tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58022941807979608872024-03-13T20:59:37.134-05:00WheelinsticksCreating items from a wheel and very pointy sticks....wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.comBlogger472125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-63831050656525610422018-03-11T20:16:00.003-05:002018-03-11T20:16:42.467-05:00Putting Down the PedalHey, it's only been a year! Seems like life just goes and I never seem to catch up. I have been fighting a bug a month since the school year started. This time, steroids plus another antibiotic. I swear if this doesn't do it I can imagine what's next. Anyhoo, sleeping is a chore with the drugs. So far, it's better today. My heart isn't racing at least. Will see how I sleep.<br />
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Besides moaning about sickness, yesterday and today I have spent a great amount of time in the craft room sewing. Yeah!! I finished one flimsy that was a club challenge that will turn into a nice size lap quilt.<br />
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The other has been in a holding pattern for almost a year. I finally covered some corners that didn'y line up with flowers and added the borders. I have about 4 inches of the last border to add when I ran out of fabric. Crossing fingers that I can find a bit more if not there will probably be a surprise block on the corner. Maybe make it the quilt tag, hmm,, there might be an idea in there.<br />
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En Provence is about to make its debut! Well, at least as a flimsy. I am so happy with how this turned out. Lots of he' and haw over some of the blocks, but very pleased with the outcome. My piecing just gets better and better. I dislike pinning, but this one was a must. Way too many pieces to keep in order. Plus, once I started pinning is really just become a habit. Maybe something in my future.<br />
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I love the borders. They are a little light, but might add a little bit of green around the edges. I know the binding is going to be in green, so that may be the pop it needs. I think I might play with the big flowery border and make pillow cases to try it together a little more. Good thing the hubby doesn't mind flowers.<br />
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Anyway, the sewing is just dandy! Like she never stopped sewing a day in her life. I love the long bed. I really prefer the extra length. I tend to do a lot of putting together right there on the bed. I can't imagine not having it.<br />
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I finally got a chance to get back to my En Provence.First round of borders is on and I am putting the 4-patches together for the second round. I plan to add two additional borders to make it big enough for our bed.<br />
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Lastly, after this, I get to try again on my big stitch quilting. I brought thinner pearle cotton and a pair of grippers. This will be my Slow Sunday Stitching. Now that everything is do for the weekend, I can sit with my feet up for awhile. Shoot over to Kathy's <a href="https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2017/02/slow-sunday-stitching_12.html">here</a> to see what everyone is slow stitching on.<br />
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<br />wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-91016071820989624032017-02-01T20:46:00.001-06:002017-02-01T20:46:27.045-06:00Digging into FebruaryCan you believe we have a month of 2017 under our belt already! I am really starting to hit the age where time flies. Gosh, if I could give a penny for every time I thought the day would never end as a kid. Anybody hear the choir a'preachin? It's one of the amazement that I see daily for kids. I realize that they can't see the importance of cherishing what you have at the moment and live for the moment. I sure do now though. Of course being in charge of myself does have its bonuses!!<br />
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Anyhoo, I have quite the month. I have two friends that I need to make some baby items for. One is a girl to be named Violet. Doesn't that just scream for something in the pinky - violet tones? The other is a boy, and the baby room's theme is Dr. Suess. I know I want to make at least one quilt, but really should do two. I might even just do a fleece back since fleece is super cheap now. Hmmmm. ideas... ideas.<br />
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Linking up for One Monthly Goal over <a href="http://www.elmstreetquilts.com/2017/02/one-monthly-goal-february-goal-setting.html">here</a> at Elm Street Quilts. Check out what everyone else is up to. Be inspired and go quilt something!!wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-61802438676262514792017-01-29T21:13:00.000-06:002017-01-29T21:13:30.262-06:00All Day SewIt's nice to be able to take a Sunday and just sew a little of this and that. I started the morning off with Ernestine. She is the first in a line of Bag Ladies Quilt club. She is just adorable and I am having a ball working on her. I am guessing I have slightly less than half to go. Right now I am working on her coat. I have a left side and bottom to finish. I loved doing the shoes. I did fine some very tiny buttons in my stash. If they are small enough I am going to use those. Here's to hoping it works out.<br />
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Hooking up with <a href="https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2017/01/slow-beaders.html">Kathy</a> for Slow stitch Sunday and Elm street quilts for <a href="http://www.elmstreetquilts.com/2017/01/one-monthly-goal-january-goal-finish.html">OMG</a>. Go over and see what everyone is doing.<br />
