Get Out And Vote

 

Getting back to work was no big deal, not much to do, not for me anyway.  I decided that since early voting polls were back open today that I would take my mother up to vote and get mines in also (that “killing two birds with one stone” idea kicking in).  I told my father that while he was out at McDonalds that he should also go vote.  He went and said it was too crowded (Yah right).

 

There is a campaign out to vote for a women, but I did not see her on the ballot.  Who you ask?  Maxine of course, Maxine for President.  Would it not be good to have a Women President.

 

I would vote for her, how about you?

I did not get any quilting done today, the men of the house wanted to eat.  Who do they think I am, Martha Stewart, “that is a good thing”?  I am more like Cheri in Mermaids, fix them cheese and crackers, and party food, and leave me alone, I need time to quilt.

Excuses, excuses, it is also payday week and I need to get the bills paid before I have no power, gas or water.  I also need time to check out my fellow bloggers, even you, and leave comments, so I can get to bed early.  I brought my computer down stairs so I can cook, clean, and blog.  Hmmm, I fell  an commercial song coming on, Enjoli – I can bring home the beacon, fry it up in a pan, and never, never let you forget you’re a man, cause I’m a woman, Enjoli.

O.K., let me sign off now and get to working on the bills and reading the blogs.

Until Tomorrow – Don’t Forget to VOTE!!!

The Slow Quilter (Felicia Few)

Killing Two Birds With One Stone

No, I am not killing any birds over here, I just like the saying.  Another day off form work, but have to hit the old JOB tomorrow, so I got some cleaning and washing done while I also working on my signature blocks.

What I meant, by “Killing two birds with one stone” is that I chain pieced by 4” squares' onto my 6” squares then turned them and stitched another 1/4” down the the other side.  This might not be new to most of you, but for beginners it might be helpful.  I got this from my favorite YouTube quilter Jenny Doan of Missouri Quilt Co.  

In doing this and cutting down the center I have created and HST block, (I think that is what it is called).  Now I have a 3-1/2” square I can use in another project later on.

I completed 20 blocks today and only have 30 more to go.  When I started to make mistakes, I new it was time for me to leave the blocks alone and come back another day to do.  I do not need them until November 16th, so I have time to work on them when I get home from work.

Here is one of the completed blocks.  I am using a lot of scrap fabric, oriental and batiks.  After I finish the blocks, I will have to cut up some freezer paper to iron on the back to make it stable enough to write on.  I most likely will not finish the quilt until after Christmas when I print out the pictures from the retreat.  It will give me time to put the other signature blocks from my other retreat together. You know how it is, you keep starting new projects before you finish the one you should.  What can I say I get board easily.  My mind keeps jumping from one thing to another.  “Peace Be Still” or should that be “Mind  Be Still”.  It is a wonder I get anything done.

Well, as you can tell by the time of this post that it is early for me.  I have my last load of clothes in the dryer.  I have cleaned up my sewing mess and ready to get upstairs and get my clothes iron for work tomorrow.  I really should wash my hair, but do not fell like it.  The Hart of Dixie is about to come on and then NCSI both of them, so I am taping all the shows just in case I fall to sleep.

Back To The JOB

The Slow Quilter (Felicia Few)

Surviving Sandy And Still Quilting

This is a picture of the floods in New Jersey, I live in D.C. and survived not having a flood.  D.C. schools, and governments, and public transportation was shut down on Monday.  Since it was my day off it was not such a big deal for me.  Because of the shut down of public transportation Tom and I had to go over to the Washington Hospital Center to pick up my daughter from work at around 8:30 a.m.  Since we were already out we went shopping over at Wal-Mart to pick up batteries and a few other items.  Yes, we should have batteries, but you know how it is,  “out of sight, out of mind”.  We were in luck, they had batteries and fully stock shelves.  From there we stopped pass the Mall, put it was closed, must of all the other stores were open, liquor store (you can't have a good storm without stocking up, I stopped pass on my second run out).

The weather was rainy and the winds high, put manageable.  We got back home around 1:00 (other stops made).  When Tom went up to the bed room he discovered that the bed was wet, after look up he saw a leak over the bed.  Well dame, what are we going to do about this with all this rain coming down.  We moved the bed, put a bucket under the leak and hope for the best.  At least we got the bedroom cleaned up and found missing items under the bed. 

Since the winds were picking up and the rain coming down a little harder, my daughter decided that she should go into work early, she does not have to be in until 11:30 so we took her in at 7:00, on this trip out we went back to store to pick up some items for my mother.  This trip we saw down trees and light out in some neighborhoods.  We are still lucky, we will have electricity and no down trees.

In between running out, I did get some cutting done.  I am working on a signature quilt for a church retreat next month and wanted to get this out of the way.

I need about 50 or 60 block, I cut up some white fabric and looked through by scrap material for the tri-angles.  This will be a 5-1/2” block, after cutting about a hundred scrap blocks I folded them so that when I get them to the machine, I can just follow the fold line instead of drawing them (I am not a straight sewer, and after one drink do telling were the line will be).

Now  those little slivers of fabric above will be turned into something I hope, I saving them to try a technique I saw, I will let you know if it turns out o.k.  These fabric pieces over on the side here will be a scrappy block of some kind.

 

Since they have shut down the government again (Tuesday), I will have time to put these blocks together and might even have time to work on other UFOs that I have.  I am sure we will be back to work on Monday, but if they give us situational leave on Wednesday, I might just take it.

I hope all of you have survived Sandy in a good way and got some quilting done before the power went out.

Surviving and Quilting

The Slow Quilter

(Felicia Few)