Presentation Day!

Today, I was all set for the presentation. It's been almost 2 months since we had a presentation, and we all were looking forward to it. We have our meeting next week and the following week is our sew days. We will see what we can get done. 

But today was a good day for presentation. Mom knew 2 of the veterans personally, so she was excited about giving at least one of the quilts away. We had 6 quilts that were brought down from Bellevue and presented by the gals that made the quilts. I let them know they were more than welcome to become a member of our group. They liked that idea, so I think I will be getting more from them.

We had the honor of honoring these veterans today. 

David Wiggins - Air Force

John Wilcox - Navy

Michael Mozzone - Army

Mel Wedvik - Marine Corps

Neal Maas - Army

Richard Espen - Navy

Donald Bartley - Army

Andrew G Graham - Navy

Since I was having trouble getting my photos to the computer, I will do what I can. Gmail wouldn't let me transfer from my phone to my email. So, I had to use my second email - hotmail - to get it to go through. Took a lot longer than I wanted. lol 

Mom had to give David Wiggins a big hug! This was the one she wanted to honor herself. You can tell they are close. They attend church together. It was an honor to meet him as well. 

This is the 8 Veterans that we had the honor to honor! Mr. Graham (second from the right) is the husband of a good friend a quilter of ours. I will miss not seeing her on Fridays. He is a sweetheart and a lot of fun to be around. 

Came home and just took the rest of the day off. it was fun and I love doing it, but it does take a lot out of me. I did talk my brother into coming and honoring the active-duty group next month. He's got it scheduled and he will help in presenting the quilts. 

As for today, I had more fun giving the quilts away than I did being Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Trip To Olympia In The Rain

 Today, we had to be up and ready to leave. We needed to get mom to her appointment by 11 am. So, we went to pick her up at 10 am. 

We picked her up and had a few things we needed to do when we dropped her off. So, we took her to the dentist in Olympia that could take care of her root canal. They checked her out, then they came out to let Patrick and I know it would be an hour. I played on my phone for a bit and then got into my bag, that we have just for cases like this. I pulled out my embroidery. 

It's the hummingbird piece. I worked on the leaves. I needed to get the leaves done before I could move on to the next part. I worked on the leaves at the tip of the nest and then worked my way up where they were needed. I realized I should have done the top middle one first but thank goodness it doesn't look like I had it on top and not the bottom. I was working on the leave near the needle but didn't get much done. I will work on it more. I was surprised at how much I like this piece. Maybe I should move it to the embroidery bag and not the "just in case" bag. 

Took mom back home and took down her tree for her. Patrick boxed it up and has it ready to go up in the attic. I got the certificates from Nancy for tomorrow and was able to pick up my embroidery backpack I forgot at moms. 

Came home and started right away to get Patrick's cake done. He wanted his Chocolate Chip Date Cake that was his mother's recipe. Complaining he doesn't have anything to eat and yet, we have cookies, chocolate, popcorn and other stuff that was given to us for Christmas! Go figure! After the cake, I had to get the Chicken and Rice in the oven because it takes about 2 1/2 to 3 hours. 

At that point, I was done! Cooked and done! I was cleaning up the kitchen as I went. Then I put the Roomba 105 together. Katt got that for us and I set it up. App and all. 

Sophie wasn't too sure of it. She followed it as it mapped out the house. Then at 7 pm I had it running to clean the floors. It did a good job. It's a lot better than what I have been doing lately - nothing. It works great for what we need. 

I have been working on my game to get the rewards they have that end today. So, with about 8 accounts, it keeps me busy. I will get rid of a few if I can't transfer them where I am now. 

So, as much as I would have loved to do more embroidery, I'm happy with what I was able to do. I'm also enjoying myself by being Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

A Cold Day! BRR

This morning, I slept for a bit longer. Patrick was up and waiting on me. He wasn't in a hurry, but he was waiting for me to get up and get ready to go to the casino. 

We headed to the casino around 10:30 am. We played on their money for a while. Then we played on ours. We didn't spend the money we took, so we have more for next time. For the first time in a while we got tired of playing. So, we were home by 3 pm. I didn't mind not staying. Even when we both were doing good playing. 

