Another day at the beach

Hi, hope you had a wonderful Mother's Day. For some reason my is rarely spent with my children. This year when it was resolved the kids weren't taking me anywhere, Jeff & I drove out to Anna Maria Island. I wanted to go down to Sanibel, but with the price of gas I was happy with Anna Maria. Anyway, we ate at the City Pier on the Intercoastal side. Not crazy about it, I would rather eat at The Sandbar on the Gulf side. After that we drove over to Coquina Beach and I walked around and got a few pictures. I thought this little guy was cute. Shortly after this pix, he demolished the castle!

When I came home it was hurry hurry, and finish some blocks I committed to making for the Quilting Guild meeting on Wed. First was a Dr. Cat (will post later) and also a block of Tara. I haven't finished that, but I am close. Then I did some digital scrapbooking. Also learning Scott Kelby's 7 best Photoshop Tricks. GREAT book.

So you see, as always, so much too do - so little time. My favorite scrapbook page is here

Working away on the challenge quilt

This is the challenge quilt I am making for the Sunshine & Sisterhood Quilt show of my guild. These are my daughters lying out in the sun like they use to. Hence I will probably name it – SUNSHINE & SISTERHOOD. You may notice that I am missing a daughter. Vicki has the picture I need & I can’t seem to get her to scan it in. DRAT! I e-mailed her this pix and said “the only thing missing is you”, so maybe it will come soon.



Last night at the guild Marilyn Hood showed her beautiful quilts. I only had my camera phone with me but I took some pix. I will post them later. But here is one, not a great pix - I took it at the Jacksonville show & was crowded.


OK, gotta go finish watching Idol Gives Back. Give www.americanidol.com

Peace - Karrel

Progressing along

So here are a couple of shots of the quilt as I am working on it. One was taken without a flash (shows colors better) and the other with. It is lying on the couch so that accounts for the distortion.

This weekend I have been working on a quilt for our guild's challenge - Sunshine & Sisterhood. I am so pleased with it. I will tell you that I am using pictures of my two daughters and creating appliqué's of each of them in fabric (not photo printed on fabric). I have finished Nicole & the face, which I inked & chalked in on fabric looks so real. I can't believe it. I tried Vicki's yesterday but I couldn't get the scale to be right with Nicole's so I have to redo it, but the face, when I inked it looked just like her too. This from someone who is not a sketch artist. Hooray!

Anyway, it is going to be so cute. I wrote a poem to go with it and I am laying it out like a scrapbook page.

One thing I didn't do, but I did start, was something I begged to do so I need to get it done TONIGHT. That is an appliqué of Tara from Gone With the Wind for a lady in the guild who is making a quilt for a library. I wasn't going to do raw edge but the pieces are so small I am not good enough to turn the edges under. So anyway, I have to turn it in tomorrow night so I had better get busy.

Alright - just wanted to check in and let you know what was up. Of course I know that YOU aren't reading my blog, but that is ok. I am writing to an invisible you, as always.

Oh, one other thing, this has nothing to do with anyone but me, but I wanted to write it down. When I was a teenager, as an only child, I made up a brother. Rick Klein who lived in LA. He was older than me. There is a guy on Fox News (which I am addicted to and listen to all the time while sewing) and his name is Rick Klein. I always get a little happy when I hear his name, because Rick was "my big brother" and he always will be. See, I told you it was silly.

Peace - Karrel

Went to a Quilt Show on Sat.

I stopped by the Suncoast Quilting Circle 2008 yesterday for a little while. I didn't see very much that excited me. I think everything was just what I am seeing everywhere else. I took pictures of those that I likes & you can see if you click the link above. Pauline Salzman's had some quilts there - the one above is one of hers. I really like her quilting - esp. the dogs. She came to our quilt a few months back.

I also checked out Fiberolgie. It is in a really nice location, but I am not really into Amy Butler, which is the majority of their fabrics.

I also stopped by Whim-So-Doodle. There was a kid there that kept talking to his mom & she wouldn't answer him. So he said the same thing, over and over and over. His mom was one of the employees who just stopped by. I just wanted to go over and tell her to either answer her kid or teach him to be quite until she has time to answer him. I just hate it when mothers ignore their kids in public. Just answer them, how hard is it. If you don't want them interuptting you then teach them not to. I had 4 kids so I can say what I want. My kids may have been bad at home but they didn't act up in public. Is that too much to ask.

Yes, I am a little crabbie - I have been sick for a week now and I was sicker yesterday so I was more annoyed.

Ok on to fun things, my daughter Vicki came over and helped me arrange my sewing studio. Hooray! I think I can actually figure out what is going on in there now. She stopped for the day as we have my grandson Bryson's 1st birthday party to attend later this afternoon. She is sorting fabrics into bins now. She was going to go to the $1 store & get me some more bins. Hopefully it will be done by next weekend & I will learn to clean up after each project! Here are some pix of the room today:

I also have another room that is half for scrapbooking & half for cutting fabric. It is really a mess and I hope to get her in here to help me clean that mess up too. I bought this book "PhotoFreedom" by Stacy Julian - only I can't find a link on line. I am going to have Vicki read it and help me get control of my 10,000 or so pictures that are PRINTED. I have 3xs that in digital. Holy Canoli!

Alright, time for me to leave for the party - catch up with ya later

Work work work play

My wonderful bosses let me off early today & I actually got some work at home done. You see, this weekend was useless. I did go to SewCiety at Keep Me In Stitches and made this very cute gift bag topper.

I also finished sewing my sashing strips for the double sided t-shirt quilt I am working on.

Sat. night was a BBQ and so I missed out sewing. Sunday we went to Ft. Myers for a Corvette show - so no sewing.

I did find the pretty leaf that is at the top of this post. I was reminded of how much I love Florida. We are now in the FALL season here and the leaves have changed color and are falling off the trees. But before OLD MAN WINTER can make his appearance, this morning I heard the first Mocking Bird signing outside the window, before the sun was up and I was assured that SPRING is on its way. Hooray, my favorite season.

Peace - KB