Just a quick check-in. I have spent most of the day nursing a very bad head cold. I made it to my studio just long enough to whip up 5 more dupioni blocks for a Mod Log Runner for my dining room table. I used two different tiny striped fabrics for the centers.
Here it is ready to be sandwiched and quilted.
I am loving this.
Now, I am going to load up on some cold meds and hit the bed.
I read in the Oregonian this morning that Portland is second in the number of bloggers in the nation. Number 1 is Austin, Texas. I don’t think I know any bloggers from Austin. If you are reading this and are a blogger in Austin, please leave a comment and let me know.
Is this a result of global warming or a trick of Mother Nature? We have an azalea blooming in our yard.
What would you do? Spend $69 on a slip cover or buy a new sofa? We decided to give the slip cover a try. The Christmas pillows are really old. I made them from Christmas Pot Holders that I appliqued to a colorful pillow cover. The beautiful wool coverlet was a Christmas gift from Lisa a couple of years ago. This is Mr C’s office.
Project Runner continues. I did a nice decorative embroidery edge on this dupioni runner to match the decorative stitching I did in the center block.
I cut, stitched and started hand sewing bindings for the four Christmas fabric runners.
I ran out of green fabric for the runners with the green Christmas borders. So, I bound them in contrasting red fabric that was used in the center blocks. They look great.
I, who never owned and I-pod before a month or so ago, now have two. The Nano I bought did not have enough memory for all of our cd’s so I bought another one with lots more memory. It arrived today and so I uploaded all of our music and added the Christmas music which I had not imported to I-tunes, yet.
And so that is how I have been keeping busy today. Mr C, the great dad that he is, went to Steph’s today and helped her finish painting her dining room in preparation for Mia’s birthday party this week-end.
I have all four table runners pieced and trimmed, ready for sandwiching and quilting.
Here is a close-up so that you can see the background fabric.
The green fabric says Christmas in cursive handwriting. The red on the left is a marble with red circles, you can’t really see it in this photo. The other is a red on red quilty pattern.
I have the binding stitched to the red dupioni runner and am ready to handsew the backside.
Tomorrow is the quarterly Columbia Stitchery Guild meeting. I have to make a mad dash to weigh in at WW and then back and across the river to Lake Oswego for the meeting.
That is about it for tonight. Ta!
…six to go.
Here is a close-up.
I found some great red batiks in my stash that are working very nicely in these blocks. I plan to make 4 runners from these fabrics.
Thanks for all your concern regarding my falls. I want to emphasize that I mentioned them because it is so rare for me to tumble. I have great balance, and I am quite resilient.
I thought I would be in pain today, but I am fine. I managed to get in 72 minutes of walking. Part of it in the sun this morning. At dusk, Maggie and I went down to the Rhodie Garden and it was breathtakingly beautiful. The sunset across the river was reflected in the reservoir, and the light was unbelievable. I should have had my camera, but you know how that is!!
These words will pretty much describe my week-end.
In the bleak mid-winter — that just about describes today (I know, it isn’t even winter, yet!). It was dark and cold with a few snow flurries. I didn’t have time to sit by my happy light as I had to be at church early to help with the Art’s Commission ministry fair.
Yesterday morning, I had an appointment to get my hair colored and cut. I thought I said that I wanted it a little shorter. She started snipping away and the next thing I knew, yikes!, it is really short. Short would be okay, if it were a decent haircut. If I get brave, I will try to take a photo so you can see. The worst part was that Mr C couldn’t hide his dislike of it. Oh well, it will grow, won’t it? In the meantime, maybe I will just wear a bag over my head.
I feel like such a klutz. I have fallen twice in two days, both times, I was carrying my coffee travel mug. Yesterday, when I came home from my bad haircut, I slipped on the mail that was on the floor because it had been slipped through the mail slot. I hit the floor like a ton of bricks. Today, while rushing in to church with my coffee in my hand and wearing high heels, I caught my shoe in my pants leg and down I went on the concrete steps, but, I did not spill my coffee. So, tonight, I am feeling a little stiff on the left side of my body. It is a god thing that I have strong bones.
Last night, we attended the Baroque Christmas concert at Trinity. It is such a beautiful experience. I love Baroque music. The musicians and singers come from Europe, Canada and the US. The musicians play authentic Baroque instruments — recorders, flutes, harpsichord and strings. My favorite part of the concert was a section of a Christmas Cantata by Bach, sung in German. After the concert, they served Wassail and cookies.
This afternoon, I finished another dupioni table runner, and started blocks for more, using my Christmas fabrics. I still have to do the bindings on both. If I had enough to do a bias stripe, Imight try it. I liked Diane’s idea of using just a bit of the stripe. Instead, I will do a matching binding.
I made a boo boo on this one. The center block has the same fabric on the outside that I used in the border which looked weird when I put it all together. I tried to remedy the situation by doing some fancy stitching on it.
I used the same red metallic thread that I used in the quilting. I am not sure if it works; it looks better in person.
I want to make one more in dupioni, but decided to start on the Christmas fabric, for a change of pace.
I am doing production work, making several blocks at a time with strip piecing.
So there you have it — my week-end.
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