Since it was so cold and I couldn't warm up in the car, I told Patrick I missed my leg warmers. I think I got rid of them a long time ago. So, I looked on the phone to see if I could find a pattern I wanted to use. When we got home, I went on the computer to look for a free pattern for the warmer. Then I went downstairs to see what yarn I had. I got rid of a good amount of them. I went on Amazon and ordered the yarn I wanted. I should be good. I am looking forward to making my warmers. My feet and legs are tired of being cold all the time! 

Tomorrow, we are taking mom up to Olympia for her dental care. She has to have a root canal. So, it's going to be interesting to see if she loses the tooth or not. 

I played on my games. I wasn't in the mood to try and find something to do for about an hour. Which put me in the not so good mood of not being able to be Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

What A Day!

Today is BE day. At least we meet at moms, so if no one comes I can spend time with her. Today we had 4 of us. Geralyn couldn't make it but will be there next week. 

I arrived after going to get my car washed and some tea. I got tea for mom as well. She had tea in her hand when I arrived. So, she didn't get to it till after they left. I worked on the baby block that needs to get done. I will leave it at moms after next week. 

 I have more to do, but it's coming along. I will tie done the tongue later. I forgot my backpack at moms, so I didn't bring it home to work on.  

Mom wanted to go get a chair for her bedroom but that didn't work out. She called the dentist, and they got her in right away. I went to Colleen's to drop off quilts for her. Mom gave three that were finished. Colleen gave me one that was finished as well. We chatted about the quilts, and I told her right now I need the panel quilts to get done first. She said she will do that. I think she said she had a panel on the quilt frame but not sure. I gave her two of them - the ones I did. I showed her I have another one on the wall and will get that to her in the next week. Mom called while I was there. I didn't answer, so she called Colleen and since she didn't know the number, she didn't answer it. Mom called again and I picked it up to find out she has to have an emergency root canal done on the tooth. She may lose it. Told her to schedule it. They wanted her today, but she didn't want me to go back and get her to go up. Thank goodness, because it's in Olympia. So, I told her to let me know. 

Came home and told Patrick. He said he would take us up there. I called mom to find out when and she didn't know yet, so after about a half hour she called and was scheduling it with me on the other phone. We take her up on Wednesday because tomorrow is full. 

We ate pizza for supper, and it was early enough. Patrick told me I could go down and work on the quilt for a bit. At least it would help get it done sooner. So, I went down AFTER I put names on the four quilts and put them in the stack to go to the museum. 

These are by Tri Cities QOV. 

Which are really pretty. 

Once I got downstairs, I cut the fabrics and was wanting to sew them more than cut the fabric. Go figure, that from a person who doesn't like to sew. I even told Colleen that the flying geese was way too much work for me. 

I cut more fabric and then got three more blocks done. I have those done and will work on the others when I get the time in the next couple days. Every little bit of time helps. I may have to cut more fabrics as well. We will see. At least it is coming along, and I really do like the blocks. They are so easy to do! I may have a couple sets of these blocks ready for sew days later this month. Everyone will like how easy they are to do. I am actually having fun with this one and may do that same block on another panel. Too much fun for me! 

That's what really makes me Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!

Finishing Quilts

Today, wow, today. Let's see what I have been up to. Enough to keep me busy till about 4 pm today for sure. 

I went downstairs to work on the quilt that was on the wall. I finished the borders and got it ready to go to Colleen tomorrow. 

It is now done. I like how it turned out and is a lot prettier in real life. It turned out a lot better than I thought it would. 

Next, I worked on doing my backing and battings to get them ready for quilters. I had to wash the backings and then get them ready. I also had to open a new roll of batting and get it ready to cut for the quilts. We are going through backing material fast, since quilts are coming in more. While I was doing that, I got confused on which backing went to which quilt, so had to stop and get the backing finished with washing so I could figure out which quilt needed a backing. I have one more to do, but that can wait. I'm taking 4 quilts to Colleen as it is. 

Then I pulled another panel out and got to work on it. I need to get a couple more panels done to get to the quilters, so we can have them for February. I just hope they get quilted fast. I need them for next month. 