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<br />wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-54683295494887525252017-01-16T11:44:00.000-06:002017-01-16T11:44:00.500-06:00Slow Sunday Stitching<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8CGaprR8-nU/WH0GAZj6GVI/AAAAAAAADjA/X_-P-Ig1o7E_AzWPUwOniHWu8n4VixISgCLcB/s1600/IMG_2048.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8CGaprR8-nU/WH0GAZj6GVI/AAAAAAAADjA/X_-P-Ig1o7E_AzWPUwOniHWu8n4VixISgCLcB/s320/IMG_2048.JPG" width="320" /></a>What a great day for football and hand stitching. The Packers are in!! Great game. Watch some of the Chiefs game, sadly it was not a fun game to watch. So more football next week.<br />
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While watching the games I worked on the sashings for En Provence. Sashings are sewn together and I think I am close to assembling. There are so many pieces to these blocks it will require a lot of pinning and taking my time. That's okay, its not a race.<br />
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Speaking of taking my time.... The Bag Ladies Club is in full swing. I have part of Ernestine stitched. This requires a patience and exactness on my part. I love her clunky shoes. I have the hat done, the shoes, the box, and her sock. SO cute.<br />
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Hooking up with Kathy for slow stitching..... <a href="https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2017/01/slow-sunday-stitching-1-year-of-stitches.html">here</a><br />
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Only a year in the making!! Finally, a flimsy. I decided that I want to try big stitching on this. I want to do a cross hatch pattern on the white sections and add a little detail through the embroidery for holding it together.<br />
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I also prepped by first bag lady, but that's as far as I got with that. I decided that I want to do some big stitch quilting on my power of the sewing machine embroidery that I recently finished. I spent sometime deciding what to do with that. I have watched several videos and really like one in particular. Here's a video link to her youtube. I'm thinking some simple cross hatching and such.<br />
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Linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching over at Kathy's. <a href="https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2017/01/slow-sunday-stitching.html">here</a><br />
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I'm also going to do Rainbow Scrap Challenge this year. This month's colors are purple. Boy do I have purple! Lot's a purple! However, I do plan to do some little pigs and baskets, but more on that later in the week.<br />
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<br />wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-22697235192058401922017-01-05T10:00:00.001-06:002017-01-05T10:00:26.423-06:00En Provence Block 1Well, I am not sure .... I need to make a few more and add the sashings to really tell. I think it is growing on me though.<br />
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Last night as I worked on part 7 of En Provence, the craft room was full of a pets.<br />
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From the top counter-clockwise, Buster, Lacey and Margo. Margo loves to curl up on Lacey. I find it ironic since Lacey puts Margo's head in her mouth daily.<br />
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Then, there is Oreo in my chair. Between the chair and the orange cabinet is Chester. You can make him out if you follow the coffee cup straight down to the floor.<br />
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It's nice to have fur-buddies. Now, the finish part 7. Only forty more to go!wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-43105327961538034712017-01-02T22:37:00.002-06:002017-01-02T22:37:47.787-06:00En Provence Part 6 Link upWell, after a defeat yesterday for my hourglass blocks being cut wrong; today they are complete! Bonus I have the 60 small on I cut yesterday to be put together for another project. I have some spools from a leader and ender challenge from awhile ago that I think these might play nicely together.<br />
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Here is today success. I am really excited about this these. They turned out very well. They need trimming as all of the other do too. That's okay there is another day for that business. I plan to get the last set down before the end of the week. Then my OMG challenge for January will be getting the blocks made and the quilt webbed. I think it is a manageable task. Plus I need another quilt for the bed!<br />
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Linking up to One Monthly Goal <a href="http://www.elmstreetquilts.com/2017/01/one-monthly-goal-january-goal-setting.html">http://www.elmstreetquilts.com/2017/01/one-monthly-goal-january-goal-setting.html</a>wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-71170287490762585482017-01-01T21:26:00.002-06:002017-01-01T21:26:19.218-06:00Happy New Year FinishHappy New Year!!<br />
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Surprisingly enough I was still up at midnight. This is probably a first in a long time. I have been reading a lot on simplifying life. I think this is something that I can get a handle on. I like projects and doing lots of different things. I still want to do that, but less. Instead of trying to finish everything all at one time, I plan to just take things slower maybe only a couple of things at a time. My main focus is just to enjoy and live in the moment more.<br />
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Now onto a finish!! I finally finished this little project. I started it in June of 2015. In the last week I have really put time into it. I can tell it could be better. My stitches could be more uniform, but once it has borders and is quilted, no one will know except me.<br />
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Bye for now!wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-20144673529863912742016-12-30T17:00:00.003-06:002016-12-30T17:00:56.741-06:00My New-to-Me Baby Singer 101<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I picked up this gal in a fairly sketchy neighborhood about an hour from home. I got lost several times along the way, and my phone wouldn't charge fast enough to point me in the right direction. I have been through areas where stopping is a not before. But I was SCARED and wanted to get the hey out of dodge as fast as I could. I barely looked at the machine before paying the man and leaving.<br />
