Farmers Market top done & foot problem

Well I finally finished the top today and the change in green worked great. I thought the broccoli would have been to much so after getting help from my husband we found the right green. Funny thing is it matches the green in the outer border. It really needed something and I was even thinking of a thin black border. Now I need to find a backing that goes with it to finish it up. This was a really quick top..lots of straight stitching. Cut & sewed the blocks one weekend. Stitched blocks into a top the next and then the borders this morning. Not bad. It' 68 x 58 so it will take me a bit to have a table big enough to pin.
Saw the doctor and he couldn't find anything wrong. What we are doing is a stronger inflammatory and a trip to a nerve specialist. I refused to get cortisone shots. To me it's a quick fix only...besides I don't like needles..

Another step closer to completion...

Well after spending last weekend sewing, I woke up Monday morning and my right foot was just miserable. It was so puffy that I couldn't get my shoes on. I ended up wearing my slippers to work for three days before I was able to get my tennis shoes on. They are a little looser fit. Would you believe sewing caused my foot to swell. I did sew a lot of little squares together, then into blocks.

Saturday I finally felt comfortable enough to work on the quilt layout. put all the rows up while Ben was at his run so when he came home I got him to help switch them around do not all one fruit or veggie was  in one section. Took us a while but this is what we decided on.

Surprisingly it didn't take me that long to sew all the rows together. It turned out pretty good. Now all it needs it the two borders. One is of broccoli and the outside one is seed packets.. Still trying to decide what to put on the back to finish it up.

Sometimes it pays to put off what you can do another day....or a couple years.

My weekend project.

I bought a fruits & vegetable quilt kit for my birthday summer before last. something I'd been wanting to make for a long time. The pattern is in a book called Six Halves Make a Whole and it's called All Shook up. My quilt will really look nothing like the book quilt. Well, I finished two small quilts and a table runner so I decided to do this one. When I first took out the book and started reading the pattern I thought I'd bit off more than I could chew but once I started it has gone pretty smoothly. I ironed the fabric Friday night and started the cutting Saturday morning. I just finished putting all the blocks together a little before 11 tonight. Now to get the blocks all sewn together. It will probably take me to next weekend. I seem to get very tired after dinner anymore and can fall asleep in my chair. here's a picture of what my blocks look like.

there are 6 sets of 6 different blocks. You should have seen my table. I had 8 piles of all the sizes with post-its to tell me the size. I hadn't done one like this is a long time. It turned out pretty fun. The kit also came with fabric for two borders. the inner border will be broccoli and the outside one is seed packets.
Well it's getting late and I do have to get up for work tomorrow. I'll post more pictures when I'm got the top finished.

finished it..

Well I finished it this evening. Turned out pretty good.  
It was a good weekend to stay inside. It rained most of Saturday and today off and on but very windy.
I finally took my Christmas Card holder,y advent calendar I made and my Christmas wall hangings down. We put up a couple different ones too. Ben also took down all the Christmas lights outside too.
 He also ran in a race yesterday. It was one that you guessed what your time would be. He and Tootsie were a minute faster.
So it was a very productive weekend.

My current project

This is my latest project. It's from Quilters World, Dec 2011. I wanted something to work on before I started my next big quilt. Didn't realise that this would be such a challenge. I'd never done anything with a border like this.  It was a little rough to begin with but decided I need to keep going.. I quilted the runner first and then attaching the flowers and stems. That's not how they showed doing it but since I'd done my last one that way figured I'd give it a try. So far so good. I have the two single flowers attached and just pressed the lighter one a couple nights ago. I'm hoping, if my weekend doesn't get to goofy on me to finish it by Sunday night. Once I start the stitching it seemed to go pretty fast. So one pressed, ready to sew...three more to go.  Because it is my first attempt at something different, It will probably stay with me.

Are they not the sweetest couple

This is a picture of my Cassandra and David..her new sweetie.  Told her this is what happy looks like and it was about time too.  This was taken at the beach this past weekend. They have been together a little over a month and she says she is still on cloud 9..   What's nice for her is he loves the ocean too so she will have company when she makes her drives to the beach multiple times during the summer.

We are going to all go out to dinner at the Rogue Pub Friday night. What will be fun is it will be Trivia night. This guy gives three questions and you have to write down the answers really quick, take them  up to his helper. They have three sessions and at the end of each he gives raffle tickets where you have many chances to win  dollars to use on you bill and other stuff.  We usually do pretty good and have lots of fun.. Especially after you get a couple beers into Ben..he's a real hoot.

being sick didn't last long

I was really surprised that I didn't stay sick longer. Ben brought home some Alka Selzer Plus and it worked great. by the weekend my runny nose had stopped and only a little bit plugged. I do have a little bit of a cough but not not much.  I'm always afraid when I catch a cold it will go back to when I had them before. They would hit and stay with me for what seemed like months. So glad it was just a quick one.