Mare's nest: Inspiration or mess?

I don't seem to be getting much done in my sewing room tonight, so I thought I'd share my cork boards with you. I tend to collage on them so every few months I need to take everything down and start over.

kind of a little of everything huh? The sodoku are supposed to become quilt patterns for me. We'll see....

The yellow and ivory satin are wedding colors for daughter number 3, the leaves are because I really love leaves. Someday I am going to finish the applique on the left. I got some lovely hand dyed threads for more quilting on it, they are made by my second cousin once removed Laura Wasilowski. My second claim to fame! I'm related to a famous quilter!!! how cool is THAT????

Board number two............

Rather eclectic isn't it?

It could be an eye spy actually.

I don't need to take it all down yet, you can still see some of the cork board!

There is the note that Laura included in my thread order. I wish I could be her when I grow up, doing what you totally love to make a living! She even does quilting cruises. sigh!

Whats on your cork board?

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

7 comments:

Rumi said...: I had fun looking at all the wonderful things on your cork board. Yes, an "I spy" experience!; February 16, 2011 at 5:37 AM
*karendianne. said...: Oh my gosh this is so neat and inspirational and I think... Oh I want to do that.

I have one cork board facing backwards with a yellow sticky that has my ex's SSN number on it as I haven't changed a couple of accounts over yet. So I need that number. It's been 10 years - I'm lazy.; February 16, 2011 at 6:27 AM
The Vintage Housewife... said...: oh my eye candy!!! i love how inspirational! all the goodies that you love all in one place...simply devine! thanks for swingin' by ...cat; February 17, 2011 at 6:51 AM
StitchinByTheLake said...: I don't have a bulletin board like yours but my design wall sometimes tends to end up like that! I want to be reminded of something or I love a color or I have a pattern I don't want to misplace - well you get the picture. My design wall ends up being a giant bulletin board so full that I can't see one thing until I take it all off and start again with a clean slate! I love your three penny day thoughts on your right side board. blessings, marlene; February 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM
bingo~bonnie said...: What a great nonquilty post :) I too have a cork board in my sewing room and it's filled up with all sorts of stuff!!! It's nice to have fun things to look at that make us happy :)

Perhaps I'll take some photos of mine and blog about it too...

Love from Texas! ~bonnie; March 12, 2011 at 9:37 AM
Jeanne said...: Definitely inspirational! I could show you 'mess' with a capital M, but I won't. :-); March 21, 2011 at 8:39 PM
Susan Freebery said...: They are gorgeous! I spied Mile Marker 0 or as we locals call it, MM0... it made me smile...; May 2, 2011 at 3:52 PM

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