This one was on top of the pile, so I decided to work on it. The blue/white fabric is blue with white stars. They come out as dots. This pattern is the pattern for the QOV panel quilt. I will do that with the QOV quilt later, but since this is quick and easy to do, I decided to make this one. The panel is a little bigger than the QOV panel, but that works for me. It will be fun to see how it comes out. I may use that pattern more on some of the panels, because it's already done for me, I just have to cut the fabric and sew them together. We will see how I do with this one first. There are different ways of doing the blocks, so they all won't look the same.

All that took all afternoon. I'm having to deal with our presentation on Thursday. We have enough quilts for that one. I'm just working towards February right now. I know we have the quilts but really want the panels for the active-duty members. 

I took the night off and played games. I was thrilled and tired by the time I realized it was a day of Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!

Shopping Today

Debbie and I left for Yelm to go shopping for fabrics that will work with the panels. 

We left around 10 am and were in Yelm by 10:45 am. We shopped for a while getting as much fabric as we could for the panels. It cost a lot to get what we needed. We are starting to run out of fabric that was donated. I did get a lot of yardages as well. Trouble with that is that the fabrics where $15 a yard. So, for what we bought, it too a good amount of money. 

We stopped at the museum to see how many quilts we have and to see if we could have a few panel quilts to give out in February. We are tight with that. I will need to get a couple more panels done in the next couple weeks. Then we stopped at Safeway. 

We were home by 1 pm. Then I went downstairs to put the fabric away and give Debbie 2 quilts to be quilted. I will get the other 4 ready tomorrow and try to finish the panel quilt I have on the wall. 

I pulled out the quilts ready to go to the museum and started putting names on the labels. 

This one will work for panels, so that gives us one more quilt for February. I just hope we can get 10 of them in time. 

This one can work too. That would get us 4 right now. I'm hoping there is another panel in the quilts I gave mom but betting not. I will need to make a few more to get there. 

This is the group quilt. I have the pillowcase for this one. 

I put names on 9 quilts today and have them ready to go to the museum for presentations. I will take them out when we do our presentation on the 8th. Which is this coming Thursday. I also need to schedule out meeting for the following Wednesday. 

Even though I wasn't actually doing quilting stuff, I was enjoying buy enough to be Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!

Interesting Day!

We have now entered into the New Year! And I'm doing pretty good so far, let's see how long that lasts. 

Today, I got up shortly after Patrick headed out for golfing. Then I went downstairs to try and get another border on the quilt. 

I was able to get the 3 borders on - the one for the bottom is on the left. I will add that. Then I need to add a blue border on the last part. It will be about 5 or 6" to make it the size we need. I was listening to my book and sewing till Patrick got home. I found myself making a mistake, and at the point I called it done. Once I start with mistakes, it keeps going. It actually looks better in real life than it does in the photo. 

Tomorrow Debbie and I are going shopping for fabrics to go with this panel. We have 6 panels, and I have this one almost done. That leaves 5 more, and we don't have enough fabric to do them all. It's very hard to find the fabrics that go with this. I'm thinking if there is any of this fabric left, I will buy the bolt or what's on the bolt, just so we have enough. 

We headed up to Patrick's doctor appointment. I was going to meet with Sherry from Olympia. She had another quilt for me. We must have chatted for over an hour. When Patrick came out of the car (didn't see him get in it), and came towards us. He had been waiting on me for 30 minutes. I didn't see him get to the car. We laughed about it. Sherry and I chatted about everything! We get together and get caught up. Which takes forever! I found a couple of the women I knew at Stars and Strips have since passed away. Heard Judy's granddaughter passed away recently. She didn't know much about that. We had a long chat. Poor Patrick was getting cold in the car, so he popped out to let me know he was there. lol 

We then went to the Cedar Distillery in Ground Mound. To our shock, the menu was cut in half and the foods we liked to eat there, were gone. Patrick wanted to get the French Dip and I wanted the Chicken Fried Chicken, but both of those were off the menu. The main course only had about 9-12 items and 3-4 of them was salads. Plus, the prices were doubled. So, we left and explained to the waiters that we didn't find anything on the menu we wanted. They were nice and we were nice about it. Just said what we were hoping to get, that they didn't have. 

So, we ended up at Country Cousins in Centralia. I was really happy with the food. I remembered being unhappy with the food the last time, but they had Chicken Fried Steak, which I haven't had in a long time. So, I ordered it. Patrick decided he wanted eggs. When we were done, that meal cost us half of what we would have paid at Cedar's. I couldn't believe it. Plus, this food was perfect to me. Their menu changed but they kept the favorite foods everyone one likes to eat. Including me!

