Monday, June 22, 2015

Design Wall Mionday - 6/22/15


DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
Check out all of us who link up with Judy L. -
At Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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On my wall today -

9-Patch Pizzazz - still - ;))


From -
9-Patch Pizzazz -
Fast, Fun & Finished in a Day -
(c) 2006 - Judy Sisneros -
C&T Publishing, Inc.


And it's coming together nicely - ;))


For the bottom section -


I prepped a couple of squares -


And used Lily to applique them in the corner -


To help with the "flow" - ;))
It was one of Judy's ideas - not mine - and I liked it - so I used it - ;))


And as long as Lily is now set up for applique -
I figure I might as well tackle -
The letters on these strips - ;))


AND -

I found my "kit" for my June Wedding Sudoku -
With a variety of white-on-white fabrics -
Which, unfortunately, do NOT photograph well - ;))


Better hurry -

I'm running out of June - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



Tuesday, June 16, 2015

TUSAL - 6/16/15



Once again I have joined a bunch of other stitchers -

In Daffycat’s TUSAL - HERE -

It's a Totally Useless Stitch-A-Long - ;))

To play the game -

I have to fill my glass container -

With saved thread clippings -

Or ORTS - Old Ratty Threads -

Fabric trimmings -

Stitching cast-offs -


And then -

On (or about) the New Moon -

Take a picture of the ORTS in my jar -

Post it to my blog -

With a link back to her TUSAL post - HERE -

Label the Totally Useless posts with “TUSAL” -

And then visit her blog and comment on her ORT report for that month's TUSAL - ;))


It's EASY -

It's TOTALLY USELESS -

And -

It's FUN!! - ;))

This year I decided NOT to empty my jar each time -

Because last year my year-to-date accumulation of ORTs -

Made it look like I actually DID something - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



Monday, June 15, 2015

Design Wall Monday - 6/15/15


DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
Check out all of us who link up with Judy L. -
At Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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On my wall today -

Layout #1 - kinda - ;))


I did my best to replicate the layout from my previous posts/photos -

But I also did a bit of tweaking -

So it is "kinda" the same - ;))

And some of the "chunks" are sewn together -

And some are not - ;))

I know that it's hard to see the fabrics -

Since the photos don't enlarge when you click on them -
(I re-size my photos because of Google storage issues)

So here's a close-up of one section - ;))


It was FUN trying to get some parts -

Like the purple from the focus fabric in the top right block -

To "flow" to the top left corner of the 9-patch below it - ;))

More FUN is planned for the rest of this week -

As I try to get it all to fit together - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -











Monday, June 8, 2015

Design Wall Monday - 6/8/15


DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
Check out all of us who link up with Judy L. -
At Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
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On my wall today -

Layout #2 - ;))


I said before that I wasn't going to play with it much -
BUT - a breeze from the window next to the design wall -
Blew most some of the pieces down -
SO - I tried another layout -
Since I had to put them back up anyway - ;))

And actually - the one above (#2) is the BASIC layout -

I misspoke the last time -
Because that layout (#1) -
Was the one for the first project in the book -
Lily Pond Wallhanging -
In REVERSE - ;))

Layout #1 - ;))


I like Layout #1 from last week -

I think it flows better -

Both the "Fans" and the "Gold" 9-patches -

Flow from the top right to the bottom left - ;))

What do you think? - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -


Friday, June 5, 2015

Friday Funny - 6/5/15


A couple of weeks ago I got a new cordless phone set -

For the house - ;))

The old one had a home base and two extensions -

And one of the extensions crapped out on me -

And it was easier to get a whole new set -

Than it would have been to try to replace the crappy phone -

At least for me - ;))

Now, I admit that -

I'm not the most tech-savvy person in the world -
(My husband programmed our old phones) -

But I'm also not a total idiot in the tech department -

So I got the set all charged up -

And got everything programmed the way I wanted it -

Except for the "Caller ID announce" feature - ;))

Mind you - I HAVE "Caller ID" -

I just couldn't get the dang thing to "Announce" the caller -

Like the old system did - ;))

So I asked a friend to help me -

And we tried to set it from the home base -

No luck - it wouldn't "take" - ;))

Then we tried to set each handset individually -

No luck - it wouldn't "take" - ;))

Then I re-read the "Quick Reference Guide" one more time - ;))

The MENU/SELECT button said -
When the handset is not in use - press to show the menu.
While in the menu - press to select an item or save an entry or setting.

The OFF/CANCEL button said -
During a call - press to hang up.
While in a menu - press to cancel an operation -
Back up to the previous menu -
Or exit the menu display -
Or press and hold this button to exit to idle mode -

Now you have probably already figured out what was happening -

But just in case you haven't -

I'll explain - ;))

Every time I set the setting -

Hit MENU/SELECT to SAVE it -

I was stuck on the same screen -

So when I tried to BACK UP to the previous menu -

And EXIT the menu display -

I was CANCELLING the operation - ;))

Once I figured out that I should set the setting -

And PRESS AND HOLD the button to EXIT to idle mode -

Did it "TAKE" - ;))

And, yes -

I had to re-set all the settings -

That I THOUGHT were already set - ;))

Obviously my definitions of "BACKUP" and "EXIT" -

Are not the same as the guy -

Who put the "BACK UP" and "CANCEL" functions -

On the SAME button - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



Wednesday, June 3, 2015

PLAY time -


Monday I was Ready and Set -

So yesterday I PLAYED - ;))


I put up the basic layout -

In REVERSE - just for fun -

And kept tweaking it ALL day - ;))

I took photos as I went along -

Until I just had to STOP!! - ;))

I could go on tweaking it for DAYS -

And the differences are so subtle -

That all of the photos look pretty much the same - ;))

I thought about trying another layout -

For about a split second -

Because if I do -

I could be tweaking it FOREVER -

And this girl has some chores to do - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Ready and Set -


Got the Pizzazz puzzle pieces ready to go -


But not before Murphy had his fun - ;))

I came up ONE short on this strip set -



So -

As long as I had to make some extra -

I made a couple extra extras - ;))


Now I think I'm Ready and Set -

To PLAY - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



Monday, June 1, 2015

Design Wall Monday - 6/1/15


DESIGN WALL MONDAY -
Check out all of us who link up with Judy L. -
At Patchwork Times on Mondays.
We have some awesome stuff on our walls!
Well, THEY do - ME - not so much sometimes - ;))
===



On my wall today - ;))


It's a brand new project -

From the book -

9-Patch Pizzazz -
Fast, Fun & Finished in a Day -
(c) 2006 - Judy Sisneros -
C&T Publishing, Inc.



I'm not so sure about the "finished in a day" part -

But I chose my focus fabric -

And a couple of others -

So we'll see what happens - ;))


What happened to the Churn Dash? - ;))

Well, it finally made it to the "flinsy" stage -


And from there -

Will probably hit the trash - ;))

I swear - those blocks KNEW that I was talking about them!! -

They ganged up on me -

And flat out refused to allow me -

To sew a straight line -

Or match any points -

And decided to be just plain ornery - ;))

The blue was the leader of the gang -

And decided to be slippery -

And slide all over the place - ;))

So after I finally got them all together -

Pressed them -

And took their picture -

I folded them up -

And put them on a shelf - ;))

I was going to donate the top to a bloggy buddy -

To use to teach some young quilters -

How to tie a quilt -

But it's not good enough -

It would probably fall apart in their hands - ;))

Life is too short to mess with stuff that won't cooperate -

So I dug out Judy's book -

And some pretty fabric -

And I'm going to PLAY!! - ;))



Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -



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