Another beautiful day in Phoenix!

It was another sunny day today here in Phoenix

altho I spent all day inside.

It was not such a great idea to do all of the exercise

that I did yesterday. I woke up during the night

and it was not pretty! Didn't get much sleep.

So no Jazzercise or mountain hiking for me today.

I worked on Kathy's quilt, worked on my quilt for entry

into the quilt show, worked on setting up a Facebook page

for Heartstring quilts and now I am off to sub for a bunko game.

At my bunko the subs usually win!

Hopefully I'll be lucky!

The day is done

What a day this has been.

I am plum worn out!

I'm pretty sure that I will sleep

really well tonight.

I ended the day with a jazzercise class, but

before that Mike and I went on a 2 mile hike.

This is a picture from the top of mountain.

Can you see those mountains in the distance?

They stretch from one side of the picture to the other.

Those are the mountains I will be hiking in 2 weeks!

Phew! I've got ALOT of training to do!

Fall has finally come to Phoenix.

I spent some time in the garden today fertilizing my

tomato's and other plants.

It was really a lovely day here today with temperatures

in the 70's.

Kathy's quilt is on the frames ready to be

quilted. I'll work on that tomorrow.

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I've been spending all of my extra time learning

my new laptop and new embroidery software.

Here is what I embroidered today.

I could see it on the large screen of the laptop

instead of that little screen on the sewing machine.

Remember those baby halloween outfits that I bought

at Burlington Coat Factory?

Here is the cute Pirate one.....

Remeber the great bargain?

Today I added an embroidery to

the back side of the outfit........

So cute!

Design Wall Monday

Yes....if you tuned in last Monday you did see the exact same quilt.

I've been hemming and hawing all week about how to

finish this quilt and I have finally decided.

I am going to add

a 3" border in the purple fabric and then after it is quilted I

will scallop the edges.

Not sure how many scallops, but the corners

for sure will be rounded. I will figure out if the rest of the quilt

will be scalloped when I get to that part.

This quilt will be entered into our local quilt show along with

the other 3 ladies who participated in this Round Robin.

They already have thiers quilted and to the binding stage,

but they got the "finger" pointed at them months ago

and were told that their

QUILTS WOULD BE READY

FOR THE SHOW!

(or else!)

Since I missed the first "finger point"

and am running a little behind

I got "the finger point" on Friday night!

So I'm getting busy!

My very first embroidery design!

Quite a few months ago I purchased a software

package that would enable me to design embroideries

to use on my Designer 1 embroidery machine.

I have been wanting to design quilt labels, but first

I needed to learn the ins and outs of the software

and then figure out how to get this transfered to a floppy

disc so it could go into my embroidery machine to be

stitched out.

Well today I finally did it! and the picture above

is the very first one I stitched out!

I've still got alot to learn, but I am pretty happy

with what I accomplished today!

God Bless you this fine Sunday

I spent a very quiet Sunday visiting with

my friend Helen.

She is 91 and just spent a few days in the hospital.

Helen and I go way back..........I met her

when I first started quilting and she befriended me

when I was just a young thing and taught me a whole

lot about quilting.

Tomorrow is Judy's design wall monday..........

I don't know if I will have anything to show.......

Guess I should get on that!

Til then.........

Sweet Dreams!

Lots of things going on..........

The last couple of days have been busy ones

filled with family and friends and QUILTING!

This past week I finished up a couple of quilts.

This one belongs to Liz............

This is a close-up of a corner of Liz's quilt.

She chose a bear from Anne Bright's quilting patterns.

And a moose for another corner.

This next quilt belongs to Deb.

Close-up of one of the side setting triangles.

The inspiration this design came from

Kim Stotsenburg's "Just Leaf it" quilt design book.

The January meeting of the Friday Night Quilters

was held at my house last night and it was a fun-filled evening

starting with making pizza.

Here are Kathy and Katrina getting started.

We had some beautiful show and tell last night.

This quilt, made with Kaffe Fasset fabrics, belongs

to Katrina. It was a real beauty!

Cheryl is displaying a quilt made by Dolly's

11 year old daughter Kelly. Kelly designed, pieced,

and quilted this little quilt to donate to Ami Simm's

Alzhimers Art Quilt Initiative. This little ladybug quilt raised

$100 for this cause. The person who bought the quilt

requested that it be sent back to the maker since it was

her very first quilt. What a sweet story!

After Show and tell we all went downstairs to

make a little project.

So that was Friday night...........Saturday morning

Mike and I went on a little 4 mile hike in preparation

for the 15 mile hike he has signed us up for in 2 weeks.

Yikes! I'm a little worried about doing this!

After the hike we pushed back most of the furniture

in the living room and moved a bunch of it out to the

back porch for a little Family Jazzercise!

My daughter-in-law Jen is working really hard to become an

instructor and needed some students to practice on.

WELL! She got some pretty challenging students and

she did really awesome. I think she'll make a great instructor!

Our neighbors Bert and Gail started a holiday

tradition several years ago. We call it

"Bert bombs the Neighborhood"

He makes us a B52 Bomber.

They are pretty yummy!

Bert.....the Master Mixologist!

See the 3 layers?

Bert and Gail........cheers!

Happy New Year from Mike, Brian, Rafael & Tammy!

New Idea

I've been looking at the quilt on the design wall all day and did a little playing around with it.
I think I will try adding a small border, like maybe 3", and then do a scallop all the way around.
I'll post a picture when I'm finished!

Then again.......who knows.....I may change my mind again!

Design Wall Monday

Hello!

My design wall is graced by my Round Robin Quilt!

I really, really, really need to finish this quilt....and SOON!

The other ladies who participated in this round robin

want to enter ALL of the quilts in our quilt show.

The entry deadline is Jan. 16.

I need to get going!

I keep thinking that this quilt needs another border.

However I really like the size of it!

So I am thinking about making each corner into a circle and letting the quilt have a fun irregular border.

At the moment I just have some fabric kinda folded under at the corner to see if I like it.

What do you think?

Should I just leave it like it is..?

Or should I play with the corners?

I DO need to get this done!

Had to include this picture of my husband and I on our way to an Ugly Sweater Party on New Year's Eve.......we look great don't we?