It's February !

Good grief — long time no post eh?  Yikes.  Well obviously I took a little blog break. 

What’s up?  Well — RV wise — Tom and I are gearing up for another trip.  We leave this weekend for Walt Disney World.  Tom has to be in Orlando for business so I get to visit with Mickey while he does that.  On the way back we’ll stop one night @ Lazydays in Seffner, FL to take the RV Driver Confidence course.  That’s mainly for my benefit, but Tom is going to sit in on it too.

In May we’ll take a long trip up North.  Main destination - Washington D.C and we will make a couple of stops on the way back to rest our old bodies.  I’m sure we’ll need that.  I’m real excited about D.C - which reminds me I need to request tickets to tour the White House.  I read you need to do that through your congressman.  Or woman.  On my “to do” list. 

In September we are headed back to Red Bay, AL to get more upgrades.  We’ve decided to replace our fridge with a residential model.  Big change and big bucks.  Although our Norcold is still working, we plan to keep this coach a long time and figure we should get this done while Brannon is still offering to do them.  It’s rare to fine someone so talented at RV renovation and repairs.   He has installed several of these and all the owers are thrilled with them.  Fingers crossed we feel the same. 

On the quilting front I’ve been working on some  UFOs  - specifically bindings.  I decided to not start anything new til I get some of these off my plate.  So far — good progress.  Only one quilt without a binding remains and I finally got the xmas tree skirt done.  Completely. 

Since all my xmas decorations are stuffed anywhere and everywhere except where I can get at them I went on a hunt to find a few props to perk up the photo.  

I tried.

You can read more construction notes and find links to the pattern info in my finished project folder.

That’s it for now.  I’ll get some pics of the  Fort Wilderness CG while we are there.  I’ve read so much about it.  We are not into all this Disney stuff, but we like a nice woodsy CG and I figure it’s best to see this place while we are still living in Florida. 

More later.

2009 Review

It was a good year project wise.  I could have been more productive,  but unfortunately I seemed to lose steam once I started working on the valances and never recovered, thus I’m starting 2010 with a lot of WIPs.  A.L.O.T.   giggle 

Oh well — it’s important to focus on the positive so here are the things that I’m most happy about for 2009 as it relates to my sewing hobby.

• I’m now pretty comfortable stippling a quilt.  My stitching can still improve some (of course),  but I don’t dread tackling this like I did last year.

• Love my new spruced up sewing room.  I filled it with more accessories, quilty things and added some  more storage.  It was a fun project. 

• I bought two new machines.  A serger to replace my Kenmore that I damaged in 2008 when I dropped it. Ugh.   And I got a machine to keep on the Bus. Woohoo!

• I won Miss Rosie’s giveaway.  And what a giveaway it was!  She is my new favorite quilt designer.  I have two of her projects in my WIP pile.  I just love her patterns.

From left to right …

*Doll quilt for Olyvia

Bathroom valance and shower curtain  (3 pics)

*Picnic hourglass quilt

Family Room quilt (2 pics)

*Coin quilt (2 pics)

*Doll quilt (Moda Bakeshop Project)

My new Serger from Brother

Sewing Room Spruce up

Scrappy Pillow

Miss Rosie gift(s)  Wow!

My new Brother sewing machine for the Bus.  (Love it!)

Travel Bag

Bus valances (4 pics)  Exhausting… but done.   Well except for one.  sigh

* Quilts I stippled using my Bernina. 

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If interested you can see some larger pics and read more about these projects here.  They are mixed in with all my other completed projects.  Most of them that is.  I think I’m missing a summary for the travel bag and the valances. 

Now its time to turn to 2010.  

Happy New Year to all!