Tuesday, November 07, 2006

What? No Pictures?

I just looked through all the new entries on bloglines and not one of them was showing pictures. Oh, there were pretty blue boxes with question marks, but no pictures. I didn't want to leave comments until I can see pictures so if you have posted lately and I usually make comments to you, don't worry, I'll be there.

As for me, I spent Saturday buying fabric for members of a birthday club and I found some adorable Christmas fabric that I think I'm going to use in my Gratitude quilt. Sunday, DH and I went to the Patriots/Colts game. Unfortunately for me, the wrong team won and our quarterback had the worst game of his professional career.

I've been slowly working on my Gratitude quilt. I have the strips sewn and cut for the second hour. I haven't trimmed anymore of my HSTs since last week which means I still have half of them to trim. I was going to cut the red for the 25-patch blocks, but it's sitting in my hand piecing kit which is in my car. My car is not here tonight so I can't cut it.

Thanks for all the positive comments about my husband's choice of the red fabric. He kept asking me what everyone was saying and when I told him all of you liked the red he just smiled and said, "I knew it was a good choice." Got to love a man who is confident in his choices.

Tonight I sandwiched two baby quilts. One for my FDIL's sister who gave birth to her second child yesterday morning. The other one is for our friends who are expecting their first child in early December.

This weekend I'll be having my own in-house quilting retreat. DH is going out of town from Thursday until Tuesday. Saturday a friend is coming over and we are going to quilt the day away. I'm excited! Tomorrow night I need to straighten up my quilting room so there is room for us to work. I just need to decide what I want to work on . . . I have a few more inches of binding to do on one quilt, quilting the baby quilt for our friends, work on my birthday quilt or work on my Gratitude quilt. And just in case I want anything else to do I need to make and sew on the binding on my Magic Ribbons quilt. I wish I could sneak in a day off from the office either Friday or Monday, but I can't do that. I do have to take next Friday off because our big screen TV is not working and I have to work from home while waiting for the repairman. I hope he can fix it. I'm not ready to buy a new TV. Although I wouldn't mind buying a new TV for my quilt room, but that's for another day.

7 comments:

Tracey @ozcountryquiltingmum said...

Yum, uninterrupted quilting time, precious minutes, especially with a friend. I, too, have to go and straighten my sewing room, I've promised to post pics tomorrow and I'm in the middle of 5 big projects!Oops

Patti said...

That's what happened to me also when I was reading new posts. Must have been blogger. If you wait patiently enough and refresh about 6-8 times the picturs will finally come.

Libby said...

Enjoy your 'in house' retreat. Look forward to seeing all that you get done.

Susan said...

Have a great Saturday! What a wonderful day to anticipate. =)

Mary Johnson said...

I don't know why bloglines doesn't show pictures. I find most of the posts don't and I have to go to the individual site to see them. Since I have to go there to comment anyway it's usually not a problem for me but it would be nice if they all popped up in bloglines.

Cynthia said...

hope you enjoy your in-house retreat. Look forward to reading all about.

Marla said...

Enjoy your retreat time. Sounds like a blast!