Wedding shower Cookies

I had a fun weekend. I started w making some cookies for my darling step daughters(DD) wedding shower. I did 2 bathces of rolled cookies on Saturday and Sunday. Usually I work Out w DD and a trainer on Sunday AM. but I called off sick. A frined of mine was coming over in the PM to decorate the fancy hearts in to bride and groom cookies!

I call these the bridesmaid cookies! LOL she free handed the decorations and I put the red sugar crystals on them.

 

Then she made these !

 

and THESE!

It was amazing to watch her work I had bought the Fondant for her the day before. it was very stiff and hard to work.

here she's rolling out the fondant to 1/4"

She took each heart and cut the shape out for the tux, and free handed the lines on it!

 

These were awesome!

I was no help what so ever!

 

Retirement is hard!

Not Much is happening in my world. I decided I was going to get my Easy Street quilt quilted, but I need to make the backing. The fabric I have is not large enough. Not a deal killer, but I always like the backs of my quilts to look nice too.

Plus it's going to my niece so I want to put her name on it. I spend a day making the wording look good. Still have not written it in indelible ink. and I want to sew the piece into the quilt backing.

My DH's DD3 is getting married in July. I have talked about her quilt in the previous post and still have not made a decision on the sashing fabric. Her wedding shower is next Saturday. I saw these really cute cookies decorated like a bride and groom. Heart shaped cookies in a Wedding dress and Tux. There's no way I would do this by myself, But I have a friend (who also cleans my house OMG I must clean up b4 she gets here!) who is very gifted in decorating things like this. She's available Sunday and is going to help me decorate them.

That means that I need to make the dough tonight, refrigerate it, and bake them up tomorrow. Of course I'm supposed to drive up to see my DD north of the city, tomorrow and take DH to a train show that is around the corner from her. ARGH this retirement is hard.

Continuing the journey.

Along with my quilting Journey, I'm a life time Weight Watcher trying to get back to goal. It takes 2-3 days to gain 5 lbs and months to get it back off. This week despite being a fantastic food plan week, and exercise has been great too, it has been an emotional week. However I didn't look to food for comfort. I was in control and was able to speak my mind at a conference planing the care of my BIL, and that is a whole other me!

I do want to share some quilts from the Internations Quilt Festival Cincinnati. If you get a chance to go it is so nice!

These are tiny Hex's appliqued to make the flowers. Something I will never do it's too tiny.

Here are some flowers that both my DGT and I loved they were appliqued, and painted I think.

 I've blown this pic up so that the Tulle and sewing can be seen. very intereseting way to get demention and applique on it.

Even htis Herron is appliqued in more traditional way, but I think there was still some painting on it.

I was these on Thursday and when I saw them on Saturday I realized that they had taken 4 sunflowers and cut them into 4ths and sewn them back together! OH MY. the beading and decortations on each flower is consistiant in all 4!

I love the little bird on top of the flower.

This is just a typical applique flowers. but I loved it. I wish my own garden was so nice.

Again my favorites are the appliques.... but those are also the ones I don't like to make!

these 2 birds are so similar and yet so different.

 

DGT didn't get another shot of this rambling rose. At least I haven't found it yet in the 137 pics she took. It's done over a pieced quilt! that's a lot of work!

 

That's all for now. I lot of pics and hopefully it will spur my imagination on.

 

 

Fun at the International Quilt Festival Cincinnati!

The International Quilting Festival is in town this week. I spent the day there  yesterday with Alice the woman I worked on her Butterfly quilt HERE and here we are at the Quilt Festival.

It was really nice to have someone to oooh and aaahh over the quilts with. Last yr I went by myself and still had a great time! Everyone there has something in common.It's easy to talk to strangers at a quilt show.
 I bought some fabric to go with this quilt:

I bought fabric in the Kaffe Fassett collection several many yrs ago. And I started making the blocks. I then decided that it would be a good quilt to give to my (step) DD for her wedding in July 2013. But I knew it wasn't going to be large enough, they have a queen bed now, and they will need to up grade to a king after they move. A large queen is the biggest I want to make. So I added some white sashing to the blocks

 

No matter what I did though the sashing fabric I had that coordinated w the quilt was not enough!!!! I placed the whole thing in a shoe box and it has been a UFO for quite a while. So here it is with 2 fabrics I bought for the sashing along w the coordinating fabric for the borders. I purchased them from Fabric Fanatics (Plano Tx) Their batiks were very reasonable at about $10/yd

This is the coordinating border fabric, which I love and will hate to cut up!

