My First Posting

Well here goes! I'm not sure what I'm getting myself into but many have noted that I should write a book on my sewing and life-in-general adventures. See, many say my group emails are so life like that one can just picture it all happening! Hmmm, not sure how to take that, but it's now being channelled into this BLOG - not quite the "book" they suggested! I can tell you that I love my crazy patch and this is my first embellished heart block that I prepared and then it went into my satellite group's small RR and came back to me bringing a huge smile to my face and heart along with a label signed by my fellow quilters. Oh yes I've done more than just crazy patch, but paper piecing gives me major grief and strip or basic piecing drives me mad when it does not measure up as required! I do have my "first" completed quilt top and hopefully soon it will be quilted by my sister. I also have a half dozen quilt tops in various stages of UFO kingdom!!!


Lately I've delved into fabric postcards and naturally they are crazy patched and embellished with beads, silk ribbons, buttons, yarn and braids etc. My first ones were just rectanglar crazy patched and embellished but the latter set are these hearts and framed with this textured upholstery fabric in various colours to match. My friend printed off some of my own design fabric backs and VOILA my PCs.

Since then I think I'm doomed as I could stitch till 2:00 or 3:00 am without a thought of anything else - even food - and then up at 6:30 am to start the work day full of computer number crunching. Oh and the past 3-4 years I've worked part time on top of the full time office work for Lewiscraft (recently bankrupt) now Bentley's Liquidation. There are times when I don't know how I do it and then I think what will I do when I'm not rushing to and fro when I do give up the part time job! LOL!

Much to the dismay of my poor badly neglected orchids! Here is one of my faithfuls that blooms just about yearly and this one time a double bloom on the one spike - WOW! This baby is a Paphiopedlium Magic Flame and shoud be spiking soon again. It's a shame that my apartment environment does not agree that well with plants or me but the location is great in regards to work so I's a staying put at least until I retire.

Okay, I'm not sure how this BLOG is going to proceed but guess time will tell.