Sunday, August 24, 2014
Get Ready for Winter
The Farmer's Almanac is already noting signs of a rough winter ahead. Be prepared. A nice warm quilt is just what you need to sit inside all snug and warm with your hot beverage of choice (I prefer a hot toddy) while you look at the snow falling outside, and you try to forget you have to shovel that damn stuff. Order your quilt today.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
August Work
Been busy making quilt tops. Seems everytime I finish a top I get an idea for a new one. Lots of quilts to choose from.
It is also the start of football. Fine it's preseason but I will take what I can get. I quilt while I watch football. The beginning of August saw the induction of the 2014 class to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. During the speeches I was stuck by how much cancer has hit the football world. Claude Humpreys wife passed from cancer 2 years before he got the call he had been inducted into the Hall. His wife had been his biggest advocate for induction. Then Jim Kelly was there to see his buddy Andre Reed go into the Hall. As we all know, Mr. Kelly is fighting cancer right now. It was in remission but it returned.
My own family has been touched by cancer also. My grandfather died of leukemia, my stepbrother passed away from lung cancer and my stepfather from stomach cancer. Finding a cure for this far to prevalent disease is near and dear to my heart.
Thanks to a generous customer I was able to make a larger than normal contribution to CURE Childhood Cancer this month. You can find out more about CURE here. They are highly rated by Charity Navigator. You can donate directly to them or if you want to be involved in another cancer charity, you can donate through my other blog where you can donate to charity and help make a quilt for charity. Awesome right?
It is also the start of football. Fine it's preseason but I will take what I can get. I quilt while I watch football. The beginning of August saw the induction of the 2014 class to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. During the speeches I was stuck by how much cancer has hit the football world. Claude Humpreys wife passed from cancer 2 years before he got the call he had been inducted into the Hall. His wife had been his biggest advocate for induction. Then Jim Kelly was there to see his buddy Andre Reed go into the Hall. As we all know, Mr. Kelly is fighting cancer right now. It was in remission but it returned.
My own family has been touched by cancer also. My grandfather died of leukemia, my stepbrother passed away from lung cancer and my stepfather from stomach cancer. Finding a cure for this far to prevalent disease is near and dear to my heart.
Thanks to a generous customer I was able to make a larger than normal contribution to CURE Childhood Cancer this month. You can find out more about CURE here. They are highly rated by Charity Navigator. You can donate directly to them or if you want to be involved in another cancer charity, you can donate through my other blog where you can donate to charity and help make a quilt for charity. Awesome right?
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Legal Quilts Gets Snarky
Over on Previously TV, we were discussing commercials and how the holidays are all run together these days. This inspired this snarky quilt:
It is called "Chrismagivingoweensterjuly to school" I got fabric from various holidays and put them together in no particular order in the center.
I also had a bag of various length strips that I had bought at a quilt show. I was waiting for the right quilt because of the various lengths made using them in a planned quilt difficult. What I did was sort them into dark and light piles (light and dark being relative terms). Then I sewed each set into one long strip. The length didn't matter as for this quilt, it was perfectly fine if a new fabric started up in the middle of the row of another one. Just like the holidays smooshing together. Same with the dark and light. They didn't have to be as delineated as normal because blending is the whole point of this quilt.
Yes, this is my protest against Halloween stuff being in the store ALREADY.
I have plenty of the holiday center fabric left over if you want a single holiday, non-snarky quilt (I can single holiday snark if you prefer).
I did not put Hanukkah here because at this time it hasn't been over commericialized like other holidays. But there is Hanukkah fabric and I would live to work with it (hint, hint).
It is called "Chrismagivingoweensterjuly to school" I got fabric from various holidays and put them together in no particular order in the center.
I also had a bag of various length strips that I had bought at a quilt show. I was waiting for the right quilt because of the various lengths made using them in a planned quilt difficult. What I did was sort them into dark and light piles (light and dark being relative terms). Then I sewed each set into one long strip. The length didn't matter as for this quilt, it was perfectly fine if a new fabric started up in the middle of the row of another one. Just like the holidays smooshing together. Same with the dark and light. They didn't have to be as delineated as normal because blending is the whole point of this quilt.
Yes, this is my protest against Halloween stuff being in the store ALREADY.
I have plenty of the holiday center fabric left over if you want a single holiday, non-snarky quilt (I can single holiday snark if you prefer).
I did not put Hanukkah here because at this time it hasn't been over commericialized like other holidays. But there is Hanukkah fabric and I would live to work with it (hint, hint).
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