Saturday Quilt Show

Well , I am going to add some other photos today that are from a BOM that I started and never finished. I have found so many of them in the last few weeks that I am getting kind of excited about getting them made. I have committed to completing projects that are already started. I chose to work on the ones that are closest to completion first. I have the ones that are tops and ready to quilt and then we have the ones that are a few blocks from completion. Then I also am still trying to come up with ideas for things I can sell and create an income to replace my income from the job I am no longer working at. So I have a couple of bags that so many of my girls friends have fallen in love with and want me to make for sale. So enjoy the pictures and I am going to a town close by to see the quilt show they have today.
Sorry that some of them are sideways, I am still trying to figure out how to make that not happen.
Tennye

Such Is Life

Oh, my what things that take me away from what I need to do. I have had some rough stuff the last two weeks. MY sweet husband had a Heat Stroke last week and ended up needing me to pick him up from work and take him to the Dr. Needless to say that took most of my day and I got nothing done. I am happy to say he is actually doing what the Dr. told him to do which is out of character for him. I had to fight being angry with him because this is about the third time he has had one of these in less than three years. I guess he is just a man as a friend of mine has told me, and I should forgive him. So I have.
Then before the week was over my daughter had a bout of high blood pressure and then a sudden drop. She went to the Dr. about it and he became very concerned that she might have a tumor on her adrenal gland. You see she is only 26 and it is not only unusual for someone her age to have high blood pressure it is also unusual for that same person to be on medication to control the high blood pressure and it not work. She has all the symptoms of the the tumor. She had to collect urine for 24 hours and then turn it in for a test. All seemed to be okay and then Monday she was sent home from work with high blood pressure, which after she got home took a very sudden and hard fall. So we spent the remainder of the day off the have a sonogram and chest x-ray as well as a visit to the Dr.s office. We still are waiting for the results of the tests to find out what is wrong.
With all of this in my mind and on my heart I find working hard to do and sleeping also eluded me for several days. I have still spent the time I needed to working but for what ever reason I have not accomplished what I should have in that same amount of time. Hey, I got new birthday blocks though so I am going to post them today. Have a good day of quilting even if the times are tough.

Coffee Sleves

Well, I have told you all I am still attempting to make an income so I am showing you some of the coffee sleeves that I have been making and giving away. I also am selling them so I am showing them for that purpose as well. I have also applied to a lovely Coffee company to add their banner to my site. I hope that any of you who might be as avid a coffee drinker as I am will check them out as soon as I am allowed to put their banner up. I think you will like my quilted sleeves too.
Tennye

Finished Quilt

Well, I have been promising to post a photo of the last quilt I completed. It is a scrap quilt that I used many very small scraps in. I hope you like it and if you have any questions let me know.

Fulfilling My Promise

Well, I have been telling you all that I would be adding pictures for a while and so I am finally doing it. I have the Birthday Blocks I am getting from my friends at the quilting forum I am on and I can't find the name of it right now and my fibro memory is not working. I have one from Canada, two from Australia, and then the others are from the US right now. I am expecting more to come in so I will post them as they come in.

A New Day

Just for fun I have added one of the blocks I was teaching in my block of the month. I hope you like it.
Well, I had a meeting with my boss today and we discussed my job and the fact that I will not be working in the store any longer. I will be teaching though as I have in the past only she has decided to add some other teachers not be cause I have not done a good job, but because the other teachers have promised to bring with them loyal customers who have been in their classes before at other stores. My teaching has been mostly at the church and on line so I did not have the following for her when I came and I am lost as to how to build up that kind of following. I do have a wonderful reputation with teaching children how to sew. That is what I will be doing for now. I will also have classes teaching adults to sew , but they will not be on the schedule they will be one on one and as needed. I look forward to those kinds of classes, because the ones taking them are also working on something they want to do. They often find after one or two classes that they are able to do it on their own and I just gave them the confidence to try. I enjoy that almost as much as I enjoy teaching children and quilting. I do love to teach quilting. That is my real desire but I will do what I can until the opportunity arises for me to do what I want. Along that line I want to promise that I will try very hard to figure out how to write out the method of binding I do and how to make mitered corners for those who may still be taking my beginning quilting class from earlier in the blog. I have the pictures taken of the quilt I finished last night but still have not gotten them on the computer. I will try to do that tomorrow. Then I will get back to work on the black and white quilt which I have added red to. I am excited about it and hope to have it finished by the end of the weekend. I of course will make pictures and share them when I get them on the computer as well. I guess that is gonna be all for today have a wonderful evening of quilting.
Tennye

Post Birthday Comments

Well, I had a birthday last week and I am in a Birthday block exchange with my friends on line. I am getting beautiful squares in the mail from all over the world. I have about half of them now and I will begin posting photos of them in a day or two. I have not gotten a chance to take the photos yet. One of the ladies gave me a wonderful little wall hanging with a cute embroidery on it that says "I am a material girl" I will put that in the pictures too. I also had the most wonderful gift from God in my back yard. My amaryllis are in full bloom and they are gorgeous to see out my back window everyday. I have taken pictures I will share. My daughter who went away to college and then got married and her hubby came home for the evening. We all went out for drinks at the local Applebee's. It also happens to be the place my hubby and I go every week for date night. My other two girls who live at home were there with us. My mother and my best friend and her mom all took me out to lunch. We had a lovely lunch and the food was great. The next day my other daughter who is married and lives out of state and her family all called me to wish me a happy birthday. Then on the weekend my son came to spend some time with us and to go to a car show. I also lost my job, so it was a very eventful week and weekend. On the one hand my source of income is gone, but my son and his sister and I all put our heads together and came up with a business opportunity that I would like to do. I don't currently have the money, to do it however I am looking into finding financing. I will go further into this if I can find the financing.
I won't be so long getting back on this week. I have a quilt almost completed, that I will post photos of when I get it completed. Then hopefully I will have another project completed to show you, before Thurs. Time will tell.
Tennye