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A love for IKEA

Well no Friday Finish ... I didn't finish the top like I was hoping to do. I do have all the blocks now completed ready to assemble Here where I live in northeast Oklahoma the closest IKEA to me is in Dallas Texas. And that is approximately a 6 hour drive from here. Being so far I have to admit I have never just gone to Dallas to go to IKEA. But when I drive to California, I make a point of going to the IKEA near my daughters house.  Now my interior design is not considered modern, I like the Arts and Crafts style of the early1900s. But I always fine lots of goodies when I do go to IKEA.  I found some neat things to use in the sewing room.  And some utensils to use in the kitchen. Here are some pictures of what I found and came home with All for the sewing room Kitchen Cool box for newspapers Runner for side board The white containers under the bed, love them... cause they hold some much and fi

A Little Progress

It's the same story, hot and humid. In fact its a little more intense but the weather is to change this weekend and I'm looking forward to spending more than just an hour or two outside. But while I'm stuck inside, I am taking this opportunity to getting a little progress on a few projects. The second Ruby's garden is almost ready to assemble. Lacking just 8 of the smaller outer blocks.  Now by making the center unit in the alternate block lighter sure gives it a different look. I like it but at first I didn't. I liked how the first one turned out but this started to grow on me while I was adding block up on the wall. My plan is to get this one finished tomorrow... making it maybe my Friday Finish. I spent some time today quilting. Was able to watch 2 more episodes of Mr. Selfridge. I was thinking that I probably get more done if I wasn't looking up all the time watching TV. Finished this portion  and this pa

Finially some hand quilting

I told myself this morning that seeing how it was going to be so blasted hot and humid... humidity at 84% right now.... that I would just take a break today and not do anything but water my seeds and come back in.  Can I do that!!!! Oh no, took my walk and planted some herbs and lettuce. It's like once I get outside I just can't stop, Not until the heat gets to me and I'm almost falling over. Which a day like today wouldn't take very long. So after a shower and lunch I spent the afternoon quilting. I've been trying to do a little each day but sometime that just doesn't happen. Today I spent a good part of the day quilting and watched a few episodes of Mr  Selfridge. I'm now on season 2 and enjoying every one of them. I was able to finish this part and moved my hoop and completed this part. And now I'm on to this part.  I'm over halfway done,  this half is completed and this half i

One down, three to go

I have the first of 4, of the Ruby's Gardens done and the fabric picked out for the next one. It has been so stinking hot that I do not dare go outside after I come in from working in the garden. By then I am heated and tired and just want to hibernate inside. I had no intentions to work in the garden this morning seeing how it was near 80 at 7:00, other than watering the new seeds planted but this one bed has been driving me nuts since I've been home.  My garden and that beds looked like this 6 weeks ago before I left  As you can see I had planted cabbage in this bed.  Now my garden looks like a jungle. I made it through only weeding half the bed before I got overheated. I wanted to get it all gone but it was just too hot and this was before 9:00. I just can't work out in this heat like I use to. I had harvested 5 heads cabbage and meant to get to the others before the rain hit last week.   But I put it off and now my cro

It's Monday what's up

sorry it's blurry, not sure why Up on my design wall this morning is the first of the four Rubys Garden quilts  I worked on it a little Saturday and finished all the alternate blocks and now I'm ready to sew them together.... I think it looks really sweet.  This one is going to be for my youngest daughter who loves pink At one time I was auditioning different fabric for the outer border.  But as you can see from the pictures I think I'll go with just the background fabric,... that one looks the best I like to take photos of the quilts on the wall because by looking at a pictures I get a better perspective of how all the colors and fabrics blend together, seeing what works and what doesn't work. My goal for the day is to finish assembling this top and then deciding on which fabrics I will use for the next set of embroidered blocks. Each one will be made from different fabric. Even though it was 75° this morning at  6 AM. I

My Friday Finish

  My finish for the week was the Thangles sampler that I started way back and can now cross it off my list.  I learned from this quilt is I am not a Thangles girl. But I did like the fact of taking a strip and being able to mark, sew and trim away to get your HST One of the best part is that I used only fabric from my stash. I do not have a lot of batiks but from the few I had, the one seen here for the alternate blocks work out perfect. I couldn't of picked out one better. I had also had set aside for another project the dark brown that I used to seperate the blocks from the border. The pictures are not very good, at the time I took these we were being drench in rain and the natural light was poor. The quilt measures 67x54 Linking up with  crazy mom quilts Sarah at  confessions of a fabric addict

Update on my Straw bale Garden

I want to share an update on my straw bale garden experiment. I hadn't planted anything before I left to go to California last month. I was afraid it was going to be hot and dry and no one to tend to the bales. Boy was I wrong, we had a record amount of rain and cool weather while I was gone. My bales were perfect for starting a garden. They were well into the composting phase of their development and ready to plant. Last week I planted pumpkins, a climbing butternut squash and some cucumbers. I planted vines variety because my bales are next to the fence and I figured I would take advantage of it As you can see they all came up so beautifully except for some older pumpkin seeds that I went ahead and planted.... being very doubtful they would even come up.  So I'll need to replant something in that spot As you can see from this photo I have some weeding to do around my bales. weeds find any crevice to grow. After I do that,