Crossing a Few Things Off My List

Tonight, I can cross several things off of my list.

This is the quilt I donated for Project Night Night.  The Chicago Modern Quilt Guild just finished a service project to benefit PNN.  I also made a matching turtle, but I forgot to snap a photo.   I started this quilt over 3 years ago before I bought my new sewing machine.  It was supposed to be for a friend's grandson.  Yeah, it became a UFO....  I'm happy that I finished it up and it will be going to someone who can really use it and take comfort from it.  

I also finished two of these little red vests.   One for my nephew and one for his friend (the son of a guy I my brothers and I grew up with).... for their patches from Cub Scouts.  The parents had bought some vests, from someone, I'm not really sure who... but the were very poorly constructed!  They were made of felt, which wouldn't be a problem but they weren't even cut straight!  So, Aunt Sally to the very slow rescue.  I think they asked me about doing these sometime around Thanksgiving :(    Anyway, they are done now!

It's nice to cross a few lingering items off of my list so that I can move on to a few others.

Up next.... I need to work on a project that I am testing.  I haven't even taken it out of the package yet, so I'm not totally sure what it is, to be honest!  

It's Been a While....

I don't know that I've been so busy, but I sure haven't posted for a while!

I went on spring break.  We visited California... my SIL lives outside of San Diego and my aunt lives near Disneyland.

I went on a Segway tour of San Diego:

It really was a lot of fun and no one wrecked, either!  I decided that if I lived in a metro area, I'd have a Segway to ride around :)

I also went to a discount fabric shop by my aunt's house.  I had gone there two years ago, also.  I went a bit crazy....

Some of these pieces,  I already have a plan for and some I don't.... I've been wanting to get them organized with my other fabrics, but I wanted to take photos and share them, first.  Mainly, I just couldn't resist.  I think I ended up paying an average of about $4/yd for the fabrics and there are a few pieces that are even organic cotton.

What else have I been doing?  hmmm...  Well, I went on a quilt retreat weekend with the Chicago Modern Quilt Guild.  We went to a place in Racine, Wisconsin called the Siena Center.  I had a good time getting to know a bunch of the other guild members.  My friend, Emily, was kind enough to let me pick her up and ride along with me.  She thought that I was doing her a favor by giving her a ride to the retreat.  Really,  I was delighted because then I didn't have to arrive all by myself, especially since I've never been there before and didn't know the routine.  

I know there is so much more to tell, but I'm getting a bit foggy (it being all of 9:30 pm and all....).  I am counting down the days until the end of the school year, and I'm getting ready to write along list of all the things I would love to accomplish over the summer!  I probably won't get even half of them done, but it will at least give me some direction.