Tuesday rambles

I whipped up a few potholders and oven mitts today to send off for a fundraiser for little buddy Owen...

That's one thing off the list!

I think I might need to make a quilt out of the scraps I used for these. they look so darn cute.

Oh! And the Nothing But Kisses quilt Auction (click here)ends today!!! Get over there and bid! Someone is going to get a great quilt for not a lot of money...

Trying to get this Stacked quilt done... It's a king size! I'm sort of dreading quilting it...


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On a different note, Mary over at Mary Quilts asked whether you dye your hair or not last week, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it...

Recently a friend sent me this picture on the Left. It's me 15 years ago.
I had just moved to NYC,and I shaved my head. Yep. A Britney Spears moment... new place, new look, new start...(and it just felt so good!)
Hair is such baggage! Highly over rated.

Now that it's getting hot again, I get tempted to cut it off again AND maybe be able to stop dyeing my hair, and let it be my natural (the gray steak in my hair on the right pic)
My hairdresser swears I will hate it and look old. But i like the idea of being young, gray and hopefully peppered with a little bit of wisdom. A Georgia O'Keefe sort of look. Happy with the way I am look.

I mentioned this to my daughter and she broke down in tears...
SOBS... huge sobs.

Even though I looked like this for the first 6 years of her life... She now only thinks of me with my Long hair... And does NOT want me to do this...

I'm always cutting, coloring, doing funky things to it...mohawks, spikes, long short, shag, pink, blue etc...

I've never been one to be controlled by my hair... It's not who I am.

(Although I have many friends who admit their hair is who they are...)

this baffles me.

So the only thing that is stopping me is my daughter...
(Boy, is that co-dependent!)

Any advice out there from you other moms??

My mother will have a good ol' hoot over that one. I know I did the same to her...

So what'll I do...

That mommy guilt so much harder to deal with...

It's just hair!!!

to do

Today's inspiration. Matisse! Reds, and prints, and
beautiful women wrapped in gold...
I'll be using these below.

I've been hunting and gathering.... my pile is growing!

Now to decide how they will all work together...
Stay tuned! I'm so in love with the Turkey Reds... have you seen these?
The colors are so deep and rich. woohoo!

I don't think B moved from my bed all weekend. We made it ALL WINTER not getting sick, and now, a week apart, she's on cold #2... I've always managed to not get it when my hubby had it, then B, now B again... BUT....

I'm nursing a runny nose, and a foggy head with lots of tea,
so I think I can almost say, I'm sick...
give me a day or two and I will be down for the count... DRAT!
(Love my tea stick, see here.)
(Favorite Jasmine Tea: click Here)

It has a dreadful cough along with it, so I invested in a large bottle of Honey... (the best thing to calm the cough at night)


I have several things I wanted to get finished up this week too! I have the ugly squares that are UFO's from the pile of 16, I had way back.
(Which is down to two, yippee!)
SO I figured I should just get it done. And I know some of you who actually read this, will say, Their not ugly! but for me, they are sort of not my cup of tea... there fore, I do not like them, Sam I am... Donation quilt? perhaps.

I also have been making sketches for new blocks, the ones in the same picture on the right are some of those... But I have no idea if I want to finish them... I might find a funky way to put them into something else...

I have two quilts I'd like to get quilted this week...
this one above, and the grad quilt.
Can you believe since I have no BLACK THREAD, but I have three thread stores on my street, that I can't get myself out to buy some? I get working and I don't leave the loft. Is that a problem? hmmm?....

back at it

oh. It feels good to be back sewing. I've had the grad quilt (above) on my design wall for the whole month, I finally got it together today along with

this other one... This has been percolating in my brain since the beginning of the month...

It's not done yet, but it feels good to be looking at something new... I'm Always trying to figure out how to put my mark on quilts... Using some vintage fabric along with new print and even to throw in a few solids...

It's so nice to be back working and have a nice bright light coming in the studio today...