If you're going to San Francisco

be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

Daisy went to get her hair done, today, and came home with

a flower behind each ear.

I had a hard time getting a good pic.

I think she had just had enough attention for the day.

"I vont to be alone."

(somebody famous said that in an old movie)

Barney  (in the background) is like "what's the big deal?"

He dodged the grooming bullet because

he has not been trying to dig his way to China.

So Daisy offered him a flower for his

hair.

Father's Day

My friend Debbie

is hosting a big father's day dinner, today.

Unlike some, (who will remain nameless)

she does not send her husband and father to the

Foodland to pick up hot dogs and sauce

already made up for 50 cents (60 cents if you want cheese)

and a bag of chips.

She cooks and they eat at a table

instead of in front of the TV whilst watching the US Open.

Anywho, I had picked her a bouquet from Patty's

hydrangea a few days ago (I'm watching

Patty's plants whilst she is out of town-wonder why she doesn't give me

the key to her house while she's gone?)

and she asked if they would last till Sunday. 

I told her  I could steal pick more on

Sunday.

So, this morning, still in
my jammies, I picked flowers from our own

beautiful beds.

I love a wild and woolly arrangement.

so does Daisy.

An here is Jack auditioning to be

a gardening angel.

Actually, he is just holding up prototype

of a tunic I plan to make.  I made this

out of muslin and curtain lining.

I need to make it a size bigger.

or make me a size smaller.

Quilting the wonky star

I don't know why I took a picture of'

the back of this quilt.  I could have pressed these

seams down better.  I kept reading about

quilters pressing seams open to make them

easier to machine quilt, so I gave it a try.  Probably

won't try it, again.

I spray basted this, and also did some pinning.

The pins kind of reminded me of ants going to a picnic.

Let the fun begin.

I'm planning to quilt diagonally in both directions.

I think this is going to take a while. 

I can get several lines of quilting done in an evening.

Only about 699,700 more to go.  But
whose counting?

So this will be doubling as a

sewing machine cover for a little

while.

Fortunately,

I have other machines so I can work

on other projects without disturbing my quilting set-up.

I'm gonna start a new diet today and I have a new

Pilates video.  I'm gonna have breakfast and then I'll watch the DVD

whilst I'm sewing. 

You will not recognize me the next time you see me.

quilting the fox in the window quilt

Just posting some pics of quilting in progress with this sweet little quilt. 

This is the backing.  It was on sale and if your

not careful and look at it too long, you will

get sea sick.  I felt a little woozy while pressing it.

Pin basting is so much fun, I decided to baste this twice,. I got to

the bottom edge and found I needed about three inches more batting.

I know stuff like this happens, but I can't believe it happened

to me on an otherwise perfect sewing day.

Much better!!!

Let me introduce you to my sewing

support team. 

Snail (doesn't have a name)  reminds me to slow down.

Babe reminds me to keep it neat

and Bud Light Dog sniffs around

for loose threads.

(my studio doubles as a barn)

  

Thread, bobbins, ready, set, sew!!!!!!!!!!!

I almost forgot, my magic blue sewing slippers. (eat your

heart out Dorothy!)

You can see the pink sticky notes

I pinned to the quilt to remind me

which direction to sew in.

I pretty much ignored them.

I found that I should have put five or ten times

more pins in than I did.  I unsewed some, but after a while

I look at everything as an experiment and a

learning experience.  Like I tell my friend Debby, when she

wants to rip stuff out from to hell and back, or just cut the binding off

a quilt that is finished and start over

"this won't be your last quilt" and "there's plenty

of fabric where that came from."

The team seems pretty comfortable with how

it all turned out.

I am going to bind this by machine.  I usually attach by machine

then hand sew, but I feel like a new learning experience.

I'm off to buy a wide backing while the team takes a

rest.  The next quilt on the wall will be the biggest I've

quilted myself.  I'm letting myself off the

pieced backing hook so I don't have so many seams to

work with