I'm So Busted

Now it goes without saying.....it can only mean trouble when my husband wanders into my sewing space. 

After the last fiasco....you'd think he would know better 

This shirt is the first thing he spied as came around the corner...."That's where that shirt went, I've been looking for it for months." 

Hello, there's a button missing!!!! Yikes who has time to sew on missing buttons and other such mundane chores. 

Good thing he didn't notice a few other alleged missing items, in the crumpled heap mending pile, in the corner.

Of course...there's always a witness when this type of lapse in domestic perfection occurs. 

One my fellow Blockheads stated, she does all her mending before she lets herself start her quilting.....how positively virtuous!!! She knows I love her but, that's never going to happen around here.

After all I have more design walls to create. 

 

Once I get started I do get carried away....but not in the mending department. 

Good thing my other fellow Blockhead backed me up. My reputation as a domestic goddess is already fragile at best.....have I mentioned I don't cook at all any more. 

So what was Mr. Baguette doing in my sewing space anyway......you might ask??

 He recently signed up to run a 10k race, but hurt  
his heel while training, so opted to ride his bike from which he promptly fell and separated his shoulder. He came into the sewing room looking to show off his recent injury to my quilting buddies.

So I guess I won't be taking over the basement until he's all healed.... after all I was relying on his brute strength to move some of the furniture for me. Hmm...maybe I can bribe  one of my sons.

Playing in the Scrap Yard......with my friends

Thursday is my official quilting day....friends and family know the GONE QUILTING with FRIENDS sign is on my door...in other words don't bug me.  We unofficially and affectionately call ourselves BLOCKHEADS. We meet at my house, when I'm here, in town.  We talk, share ideas, eat, drink multiple cups of tea, laugh til we cry and sometimes we actually quilt. Everyone brings there own bag lunch and often, at the end of the day, we head out for dinner and/or a little fabric shopping. We were friends, long before we started quilting and amazingly enough, we are now all quilters.

I'm not all that creative, when we are all gabbing and laughing, as we try to quilt. I need to be alone, when I do anything, of any artistic merit. I've decided to have some relatively mindless projects on hand for Thursdays. Today I decided to play, in the scrap yard.

Some QAYG strips...fits the bill.

I love my Thursdays......with my fellow BLOCKHEADS.

Fired up the Long Arm

I'm still recovering from my holiday (that doesn't sound quite right, does it) so I didn't get much done in the quilting world last week, but I did manage to fire up the long arm and help fellow Blockhead (Judy) with her quilt.....such lovely colours.

Would you just look at that concentration. It took the thread breaking, multiple times, before we clued into changing the needle. We're just a little slower some days.....remember I'm still in holiday mode.



You can see all is well , her smile says it all!

Quilting With Friends

No trouble getting my 10,000 steps in these days (just look, that's heather blooming here in Victoria). I was supposed to go back to Edmonton last Saturday...I didn't. Sent Mr. 10,000 steps before 8 am, back to the deep freeze, in exchange for one Blockhead (other Blockheads opted to stay frozen). What is a Blockhead you may ask??

There's one right there holding that bolt of fabric, like it's the next best thing to sliced bread. Actually, The BLOCKHEADS are a small group of women, that I quilt with most Thursdays, when I am back in Edmonton. This particular Blockhead..Evonne, came to spend two weeks with me here in Victoria. We're old friends that met, when we were expecting at the same time (those two "boys" are now 34 years old). It's crazy, how later we became fellow quilters...or should I say partners in crime.

 

First order of the day...guess where??

 



 Step away from the clearance wall! Did we??....Of course not!

This is where I found all those fabulous stripes (of the previous) post.

Quilting with friends can be like the icing on the cake...here's to Lauren and Judy (frozen blockheads back home).