What my Project Boxes revealed.............

I'm embarrassed that I allowed so much time to escape these projects.  Most of the fabric and photos were in one Project Box.  I'm not sure when I transferred the photos onto the fabric (most likely it was in 2015).
I had chosen the design and fabric for the borders around each photo.  Then life happened and everything was stashed away. 

Thankfully this morning, I discovered the beginnings of two Photo Transfer Quilts for my friend and her daughter.  The black fabric was in the Project Box with the photos.  After searching through several fabric baskets, I found the white fabric that I had used for the borders on the first couple of photos.  I knew it would be wonderful to use the same fabrics throughout both quilts.

If I can just keep sewing the strips around each photo, I could be done with the photo blocks by this evening and then I can design the quilts. 

Design Wall Monday-Organize Project Boxes

This morning, I contemplated what I would post on my Design Wall today??
I counted the Project Boxes (11) brightly colored and piled high and realized I did not know what was in every single box.  Only (3) boxes have labels.  At least the boxes are somewhat organized--it is the rest of my Sewing Room that is a disaster and is keeping me from making progress on creating the many ideas whirling around in my head.  Too many piles of paper and notes.  Several years ago, I did have my room organized to a point.  What happened??
So, here are a couple of pictures to get me going........

Five Project Boxes waiting..... 

Five more Project Boxes Waiting & the 11th box is hiding

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Crayon Challenge at Guild

One of our Guild members organized a Crayon Challenge with the small quilts to be shown and judged by our members at our September meeting, yesterday.  There were 36 crayons in the bag from which to draw.  25 quilts were created and brought in yesterday for judging.  What a delightful group of quilts!  They were all so different and creative.  I'm only showing mine at this time, since I'll need to get permission from the other members to post their quilts.  The quilts that won were stunning!!  My little lady didn't win but that's O.K.  It was a good exercise in making a portrait picture of a 1920's flapper.  The style reminded me of my mother, since she was in her mid 20's during this time period.  She would never have worn a bright yellow hat, even though my Dad loved the color yellow.  So here she is.......

1920's Flapper for Crayon Challenge

 

Visitors Arrived at 7 a.m.

Thankfully, I had already taken our little dog out this morning.  As I was sitting having my breakfast and looking out the window, a little fawn came out of the woods for a taste of our salt block.  In just a few minutes, Mama came out to watch for strangers.  I so wished I had my camera, but since I hadn't seen any deer in months, my camera was in another room.  I knew if I made a move, they'd be gone.  As I watched, two more fawns came out and another Mama.  There were (5) in all.  What a blessing to see so many!

There is new construction all around this area, so their stomping ground has been disappearing quite rapidly.
I was able to get one picture of 3 deer this morning after 2 of them left.

Deer came to visit 09102016

Labor Day 2016

As I created my Quilty Circle for today, I decided to look on-line for a simple explanation about Labor Day.
During my work career of 40 years, I "usually" got Labor Day off.  I'm sure there were a couple of jobs, where I had to work on Labor Day.

So, here's the simple explanation:   Labor Day honors the workers--
8 hours of work
8 hours of play
8 hours of rest

It's a great concept; however, your 1 hour lunch and 2 hours commute must come from play or rest.
I must admit that retirement is wonderful.  

365 Quilty Circles & Design Wall Monday

I've been working on my 365 Quilty Circles all afternoon to try and get them caught up for Aug. and Sept.  Just now, I have accomplished my goal.  On Sat., Aug. 27th, I wondered what to write, so I checked the web and discovered that Aug. 27th was day #240 of this year, with 126 days to go until Dec. 31st, 2016.  Now, for a picture of the 365 Quilty Circles for the 2nd half of 2016.  One huge quilt would have been too cumbersome.
So, I chose to make:
Quilt top#1 :  Complete:  01-01-2016 through 06-28-2016

Quilt top#2:   06-29-2016 through 12-31-2016

 

Quilty Circles Top#2    06/29/2016 to 09/04/2016

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