Satisfied Saturday

Today started early… 5 a.m. I awakened and got out of bed around 5:40. I got a hot cocoa and read online until 6:15.

Hit the shower, cooked breakfast, and was on the road at 7:25 a.m. I picked up my dear neighbor & friend, Elinor, and we went to Galena for a good morning at the quilt shop.

First was the new Block of the Month for 2008. It is $5 a month and we get the instructions for the block, the fabrics needed, and an alternate layout. I plan to add the finishing kit and it adds a center medallion and borders with the blocks set on point to make a 60+” quilt.

(I didn’t get a picture until they had moved the display rack. I hope you can visualize it in one piece! This was the first time I used the combine feature on Photoscape and I didn’t find as many options as I wanted.) The candy stripe around the edge that you may see is from the quilt hanging behind this one.

I plan on giving it to JP so will consider purchasing additional fabrics for another border or extra blocks to make it about double or queen size.

The paper piecing BOM (10 small ones) has been put on hold until 2009. I was a bit bummed but the same lady leads both classes. I also have several monthly projects going anyway.

Next for the Machine Embroidery Club, Jane showed us the steps and had handouts for putting a lace corner & monogram on a napkin. Then the group continued with working with the Embroidery Software. Even tho Jane had her laptop there for me to work with after doing 1/2 of a page, I knew this was moving too slowly for me. I have more computer experience and have worked with the software more than the other ladies there.

I got the handouts for the project and a preparation packet for working the Aqua Ambience quilt projects in the spring. I’d like to make a quilt from that book, too and have some fabrics to get started.

I had purchases to make so finished that and we were ready to head home by 11:30. We met 4 emergency vehicles in a hurry to 2 or 3 separate incidents and were thankful for our safety. Phil called me midway home, needing a ride as his keys were locked inside his truck. Bummer! It was not too much out of the way to get to him.

After lunch, I finished my pink & brown blocks from the 2007 BOM. Yippee!! All I had to do was removed a lot of paper from the backs and press them. I have a general idea of how to lay them out…. I’m hoping to get them to a twin size quilt. So will probably need to make 5 more blocks.

My Dear Jane BOM packet arrived on Thursday and I’m so excited to get going on this quilt! The fabrics are reproduction and follow the colorways of the original quilt made back in 1863. The solid cream in the kit is really a light print. Not like the original but I think I’ll go with it anyway. There are several of us on The Quilt Show doing this BOM from a shop in Texas.

I plan on printing paper piecing patterns for several of the blocks tomorrow. I think I’ll get some of them done.

We went to early service tonight and it was good. Living out of the overflow that God gives us. To have overflow, that means we are full and satisfied and have more for others.

K is housesitting, P & JP got subway for supper, and I got a few groceries before coming home.

A good, long day.