president, but I think I'm going to run for that office this year. I'm pretty sure I will win as she is awfully busy homeschooling 5 kids, taking care of a baby and running her longarm machine daily. She does most of the charity quilts, quilting donations on her longarm, though we have done several prayer quilts together for people we have heard about.
Now for a name for our little group........ I'm thinking, there will be more on this in my ramblings