Holiday Chicken Blocks Swap---IN THE MAIL!!!

[sewingca]

Hello all - I'm sitting in Mt. Rodney campground next to Sturgis, SD, listening to antique scooters passing me all around. DH just returned on his with a onesie for our DGS. Love this shorthand, but I think it's really more work for me! We are at the National Cushman Motor Scooter meet. We go each year to some part of the US. I brought along my tracing paper and pattern for my Christmas roosters. I think I will have 12 traced before the meet starts tomorrow. My brother is in Florida housesitting doggie, kitties and chickens. The eleben week old baby chicks are hand carried to a pen in the wooded area just to aquaint them with the really mean big girls. He reports that they don't much like the trip, but it is way too hot in the barn to stay there all day. Ok, back to tracing.

Caroline

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Oh wow!! that sounds like it would be so much fun! They had something going on yesterday at the Harley shop over in Gastonia yesterday. All kinds of bikes. The guy who owned the place died last year on his way back from Sturgis. People really liked him. The was a huge procession of bikes at his funeral. They showed clips on the news. We also have Indian Motorcycles being made over in Kings Mountain. They have an awesome dealership in Lowell.

Have fun!!!

 

[My Little Sister's Farm]

My Little Sister's Farm :

OK, I'm posting my timeline so I hold my self more accountable.

Buy, wash, press all fabric by 6/1
Trace patterns and fuse to fabric by 7/1
Cut out all pieces by 8/1
Have all pieces attached to backing by 9/1
Have all appliqueing done by 10/15
Send by 10/20.

I'll keep you posted on my progress.

Well! I have been spending about 15 mins every night for the past 2 weeks working on my pieces. I have completed all of my fabric washing, pattern tracing & fusing, have cut out and ironed all of my pieces to my blocks! I assumed I wouldn't have time, but with the weather being so dreary here on the west coast I wasn't able to be in the garden and didn't want to be in the coop late every night. I am (in theory) 2.5 months ahead of where I thought I'd be. Now I have a long time to do all of the appliqueing. As long as I can do 3 a month I will still come out ahead of schedule. Oh if only every project could be this on track. My new goal will be appliqueing 1 a week, at 15 mins a night that is 1.75 hours a week, if I can't get one done every week there is something wrong with my sewing machine

Keep up the good work all!!!​

 

[CoyoteMagic]

You go girl!! I'm still trying to dig up fabric. The week before I came up with this swap, I had sent most of my Holiday fabrics up to the NC mountain for my annual quilting retreat with a friend and her daughters. We have been doing this now for about 8 or 9 years now. I sent them the fabric so they could cut out the pieces we needed. Now I'm scronging around my scrap bags for tail feathers, lol.

 

[sewingca]

Everything that can be done in a motor home is done. It is raining here! It's really hard to motor scooter around in this cold rain. I just left sunny Florida. I had been in my yard every afternoon and Saturdays. I haven't done one quilting thing! Now - with all this cold rain, I want to be home! 'Course I still wouldn't be quilting - I'd be in the yard!

Anyhoo, I'm seeing friends I only see once a year or so. And, I'm not at work trying to meet deadlines. I am a blessed woman. I just have to remember that sometimes.

Coyote, I have family in SC. On some occasion, I need to bring you fabric scraps for your many worthwhile projects. Also, could you use drapery weight fabrics? I'm sure you shop all those outlets, so that might not be something you can use. When I have spare time, I wash those fabrics and make bibs for my mother-in-law's nursing home in GA.

Love to all, Caroline

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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I used to hate being on vacation when it rained!! A popup camper isn't where you want to have 3 kids ranging from 14-2 and 4 adults for a week!! The camper they have now is 28ft but it still stinks when it rains, lol. We like to go to a campground up on the Chessapeak Bay called Cherrystone. We've been going there for about 36years and have watched it grow from less than 100 sites to over several hundred and cabins to boot!. One year I had cabin fever so bad, I put young nephew in one of those cheap rain ponchos and tied a rope around him so he wouldn't blow off the fishing pier. I swear a couple of times he caught some good air and it was like flying a kite, lol. He's 36 now and still remember that trip, lol.

I would love to have your scraps!! I use just about anything I can get my hands on. Right now I'm working on kennel pads/quilts for our CattleDog rescue. Dogs don't care what its made of, only that it is comfy. I actually use some drapery fabric to make wheelchair and walker bags for one of the nursing home down the road.

 

[saddina]

I'm sorry, but I need to back out. Right now I can't sit up to sew. We don't have a timeline, and I want to give you time to reoffer my spot.

I'm so sorry.

~Saddi

 

[sewingca]

Prayers for you, Saddina.

Caroline

 

[CoyoteMagic]

No problems hun. You need to take care of yourself right now! Keeping you in thoughts and prayers.

 

[sewingca]

We are back in J'ville. It is so warm here which is just lovely. South Dakota was cold and windy! We made good time headed home; my brother was watching chickens, so I got to shop some antique stores. I don't know what this fella was used for, advertisement or just decorative, but he is cast iron and mine! He's about 22" tall and right now, that's the only spot in the house that will hold him.