Sunday, August 28, 2011

RECONCILING WITH THE FARMER

I left the Farmer eight weeks ago....too busy for him.  This is where we left off
http://retromamaramblings.blogspot.com/2011/06/farmer-and-hell-or-if-everyone-jumped.html

We reconciled over the weekend and here are five more blocks....
Block 7

Block 6

Block 8

Block 10

Block 9


Friday, August 26, 2011

SUMMER SWAPS AND OTHER SUNDRIES

Tom and the kids (not really)
Greetings from Dallas!!!


My Backyard...just kidding (sort of)
We are in the middle of drought and extremely high temperatures.  I feel like loading the RAV4 and heading to California...
During this long, hot summer, I have participated in a few swaps with fellow quilters.  The first swap was the 80's Swap.  Remember the 80's??  My partner surprised me with the best gift, a replica of my Sony Walkman...

I don't know if she realized how much I loved my Walkman.  I mean...you could walk around and listen to music...shocking in 1982!  I took it with me to California in 1984 when I spent six weeks on a friends horse ranch.  I took it with me to Law School where it finally broke..
 Me in my Sony Walkman days...and when I used to exercise!

 
OTHER GOODIES SHE INCLUDED

More Ruby Star Rising fabric


A needle holder

Some of my favorite fabric!

Outside of the needle holder
A retro bag!

An MTV Pincushion!!!!!! I loved my MTV
 THANK YOU SO MUCH PINKBRAIN AND MR. CHICKEN (JEN)....I LOVE IT ALL!


 Then, I participated in another Doll Quilt Swap.  My partner requested colors of orange, aqua and gray.  I came up with two ideas....



Eventually, my finished version looked like this...

Finished quilt...now to bind

Closer view of hand quilting




Bound and ready to mail

My partner has two little girls so finger puppets, Christmas monkey fabric, awesome Christmas book and a Sarah Jane fabric panel






And I received this from my partner....
Isn't this little quilt so cheerful and bright?  I love it!
THANK YOU A GIRL IN PARADISE!  I LOVE IT!
Now...to work on a quilt for a sick little boy and my project for the next DMQG meeting!

Saturday, August 6, 2011

HEAT IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD!

I will not discuss how incredibly hot it is here or how we need rain...instead, here are some snippets of my favorite dancing scenes from favorite movies!  Enjoy Elvis and Ann Margret in Viva Las Vegas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9mdFmnKMI&feature=related

or one of my favorite scenes in Grease (the lyrics are English but the dialogue is in German)....I love John Travolta in this scene....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYSKZkb6Wx8

or this one from Hairspray (James Mardsen and Zac Ephron...hello!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8exH-bRvqEE&feature=related

and the "funky" version in this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlDnSqRv-B0&feature=related


So did you forget about the heat?

Here is a quilt I found at the first of the summer.  It was VERY dirty...but I used this method http://retromamaramblings.blogspot.com/2011/03/lovely-lonestar-clean-at-last.html to clean it.  A practically new quilt....I love it!




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Now I know you've forgotten about the heat!!  My next post is going to be about the gifts I received in my 80's swap...they are fabulous!