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!

Quiet Day

This morning, we cleaned a few things. Then we went to the casino. 

While at the casino we got our "free gift" that was a makeshift Roomba vacuum cleaner. It was made by someone else. It was very light. We stayed and played for about 2 hours and came home. Then Patrick took the vacuum out of the box. He tried it on the carpet, then tried it on the floor. IT DIDN'T WORK! I got nothing! I'm shocked that the casino would get such a cheap gift! Bet they only paid $2 because it wasn't even worth that much!

Got home and watched the football games. Seahawks own! That's good news. Then I just played on the tablet and listened to my books. I didn't feel like doing much. 

Tomorrow is at moms for Brazilian Embroidery. So, we are good. I will work on the dog or the last round robin piece. I am going to mail the ones I did this last week. 

Below is the Bonsai tree that I did and gave to Phil and Emily. It's got some blue like areas because of Sandy trying to clean the spots in the linen. I believe those spots were natural, but she thought they were spots that needed cleaning. So, the fabric turned a little blue in the areas. Made it look like clouds, but that's what happens when they try to clean what I had already cleaned. It's okay, I'm just happy the whole piece wasn't ruined. I'm okay with it. I just hope Phil and Emily are too. 

So, instead of today, tomorrow should be Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Finished

This morning, Patrick and I enjoyed sleeping in. 

Then we sat and watched some TV movies. I worked on my round robin. Once it was finished, I put the 2 round robin pieces in the mailing bag and have it ready to mail. WHICH MEANS, I forgot to take a photo, and I can't describe what I did. Even I don't have a photo of my work. I finished the piece below. It turned out pretty good, but I forgot that I needed to put green for the borders, and the last boarder where the needle is, was in red and yellow. 

We then went out to eat at The Outback. It was good and we brought some back home. So, we have more leftovers. Never fails.  

I worked on getting a few things done. I wanted to clean up my "in box" in the computer room. I got rid of a few things and I ended up putting a lot away, plus throwing stuff away. 

I have the beaded ornament pattern that I bought off Etsy. It one of the stars. It's a little different and it will work out great for Katt. I will try one soon. First, I need to finish the next and last round robin piece as well as the applique dog block for the baby quilt. It's going to be interesting as to who is going to put it all together. Who knows. I won't be going quilting anymore, so it will be fun to see. 

I was at least, Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

 

A Quiet Day

Christmas is over, and it was just the two of us today. 

We pretty much, just enjoyed the day and each other's company. I didn't work on anything.  I got lost in the shows Patrick and I were watching. Later in the day, I brought out my tablet and played. 

We did go through some patterns for star beaded ornaments and I ordered one from Etsy. It's pretty and I think Katt will like it. Patrick found one but it wasn't on sale anymore, just showed up in Pinterest. So, we weren't so lucky on that. I really liked it too. 

My stomach isn't back to normal, but that's been going on for about a week anyway. I'm trying to get comfortable again. When I do, I will be Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Day! 

We had an awesome Christmas. One of the better ones in a long time. We started out with opening Katt's gift to us. We got a Rumba. She's getting us to do more electrical things. lol 

I got a zipper bag from Emily the day before - 

I love it!! I'm going to use it for my embroidery. 

I played a game yesterday and then had to go get mom around 1 pm. I was a little late, but oh well. I searched her suitcase thinking I put the necklace in there. She had cleaned it out, and it wasn't there. I'm still trying to think of where that necklace could be. 

Brought mom to the house. We visited for about 30 minutes and then it was time to eat. We had the best meal! I couldn't believe how EVERYTHING worked out. The food was awesome and even mom ate more than she usually does. We cleaned up, got leftovers for mom and us. It was fun. 

Then we sat and watched a Christmas movie "Father Christmas" that was on Netflix. I'm not the fond of the ones in it, but it was good. 

After the movie, Patrick took mom home. I was going to, but my IBS acted up and I couldn't leave. It's an hour thing. So, while Patrick was gone, I was in pain. lol 

We sat and enjoyed the quiet. No music, no TV. I played my games. Then we called it a night. It was the best Christmas we've had in over 8 years. 

It wasn't my time to enjoy Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Merry Christmas Eve!

This morning, I slept till 9 am. Patrick didn't go golfing like he said he would. So, I slept anyway. 

Got up and got a few things done. Started laundry. I wanted to get some of that done so I didn't have a lot to do after tomorrow. 

We went early to Safeway and everyone one was there! We didn't have to wait too long in line, but it was busy! We picked up a few things that were on sale that we needed. It was one of those things, we decided to get a few things in case this weekend was going to be bad weather. 

Came home and Phil asked to come over. He was trying to figure out how we were going to do Christmas this year. We were hoping to see Emily this year, but that wasn't to be. We did get to see him, and we opened gifts with him.  He got to see his gifts. Emily will get hers tomorrow. She made this really nice zipper bag for my crafts! I LOVE it! I can't wait to start using it. Since I need to get my embroidery organized that will be perfect to use! They also donated to the Chehalis food bank in our name. I love that! 

After he left, we heard from Susan and Dad. Patrick chatted with them and I listened. 

We cleaned up the table and have it set for tomorrow. I will pick mom up around 1 pm. We will have the table all set and ready. 

I didn't do much today, other than get ready for tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. I love Christmas! Just wish more family was around to enjoy it more. 