 I know that Jo at Jo's Country junction.Jo's UFO you do have to page down to see here version. I'm going to send her a link to this quilt hope I can get some comments that will help me decide which fabric to use for the sashing, the Blue batik, or the tan and Black?

DGT is also coming over tomorrow to photograph the International Quilt Show for me. Hopefully I'll have some pics to share. She is a better photographer than me.

 

Sewing prevention

This is supposed to be a quilting blog, about things that I quilt/sew. but I have nothing to show or share.

Since I posted last, I have been at the Hospital for 10 days helping to take care of my BIL who is Developmentally Delayed. He has since returned to the nursing home unfortunately they are the ones that caused his problem to be so bad. BC he has behavior issues, we found it impossible to get him to any other facility. Even one that had cared for him 6 yrs ago.

OH well I doubt that they will make the same mistake again. DH has just left to go visit and help him eat dinner. On Tuesday BIL has a scheduled surgery to change a kidney stent. It's been a roller coaster ride w him since January.

Just trying to keep up w the house work, when you come home at 7 PM from the hospital is too exhausting to even think about sewing. I did manage to get some of my vegetable garden planted. Now to figure out how to get the Deer to eat elsewhere. It's too small a plot to electrify.

Too busy to post on my Blog

I've been too busy this past couple of weeks to post to my Blog! I haven't been getting much sewing down either.

I've been working on this:

 

I'm a pattern follower. I like to follow the pattern and don't really like to change the way it's made until I'm into it for a while. After making the mock up and cutting out all of the pieces the way the Pattern called for them I realized that it was just a Flying geese  and I didn't have to do it the way the pattern called.

A 5.5 inch square and then a 2 &7/8  square sewn twice 1/4" from the line

 Cut on the line, and then another 2&7/8  square sewn on the line from the corner of the square that you cut, or rather the 1/2 that you cut.

 

I went back to Bonnie Hunters page on the Easy Street pattern Flying geese She has a video on that link that shows an easier and I think more accurate flying geese. As you can see it is off by about 1/8 of an inch!

 

Even though I followed the directions and the cutting on the line and all. It was not accurate.

 

So I'm finishing it the way I cut them, but bc I'm making 4 similar quilts, w slightly different fabrics I will be switching to the Easy angle method.It just seems so much easier to me.

This goose doesn't look like it has any 90 degree corners!

 

 

It's also snowing to beat the band, but we are not getting the 1-8" of snow they threatened us with this past week. Seriously! They started Winter Weather Watches 2 days ago. And now I don't even think there is an inch of snow out there.

 

 

Rainy Day

Sunday 2 of my adult children came over for dinner. I really wanted to show them the quilt I'm giving to one of the friends, but I'm not showing it here till it arrives.... I need to make a label. So I ran what I was going to put on it. Make sure that the name was spelled right, and the wording looks good.

This picture us of the massive rains we had Monday. Some one's blog I follow was talking about having garden envy. That's my garden w the 6 poles and no fence around it, with the massive PUDDLE around that.

One of my readers also asked about the featherweights that I have for sale. All of the one's I have featured are for sale.HERE & Here. I think they are priced as what I would like to get for them. I bought them on EBay, and have rehabbed them and they all sew!

If you are interested please leave me a message, or email me. BUT make sure you have an email address I can get back to you on. The last message I  received did not have an active email address to follow up on. Makes it difficult to follow up on.

Never did get to finish this post time flies when you are having fun!

I need to start on a new quilt. I've promised 4 grandchildren new quilts. I have the fabrics, but not a pattern. All of the fabrics go together, I don't want to put a lot of piecing into them, use larger pieces. Going through a lot of my old patterns to see what I like.

But instead I worked on repairing my mom's quilt it's very thread bare so I had to whip stitch some of it together. Not my favorite thing to do but it's getting pretty worn. her dogs love to dig in it.

I don't remember the pattern name, but it was a shop hop pattern. I didn't do the shop hop, but did the patterns. One of the shops allowed me to purchase the whole thing. I love the cream yellow on this quilt, it's a very mellow yellow.

Here you can see where the stitching has worn off, and I was lucky enough to have a little of the thread left to re-quilt it. Took me longer to pin it to the mid arm frame than it did to quilt it.

Yesterday I also had a "aggravated mole" removed from my face near my ear. She called it a mole, I call it a Birthmark. It started growing a few months ago, then I accidentally scratched it. Anyway it's off, the biopsy will be done and results in 7 days. I'm happy w that.