I have been busy making these cute little “phone pillows”.  I found the tutorial on You Tube at “Sew Very Easy”.   And they really are!  I made one for myself so I could have something to stand my cell phone up on instead of laying it flat on something or trying to prop it up if I was watching something.   I liked  it so much, that I made this little owl one for my desk at work.

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Then I decided that since they were so quick and easy,  I’d make some of them for the craft fair.   Always looking for something new and different.   Now I want to adjust the pattern a bit so that I can make one to use with my tablet.  Maybe I should make a few of them and keep them in the different parts of the house where I may need to prop up my tablet or even my Kindle.

And something else I made this week that I think came out super was beef stew.  I think it was the best one I ever made.  🙂  Do I sound too boastful?  Well, hubby said it too and since we ate every last bit of it between Monday and then tonight as leftovers, I guess it really was good.  Not sure whether it was adding the bit of merlot wine while browning the meat or putting cauliflower in this time but you can bet I will try to duplicate it the next time.

Hope you are all having a good week.  Have you created something cute, fun or delicious this week?  I’d love to hear about it if you have.

Bye for now.

Ginny

The weekend was beautiful — with one day spent at the beach.  So now Labor Day has passed and fall is on it’s way, right?  Sure didn’t feel like it today but they say it will be cooler by the end of the week.

I guess my body clock says it is time for fall because I had the hankering to make some soup this weekend and so I did.  A nice big pot of chicken soup!  Now we have a number of packages of  it waiting for us in the freezer when the first chilly night arrives for a cozy soup and sandwich supper.

I also have the urge to start decorating for the fall season and one of the things on my list of things to make is this tablerunner:             It’s from Shabby Fabrics and I’ve had the pattern for a year and didn’t get to it last fall but I really want to get it on my table this year.  I also think just making one block of it would make a cute wallhanging for above my desk at work.   Hmmmm, think I’ll add that to my list.

So cool weather ….. make your appearance.  I am ready for fall things.   Mums, pumpkins, the deep colors of fall leaves, football, the smell of wood burning from fireplaces and wood burning stoves as you take a nice walk on a brisk day and then relaxing with a good book and a cup of tea by a nice fire in the fireplace on a chilly night.

   Anybody else ready for the seasonal change?  Can you tell that I am?

Have a wonderful week everyone.  Bye for now.

Ginny

   And my daffodils are showing off.   We cleaned out the flower beds this weekend and really enjoyed being outside.  We also cut down a bush that was turning into a tree and I think it probably started out as a week about 20-something years ago.   Now we can get into our side gate without needing to cut our way through the forest like the Prince did in Sleeping Beauty.

We also have some fragrant hyacinths blooming here and there    .  I really like hyacinths but I need to plant them outside because having the plants inside with their very strong fragrance sometimes is just too much.  But I love walking out my front door and being able to smell them.   However, I am not lacking for some beauty in my kitchen too.  Along with my African Violets,  which are blooming nicely now, I added a

Martha Washington Geranium.    They look beautiful on the windowsill.

I recently completed a couple of tablerunners for someone who wanted a combination of Christmas and Hannakah  and also Easter/Passover.

Currently I am working on my Lattice Quilt and a COC Quilt (Circle of Comfort).  I’m appliqueing circles made from four 5″ squares onto larger squares and then trying a Quilt As You Go technique when sewing the rows together.  I’m almost done and hope to get the binding attached within the next couple of days.

Craft Fair is coming up at the end of May so I will be working on things for that too.  It looks like I will be keeping myself pretty busy over the next few weeks and we will also need to fit in some yardwork here and there and get our veggie beds ready and planted.

Until next time, enjoy your week and this beautiful Spring weather.

Ginny

Well, we had a successful craft fair and now I’m working on orders I got from that plus Christmas gifts and a few other projects that will keep me busy for the next couple of weeks.  Here are a few of the things that flew off the table at the craft fair:

Some star shaped candlemats as well as the regular  rectangle   mats.  The funny thing is, last year they didn’t sell that well and this year — poof, they were gone.

      Some fall-themed tablerunners.  I really like the pumpkin material and I think I’m going to make some placemats for myself.

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Here are a few  Christmas runners;  I actually did make one of the Christmas tree runners for myself.   I have seen a bit of teal and red used as Christmas decor this year so I made one using those colors and it was well-received.  I have an order for 4 more.  🙂

And here is a “frosty” tablerunner that I’ve got quite a few requests for:       I didn’t get such a great picture  and this is just the top pieced — it’s not quilted yet.  I’ll try to get a better picture when it’s all done.  I think  I need more sunlight to show it’s true “frostiness” in a picture.

So, that’s what I’ve been up to. It’s such a fun, busy time –  sewing, Christmas shopping, writing out Christmas cards, wrapping,  baking but first —- Thanksgiving.  It will be here very soon.  I’d better go set the table.  I need a tablerunner!!  

See you soon.

Ginny   

It’s been a while since I’ve posted.  I have been busy.  Weddings, showers, birthdays, etc.   But, of course, I have gotten a bunch of sewing in.   I have been working on a column quilt for someone  for quite a while — it’s a queen size and as it got larger, it  of course, got a bit more unwieldy.  I’ve got it to the binding stage now so we are in the home stretch.  

I also experimented with working with unfinished, pinked-edged 2 1/2″ squares on a few tablerunners.  

I  made a sunflower tote bag for a birthday gift    and I made myself a new purse for the fall too 

We took a nice trip up to Connecticut to the New England Air Museum.  They had a Quilt Show up there and so I got to enjoy my quilts while dear hubby got to look at all kinds of planes.  There were some amazing quilts there (and I’m sure there were amazing planes too).  Here is a picture of one of the quilts that they had in a special World War I Exhibition:     It is a signature quilt that they raffled off as a fundraiser.  Almost 100 years old!   There was one made by a mom for her son.  It made me wonder what happened to him.  Did he make it through the war ok? It really caught my eye too because his last name was the same as my mom’s maiden name.

Well, that’s what I’ve been up to.  Getting ready for a craft fair at the beginning of November so I am in my sewing room a lot.   Bye for now.

Ginny

I was sitting outside this evening and looked up at the tree and it looks like the leaves are starting to change color already! I know that this will not make my sister happy at all.  I guess fall is really on it’s way and I’d better get moving on my fall items.     

 I see some apple and pumpkin potholders maybe on my cutting table soon? 

But I hope to have a few more trips to the beach         

Enjoy the week.  The weather looks pretty good even if it isn’t very August-like.

Ginny