Happy Mother's Day...

Quote for the Day:

"Good moms let you lick the beaters...

Great moms turn them off first!"

~author unknown

It's Mother's Day here in the USA and I would like to extend a very happy mother's day greeting to all mothers around the world.  This day celebrates YOU!

I know I haven't posted for a while...10 days to be exact...but who's counting???  But I have been around and have been keeping myself busy and out of trouble...at least I'd like to *think* that I have been staying out of trouble!  :)

Sewing and quilting projects have been popping up...so I decided to make a "To Do" list for 2012 to keep me on track.  (I am very much a "list" person!  I have lists all over the house...especially when getting ready for a trip!  LOL)

The first item on the list is "Andrew's valance".  Trinity had asked me to make a valance for Andrew's room to go with his "Bug Jar" quilt.  I didn't have all the fabric to make new "bug jars" to make the valance, so I just went through my stash to see what fabric I had left over from the quilt, cut 10.5" squares from those fabrics and sewed them together.  I backed it with plain muslin.

Here's a picture of it hanging vertically from a hanger for the picture...it obviously will hang horizontally at the top of the window it is intended for.

I can now scratch the first thing off the list!  :)  However, I need to add "finish 'Blue Ridge Beauty'" to the bottom of the list, now!

I started making blocks for "Blue Ridge Beauty" as a "leader/ender" project back in January.  However,  I frequently worked on it when I wanted to sew, but didn't have anything particular in mind to sew.  I have now finished all 120 blocks needed to make the size quilt I want!  

So for the last couple of days I've been doing a lot of this...

...squaring up all 120 of those blocks!!!  :)    I just want you to know how much I HATE HATE HATE squaring up quilt blocks.  **sigh**   But is it a necessary evil if you want your quilt to lay flat!

Here they all are...all squared up and placed in a box for storing until such time that I can make myself a new design wall and then get them arranged and sewn into a quilt top.

Doesn't look like much, does it?  But there's 120 blocks in there...each block has 12 pieces to it...for a total of 1440 pieces that I have sewn together!  And that doesn't include the borders that I will add to it! 

That's why the description of a quilter is:  Someone who takes LARGE pieces of fabric...cuts them into SMALL pieces of fabric...and sews them back into LARGE pieces of fabric again!  LOL   Yes...it's insanity...but it's fun!  :)

In the meantime, I'm working away on the daffodil quilt that is in my hand quilting frame right now.  I've also been busy doing some mending that's been piling up in my sewing room...when we start running out of clothes to wear, it's time to tackle the mending!  LOL



Loretta

Happy Mother's Day Weekend...blog edition...

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to return to normal after you've had a baby.

That somebody doesn't know that once you've had a baby, "normal" is history!

Somebody said being a mother is boring.

That somebody never rode in a car being driven by a teenager with a learner's permit!

Somebody said a mother doesn't need an education.

That somebody never helped a fourth-grader with their math.

Somebody said that you can't love the fifth child as much as the first.

That somebody never had five children.

Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery.

That somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten...or on a plane headed to military "boot camp".

Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices.

That somebody never came out of the back door just in time to see their child hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window.

Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married.

That somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings.

Somebody said a mother's job is done when her kids leave home.

That somebody never had grandchildren!  

Sunday, May 8, is Mother's Day in the USA so today I'd like to honor my mother, Mary... 

my parents, c. 1940

approximately 1 year after they married

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!  Hope you have a wonderful weekend!  

Saturday will be spent getting my hair "done"...meaning cut and colored...to erase all those gray hairs caused by being a mother!  ;)

Then Sunday morning I will go get my yearly blood work done that I have to be fasting for.  With a few puppy dog looks, I can usually talk Andy into taking me out to brunch afterwards!  ;) 

 My mom and me at my wedding...July 3, 1982

We will also be doing some more work in the kitchen.  Andy has the plaster removed from the wall behind where we took out the cabinets so far.  He has been working on putting in the electrical for the outlet that will go on the back splash there and then will roll in the insulation.  If all goes well...hopefully those two things will be done by the end of the weekend. 


After much discussion, we have decided to pull off the baseboards in the kitchen.  They are nice 8" oak baseboards original to the house, so I am going to try to strip the LAYERS of paint off of them so that we can get them looking nice and then reapply them after the bead board paneling is hung.

 Mom rocking Paul, my eldest

She never got to meet Erin, my youngest,

but did get to see pictures of her.

I'm so glad that we don't have a deadline to have this kitchen done in because as we go along, we keep "adding" things to the original plan!  LOL  This is one of the few projects that we've done that we aren't under pressure to be done by a certain time.  

 taken a couple years before she died in 1987

Have a blessed and safe Mother's Day weekend!.....and don't forget to call your mothers!  :)


Loretta