Great Ride Today.

Today we decided to take off to the mountains and see how the Mustang handles the curves. We headed to the Blue Ridge Parkway to see how spring was coming along. As you can see by the pictures there is still some ice on the sides of the mountains. It was a little too cool to ride with the top down but it was still a great ride on the parkway.

Thank goodness our phones have cameras, so some

reason neither one of us can remember our digital cameras.

Even thou it looked like rain most of the day and it was in the low 50's it was just great to get away.

Mary

WOW It's 70!

Can't believe the warm weather the past few days, ever since Saturday the days have been getting warmer. Now that being said, I had to work last weekend with the balmy weather happening. I'm off this coming weekend and the weather is suppose to be back to normal - 40's with possibility of rain - it figures!

Mary

Star Struck Quilt

I thought I would share the making of a quilt. This quilt is called Star Struck and the pattern came from Quiltville. I used an 80/20 blend batting and the quilting pattern is called Happy Times.

Mary

My New Ride!

After a month of off and on looking last Friday I came home with my new car. Sad to say good by to the Mini, what a great car she was.
This nice candy apple red convertible will see many of miles on the Blue Ridge Parkway just a cruising.

So needless to say between looking at cars and work I have not accomplished too much on the sewing front. Although I did finish the bindings on 2 quilts and today I start the binding on the Double Wedding Ring Quilt. I have only done a curve binding once before and on a much smaller quilt so it will take me alittle bit to get it done. Thanks to the help of some helpful info videos on You Tube by some professional quilters I found a great way to cut the binding.

Well, break time is over back to the machine.

Mary

Busy Sunday

I didn't start quilting this top until this evening but I also finished it. The quilt is from a kit from Connecting Threads, looked simple to assemble and it did go together rather quickly. I used a thread color called baguette and the quilting pattern I followed is called Happy Times. That pattern quilted out pretty quickly and I like the movement it gives the quilt.

Here it is the making of the next quilt, I decided to dig into my scraps and do something useful with them. I found a pattern on Quiltville and started slicing up the the fabric for a scrappy quilt....more on this at a later date.

Today we went to the car show in Greenville, I am starting to look for a new car but cannot decide what I want. Not sure if I'm going to order another Mini. I like the Saturn Sky, a cute little roadster with some power behind it but no place for my purse if 2 people are in it. Or maybe a Mustang or a Pontiac G6.....but one thing I know for sure the top needs to go down.

Ah decisions, decisions....

Mary

Baby It's Cold Outside

Actually not too bad at this time - its now warmed up to 30. shed This morning it was barely out of the single digit numbers. Luckily I am using the last remaining vacation days so there was no need to leave the house although I did venture out in the afternoon.

I started and finished the first of three quilt tops I have ready for the frame. Later I'll get the next one loaded on the frame and ready for tomorrow morning.

Well for now I think its time of tea before I start dinner.

Later.

Mary

Two Productive Days

As far as sewing goes -it has been a productive 2 days. I finished assembling a top yesterday and was going to put another one on the frame to quilt. I had some cotton batting left so I started to soak it so I could shrink it before quilting I started search for the backing for the first top I had finished - didn't search too far, hadn't bought it yet. So that being discovered I started on this scrappy quilt, pattern called Tossed 9-Patch and finished it this morning. Now I have 3 tops to quilt so off to the store to purchase the fabric for at least one quilt back, which was on sale so I purchased enough for all three. So last one done first on the frame - but now I won't get back to it before Friday, work is going to get in the way again.

The weather so far this week has been mild - highs in the 50's. Unfortunately that cold Canadian air is to reach down here to really chill things up. I know to my northern family the high of 30 is springtime but to the people of the South its a whole different story. And yes I am getting soft, I still can vividly remember 30 below with a wind chill of 55 below and at this time in my life I choose not to revisit it.

Warm wishes and thoughts of you my Northern Family and Friends - Cheers!

Mary