Newest furry member in the family

My daughter has adopted a new furry friend this week.

Isn't he sweet!

He's un-named as yet....

Welcome to the family, sweet boy!

Stashbusting Report

Oh, dear is me...

I have to report this week an addition

to my fabric stash-a first for me during 2010.

I went a little crazy while on vacation...

Fabric added this week: 8 yards

Fabric used this week: 0 yards

Fabric used YTD: 52.5 YARDS

I am going back to making a weekly to-do list

so I can stay motivated and accountable, so

June 28-Jul 4

Making & Creating:

Catch up on skill builders blocks

Work on Christmas in July quilt top

Organize sewing room

Health & Weight:

Workout at gym/pool 5 times this week

Walk the dogs twice this week

Try the Trails program on Tuesday-9am

No eating after 7pm

Hope you all have a great week!

Treasures from my vacation

I am having a difficult time with this new blogger program, so bear with me!

I found this fun cotton print and 99 cent

pattern for a grocery/shopping tote.

I have a few bags I use but decided it would be fun to

make a few more bags.

Here is the fabric I purchased

both in South Carolina and Utah to make

a memory quilt of our week on the beach.

First time I am going to have to add to my

fabric stash report this next Sunday!

The Borough-Chapin Art Museum of Myrtle Beach

had a wonderful exhibit of about 20 quilts

from the Gee Bend (Alabama) Quilters

We couldn't take photos so here are some of the

postcards showing the quilts.

Many were made with corduroy fabric

and had old feed sacks used for the backings.

All quilts were hand quilted too.

I liked the quilters version of a

log cabin block-

they call the pattern "Housetop"

Thanks to my SIL, Amanda, for going with me

to the quilt show...it was great!

Giveaway news!

There is a great giveaway at http://kusine.com/blog/

Something for everyone...kitchen....crocheting....sewing...patterns!

Go check it out!

Home from vacation!

It's great to be home from vacation!

We spent the last week at my Hubby's family reunion

in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

It was great to play in the ocean,

layout in the sand, and

hang out at the pool with everyone!

The top photo is my daughter, her hubby

and my handsome grandson on the beach

in front of our beach house.

My son and Hubby are in front of them

out in the water.

The bottom photo is my toes in the sand!

I did visit a couple of fabric shops while there-

also a exhibit on Gee Bend (Alabama) Quilts....

Photos to follow!

Stashbusting Report

Nothing new...I'm on vacation in South Carolina.

I did bring some hand work with me,

but I'm having too much fun

searching for shells

and swimming in the Atlantic Ocean.

Heaven!

Stashbusting Report

I have done quite a bit of sewing this week,

including working on my

Christmas in July Quilt and Seasons Quilt

but neither is even close to being done

so I'm not going to count them in the total this week, so-

Fabric used or brought in this week: 0 yards

Fabric used YTD: 52.5 yards

Fabric used out of stash YTD: 26 yards

Very slow progress on Season Quilt

I've been working on my Season's Quilt again.

I would like to enter it in a quilt show outside of Utah within the next year, but my progress on it has been very slow.

The white square is where I am cross stitching

a sandcastle and water in the Summer section.

I'm learning to knit!

I bought some super soft airy brown yarn

to use to learn to knit.

It didn't work..I kept

dropping stitches and pulling it out. I found this green yarn with little flecks

of grays in it

(the photo doesn't do the color justice)

I cast on 90 stitches and am

knitting an entire skein in one stitch.

The first skein I just knitted everything.

The second skein I am pearling one row

then knitting the next row.

Memorial Day sewing

For Memorial Day, I decided to do some

service sewing in memory of

my Parents, who taught me

the importance of service in my daily life I finished out some more of the little

baby gowns that the hospitals give

parents who have lost a child at birth.

So small...

(The little sewing machine

is something I found at a

second hand store)