one quick thing.....

These are travel tissue covers....keeps the kleenex safe and clean in your bag or purse.

I made four of them yesterday. 

They are the cutest little things....and so dang simple to make!

I first saw them here at vesuviusmama's blog and really like them.

Erin found them HERE and made up a bunch.

I think they will make the perfect little gift 

and I will be sure to keep at least one for myself!!!

the baby, the zombie, and I'm not sure......

It is hard sharing the camera with Crispy, he always has it with him for school. It is never available when I want it...but it is finally back in my hands, for now!

All the northwind blocks are sewn together and the name is started. The letters are from a piece of tie-dyed looking fabric. I love the way they look. I may use it for borders too.

Center is complete....the second round will be this check fabric cut just so.

And then the final border will be some shade of orange. Exactly what orange hasn't been determined yet.... It is time to go shopping for it.

I am not sure about these. I made them up thinking they would work for a baby quilt. I need more made.

Right now it is sorta boring to me. Colors....it needs more colors.

One more thing, my baby turns 18 tomorrow. Sigh. 

I am really not that old. I had him when I was about 10.

feels like forever.....

I have been SLOWLY getting filler put together. Seems like it is taking forever.

I had 2 days worth of jury duty last week, that  slowed me down. We voted NOT guilty in an assault case....very interesting to be on a jury. It was my third time over the years. 

There will be a quilt show during out town's Fall Festival on Nov. 5th. I was asked to put some quilts in it, along with a bunch of other local quilters. So.... I have been putting binding on quilts, the geocaching one and the Live Laugh Love Learn quilt. Just the motivation I needed to finish them.

We can make up to 9 blocks for blocklotto I managed to get 3 electric fan blocks sewn.

When I went out to Crispy's car to get the camera, I snapped a Fall photo. The wind was from the NW (cold) and the clouds were dark blue.

We had very light flurries one morning, other wise no snow yet. It has really been very nice for the last few weeks. Warm days, cold nights and not much rain.

I must sew big.......

I am tired of trying to squish it all in.

 I have made a decision. 

My words just come out bigger than what I picture in my mind. SO...I will stop fighting this and work with it. Instead of wall hanging size, this will be lap or nap size when it is done. 

so who died? the zombie will be thinking about.....

Poor old Barry M. Deep

The wording for the gravestone came from some Halloween scrapbook stickers. 

I am off to start adding filler to this, soon I will have a center. Then I will think about the border.

When ever I think filler, Michael Jackson's song THRILLER starts playing in my mind. 

one stage done.....

so far, so good

they aren't sewn together yet, just laid out rather quickly for a picture

I plan on putting the baby's first and middle name along the top and the last name along the bottom.

And some more border around everything.

Now, it is back to Zombie sewing.

zombie started....

He is started. I got this far last night and stopped.

I still need words and a pieced pumpkin for the bottom right corner.

Some of the big chunks of purple can be chopped off to make room for words.

I need Jacob to do some more thinking.

My ideas so far.....

1. mom always said there'd be days like this

2. that'll leave a mark

3. sounds...not sure on spelling yet. Ida had aaaauuurrrgggghhh.

baby quilt and the quilt show....

I bought a scrap bag of cherrywood fabrics last year at the quilt show. It was time to cut it up and start a baby quilt. The block is called Northwind and these finish at 6 inches. I want 36 blocks. 

Not quite half way there yet. I am supplementing it with other fabrics to make it go further, the orange, light  blue and pink. 

Nothing was reaching out and grabbing us at the quilt show. It seemed like there were less vendors.

Both Karen and I found some fabric though.

Skeletons, tractors and animals for me.

Karen was in a beer and music mood.

We were also looking at fabric with circles....for zombie eyeballs. I debated about all these circles and decided I didn't need them. But Karen liked them enough to get them.

  Outside, down these steps is a geocache. This is the third year that I have ventured down there to look for the cache. I could never find it.

that changed this year....

Me with two of my favorite finds this year, the book and cache.

Actually it was Karen who found it!!! If I had known she would be such a good geocacher, I would have dragged her out there 2 years ago! (maybe I have, I don't remember for sure)
She didn't do any happy dances,
 but there was excitement in her voice when she announced that she had it found it.
It was a good day in Des Moines at the quilt show.