Design Wall Monday 7-25-11

Another week has flown by ... and I got a lot done this week.  Here's what's on the design bed... well, not really, I carefully picked up the blocks so I could move them to the design wall when it is empty.  Which should be soon as I can take down the quilt on it as it is all pieced.   I showed a different lay out last week but decided I like a straight set rather than on point. Visit other design walls at Patchwork Times. 

 Saturday Pat had to drive to Stanton, Va to do an interview. (He's the human resources weenie, as he calls himself.)  It's a two hour drive so he asked me to come with him.  And, the enticement was Rachel's Quilt Patch.

The shop is housed in the old train depot.  It looked like it might have been a big quilt store based on how many doors were leading into it.  Except, once inside I realized there were doors for the "old" space and the new space.  I guess they've moved from the space at the left to the space at the right. I enjoyed my time there and bought too many yards of fabric.  I was looking for new white on white.  And, yahoo! they had a couple of P&B whites.  And, they were reasonably priced and I had a discount coupon.  Yee HAW!  I bought 4 yds of wow, a half yard of lime green that goes with a fat quarter I got at the preview party at Quilter's Corner last week and a fat quarter with wine corks on it.  


But it only took me 30 minutes or so and Pat thought he'd be 2 hours in the interview.  Bummer.  What to do.  I drove over to the local Staples to buy ink cartridges for the printer.  Then because it was so hot and I didn't want to walk around the cute stores downtown, I drove around town.  It is a charming little town.  Mary Baldwin College is there along with Woodrow Wilson's Presidential Library.  There were also metal statues in various places around town.  This watering can was the only one I could take a picture. And darn the sign is blocking part of it. 

Pat thought you would all enjoy a photo of a train engine with its cover off.  (Nod your heads in agreement, honestly you don't see this everyday.)  Here's one of Buckingham Branch Rail Road's engines being repaired.  Hum, take the cover off and you see a lot of grey metal.

Goals for week of 7/18/11

Put the borders on Chunky Churn Dash√

Figure out the backing for Chunky…√

Sew rows together of Winter Rail Fence √

Figure out the backing for Winter Rail Fence. Picked, not cut.

Quilt:     Double Bow Tie√

            2^nd Quilts for Kids Quilt

Cut √ and sew together Disappearing 9 Patch

Begin looking for mom of the groom dress… ugh not my favorite thing to do but …       looked in catalogs… blah√

Take Raggs in for teeth cleaning. √

Make blocks for quilt Jenny and I are making together.√

Put a border on charity round robin quilt from the FCQ Equilters.

Goals for week of 7/25/11

Quilt Jennie the Baker’s quilt

Finish Quilting Charity Quilt

Quilt      Chunky Churn Dash

            Winter Rail Fence

Bind      Chunky Churn Dash

            Winter Rail Fence

            Double Bow Tie

Sew the Disappearing 9 Patch blocks together

Piece the quilt Jenny & I are making

Plan a border for charity round robin quilt from the FCQ Equilters.

Raggs got his teeth cleaned last week along with a couple of polyps removed from his ears.  Yikes, poor doggy.  They removed 5 of his teeth also.  I need to figure out how to brush his teeth so he doesn't lose any more of his chompers.  Although he was surprised when he tried to eat his kibble the next day the missing teeth don't seem to bother him at all.  
Happy Quilting All!