Month 11

Is finished and I'm ready to begin the final month of this Block of the Month Quilt. I only have a couple of minutes, so this post is going to be straight to the point.

My final two flying geese sections

Adding the flying geese borders

Finished with Month 11

I have two weeks to get Stars done.  I'm starting to think that I might just get this one done for our show!  Its coming, Terry!!!

Australia bound!

Not me, unfortunately!

You get to see my quilting in this photo.

My mini quilt that I sewed for the Dreaming of Spring mini quilt exchange is on its way to Australia along with Christa's mini.

Complete with label.

We were both excited to have been paired up with someone from far away, but the postage costs!  Postage was more than the quilts were worth.  I'm still glad that I did the exchange.

My order of Laundry Basket Quilts fabric arrived yesterday from the Fat Quarter Shop.  This line is called Paint Box Batiks.  I plan on pairing these fabrics up with an earlier line of LBQ fabrics called Dancing in the Rain.

And I will be making this quilt

It is called Scattered Stars and it is from McCall's Quilting magazine.

Happy Mothers Day to all Moms out there.  I hope to finish Month 11 in my Stars quilt today.

For sale...

a 1950's laminate silver and white kitchen table.  Great condition, sturdy and reliable.  No, its really not in great condition because the middle has started to bow.  I've replaced my old garbage dump sewing table with a new handmade Amish birch beauty.

Front

Back extension leaf

Front view

My sewing machine fits like a glove.

I hate to say it, but it's almost too nice to use.  I don't want to scratch it!  But Wow! what a difference in sewing ease with my machine being three inches lower.  Its so much easier on my shoulders.  I am truly blessed to have this to sew on for the rest of my life.  I guess that I will have to include this table in my last will and testament, heh?  I do take bribes!

This table was custom ordered from Schrock's of Walnut Creek of Ohio, USA.  I had a choice of three woods- oak, cherry and birch.  I chose birch because of the grain with a walnut stain.  The company hadn't made this combination before mine and said that they were going to add pictures of my table to their website.

My table was at our farm for a month before I could sew on it.  We were waiting for my bother in law to help carry it down our stairs.  So last night we had an insurance salesman drop by and he insisted on helping us get it to the basement...he offered three times...he was in a suit and tie!  He must have been a football player because when they were done hauling it down, he had barely broken a sweat and didn't lose his breath at all.  I told him that I wasn't gonna phone his wife and tell her that her husband was squished to death at the bottom of our stairs by a sewing cabinet.  Oh the visions that run through my mind!  See Christa, insurance salesmen aren't all that bad!  :-)

And one more Thank You to Colleen.  The mini cutting board is perfect for my flying geese.

See you girls at guild tomorrow.  Probably the last of the year.........unless is snows again...........