Quilted Jonquil

The new First Saturday BOM, Asian Attitude,  from the Quilted Fox started this month.  Here are the fabrics and patterns for the BOM block and the alternate block.  The solid cream color is a sateen and has such a nice luster.  Guess I’d better get busy!

I’ve been working on curtains with lining for our kitchen window….

boring……

I like the star fabric but the curtains just aren’t working out.  We had blinds previously and we’ll go back to them but maybe add a valance.  The curtains won’t go to waste……we’ll hang them in a bedroom, but we will hang them.

I have a wedding shower to go to in a week and I like to give a gift of my own choosing.  Gift registries are nice but I really like to do my own thing…..  The wedding is in October so I’m making a Halloween table runner    I’m thinking of adding a narrow border of white to set off the colors and then a 2″ border of one of the orange fabrics.  I’ll have to see how it looks.  Maybe I won’t do any borders at all…..I did mention the shower is in a week, right???

Here are some pictures of our newly installed doors.

Sliding Glass door inside….

and out.

Front door inside…..

And out.

And here’s a couple of pictures of my kitties Simontacchi and Casper.

Simontacchi just chillin’

Casper after a hard night attracting all the burrs he could find!  He looks polka dotted

Don’t mind the missing baseboards above…..they’ll be installed soon.

Remember when AOL inundated our mailboxes with CD’s for 1,000’s of hours FREE?  Well, I kind of liked watching the changing look of the packaging, some came on a piece of cardboard with plastic wrap, some came in DVD plastic containers, some in plastic CD holders and some in cool tins.  They always seemed to remind me of other products, in particular the one in the photo below (top middle) that looks like old Tide packaging.  It seemed like such a waste….I remember people sending them to AOL headquarters to make that point.  Anyway, I kept them and my family started giving them to me but not without some ribbing, you can be sure.

Well, guess what?  I’ve found a use for them!!!  Our quilt guild directs a quilt show (more info on this can be found here) and we are making the prize ribbons this year.  This will save us money and make the ribbons unique and, I think, more special.  Anyway, thanks to this tutorial, we have a use for these CD’s.  We needed 46 cd’s and I more than a sufficient quantity

Speaking of waste though, here’s the pile of trash I have after unwrapping all the CD’s

I’ll post pics of the ribbons when we’ve gotten them completed!