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Now the machine is mid 1930's and according to the seller it sat at Gram's house for a load of years. Based on the smell and the peeling paper, she sat somewhere unwanted for quite awhile.<br />
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After struggling to carry Miss Hefty into the house, I inspected her a little closer.<br />
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She is a 101 the precursor to the Cadillac "201". Now let me say I have never sewn on a 201, so I don't judge. Maybe this should have been considered a Caddy, too.<br />
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What's in your sewing box?wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-44571296279066972812016-12-13T12:31:00.000-06:002016-12-13T12:31:28.915-06:00Changes<br />
Changes.... change is something I dislike a lot. Change is something that can be good and needed for everyone to grow and continue to be apart of the world. Having roamed for a little more than 50 years I have seen a lot of change of over time. I have changed overtime. My hubster would say I have mellowed in time; I think not.<br />
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My craft process is always a welcoming change. I think I have at least tried most of the crafts out there by now. There are some that I can definitely leave off the list. Then, there are those that I LOVE. Sewing as a little girl made my mom;s heart sing. I remember sewing shorts and little simple tops on my mom's White and the beautiful stuffed doll my grandmother made for me - she was a Singer gal. In the past several years I have started collecting and find myself with both. My White treadle sit in the living room with a Singer 128 hand crank on top. I love these machines for the simplicity if them. I can take them outside and not worry about hooking up the electricity. It is one of my favorites in the summer.<br />
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The craft room is busting the seams with tons of tubs of knitting and fiber supplies, my fabric stash, and some jewelry supplies. Its my room... my inner peace. There are five sewing machines in there. Two that are in cabinets that I use a lot, but I take the others out to play too. A large brown recliner inhabits the corner of the room. When I am sewing, the chair is usually filled with dogs; my oldest, Oreo, and his much bigger, but younger sister, Lacey. I find it amazing that the two can share a chair. On the tables are the cats. Usually, Josey sits in the fluff of whatever I am sewing, the others, under the sewing machine. Oh so simple....<br />
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My husband baulks at the "mess" in the room and grumbles that I should have taken the bigger room. No, I say, I like the comfort of the coziness, Yes, its busy. Yes, its messy but shouldn't it be?wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-4224063438956929612015-08-23T18:26:00.003-05:002015-08-23T18:26:32.907-05:00Busy MorningI have been working on a charity quilt for my guild. One of the Troy's elementary schools decided for an art project to make squares using the crayola method. They ended up making over 250 squares and seriously had no idea how many quilt that would make.<br />
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As of today there are a total of 9 quilts that are a good 50 by 60 inches. Great lap size. These will be going to a home here in our town to be loved on. I really enjoy making charity quilts. I think about the enjoyment that I get from mine and know that another will receive that same enjoyment for years to come. Linking up with slow stitching for the hand sewn binding.<br />
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wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-53589168753243981952015-08-07T21:25:00.001-05:002015-08-07T21:25:40.905-05:00The Finish LineA flimsy! Tomorrow I am headed the Hannibal to visit Bits and Pieces. Hopefully I will be a proud winner of a gift certificate from her <br />
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store. Very excited!wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-72780497698593690792015-08-02T00:15:00.001-05:002015-08-02T00:15:21.457-05:00It's a Flimsy - Almost<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-26626386774925397322015-07-18T17:10:00.001-05:002015-07-18T17:10:18.394-05:00A Flimsy Finish She is all put together. I have been thinking about how I want to quilt it. I am really considering a line like a paperclip through the lozenges. I think that would have a neat effect.<br />
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Cool looking .<br />wheelinstickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06314921713200821741noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5802294180797960887.post-43466500245757893302015-07-10T08:27:00.000-05:002015-07-10T08:27:23.148-05:00Peicng along with BonnieI caught up with Bonnie Hunter 's quiltcam last night. I love being able to sew right along with her. Even though the sewing is for her personal creative time, I still learn a ton.<br />
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Tour de Fleece (France ) has officially started! I love watching the tour. I missed the first two days, but the jig is up. Today there was one HUGE crash that involved many riders. Tonight will make or break some of them. My hope is that they all heal as quickly as they can. I do know that one of the riders had a dislocated shoulder that was put back in place, and he started riding again. The race is very dangerous and mind grueling. It is a true test of commitment.<br />
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My commitment is to spin every day. So, here's the low down:<br />
Rainbow yarn bulky weight 168 yes<br />
Blues/Browns DK weight 228<br />
3 1/2 oz. of singles<br />
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