We came home and watched the Holiday Baking show (Great British), which I enjoy watching more than the American show. 

Sue called and we must have chatted 2 hours. She was in the hot tub and in a chatty mood. It worked out for us. Now it's time to call it a day. 

Interesting? You say. Yep, interesting in the way it worked out. Things could have been different. We enjoyed today, and it could have turned out completely differently. I'm just surprised at how well I handled the changes for today. 

Tomorrow we (Debbie and I) will be shopping. I hope to find a few minutes to a few hours to work on something, but time will tell. We have an hour drive to the shop. Then we may end up going even farther. Hard to say. AND I'm driving! 

Interesting because I found time for Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Today, another year has passed. We are now in 2026. Hopefully, life will be good and looking forward to having an awesome year ahead. 

Patrick went golfing while I stayed in bed. Then I was up and ready to get moving. I heated up the room downstairs, and I was ready to go. 

I want to have the 2 quilt tops done for Monday. I need to get moving on the panels. I received a pattern from QOV to use with our panels we ordered. I will do that next and it will give me another panel completed. Colleen wants 2 panels on Monday as well. 

I started putting this together. I had the two sides done and wanted to at least get the border done today. I also had my game at noon, so I had little time to goof around. 

I was able to get this far and then had to quit and finish the border on the other quilt I did a couple weeks ago. 

I was able to get this far before I headed upstairs to play my game. Once that was done - an hour later, I finished this top by adding the white on the bottom and top. I folded it up and have it ready for quilting, so I didn't get another photo when I finished it. 

I got to work on the QOV panel quilt when I finished that top. 

I realized I did the flying geese wrong with the red. I couldn't believe I messed up - but then again, I'm good at that. I tend to mess up and have to figure my next steps. I yelled at Patrick to come down and check our my mess up. We talked about it, and I'm going to put the geese in the corners as planned, using these geese with a red border. Then I can put a dark blue around that. I don't know how it will look, may have too much red, but I'm going with it. 

I checked with Debbie, because we need to go get more fabric for these panels. I will try and find a dark blue that will be close to what I have. I used what I could of it up. The red is almost done as well. I will be able to border it, but then there won't be much left of it. It will be close. I want it done for Monday, and we aren't going shopping till Saturday. In the meantime, I can finish this last border and go from there. 

When I realized I "screwed up," I decided to call it a day. I was able to get a lot done, so I'm not complaining I didn't get anywhere near being lazy. It was a good day for Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!

Things To Do!

Yep, there are things to do. I should think about doing a resolution but yeah, that doesn't work. 

Today is New Years Eve. I think we are supposed to do something! I think we are supposed to stay up all night to bring in the New Year. I know everyone else is - but NOPE, not me. I pretty much did laundry and listened to my books. 

Patrick had golfing at 11:30 am today, so I was on my own. I did make a trip into town to see my son. Then came back home. Patrick's gift arrived at Phils today and I had to go get it. lol 

I know there are things to do. I know I need to get up and do them. Yet that didn't happen. So, here's what I need to do for the New Year - good luck if it gets done, but I have a long list I'm sure. Let's see what I come up with. 

• Panel quilts for QOV.  
• Cross Stitch Angel - that was started this summer. 
• Sophie beaded picture - which was started LAST YEAR!
• Ornaments for 2026
• Round Robin - That one has to get done, so really doesn't count. 
• Hummingbird (BE) embroidery - needs to be worked on a finished
• Baby block for Bob - again that one should be done soon, so probably doesn't count. 
• Family History entries
• Quilt that White on White quilt that's been ready for 15 years now. 

Now I need to really think on what I have that is in need of finishing. I know I have more. The last time I cleaned out my sewing room, I came up with at least 15 projects of quilting down there. I could list them but truthfully, it's been so long since I looked that I would forget most of them. I keep thinking of the quilt that mom and Vicki designed for Rainy Daze Quilt Group. That was over 20 years ago now, I believe. I as working on 2 of those. I have the flower one that everyone did a block for. Think I have one more block to work on then I need to put it all together. I'm sure I have more. I know I got rid of a couple of them but not near as much as I should have. OH! Let's not forget my patriotic quilt that I was working on or even the basket blocks that are half done. THEN there is the $400 quilt kit I bought and haven't touched! Man! Was I ever crazy to get that! When the heck am I going to find time to do it?! Let alone do it!! That was one of the craziest things I ever did! 

