December 2010

Well even though I am still sore I’m not near as sore as I was Sunday night and Monday!  I am slowly moving around and doing a bit more today than I had been.  Still taking it easy but at least I haven’t spent the whole day on the couch.  Still have pain in my chest but it is much better than it was.

I got one jelly roll that I bought from Connecting Threads cut into 5 inch strips and I have them now sorted by color and print.  I will have this be a hand piecing project while I am taking it easy for a little bit.  It is a bit awkward trying to hand quilt on the big frame – I gave up after a very brief attempt.  I don’t want to get the sewing machine out as I know I won’t be able to sit very long doing that.  I had not gotten the applique project prepped yet and fabric is on high shelves so I don’t even want to start reaching for things!  So the jelly roll it is.

Have you seen the newest pattern that the Moda Bake Shop had put out on the blog?  Here is a link to the pattern I am going to do. The fabric I am using is called Sweet Pea I had 2 jelly rolls with 24 strips in each so if this isn’t enough I will use the other.  Out of one of these rolls I used a little already on one of the mug rugs that I made this December but there is plenty left.  I didn’t even check the pattern to see how many strips I need – I saw 5 inch strips, sew 8 together then join with white strips   I will first sew these into groupings of 8 each and go from there.  It is a very easy pattern!

An update on the car situation.  I no longer feel sorry for the young man driving!!  It might end up that he is not covered with insurance.  He “borrowed” a car without permission.  He did not have his drivers license with him.  He says he has insurance but it is from obscure company that our State Farm agent has not heard of.  The borrowed car’s insurance agent says they are not libel because he was not supposed to be driving the car – his insurance so far says he is only covered for driving the car that his insurance covers but they have not gotten much information from them yet.  We do have full coverage including if we are hit by an uninsured vehicle but they only cover $5,000.00 in medical coverage.  ER’s are expensive and I have no idea if the bill will be more than that when you include in the ambulance too.  We might have to pay for some of that.  We will need to pay deductibles possibly also.  All of this is up in the air yet and maybe we will hear good news.  The investigation continues and our agent says they will go after the driver as much as they can though his insurance company but they have a feeling it might be some small time thing that won’t cover much.  On the car part if no other insurance covers ours will take care of most of that other than the deductible.  So glad I hadn’t reduced it to liability only after we had paid it off.  We had thought about it but then decided Honda’s hold a high value for awhile so thought we would wait and then we kind of just forgot about it – so glad we did, the uninsured part might not have been in the policy any longer if we had changed it.

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what a way to end Christmas.  Yesterday we decided to go see “True Grit” at the new movie theater in a town 45 miles from us.  It was a good movie.  On the drive home we thought to stop and get something to eat before getting home.  We were only 12 miles from home when a car hit us on the front passenger side.  Their fault not ours.  Mike is fine  – me on the other hand – I am aching and sore in the chest area.  We had our seat belts on and I didn’t fly into the windshield thank goodness, but it held me tight enough that I am very sore and have some mild swelling in the chest – breast bone area.  X-Rays were taken and they could see no break.  I was in ER for 3 hours.  They also checked my heart and all was fine.  I will just be sore for who knows how many days to come.  I’m 58 years old and other than a couple minor fender benders years ago I have never been in an accident.  Wish I hadn’t been in this one either.

Mike went to see the insurance agent this morning and then over to where they took the car to see what it looks like – it was paid for – almost 7 years old and at least 130,000 miles on it – I won’t be surprised if it isn’t totaled.

One funny thing about it all though is that the EMT that treated me at the scene and road with me in the ambulance was Larry – Vivian’s husband “Sew At Home On Pine Ridge”. I met Vivian last year (she lives about 50 miles from me) and we had been planning on having lunch this week! She had just posted a photo of her husband making breakfast Christmas morning and I recognized him immediately.  I introduced myself and my husband to him – it felt really reassuring to me even though I had never met him.  It was like I knew I was in good hands

I do feel sorry for the young driver and passengers though – a young man driving must have only been about 17, his sister in National Guard uniform was with him and her 2 little kids – thankfully they were all ok and I’m sure this will have been a learning experience for him to be more careful in the future – he was crying so upset.

Well I have been up long enough and it is time to lay back down again – talk to you all later!

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We are getting some snow flurries right now giving us a white Christmas – the weather forecast shows no snow at all, no rain either – I doubt it will last long – pretty though!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day today and gets everything that was on their list’s   Our day has been kind of off again on again.  Our son-in-law is down with a bad cold so they were going to delay visiting until Monday or Tuesday but Melanie called this morning and said she will be here for lunch after all as Ric  said that he will be sleeping most of the day so why didn’t she go visit.  She will not be here real long but will have lunch with us and open her present.  She is the daughter that lives closest to us about an hour’s drive away.

Our other daughter Jessica and her family went to the Smoky Mountains this year and are actually starting their drive back to Wisconsin today – not nice weather in some of the areas they are going through but they will stop and find a motel if need be.  They have been doing Christmas all week at the condo they were staying at.

