Archive for February, 2008

The closing went well and now Chris and Becky own my house. It’s odd because I haven’t been here in a year but have so many memories of our time here.

I fly home tomorrow and on Sunday, Keith and I are looking at a couple townhouses. We’ve been watching ones that come up for sale in a particular community downtown and if we find the right one, we’ll move earlier than planned.

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Chris and Becky worked today so I spent most of it reading quietly. Chris got home in the early afternoon so I talked him into taking me to the local quilt shop – Tiny Stitches. I just happened to see Melinda there and had a chance to catch up a little with what was going on with the East Cobb Quilt Guild.

By the way, the ECQG is hosting Bonnie in a couple weeks – too bad that our visits didn’t coincide!

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Usually I post a message that says I’m leaving but I guess I missed it this time (although I did mention an upcoming trip to GA).

I’m in Marietta visiting the boys and my DIL and I’ll sign the closing papers tomorrow for the Marietta house. It’s rather strange to be a guest in my own house and it will be even stranger tomorrow when the kids will actually own it. They’ve lived here a year and have kept the house looking really nice. They’ve spent more time *decorating* than I did in the almost 5 years we were here.

Travel time means lots of reading time…check out my bookshelf to see what I’ve been reading on my Kindle.

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How fun is this? After seeing a donation quilt I had attached a stuffed animal to (from the Pajama Quilter DVD), Norece and her Mom wrote and offered to send me more beanies from TN. Between these and others I received from Dawn and Fran, I’ll have plenty to add to donation quilts for at least a couple years!

Here’s the finished HeartStrings quilt – it’s been bound, labeled, washed, and is packed to send off to Fran who is collecting quilts for a group of soldiers returning from Iraq. This top was pieced by Sue Frank from blocks donated to the HeartStrings Quilt Project. Since it was here waiting for me to finish it at the beginning of the year, it does count as a completed UFO. I’m glad to have one more done!

I know I show lots of HeartString quilts on my blog but I can’t tell you how much I love being a part of this group that is making and donating quilts to so many individuals in need, charitable organizations, and those injured or serving in our military.

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While I’m making progress quilting donated tops for HeartStrings, I don’t seem to be using any of my stash this week. I did finish quilting 3 tops but other than a couple postcards no stash was used. Luckily, I didn’t add any this week either.

Haven’t done any piecing in a week or two and I’m missing it. I’ve still got blocks on the design wall to be assembled, a quick strippie cut out and ready to be pieced, and too many projects in my head to count.

By the way, I’m loving my Kindle Reader more every day. I’ve got several books waiting to be read but instead of purchasing them ahead of time like I normally do, I’ve just downloaded the sample – that way I don’t pay until I’m ready to read it but I don’t forget that it’s one I want to read.

Last night in bed, I finished one book, read the sample download for a new book and within a minute or less had the rest of the book downloaded and I was able to continue reading it. There’s nothing like immediate gratification!

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I learned a lesson or two on this first card… one being to make sure I have enough beads. I didn’t have enough of the red ones to go all the way around but found one that looked similar. Since it’s on the (L) side of the key I don’t think its too obvious (and even if it was, I’m not taking it out!).

The second one is a simple one I made tonight. I must be a little brain dead because I felt it was too plain but couldn’t think of what else I could do. Rather than risk *ruining* it – I decided to just stop and consider it done.

I think my favorite one of the five I made was the one Deb and I sent to Mom.

I got the postcard Deb sent me in the mail yesterday – it’s very cute!

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Thanks for the compliments on my quilting on the RWB top. I appreciate you all taking the time to write and reassure me that it looks OK.

I’m heading to GA next Wednesday to close on our Marietta house. Chris and Becky’s loan came through and they’re going to buy it from us with a little help. I’ll get to see both of them and Adam so I’m excited.

In the meantime, I’d like to accomplish the following before leaving.

• Finish the quilting on the Blue/Yellow string top on the machine (pieced by Nancy in CT and her group).
• Put the binding on the RWB and one of the coins quilts so I can work on stitching them down by hand.
• Load and quilt the top sent to me by Nann for quilting.
• Make one more Valentine postcard.

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