My Life as a Quilter: Look what came in the mail

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Look what came in the mail

Yesterday I received quite a few packages. I've been waiting for these for a couple of weeks and they finally arrived at the same time.
Here is my fat quarter bundle of "Fly a Kit" Afternoon Delight by Riley Blake Designs...

It's so darn cute. I don't want to open up the bundle of fat quarters yet, but I pulled out the top one and saw this fabric with a little boy flying a kit and a little girl swinging. Love it!
Then I received two yards of from the same fabric line of this...

I always buy yardage for sashing and/or binding. Next I bought 5 yards of the same fabric line to possibly use for borders or if the quilt is the right size, I could use it for backing. I love this fabric!

I also bought a large cone of Gutterman thread. I have some in white and my sewing machine loves the Gutterman but really loves the cone. So I bought it in grey also. I gave away my heavy duty cone stand to a "People Helping People" store in a nearby town, thinking I would never use it. Well, I'm going to go back there and see if they still have it and buy it back. But, I just set the cone in front of my machine and thread it at the top and it works just fine.
My machine is a Bernina 830 and it is so picky when it comes to thread. I have thread break on me constantly. Even if it doesn't break, my machine will tell me that it has and make me rethread it. Well, when I finally bought this Gutterman cone, not once has it had a break! What a relief. I don't have to start and stop all the time.

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I live in north eastern Oregon in the foothills of Mt. Fanny. We have long, snowy winters and short hot summers. I am married with two grown children who live in the San Juan Islands. My husband is a conductor for the railroad. I was a conductor for the railroad before I decided to stay home and quilt. I quilt most days until I have a "I can't do it anymore" moment and walk away from it for a week or more. But I always come back to quilting. I've made more than 30 quilts in 2 years and have given all but 9 away. I have a son, Cabel, who is 35 and is an Xray technician and the computer guy at the hospital in his town. He has everything going for him. He is excellent with computers, golf, makes apps and makes good money doing it, extremely witty, fun to be around, calls me all the time, very good son, love him so much. My daughter is 31, is a sleep lab tech at the same hospital, married to Joey, has two cats, Dudder and Squeaker. Annie is still my baby. Guess she always will be and she knows it. She is quick witted and makes me laugh till I can't breathe. She loves to read old classic books. Her favorite movie is "Breakfast at Tiffiny's". I once paid her $50 to read "Roots" because I knew she'd love it. After she read it and I paid her (she was in grade school), she said she would have read it for free because it was so good. I paid her to read John Steinbeck also. I'm glad I did. Now she knows good books. I tried forever to get her to read "The Tao of Pooh", even left it at her house, but she refused to read it. I just talked to her and she said she was reading it (1 1/2 years later) and she loved it. It changed my outlook on life. It is like Taoism 101. It's pronounced Dow-ism. It's an easy way to learn the basics about Taoism. Taoism makes life easy. Makes life flow. Lets you walk through life. Read it. It will be a good beginning to learning about Taoism. Taoism is about a way of life, that's all. It makes you happy and makes you enjoy what you have and not want. That's all I'm going to say. But it truly changed me. Piglet has a book out, too. Can't remember the name. I bought it, but haven't read it yet. It's similar in it's teaching, but about a different way of life. They aren't about religion. Get that straight right away. It's about YOUR way of looking at life.

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Look what came in the mail

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