I imagine late this afternoon after Melanie goes home I just might set up the design wall and start playing with the placement for the Star Crazy quilt.  I would like to get that top put together this coming week and have it put aside also to quilt sometime next year – or the year after

Have a Merry Christmas everyone!!!

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Yes I know I said “Moda Candy Bars” yesterday but then this morning I was checking the 12 days of Christmas sales the Fat Quarter Shop was having to see what was on sale today and it was jelly rolls!!  I couldn’t pass up $17.50 for the two different kinds that I wanted.  So I used my gift card this morning and got 2 of Bunny Hill’s “Lily & Will” one jelly roll in the blue/brown theme and one in the pink/brown theme.  Not my usual type of fabric but these will make perfect baby quilts.  I also got 2 yards of two different kinds of fabric that was on half price.  I ended up having to pay for a $1.60 plus the shipping & handling.  I was on the computer at about 8:30 ordering and the computer was moving so slow through that site – I think everyone else was on there ordering also – I sure hope they have the ones I ordered when it comes time for them to fill my order – I never know how they keep track of that if the computer keeps up as people order or what.

If I happen to get another gift card for the FQS I will get the candy bars – or maybe just because I like them

Today is my last busy baking day – I just finished the dough for the yearly coffee cake.  It sits in the refrigerator all day now to rise (yes always seems weird to me not to put in a warm place) and I will put it together and bake it this evening.   Also later today I’m going to make a couple loaves of bread and about a dozen dinner rolls from the bread dough.  I really liked the last batch of bread I made and will make that one.  I will try to remember to post the recipe after Christmas.

Tomorrow we are having our main meal at 1 so that Melanie and Ric can be here for awhile and then run over to his mom’s house for the evening meal.  We always divide up the day like that.  Nothing traditional this year, I’m tired of holiday meals twice in 4 weeks.  We are having chicken Parmesan, roasted potatoes that have a spicy touch to them, asparagus and dinner rolls.  We eat so much garbage these last couple days we don’t need anything heavier than that.

I got to work on the pineapple blocks last night – this will be an on again off again project all year – I get tired out from paper piecing – not my favorite method but I like these blocks.

The Blocks so far – scraps from my boxes are being used for this project.  The whites are all different kinds of white/cream – whatever is in there.

The sewing machine set up in front of the window, it was already dark outside so I didn’t get to enjoy looking out the window but I could tell it will be different already.  I might work on another block today – the switch out from computer table to sewing machine table was done in less than 5 minutes:

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I told you all I won a gift card from the Fat Quarter Shop – I have been looking and looking at all of the goodies to buy and believe me it is hard!  I think I have found what I want though – the 2011 Twin pack of Moda Candy Bars - this is 2 boxes of  8 packages of 40 fabrics each that measure 2 1/2 by 5 inches.  This would be something like the sampler box that I got last year and enjoyed so much except those were 2 1/2 inch squares.  The candy bars are one box of light fabrics I believe and 1 box of dark fabrics – they would be so much fun to play with.  Not available until January but I think I can wait until then easy enough!  Don’t you just love how they name all of their stuff after things to eat! Everything looks so delicious!

I have made as many Christmas cookies as I wish to make – I have already gained a couple of unwanted pounds around my waistline this past month and really must get back to a regular routine of exercise after the holidays – for some reason I almost always fall off the exercise wagon the month of December – guess too busy baking and shopping.

I think this afternoon I will get to work on my scrappy pineapple blocks that have been sitting aside just about the whole year – I do love them and want to make enough to make something out of them, but yet have not spent hardly anytime working on them.  When I was organizing the cabinets I assigned one drawer to them – the envelope has the paper for paper piecing and I have the pattern saved someplace on my computer although if I can’t find it I can scan it from one of the patterns that I already have printed.   These are 6 1/2 inches I believe.

So I guess I might make up a list of what to work on next year.  I stuck with the 2010 list really well.  Do you all make out a to do list for your quilting year? And if you do do you stick with it!!

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I just got an e-mail from Michelle over at Quilting Gallery to let me know that I won a $50 gift card from The Fat Quarter Shop.  This prize was from her 3rd birthday bash anniversary – not the one you all were voting on but a different giveaway she was having.  I can’t believe my luck – I will be thinking and looking through the shop to see what I want to get.  Such a great time to stock up as there are so many sales going on.  Of course with as many give aways as I enter I guess I am bound to win some but my luck has been really good lately.  I am also expecting a book in the mail any day now from another give away that I won recently.   I will show that when it gets here.

I got a little quilting done last night but mainly I enjoyed my day off of mostly no sewing yesterday by doing yard work and reading.  I’m almost done with my book though so I am sure to get back to sewing soon!

Enjoy your day everyone!!  I didn’t get any baking done yesterday so I guess I better get to it today (maybe – we really do not need a lot of cookies it is mainly just us and two extra on Christmas day).

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