Perfectly Imperfect Easy Street

I'm sew excited to have the quilting finished on Easy Street.

This is April's UFO from Judy L's challenge.

Today the binding will go on.

Why Perfectly Imperfect?

When I basted the quilt, I had the back the inside down instead of up.

I noticed it when I had it about 3/4 quilted.

I am not a perfectionist.

I just kept on quilting. 

No big deal, it's going on my bed.

Here is how embarrassingly far behind I was on my UFO Challenge projects.

Now I can remove the top 2 sticky notes. 

Today is stay home and have a binding and basting party day.

Doggie cuteness.

Just like kids, one will not give up her favorite spot

so the other makes do to get what he wants.

Win, win.

Family Fun at the Beach

 Crystal, Mike and kiddos came to the beach for a little vacation before school starts.

So much fun!

 Clella loves to cuddle with my little Jessie,

he avoids her if he can. 😉

But if I put him on her lap and she covers him with a quilt,

he'll lay there as long as she does.

Granddog Sadie refuses to be left out!

Tony dog found his spot too.

Clella learned embroidery and is now working on a stitch sampler.

I didn't mind at all when she asked if she could have some of my threads.

I did make her up a supply bag and boy oh boy,

she picked up the stitches so fast!

Big funny with these two.

It's all about the matching hats.

Kiddos take turns helping with the meals.

Corbin loves to help with breakfast.

He was so proud of how awesome his table looked. 

He id a great job.

Every morning is hot cocoa.

Most every evening is S'mores.

Sometimes if you are going home early,

 S'mores are for 2nd breakfast. 

When Gramma begs and whines,

Elliot caves and gives her the foot massage.

This man child melts my heart!

I love my just sitting back and watching everyone to their thing!

Lots of card games and Yahtzee.

The traditional family camping photo.

I think I need to print and frame this.

I cry when they leave but 

after a few minutes, 

I'm ok but

It sure is quiet!!!

Hello August!

What happened to Judy in July.....

what is she doing and why isn't she posting???  

Could it be the dog days of summer?

Or

Could it be because she has nothing exciting to post?

Or 

Could it be because she is playing too hard?

Or 

Is it because she is a champion procrastinator? 

I quilted this UFO wall hanging.

It still needs a trip through the washer and dryer.

Then I'll share the finish.

I've been dehydrating extra broccoli from my small deck garden.

We've eaten a lot of it but I want some for winter too.

We spent a lot of time at the beach.

This is the back corner of our lot and it was a small jungle.

We paid for the whole lot, we want to use the whole lot!

So we borrowed our son's tractor.

I say we like I did so much work.

Nope, I mostly stayed out of the way.

Our friend Bill was a huge help!

I took a big bag of half square bonus triangles 

and cut them to the size I need for my new leader/ender project.

I'm doing the new Quiltville l/e project that can be found in the tab section of her blog.

I forgot my rotary cutter at home and was quite mad at myself over it.

Ernie was going to get some diesel for the tractor 

so I asked if he would look at Jack's for a rotary cutter.

He did, they didn't have one.

So my super sweet husband went to Long Beach and found one at Dennis Company.

Oh how I miss the quilt shop there!!!

The poop deck is gorgeous.

Our friends Pam and Bill comes over and waters when we aren't there. 

I couldn't have flowers without them.

Mean while, back at home,

my hydrangeas exploded. 

Absolutely gorgeous this year.

We've been putting wood stove ash on them all winter and spring.

I think it helped a lot!

I made some wine bottle carry bags as gifts for friends.

They were fun, quick projects.

I had to have one too. 😉

I'm UFO busting some of my embroidery work.

This is quite cute up on my sewing room wall.

I have my next embroidery UFO out and have started working on it.

I've also decided to start some wool applique and 

have a couple of kits ordered.

This week we've had fun watching this silly guy 

at his baseball camp.

We brought him home with us 

and had to have pictures in front of the hydrangeas.

I'm ready now for a big quilt basting party in my living room. 

I am ready to quilt again.

I'll be back when I'm back.

Hopefully a bit more often now.

See you soon, thanks for stopping by!

2020 Finish #10

Garden Party is finished and Daisy tested and approved.

She thinks if I lay a quilt on the floor for a picture, 

she needs to be right there!

Hope you enjoyed that Daisy Doodles,

it's the last time you get to lay on this quilt.

I quilted a simple meander.

After removing the wavy outer borders, this top sat there taunting me.

I finally couldn't take it any more so I got to work on putting them back on the right way.

No more just winging it for me.

I knew better at the time but decided to risk it,

My Big Mistake!

I am thrilled with this quilt! 

I don't think I did too bad on this one,

only 2 years marinating before finishing. 

Design Wall Monday

It's been a busy week in the sewing room.

After finishing last month's UFO, 

I decided this beauty was next.

The binding is sewn down and 

it will soon be headed to a special girl in Texas.

Shhh, she doesn't know it's coming.

