Happy President's Day

Here is a little quiz for you. I found this on the Farmer's Almanac website. www.farmersalmanac.com Let me know how many you get right before you look at the answers. LOL

1. Who was the only president never to marry?
2. Who was the first president to wear a beard?
3. Who was president for the shortest amount of time?
4. What King became president?
5. From what law school did Abraham Lincoln graduate?
6. Who was the first president born in a log cabin?
7. What three presidents won the Nobel Peace Prize?Give up?

ANSWERS:
1. James Buchanan is the only president who wasn’t married. During his term, his niece, Harriet Lane, played the role of First Lady.
2. Abraham Lincoln was the first president to wear a beard.
3. William Henry Harrison died on his 31st day in office.
4. Born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., Gerald Ford, Jr. became our 28th president and was our first “King” to be elected.
5. Lincoln never attended law school.
6. Andrew Jackson.
7. Theodore Roosevelt in 1960 earned a Noble Peace Prize for his part in helping to end the Russo-Japanese war, and Woodrow Wilson, in 1919 for his efforts in helping create the League of Nations. And former president Jimmy Carter won it in 2002 for his "untiring efforts" over decades to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts and to advance democracy and human rights.

Bargellow Bowl Quilt

On Superbowl Sunday I managed to get my strip sets done for the sew-in. I was coming down with a nasty cold so I have only managed to get two of them cut and resewn so far. I'm finally starting to feel like I might live so I am going to try getting the other two done tomorrow.

I'm really liking it so far. I have another set of strips sewn together made from flannel fat quarters that I purchased from Joann's online a couple of years ago. It should fit a queen sized bed once it is done. Doing this one has made me want to dig them out and get them finished. Once I do I'll post those pictures also.

Anita

New Link

Well, here it is February 2 already. I've added a webring link for the Carolina Crossroads Mystery Quilt to the blog. Now I am waiting to be approved. I haven't started my mystery quilt yet, because the bulk ( and I do mean Bulk) of my fabric is packed preparing for our move sometime this year. I have printed out the directions and can hardly wait to make the quilt. I did manage to uncover some 2.5" strips I had cut before everything was packed so they are ready for tomorrrows Super Bowl sewin. I may start tonight after I get the quilt for my customer done. Speaking of which I guess I'd better go out and do it. Get those machines cleaned, oiled and threaded and lets sew.
Anita

Super Bowl Sunday

I'm thinking I'm going to join the Carolina Crossroads group on Superbowl Sunday and do a mini retreat to make a scrap bargello quilt. If you would like to join in you can go to http://www.quiltville.com/ and find on her website under Free Quilt Patterns on the left side the scrap bargello quilt. You can use the link on this site also. Bonnie gives the directions to make it. Please remember that her patterns are for your use only they are not to reprint, resell, or any other use. The one the quiltvillechat group is doing will be a lap quilt size. It takes 2.5" strips all different kinds work you want to have a mix of light, medium and dark. I will post pictures of mine as I go along. Let me know if you plan to join the fun. We can stay in touch through email on our progress as the day goes on.
Anita

50th Anniversary Quilt

This is a quilt I had in my stash that a customer wanted to have quilted and he and his brothers and sisters could give to their parents for a 50th anniversary gift. I quilted it using the Circle Lord clamshells pattern and made the quilt label with the help of the computer and embroidery/sewing machine. It came out very nice so I hope they like it. I used a cotton/poly batt.

Quilt Bugs

I've decided to post my quilt bugs so that others may enjoy them as much as I do. Back in 1993 I was reading some of the quilting magazines that had piled up and one thing kept popping out at me as I read the articles. At least once and sometimes more often somewhere in the articles of each magazine someone mentioned being bitten by the "Quilt Bug" and a light went off in my brain. I wonder what a quilt bug looks like says I to the cat (no one else was home at the time) and an image began to take shape in my mind. I could hardly wait for someone to get home so I could tell them about my brilliant idea. Needless, to say my very supportive Better Half thought it was a great idea. So it pretty much stayed in the back of my mind for the next couple of years. I wanted to do a Quilt Bug pin, but it was an expensive thing to do. My husband kept after me to get it done so finally with the help of my brother-in-law Richard(the corel draw expert)I came up with my design. I told Richard what I wanted and he made it happen. I managed to do six different Quilt Bugs starting with the first one in 1996. Richard came up with the idea of putting polka dots on the shoes which are hard to see on the pins, but they sure are cute on a larger image. So now my next step is to learn to digitize them so they can be sewn out on an embroidery machine. Then I can have a cd to market with the current designs and anything new I come up with for people to embroider onto whatever they would like. That is one of my projects to work on this year besides moving. So let me know what you think of my Quilt Bugs.

Anita

Check this out!

I am a Canna What Flower Are You?

Today as I was looking around the web I thought I'd check out one of my favorite sites for quilting ideas and food for thought. If you'd like to see this site go to www.quiltville.com . I first became aware of Bonnie Hunter several years ago when she lived in Burley, Idaho and belonged to the same longarm list I did. I lurked she posted. One of her posts was about her trip back to Burley from the Sister's Oregon quilt show and the things that happened to her on that trip. I laughed myself silly even though I could relate. I saved her post, but when my computer crashed in 2003 it was lost. I wish I'd saved it to disk so I could read it occasionaly. Anyway, over the years I have gone to her website every so often to see what she is up to and what quilts she is making. She is really into scrappy quilts which are some of my favorite quilts also. She is currently doing a mystery quilt using scraps. Since most of my fabrics are packed awaiting our move (to the Rupert/Burley area) I have been printing out the instructions so I can do this at a later date. Anyway, if you get some time check out Bonnie's website and her blog maybe like me you will find yourself dropping in from time to time to see what she is up to now. Have a good evening.

Anita