A Typical Summer Day

I am excited about today. Decided to get up this morning and get some quilting projects completed. I started that great big "reminder" binder several months ago to get a handle on some of the hundreds of projects and kits that are started or waiting to be started or just waiting to be finished. I decided I would get my self a cup of coffee and get working on my latest project, a UFO that I am completing for the Guild Challenge. It's a quilt for Richard that I will get to later. As I get to the bottom of the stairs a ghastly site awaits me.

Guess it's time to clean up this mess. How exactly does this happen? How does a perfectly clean sink get to this state of disaster? I know there are four other humans living in this house. Doesn't anyone else see this mess and have any desire to clean it? Well, I don't have a desire to clean it exactly but I do have a desire for it to be clean. So I suck it up and wash the dishes.

Then I head into the laundry room for another intense mess. It seems the laundry in the house is never done. I throw in a load and fold all the towels in the dryer. Hopefully this will give me a good excuse to head upstairs and have coffee in peace. I have that project that I am working on. I have another child in the house this morning belonging to a friend. He's keeping the boys very quiet. I might be able to finish that block this morning.

The project I am working on is a leftover UFO of a quilt that I have been making for Hubby. It all primitive houses and bible verses. I actually made a label for it several years ago stating that the quilt was complete in 2005 and was quilted by me. I don't even do my own quilting anymore. I need to make a new label for the thing as well. I am two blocks/months shy of completing it and just quit to work on something else. My Guild decided to have this UFO Challenge this year. Put in a FQ and show a project and proclaim that it will be completed in time for entry into the Annual Quilt Show in October 2008. There will be a contest and the winner gets all the FQ's. I thought it was a great idea and chose this quilt as my project. I am two bloack away afterall and hubby has been waiting on it. Completed the 11th block this morning and put the entire quilt top together minus the last block which I am working on tonight. Here is what the 11th block looks like. The quilt blocks are pieced entirely by hand using ragged edge applique and perle cotton for the hand embroidery.

I think this turned out great. So I moved onto another little something. My friend Lee gave me a little kit to make a cute little pinwheel coaster and I thought it would be fun to finish it. Many of these little kits just sit around the quilt loft collecting dust so I will set this one free. Here is the completed project from the kit. It has coffee fabric on the back.

My next little project will be working on the curtain for my bedroom doors. The story behind this project is I decided make these curtains for the French doors in my bedroom to keep out little eyes. I made them from the Hope of Hartford star and loved the fabric and everything. My husband decided that he wanted the curtains to look through the window panes on the doors instead of hanging in front of them so I took the whole project apart to resize, found out I needed to make more blocks and completely gave up on it. Decided that my husband was not involved from the beginning and I need the shade. I pulled out the blocks from years of storage and I decided to put this back together exactly as I intended. Here are the completed blocks from storage. Can't wait for this project to be complete. Hopefully I can then prevent this problem.Anyway, that's what's happening here today. Have to save some funny stories for another day. Taking a day trip this week with hubby and the kids and may have some new pictures to share. Take care and have a great day.