Mare's nest: Saturday!! Yippeee!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Saturday!! Yippeee!

Well, here is was/is Saturday, snowing again, and I'm home alone. What could be better??
I know, any normal quilter would have cut tons of blocks, or sewed up several UFO's, or slept in? Or I could have cleaned the house.
Nah, no one around to complain, so I watched movies all morning!

Chevy Chase in the National Lampoon Vacation movies! I know, what does that say about my taste? It says I love the insanity of it all and I laughed in all the right parts! Weren't the 80's a great?

I also baked bread! well, I measured stuff into the machine and viola! 58 minutes later I had fresh bread and the house smelled good.
And please do not tell the red geranium drill Sargent, but I ate a big piece too. It went great after all that popcorn I had while the movies were playing.............. fiber. yeah yeah, fiber!

Then I did do some sewing. I had this pile of mug mats ready to stitch...........

Which I turned into this pile of mug mats to be trimmed and turned. I love the confetti effect of the corner snips. I think I should have saved it for next New Years because the "confetti canons" Jim brought home were pretty wimpy, even though we are still finding pieces of it all over the house.

And here are the finished products ready to give out to people at my work sites.

I think I'm ready to tackle the scrap blocks now............

2 comments:

Susan Freebery said...: You constantly put me to shame. Knowing what I was coming to New York to deal with, you would have thought that I would have brought hand work or something, right? Nope. Not me. That would have been way too productive for me. Geeze - I do love the mug mats and could have ironed, cut and pinned if nothing else. I could have made millions of Yo-yos! I could have brought hand work!!! I will just go eat more cookies.........; January 17, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Gizmo said...: Susan, eating cookies IS handwork!;)

Mare, I LOVE the mug mats. That reminds me, I have them on my to do list. The bread looks delicious. Do you think it would ship okay?? ;) LOL AND, you have to taste test it - while it's hot - so you know it'll be safe for the family to eat.; January 18, 2009 at 7:05 AM

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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