BOO HOO no sewing for me... I have to go out and buy a new stove... the old one caught on fire and almost set the kitchen on fire.... lucky I was there washing dishes and saw the flames under the stove top.... I pour water from the dish pan all over the stove top....

The gas feed line to the stove top burners had a crack in it... the stupid stove is less then 10 years old... looks like a relic and has never cooked right since the day I got it.... I am NEVER BUYING A MAYTAG OF ANY APPLIANCE AGAIN.



ANY RECOMMENDATIONS ON GOOD (natural gas) STOVES.... I have been looking but they all have digital command center which I know do not work welll .... I really would like to dial back time and be able to get a NEW stove like my original stove.... that little baby cooked like a dream.


MY GF is coming in to town and she is going to show me how to machine quilt.... I am looking forward to that.

I am starting on a round robin quilt with my sewing group. My center square is a basket was inspired from a quilt my greatgrandmother made.

Maggie in E. Central Illinois

While I was at the laundromat washing the comforters from the motorhome, I started embroidering the words on my Rosary quilt.
Frances in hot, hot, record hot Austin

I finished the hand quilting on a wholecloth Christmas quilt this week!!!!! I'm going to sew the binding on at my quilt group next Tuesday. It really felt good to FINISH something--now, back to my 100 other UFO's! Judy in Torrance

I became fed up with the tangled mess my embellishing threads end up in so I've spent a few hours winding them all on to floss cards and putting them neatly into a box. Not quite as inspiring but certainly easier to use!

We have the carpet fitters here on Tuesday next week so knowing that everything will be coming out of the room and then back in I can't seem to settle to anything much at the moment. It's being a pain. I know things are in my head wanting to escape but I just go upstairs and fiddle, nothing constructive at all! Or just mess around on the computer which annoys me more!

Congratulations on the 830 Lorna.

Today is a good day to work in the air conditioning. It's going to be the nasty 3 H's here in Ct. So I 'll continue on with the memory quilts by starting the humming birds and figure out what to do with these "Dated pillows".... Sorry I have to say it UGLY.
Wish me luck Cheryl

Finally decided on a border for my Kaleidoscope quilt. I had cut and started sewing two others but then on the design wall before attaching felt they just didn't work. Now on my third attempt, again find myself unsewing. I felt I had the border too wide so making adjustments for that. Really want to get this done by the 15th and posted. I need to some how learn to design before cutting fabrics...

Next big project is to quilt last year's TQS BOM. I have had the top done since March or so. It is layered and pinned. I have already submitted it for entry into a local quilt show (September) so now I have a deadline. I will machine quilt on my domestic.

I "lost" sewing time yesterday because I went and bought a new Bernina 830!! Woohoo! I will get it later this week. My current machine is a Elna Super I bought in 1975. (I do love my machine!) So most anything would have been an update. Can't wait to start using the new one!

Oh I forgot, she also wants angels and humming birds. UGH!!!

time to put the last 3 " border on both memory quilts, and get to quilting... also figure out what to do with empbriodery patches from shirts. thinking of using them as part of the label. I also need to sneek in this pillow material that was her favorite bed pillows. probably also somewhere on the back. They aren't good applique material and don't go with the design she picked out for the front... Wish me luck, Cheryl

Oo dinner sounds lovely Maggie, I'll be over sometime. And aren't computers horrible at time eating!! Couldn't live without one though.

The carpet has gone!!! Yay!! The Grace Pro arrived!! Yay!! OH is fiddling in the garage and I'll have to wait to put it together! Boo. Mind you I have nothing to quilt on it as yet. Something I'm working on.

The Rose Hughes was completed and is in the profile, I'm re hand quilting a little panel I've been doing as the stitches didn't show and I have had some quilting books arrive (Luuurve Amazon next day delivery) so will be absorbing ideas for the attack on the Grace.

I fully intended on spending yesterday holed up in my sewing room doing the August BOM, and some friendship stars for a comfort quilt for a guild member who is dying of cancer. But I spent way too much time on the computer, then reading the Sunday papers. Then ended up baking a cherry and a blueberry pie (from scratch, of course) to take to friends' home for supper when they invited us for steak and lobster! (They had just returned from vacationing in Maine).

Maggie in E. Central Illinois

Thanks for the birthday wishes. It was a good day and the roast was yummy! What better to have on an English, August summers day, something warm and filling!

I've finished the beading of the Rose Huges and will be doing the sleeve later today. OH has told me it's going up on the wall. :shock: He also said he can't wait for me to do a full size for our bed. :shock: :shock: Bless him.

The shopping didn't produce much but my fingers are itching about a Grace Pro. As I haven't actually produced anything too big yet I'm wondering if it's too much and perhaps the Little Gracie would be better. I hate not having the right kit though and if I did do a King Size, it wouldn't fit the Little Gracie. Oh the dilemma! I will be looking into this further.

Housework today and a sneak up to sort the sewing room and next set of projects. I have an applique lily in mind and an itch the do some Jennie Rayment tucking!

Today I took the two quilts that I basted last weekend and did the first in the ditch quilting. They are 6x6, 6.5 inch squares. I stitched in the ditch along each row and column and around the edges. I even buried all my thread ends already.
Friday at bee I we were talking about what we do when we can't sleep. I usually read, but we were talking about sewing. Well, Friday night I couldn't sleep so I went up to my sewing room and started cleaning. I can't find the thread I bought in Houston for embroidering on my Rosary quilt. Well I spent close to two hours cleaning and couldn't find it. I found another thing I needed for the quilt that I probably looked past 3 or 4 times. So yesterday I went to my LQS and bought another spool of the same thread as well as the thread that I used today.
Frances in Austin where July was the hottest July on record

Cat 1, Carpet 0. That being said, I hope you enjoyed your trip. And rib roast sounds lovely. Happy Birthday, Amo.

Today, I am going to sandwich my convergence and plan to break in my new Super Slider that I got at the show. Wish me luck!