Not my day for Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Gone All Day Today

This morning, Patrick went golfing and I slept in. I got up around 8:30 am. Didn't want to get up but needed to. I sat and enjoyed a few hours to myself. 

When Patrick got home, I had an hour before I had to leave. I was scheduled to go to moms and take her to the grocery store. She asked me yesterday to take her to WinCo. So, I left around noon and took her shopping. She got what she had on the list. I told her to look around to see if she needed anything else. She said no, so we were 45 minutes before going to see Bill Keepers. 

I took her home to unload the groceries, which wasn't much. We put away to cold stuff and then we went to visit with Bill. We had an appointment for 2 pm. We arrived about 10 minutes early. It was so good to see "dad" today! I love that guy! He looked good. I haven't seen him in about 3 years. Kim and Jim where there so we had a good hour and some visit. Once that was over, mom looked at Diane's thimbles. She found one that worked for her. It was funny, because Kim saw one, she wanted and it fit on mom's finger. Kim said she was going to take it, for herself. Mom loved it too but told Kim to keep it because it was her mothers. So, mom ended up with the one that fit her.  Then I drove her back home. I tried to tell her I would count my Mondays for her. If she needed anything it would be on the Monday. That way after our meetings, I can take her where she needs to go and then I won't have to worry about it for a week. I don't think she listened to me or she ignored me. 

Stopped at Panda for some food and then at Cesear's Pizza for Patrick. Brought the food home, ate and then we headed to the casino. My stomach was in pain! I think there is something in Chow Mein that I can't handle. Having IBS doesn't help either. I usually got veggies but wasn't thinking. I will make sure I don't get Chow Mein anymore. I had the same problem with Safeway's. 

We played for about 3 to 3 1/2 hours. It was fun and we came out even. So, we did good. Patrick didn't want to stay long, so we came home. Now we are good till at least Sunday. It's the holidays, so we won't be going out during that time. They have drawings and prizes but we won't do that. We did that years ago and it was awful! We couldn't find a game we liked to play to play on. 

Now it's nighttime and I'm done! Fried and cooked! I'm heading to bed. I wish at times I could have had time for Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Embroidery At Moms Today

This morning, Patrick was off golfing, and I was headed to moms. I needed to make a couple stops on the way, and then I was at moms by 9:45 am.  I was the first to get there. We chatted a bit and then Geralyn arrived. After her was Georgie. 

We had a good visit. Both Geralyn and I were working on her project. She was asking about how I would do the bee she needed to do. We chatted about that. Then I was showing her my round robin stuff. I had the three right there. I decided to work on one of them. 

This one was next on the list to do. I did the border and I'm working on putting the "buds" on the tree. About halfway there. I had the light green and then I needed to go bold. It's supposed to be like clown or circus colors. I know there is a lot of yellow, green, and orange. I will find some red and add that as well. Maybe my salmonberries will have the red. That will go in that area. I will need to think of another border to fill in the top line. It goes a long way. I may look for some lace or something. I haven't decided yet. 

Afterwards, mom needed some help, so I helped her with finding bindings for the quilts she has. Then I helped her with some stuff on the computer. Once she was happy, I told her I would be by tomorrow to take her to the store and to Bill's for the silver thimble. It's a wait and see thing. I will need to go over around noon because our appointment with Bill is at 2 pm. Knowing mom it will be an hour in the store for groceries. 

Now that she's not driving, I will have to find a way to help her. I may tell her I can help her after everyone leaves on Mondays. We can go shopping or do what she needs done. That way I'm not having to go over every other day for her. This puts a crimp in my life! I have enough stuff going on and now that she's not driving, I'm the only one around that can help her. Brother Patrick made sure he wasn't living close to her to have to do this for her. I've been doing this for over 20 years with her. Now, I'm having to do more than I really care to or want to. If we were close, it would be another story. Her pride and joy is Patrick and Christine who living in Vancouver now. Sometimes I wish she would move down there so he can care for her. I know, I'm selfish, but after 20 years, I deserve to be. 

It's been a pretty good day, I enjoyed working on my embroidery which made me Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Two Busy Days!

Yesterday was the day we were collecting money for the Borst Park lighting show. I picked up some chicken at Safeway and then headed over there by 4 pm. Once that was done, we ate before getting ready for the cars to arrive. We ended up with 523 cars going through for the show. We got our donation check and will get another one later, after they figure out how much of the "keep donation" goes to our group. We had a blast. There was 6 of us and we handled it perfectly. 

Today, was our tea "date" with Sandy, Sandy, Geraline and me. We had an awesome time. Must have chatted up a storm because we were the last ones to leave. It was so much fun! The "tea treats" were really good as well. This was our second year going. We will go again next year, with just the 4 of us. It works out better that way. 

 We arrived with the chocolate on the teacup and the menu in the envelope. I think Sandy II took the menu home. lol 

I brought home some of the deserts that were there on the top. It was so good! We couldn't eat it all! But I did bring some home for Patrick. Since I had enough. 

Got home around 4 pm and let Debbie know. She came over to work on the quilt she was giving to her daughter for Christmas. We worked on adding a few quilting stitches to the quilt. It took us about 3 hours to get that done. She used my Juki sewing machine that is for quilting. It worked out great. I may end up changing to that machine to sew. I will try it later and see how it sews for me. 

So, I think that counts for being Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!