Finish #4 for my goal of 20 Finishes Before 2020.

Next up is Sanctuary from Kim Brackett's Scrap Basket Beauties book.

It was started in May 2013 at a retreat.

It's done with flannel from strip swaps with friends.

At the next retreat, I won 5 yards of red flannel that was used for the border, back and binding.

There is a small piece left that will be cut up into more strips for the flannel box.

WaaHoo for Finish #5!

Trying to get a picture of this was a joke.

Daisy dog plopped herself right down and

Tony had to come and show how to sit pretty.

Little Dog took over the middle of the dog bed.

Saturday morning, trying to be quiet and clean up my messy binding box,

I started sewing the leftover binding hunks together.

After sewing 7 or 8, I realized there was no top thread.

Duh!!! So I put some thread on, threaded the machine and started again

only to realize the bobbin was empty!

While stitching down binding on the Dresden Plates quilt, 

I discovered where I had run out of bobbin thread.

7 Inches from the end and I didn't even notice!!

Joke's on me I guess.

So now I have my binding box nice and neat again.

I like having the black bindings all together.

The red on the right is all the same fabric. 

My heart sings at all those leftover pieces. 

I can't wait to use them.

The others are for specific projects and each are labeled.

This is why so much quilting is happening.

I'm perfectly content to stay inside and 

make pretties happen while we wait for round 2 of this "5 part weather event".

Check out the fabulous design walls at

Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday.

Another January UFO Report

WhooHoo! Quilting is finished, binding is on.

I'll stitch it down in the evenings while watching tv.

I'm going to call this one a finish.

I'm not the best free motion or straight line walking foot quilter

 but I'm not the worst.

I have fun.

I'm a firm believer in Done is Better than Perfect!

Life's to short to be a perfectionist.

Last night I laid the quilt down on the floor to see if I really should 

quilt in the black half square triangles.

After the quilt inspectors report, 

I decided I should.

This was started in my first Bonnie Hunter class in June of 2014.

When the top was finished, 

it went straight onto Mt ToBeQuilted

where it marinated for a few years.

This will be sent off to a special girl as soon as it takes a trip through the washer and dryer.

I love sending quilts to my special people.

Since this is our day,

I'm going to go in a start quilting another one for a different special girl. 

Design Wall Monday

Quilting Mojo has arrived at my house.

I hope she stays for a while.

After finishing the Gypsy Rose Quilt last week,

I basted 3 more big quilts.

Then I went right in and started quilting.

Cathedral Stars was last month's UFO Challenge quilt.

After ignoring it all month, I got it basted on the 31st so I could report that I made progress on it.

Yes, I really did do that! 😉

I'm doing free motion curves in the star points and half square triangles.

I'm using the walking foot for somewhat straight lines thru the 4 patches.

I'm hoping today this one will be ready for binding.

Tony and Daisy kept me company from the table fort.

Kids and dogs love a good table fort. 

Little dog is cozy on dad's lap.

I really think they are sad when the tables are put away.

Check out the cuteness and the fabulous design walls at

Small Quilts and Doll Quilts Design Wall Monday.

January UFO Challenge Statis

I am participating in Judy L's UFO Challenge again this year.

January's number was 7.

My #7 is my Cathedral Stars.

I only needed to quilt it.

The back and binding were ready.

I had company as I basted today.
Miss Daisy loves a table fort.

So why did I wait until January 31 to do anything with it?

I've been super busy

and I can procrastinate with the best of them. 

UFOs have been wrangled and a few have been quilted.

As of tonight, my machine is threaded and the quilt is basted. 

I'm ready to quilt.

I promise to do better in February.

I Like Thursdays #1

Leanna at Not Afraid of Color does fabulous I Like Thursdays blog posts full of things she likes. She invited me to do the same, so here I am with my first post for I Like Thursdays.

We are empty nester people parents but no animal parents.

This is Polly Cat and Jessie, the spoiled rotten little dog.

It's hard not to like them. 

In our bus (motorhome), dogs sleep on the couch.

It's Tony's turn.

Daisy takes up all the floor. 

(Pardon hubby's shoes.)

I like to can.

This week I canned turkey in broth.

I pressure cooked a whole frozen turkey, and the next day I canned it.

I like to have good food on my pantry shelves.

I like to eat off of the fun plates I buy for my Grandkiddos.

This morning it was scrambled eggs off the fish plate.

Makes my day start with a smile and warm fuzzies in my heart.

I like my coffee.

I like my coffee in special cups.

This was a gift from my grands recent vacation.

"We got you a coffee cup from Cracker Barrel cuz it has a chicken on it." 💗

I like sunsets at the beach.

Final like for this week is knitting socks.

Oh, I also like a challenge.

It's a challenge for me to knit from a chart and I've always thought of cables as scary.

So my challenge for this pair of Orzival Socks is to conquer the chart

and just do the cables.

Which really are only cross overs and not big awesome cables. 😏

Check out Leanna's post today. 

Be sure to watch her video at the end!