The Train Quilt Is Finished!!!

Finally!!!

Wanted to finish it yesterday but it was such a busy day for me that I decided to want till today and start fresh.


I don't know why the pictures are so dark.........................

You can see I used the different fabrics on the binding. I always look to use up those little scraps:0)I tried making each car a different color . This was a lot of fun to make. Now I need to start on the 3 valances very soon.

A Sneak Preview

I got a chance to do some quilting on Dakota's Train Quilt.
Here is some pictures I took.

Did some meandering quilting and grid quilting.Going to try to finish the quilt today . I have Dakota here today because his Mother had to go to a store meeting in Covington. Maybe Paw Paw will take him some where so I can finish this up and start on the valances.

Tutorial~Basting The Quilt~

I am ready to baste Dakota's quilt and thought that I would show ya'll how I do it .

I sandwich the backing and batting with the quilt on top.I have a big snack bar/counter so I work on that but if you have a dinning room table that would work just as well.

I start to pin on the short end of the quilt .

As you can see I let the rest drape over the table on to the two snack bar chairs I have there.

Pin, pin,pin,pin......................

You need lots of pins for sure!!

I try to pin very close so the the fabric can't move .

I start by pinning the side of the quilt that is closer to me . Smooth out the fabric. I pin a few rows then I ROLL the quilt and pull it forward thows me. Then I smooth out the fabric starting in the middle,pin,working out to the sides. Keep rolling the fabric till you have it all basted!!


Here it is all pined!!Yea!!!
Now I need to go quilt this baby !!!

4 Miles With Leslie!!!!

That's right !!

I walked 4 Fast Miles yesterday in only 50 minutes with Leslie Sansome!!!

I only intended to walk 3 miles at first but when I reached 3 I noticed that I could go longer ......

I must say tho I was pretty wiped out the rest of the day.

You can preview Leslie's walking tape here -

http://www.collagevideo.com/workout-video/leslie-sansones-walk-slim-4-fast-miles-7834

I am happy to say this morning I am down for a total of 2.9lbs.

Not much but I am happy with it !!!

I will try to get some sewing done today and I will have a sneek preview of what I working on soon :0)

Accountability And Motivation *UP-DATE*

A LITTLE UP-DATE.....................

I Have been walking on the Treadmill for 1 hour at 2.5 miles an hour.

The only problem I have so far is Boredom....... I have the treadmill

in my sewing room and it faces a blank wall !!!

I put the radio on and walk to the music .

I plan on getting a laptop and will download

some great music to excise and maybe some kind of video.

Yesterday I put in my DVD of Leslie Sansone's

'Walking off the Pounds'

I love Leslie's walking DVDs !!!

What I like is you can slow down if you need to and pick up speed when you recover.

I walked 2 miles in 35minutes!!

Pretty good (better than 1hour on the boring treadmill)

So far I down .9 pounds . I know its not much..............

I do want lose weight and I know it will take time .

I didn't show a loss this morning but I think its because we had Boiled Crabs last night !!!

Thanks for checking in on me . Be sure to check the side bar for my progress :0)

Accountability And Motivation

That's what I need !!!!!
Starting today I will start walking and I will report back every day on how far I have walked .
If I back slide PLEASE come Here and make me accountable.
I will be following my own diet(believe me I know how to lose weight )

Here is a picture of me about 75 lbs over weight . I am 5 '9" tall so I can weight more that most people :0)

Right now I will be focusing on 50lbs.

Please check on me everyday .

I will be posting on the side bar how much I have loss and how far I walked for that day .

Doing this might seems a bit desperate but if you have ever tried losing weight you know what I am talking about .

So stand by me . Please leave me a comment, a kick in the butt, a high 5, praise what ever it takes

Call Me The "Bag Lady"

What can I say, I love Bags !!!



I love making bags , especially making bags out of scraps or recycled fabric .
This denim bag was made out of an old jean skirt that I bought at the Good Will Store . It had a lot of fabric . I was able to make two hand bags out of this one skirt . I still have some of it in my stash. The rest of the body of the bag was from bits and pieces of left over fabric .

This bag is very large . I have a pocket on the inside too.





Pineapple Bag
The squares are only 4 inches sq.
(I know ,I know I am nuts.)
But believe it or not I love working with the small blocks .
The blocks were Paper Pieced and really make it easy to make .


Again the blocks are all from my scrap box . I really hate to get rid of small pieces. I know I can use them some day . With fabric prices as they are these little scrap are worth a lot ( to me anyway :)

This bag has pockets on the inside too.

Total Scrappy !

I had lots of strip from a previous project and used them up to make this one

The other side of the bag .

"Spring"
This is a bag I make for a Swap that I was in on The About Quilt Forum
Use a 12 inch Block and add the sides then quilted the whole thing . She LOVED it .
I really enjoyed making this one

Wonder Wallet

I made this for myself . Really neat .

It holds all your credit cards and folded dollar bills .
You can see just how small this wallet really it .

Skizzie's Roses

"Lots of red and she loves roses"






That's what our friend Robert told me about his older sister Skizzie. Robert was going through a divorce and had no place to live till his sister let him stay with her in her modest little house .
Robert wanted me to make Skizzie a quilt for Christmas.
I when through all my quilt books to come up with something RED!!!
A short trip to a quilt shop and again looking through a ton of books I came across this quilt pattern

The book is "Creative Quilt Collection" from That Patchwork Place. From Tea In The Garden by Cynthia Tomaszewski .



When I saw the picture of the quilt I just knew then that I wanted to make it .
It was Dec. and the quilt shop had lots of reds to chose from . I saw the fabric with the Roses on it that I could Fussy cut . The shop had all the other fabric from the collection so I knew it was a go .

I love to machine applique and don't really get a chance to do much of it so this was perfect .I was going to play with this one !!



I made this a queen size . Here it is on my bed .I had enough fabric after I made the quilt that I made her 2 pillow shams to match . It left my house before I could take a picture of it .

She was so surprised to open her gift on Christmas morning and find this quilt in it .Robert said she CRYED!!

Lots of RED and LOTS of ROSE