Reversible Table Topper

Reversible table topper for dear Mrs. Almo. Ok, her name is Alma.....she will turn 90 next week. E has a slight speech problem and could never say Alma, he would say Almo. She don't mind Almo so the name has stuck. She's a dear friend of the family and E loves her like crazy. For him, she's just another grandma. I've made her a few things in the past, but nothing lately. So, I asked mom what her kitchen colors are and it's mauve, yellow and green. Mom picked out these fabrics saying they matched the best. I added some "cheater" fabric to the back and a few fancy decorative stitches and waaa-laaa it's reversible.

Front, with her kitchen colors.

Back

Next week, once my school is done and E will be out for Thanksgiving, we'll ride out to see Mrs. Almo She lives even further out in the boonies than we do. I'm 20 mins from the nearest town or grocery store, she is 45 mins. She still lives very simple, she has no air in the summer and in the winter her house is about 90 degrees. I roast when I'm there whatever time of year it is. Bless her......she's so sweet!

A stack of New-ness!!

What a stack of newness. Would you believe these are samples? They all are fat quarter size. The 3 on the bottom of the stack are double the size of a fat quarter. I counted about 32. I love a good deal on fabric. Thanks to all who told me where they buy their thread. I found a pretty good deal @ Connecting Threads. I also got some clearance fabric from them as well. I'll show that when it comes. And because I live in the boonies, I buy most of my fabric online, usually Ebay. I got some Moda/Hello Betty at a really good price. I want to make a signature quilt. Not sure how I'll go about that yet. We'll see later. See below all the yummy-ness.

3 different flannel prints

6 different flannel prints

3 different Seasme Street

5 or 6 more different Seasme Street

these are cool, click on these.....there is a textured "x" pattern in the fabric. love this, I don't want to cut these.

8 different "latte" patterns (and one I didn't picture)

3 different "dinner" patterns

How about all that? I love it! I don't know what they were samples of, but I'm not complaining. I hope to find more of these soon.

Our Hope Chest gets a makeover.

We love this chest. It sits at the foot of our bed and usually is a catch-all. It's pretty beat up, has some dings and such. Along with the beautiful green handbag Jan sent me, she also sent this teddy bear quilt/throw.....and I'd bet it was for E, but it now rest in our room on our hope chest. Shhhh...no one tell her ok? haha She had hand quilted it all but two bears. I finished them up and binded in brown and waaaaaaa-la. It's so super cute! I'm sure it should be used in some other way, but for now, it's at home.

I'm so looking forward to the week ahead. Anyone know why? It's the last week of my class ya'll!! WOOHOO, YIPPIE! I'm not excited at all. ;)

Also, where do you buy your thread? My stock of white thread is running very low. On my last spool to be exact. I used to get it at Wal-Mart. Well, we all know what they've done to their fabric department. Dang them! I checked Joann.com. Well, their website is down and it redirected me to Amazon.com, which I love. Anywho, please tell me where you get your thread. Any cheap places, or good deals?

A Special Thanks to Jan...

from Jan's Musing.......read this post to see the GREEN bag, to sent to me. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. I read this post and never once thought the handbag was for me. She is a gem! I love Jan! NO, not just because she sent me an awesome bag. She has introduced me to Skype and we chat often. Now, I'm trying to get her on Facebook. She's so thoughtful. She even made a friend in E. With the bag was a bear for E, it seems like chocolate. You know how E gives his bears simple names, ie: Blue Bear, well now he has Chocolate Bear. lol Isn't that funny.

I've been wanting to join my local quilting guild for some time now. Well, me and Mrs. Jan was "chatting" about that and the search started. She, being..........half a world away found my local quilting guild online and read all about it. She was very interested in my county's guild and even wanted to join it herself. Thanks so much Jan!

A beautiful Tree and a great sewing day.

This is the beautiful tree outside my entrance to class. This makes it all worth showing up every other day just to see how many leaves it's lost. I love fall in NC mountains. There's nothing like it.

This is my cousin Cookie, yes, that's her name. Stop laughing!! That's not nice. Her real name is Olivia. However, she somehow obtained the nick name Cookie as a baby and it has stuck with her all these years. If someone in the family were to call her Olivia, we'll all be like "who"? She is also very crafty and has just recently taken up sewing. She got herself a machine and came to guess who for lessons? Yep, you guessed it ME. She came up last week and I showed her several things, and then today she came back with sewing machine in hand. She knows how to travel huh? We live about an hour apart. Her mom is my dear favorite aunt I speak of often. I love those gals. We started sewing at 10am and sewed till 2pm. We sent TJ out for our lunch. Not a very good picture, but she made that pillow, she actually made two. I look forward to many sewing days with Cookie.

While helping her get started on her pillows, I made this Pooh baby blanket for a girl in my class. I'm almost certain she don't read my blog. I'll gift it to her tomorrow. I hope she likes it.

Great Report Card for Evan.

He got all A's & B's......................GO EVAN!

Christmas Garland

I'm always interested in more Christmas decorations. So, I had this idea to make garland. Here's what I came up with. I do wish I would have had some red bias tape. That's what I used. This would be great for any occasion. Just have the fabric to match the theme. I like this.......off to make more.