First Finish of 2012!!!!

Spencer's quilt is DONE!!!! It now resides with him and Alyssa at his apartment. This quilt only took me 2 years to complete, LOL!! I bought the fabric for it on Black Friday, 2009 and actually started it in January 2010. It is 110" x 110" and is mostly flannel. The mariner's compass is made of black on whites and white on blacks. You can't see it but there is a piano key border all the way around the outside edge. I quilted this one on my Bernina and used 2200 yards of thread in the quilting. Boy, I'm glad this one is done. And after he got home and saw the quilt, he said "Now you've got 7 months to finish my wedding quilt!!"

Spencer, Alyssa and Shaw went to watch the Gator game in Jacksonville yesterday. And on the way back to Shaw's apartment, they were involved in a 6 car accident on I-95. No one was hurt, but Shaw's truck clipped the back end of a Honda Civic when the woman tried to pull over into his lane to avoid an accident that happened in front of her. Thank God that all the kids were uninjured!

Today, I'm working on Orca Bay and I'm going to piece a test block of Midnight Flight by Bonnie Hunter to see if I want to use that block for the wedding quilt. It was in the vol. 4 of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks.

I'm off to quilt! Catch you on the flip side!!!

A Year, Really???

Its been a year since I last blogged. Where did the time go?

Well.......I still haven't finished that quilt. I'm almost done, but not quite. Just one more border and the binding and it will be done. I've put away everything else and I'm working on just that right now.

I moved back into my parent's house. My husband moved to Tampa where he has a job. I'm still in Orlando because I have a babysitting job 3 times a week that I will not give up! I love the time that I get to spend with my grandson.

I changed jobs......went back to substitute teaching at the junior high school I went to 33 years ago. Its really weird to walk into a classroom as the teacher where I once was a student.

I haven't lost that weight that was one of my goals for last year. So, it goes back on the list for this year. And this year I'm gonna knock it off.

And, I didn't pass that dreaded bar exam again. My BIL unexpectedly passed away on February 16th.....just 7 days before the bar exam. So, that kinda threw me off track right at the end of the study period. I'm going to try again in July 2012.

My goals for this year include:

1) Start running again. I would love to work towards a marathon in February 2013. That will be my 50th birthday and I would love to complete one then. And of course, running will also take care of the weight problem as long as I start eating better!

2) Finish up some UFO's. I have 2 of Bonnie Hunter's mystery quilts that are in pieces and parts. I would like to finish both of those this year.

3) And there are some more personal goals that I'm working on. One of which is to be more of a blogger!

I promise it won't be so long between posts next time! Thanks for sticking with me!

Resolutions

I hope everyone had a great Christmas! I did. I got to spend the day with my favorite little guy! He was so wound up! I've never seen him with that much energy! He was like the energizer bunny! We had breakfast at my daughter's house and then dinner at my house. And a nice long nap in between!

I've made quite a bit of progress on Spencer's black and white mariner's compass quilt. Here are a couple of pictures of it under the needle of my Bernina. Yes, call me crazy (or thrifty) but I'm quilting this 110 x 110 quilt on my machine! I hope to have this quilt done by January 2nd. Wish me luck!







It really doesn't look this bad....this is just a picture of it wadded up underneath the needle!!

I've been kinda working on Bonnie Hunter's new mystery quilt too. I'm way behind but I will finish it up sometime next year. Speaking of next year, do you have any resolutions? I have a few, so I'm going to post them to see how well I do:

1. Quilt the tops that I have languishing in a box in the garage. I think there are like 30 of them in that box.

2. Finish up some UFO's and donate those tops that I no longer like or want to Quilts of Valor so that they can be finished and given to a military person who has been injured serving our country.

3. Pass that darn bar exam!! It has been haunting me and holding me back for way too long!

4. I want to draw closer to God. (This should really be #1 resolution).

5. I want to spend more time with my Daddy's side of the family. (I haven't really spent much time with them since he passed away when I was 7).

6. And I'm definately going to do my best to loose lots of weight this year. And take better care of myself.

Okay, that's my 2011 Resolutions! What are your's?