We Made It!

 Still no pics, but just wanted you all to know we completed our 2,000 mile trip from WI to CA. So glad to be here safe. Lots of experiences and only one bad - so far - we blew the muffler on the car, so it's really noisy. Not a devastating problem.... but quite annoying. Furniture won't arrive until the 13th, so no sewing for a while.....Boo Who!

Sew awhile for me, please.

Hugs,

Terri

On the road - no pics

 Right now I'm in Rock Springs WY at the Holiday Inn. We've been moving my plants and a few last minute things the movers forgot in a little U-Haul drag along. I'm exhausted.

U all have fun at your sewing machines.

I'll check in again later in the week...

Hugs, 

Terri

One of my Favs

I made this small quilt in May of 2012 for the Linus Project. It was a challenge - choose your favorite color and using it and it's tints and shades make a baby quilt for their Open House. 

They asked for the pattern - easy to draw - using a see-thru ruler. I made paper piecing patterns to sew it right.  I'd have trouble getting the stipe centered. Wavy lines quilting to finish. 

So that's my hysterical offering for today. Easy for me to say...

Come back again to see what I can dredge up from the past.

Hugs,

Terri 

Past Blocks

 

I almost forgot about these paper pieced blocks. I gave them away...

 I don't always finish what I start.  It's okay, I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Have a great day.

Hugs, Terri

Back History - Forgotten Memories

 Maybe you noticed I'm using a larger font size... so I can see it. LOL

I picked out some photos for the blog today, some I remembered, and some took time to figure out. There are tiles and paint chips - choices for my kitchen remodel years ago... and a couple of Harry Potter blocks - a Butterbeer and the Deathly Hallows symbol.

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I like the HP blocks best.

I'll be packing some more now.

Hugs,

Terri

Back Again - If the Computer Allows Me 2 B

 I've had a frustrating time with the buggery thing (computer) for a while now, and today things seemed to turn around. Wish me luck.

For your consideration today one of my old Harry Potter blocks - the Pensive....appropriate for bringing back memories.  I haven't done much quilting in the past few years. I'm a diva, you see. I had all that trouble with the blog and the computer, so I sulked.  (There were other problems to cause some depressed feeling, too. Don't want to dwell on all that anymore) 

You aren't likely to see much quilting here for a while either... we have sold our house in Superior WI and (Ha,Ha) are moving back to CA soon. (We just can't make up our minds, I guess.) Lots of packing and downsizing to do yet. 

So I hope to get into the swing of things and show off something interesting soon.

HUGS

Terri

I'm back!

I have been lost.  I was depressed about a lot of things, then the blog went down and I couldn't get in....  Now I have a new laptop and a cell phone and here I am.  Everything is new here.    Bear with me while I learn it all over again.

I've been working on this:

  It is paper pieced, meant to be for my great granddaughter, Olivia, who already turned 1 year old. I like the quilt for her, but it could be another year before its finished. We may be moving to CA again this year - so lots of other work to do.

So glad to be back amongst the quilting bloggers again.

Hugs,

Terri

Christmas Gift Opened - Love it!

It came in the mail, so I opened it...

From my sister, Barbara, (She always gives me Harry Potter things.) a Hogwarts pop up book!!!! I love it, Barb. Thank you so much.

 These are only 3 of the pages, made to open out all at one time.  There are two other pages that I will show at another time.

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The plant is now dubbed the "Whomping Willow".  It's actually a pomegranate that has lived there since we moved here because sunshine shows up there on occasion.
I'm still discovering new things about this gift.  You may be seeing more on this subject.  Tune in next time.

Hugs,
Terri

Blizzard Pictures

We've been entertaining a blizzard named Ezekiel. He dumped a bunch of snow and is still snowing.  Winds were 35-50 mph, but have now subsided. Neighbors are out shoveling and the neighbor boy is shoveling for us!  (We are in our 70s and not so healthy.)

Here are some pictures from the house.

Our back porch stairs...

 

The ironwork on the back porch - there isn't a square inch that the wind didn't deliver some snow.

From the family room window through the blinds. (The @!#$%& blinds you can't move within the panes of glass.) Snow on everything.

Another window view.

 

I guess we got the 12-18 they were predicting.  We stayed in. Luckily we didn't lose any power.

 

The kicker = winter hasn't officially started yet.

 

Hugs to you all.

 

Terri

Here's my turkey, JR....

My turkey, not as fun as Julie Rose's

It's paper pieced and part of a "Backyard Birds" quilt I made for my son's birthday in 2009 (I think).  The pattern was from the book "365 Paper Piecing Patterns".  See.... not cute or funny. I like yours better, JR.

Hug,
Terri

Still Making Butterflies

But I didn't make this one...

This one -dragonfly- showed up on my screen yesterday.  They are supposed to be good luck...we could use some.

Hope this one is good luck for you, too.
Hugs,
Terri

Some more of the new butterflies

I arranged some on the ironing board, but they wouldn't all fit.  Tried a new batch of fabrics from my stash. found my Fairy Frost fabrics... there is a green (Fairy Frost) winged one in this first picture with a red body and white background.

