Thrift Shopping Quickie...

Quick Thrift store shopping expedition late this afternoon--cut short by closing time. Boohoo.

$6 netted me 4 window valances each 80" wide, brand new linen-type cotton, enough for the bedroom window and a huge pile of pillows; knitting needles; and a hardback quilting book filled with far too many new projects.

More soup

 Dinner.  Homemade bread and soup with 15 bean mix, onions, carrots, celery, ham, cabbage, green peppers, a sprinkle of chili seasoning, thyme, and nutmeg and ginger. It was yum yum yum! :-)

Soup's on...

Soup's on :-)

I had a little left-over meatloaf and decided to make soup with it, so I sliced the kernels off an ear of corn and a chopped zucchini that also needed to be used up. Added some left-over green beans, 3 types of dried beans, a can of chopped tomatoes, some chopped green pepper I had in the freezer from when I bought some humongous green peppers for only 39 cents, and some beef broth I had in the freezer. Some oregano, garlic, lemon pepper and a light sprinkle of salt, let it simmer in crock pot for a few hours then added some cheese tortellini I bought for 75% off.

Hearty, healthy, delicious soup "on the cheap".

Don't you love it when you're looking through a book or magazine "just because", and you find exactly what you've been needing? I have some sets of 5" charm squares and had decided (finally!) that I wanted to put them together in huge English paper pieced hexagons, to make a quilt for when I'm on the sofa.

I just sat down with an old quilting book for a few minutes and had barely started flipping through the pages when I came across a tiny star which had a hexagon outline in the exact size I needed. I traced it to make sure it would work, then made a template from (what the heck is that stiff template material? It's 4:30 a.m. and I haven't been to bed yet--brain shut down hours ago!) and off I went.

Dinner

Chicken ravioli, pan fried with sauteed green peppers and onions, garlic pepper, and a sprinkling of grated cheeses. Yum.

Tumbling Blocks update

Someone asked me about my Tumbling Blocks project, and I realized that I don't have an updated photo of it on here, so here it is. This was shortly before I set it aside to focus on the orange and white quilt in my previous post.

I have just a few more of the "blocks" to put in place and then I'll be adding diamonds and half-diamonds to fill in around the edges, as well as a narrow border, all in a single fabric. I haven't decided on that fabric yet.

This will end up somewhere around 96 x 108. I'm looking forward to having the top completed so I can move on to the hand-quilting.

Back, with a "finish"...

I'm back from a much-too-long break...and I have a "finish". My first since August, 2010.
It's this Irish Chain, which was machine-pieced and hand-quilted. It's been my primary project for the last year.

I really love the way it's turned out. The color has even grown on me. So it's with slightly mixed-emotions that I'll be packaging it up and mailing to someone else tomorrow, but I know she is going to love it even more than I do.



Now...I wonder where I've stashed the next project on my list :-O