My Angel that I need to finish!! I really am about halfway on this. I seriously need to get back to it. I also have beading, which is my joy. So, why?, when I have the time, can't I think to do this or the beading. Instead, I sit and play games. I'm seriously crazy! 

Even Patrick made me laugh the other day. He told me I'm like a dog who goes after squirrels. Not getting one of them! Yep, that would be me. I see a squirrel and go that way, then another one shows up and I'm off chasing that one. OH! Look! There's a third one! Then I get behind or sidetracked.  Now what, let's see where this takes me, off to do something else. 

I have a mind of my own! I start something, try to put it away, and on the way, I find something else that needs to be done. So, I do that, but didn't make it to putting the first thing away. I come back later and figure out I didn't do what I was going to do and try again. Sometimes it gets done, sometimes, I get sidetracked yet again. OMG! You should see me when I have too much on my mind. I don't get anything done, just move it from one place to another because of those dang squirrels!! 

In otherwards, I tried to work on my genealogy today, but got sidetracked by QOV emails. Once I did that, I went back to the laundry. AT LEAST I CAN do laundry and get it put away!

Not my day for Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Back To Sewing Room

Today, I slept in. Patrick was up, but I didn't want to get up. 

I decided last night I would work on my panel quilts. So, I made sure I had the heater going down there. It was one of these foggy days, that make it cold all over. 

I wanted to do something different. I don't like sewing, but in this case, I needed to. I got some fabric out to go with the QOV panel we have. I had the "just right" color of blue, but not much. So, I cut the size I needed with a strip of 6" left over. Then I got to work on the flying geese pattern. I get 2 geese done at one time, which I like to do. I don't care for the ones you do one at a time and then waste fabric for. 

It took a few hours to get the geese done. There are 20 geese. I'm going to do a partial geese area. I will do another set of geese with the red. When I got all the geese done, I added the border. Remember, I need it to be 60 x 80" to have a quilt. I will be finishing that row of geese, then do another one with the red. I think. I'm doing this as I go. Seeing what I like and what I want to do. I don't have a lot of red, so I'm hoping I won't need it again. My problem is that I don't have any more of the blue. I will figure it out when I get there, I guess. 

I needed to finish the pillowcases that I was working on about 2 weeks ago. I finished them off, now I need to find the quilts they go with. That will be another project. Then again, I have about 7 quilts in my back room that need to be labeled with the names of who made them. UGH. 

At that point, I called it a day. I'm done. I at least took time and was Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!

Back To Embroidery!

This morning, Patrick wasn't up to going golfing. His stomach was acting up. 

I headed to moms. I had to stop and drop off the round robin at the post office. Cost me about $8 to ship. Put it in the wrong envelope. lol Oh, well. 

As I was getting my drink at Dutch Brothers, mom called and I told her I was on my way. I arrived around 10 mins after 10 am. No one was there, but I knew Geralyn wasn't coming because her mother was in the hospital. She's a year older than mom. I called and let Kathleen Ament know we were now at moms every Monday. She said she will let her daughter know too. 

 Mom was getting this ready to bind and we checked to see who had made the top. Val put it together. So, I made sure the label was on it, so I could write who made it. 

Then I sat down to work on my stuff. 

I was able to get this far on the next applique dog. I will do the embroidery once I mark it for were to stitch. It should take me long to get this done. Once it's done, then I'm done with the project. That is the Friday group project and I'm not a member anymore. Nancy sent out an email to everyone but me to let them know she is having quilting at her house Friday. Georgie wanted to know if mom was okay with that. She told her she was. She's not ready to have it at her house right now. I told Georgia to go to see what they are going to do. The email said they would talk about where they were going from here. Should be interesting. Glad I'm not involved anymore. 

Mom and I went to Subway for lunch. Then I came home. Ethel had called and I decided to let them talk. So, I went home. 

Haven't done squat since I got home. lol But I did enjoy being Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!