See the bird fabric here on the bottom of the above picture. I bought it for making birds... I have a box in my stash for fabrics that look like birds to me.  And the blue with lime green in it is left over from last year's H2H quilt. I paired it with oranges then  - looks good with an orange body and lime background.

I haven't squared them up yet... but you knew that.

Orange Fairy Frost body with  green speckled wings and yellow background. I bought a bunch of Fairy Frost for making birds from a gift certificate I got for Christmas one year from Sheila of  Sew Cook and Travel. Thanks again Sheila.

Some of my favorite fabrics are here in this batch.  I really love this orange with purple accents that is second to the last in the picture above (green body and dark purple background).  Top right in this picture is some Fairy Frost blue... You have to cut into it as some point - if you don't, your inheritor will get to use it. I really don't know who that might be.

Nothing else is going on here. I am suffering another bout of trouble with my sciatica, brought on when I blew out my right knee... climbing the stairs!  Who says exercise is good for you?

I have a few more I'll share when I have more done...

Happy Hump Day to you all,

Hugs,

Terri

Still Making Butterflies

Showing 9 X 14 = 127  blocks and I've got one more to start the next batch... I'm not done. It's only 36" X 48" when sewn together.  Not big enough.

Some of my favorites -

I've been using mostly scraps so far, but now I'll be getting out the bigger pieces in my stash to make all the butterflies that I want to make and make them all different.  I'm still enjoying the process.

Stay cool.

Hugs,

Terri

More Butterflies

I've got 91 sewn now, but only these are squared up.

Below are close ups that I especially like.  The layout will change, of course. You can't have same colors next to each other.... And a couple of them are just wrong... like the polka dot and pink butterfly with the pink background on the top row.  What was I thinking? 

I do like the leopard print, but the pink one next to it looks like a dumbbell.  Anyway, back to the cutting mat. (First I need some Tylenol!)

Keep cool.

 

Hugs,

Terri

 

A New to Me Butterfly

I started out to make the kind I've seen all over the blogs, like here. I've wanted to try them for ages now.

 

I had trouble getting the background on correctly, so I made a paper piecing pattern.  You may notice I had a problem with that, too. Oh well, these are wonky ones.  I'll fix the pattern for the next ones.  I've been itching to make something paper pieced, you know me.

 

Linking to Rainbow Scrap Challenge on Saturday.

 

Happy Thursday,

Hugs,

Terri

Stories to go with the H2H quilts shown on an earlier post

Sometimes I have a time trying to tell one quilt from the close-ups of it shown on other blogs... So on this blog I am sharing the stories of the quilts that I'm giving to the Hands to Help Comfort quilts challenge. I'll show the quilts again and the sordid truths about them. LOL

This one started out as a Squirrel Quilt...

You know how squirrel quilts can be... so exciting to start, so tedious to finish. I liked the color scheme from an ad in a magazine, and I love the white and muslin background pieces on other quilts I have seen, but just not the way I did it. 

This red and muslin quilt is Cherry Pie - my third quilt, and it's been in the UFO pile since the 90s.  It's huge, and I just don't feel like finishing it. There are a few blocks cut that I will send with to Victoria's in Canada... in case she needs to add to the part she cuts off of this one.

The next two may need to be sewn together to be big enough, but that should be easy. These are "made" fabric pieces I made a couple of summers ago. There are orphan blocks and paper pieced blocks included in each. Close up photos show those blocks.

 

 

And here is the baby quilt for Jack's Basket.  Some of my favorite multicolored fabrics with two sided "frames".  It's an easy quilt to make, and I made it for a friend to give to a grandchild.  I asked and asked for an address, but none was offered.  I have two other quilts for the other grandkids that aren't as yet finished. They will be donated somewhere when they are finished, too.

Don't you just love the spacey blue on the left and the rainbow "flames" next to it?  In honor of my nephew, Brandon, this one goes to Jack's Basket.

Stories and close-up photos as promised. Shipping these tomorrow.

Hugs,

Terri

UFOs For H2H donations

Hi and here it is.  The first four flimsies are for Victoria's Quilts Canada, and one for Jack's Baskets. To make it easier for Sarah, I'll make another post with the stories.  Hugs, Terri

 

 

And one quilt for Jack's Baskets.

Happy Mother's Day!

I got the best of all Mother's Day gifts this year... My younger son, Scot, graduated from Arizona State University with honors. (Yep, gold tassel and rope, and a special sash given to military graduates, he was quite colorful. We got to watch the ceremony on the computer.) He retired from the Air Force several years ago, and went to school.  He is now student teaching 7 or 8th grade science, and already has a job for next fall teaching 8th grade science.  I'm very proud of him!

I also got a traditional Mom's Day gift. They usually send cut flowers, but this year I got a hibiscus plant. I've always wanted one. Several of the buds are slightly colored already to bloom, but lots are still green.  Looks like the flowers will be orange or gold colored.  Thanks Kids. I'm very happy with it.

 

 

So I hope your Mother's Day is as wonderful as mine.

Hugs,

Terri