Weigh in: What are the best and worst gifts for people with breast cancer?
Share with us: What are your proudest moments of 2024 and personal goals for 2025?
Take our poll: How are you feeling as we near the New Year?

Stitching the pieces together

1…2324262829…131

Comments

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited July 2011

    Meece that is just pain gorgeous!!!  The room looks like it belongs in a magazine!

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited July 2011

    Thank you.  The room really turned out so cute.  I found some cute fabrics to use.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited July 2011

    Meece that combination of colours is lovely and the monkey motive is just perfect for a little boy! 

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited July 2011

    Very sweet!! How are the dogs??????

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited July 2011

    All the dogs are doing fine.  They are somewhat interested in the new little "pup" in the house, but all in all they check him out then go about their business.

    We drove around the fire ravaged area on Sunday.  Although some streets were still closed, we were amazed at how the fire had jumped around due to the winds.  Yes, many people lost their homes, but the firefighters did a great job saving so many of them.  Some houses looked untouched (I am sure they are filled with soot and smoke) but the fire had at one time completely surrounded them.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited July 2011

    Thank God!!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited July 2011

    Here is my latest quilt - I still need to tie it and put the binding on.

     

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited July 2011

    Jo, that looks really interesting, but can you take a pic full on so we can see the pattern and colors properly?  Ta very muchly...lol

    Love n hugs.  Chrissy

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited July 2011

    I will try and get a picture of part of it so you can see the pattern and colors better.  This quilt turned out bigger than I thought,  I was a new pattern that I had to try.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited July 2011

    I can see it's big!...lol but it looks good from what I can see.  I must get off this computer and into some sewing.....lol....I spend way more time on here than I probably should and all my projects are unfinished!!!    I will get them.....one day.....lol

    I look forward to seeing the pattern and colors.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited July 2011

    I will get something on here later today - am at work right now and probably should be doing work instead of on here - LOL

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited July 2011

    I'm off to bed soon so I'll see it in the morning.....it's 11.00pm here and for once I'm starting to yawn early!   YAY!!!!!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited July 2011

    Ta Da!!! My craft room isn't organized and I'm not going to do it until we get the new flooring (laminate) down. No sense setting it up twice!!

    So...my daughters 28th birthday is coming up and I just don't want to give her a gift certificate or something for the house. So I actually found, in all  my mess, a quilt top that she made as a wall hanging in one of the classes when I had my store! I am going to back it, quilt it and present it to her. I think that is so cool? Don't you? She did it about 9 years ago!!! Now she is married, has her own house and her own child. I'm hoping it will give her a great sense of achievement. I'm sure she thinks I lost it when I dismantled my store.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605
    edited July 2011

    Oh, the ta da part was that I got DH to bring down my machine and ironing board so I can work on the diningroom table. Now I just have to find the right feet, my iron, the right colour thread, my cutting board and blade, oh and the ruler and.....sigh.

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited July 2011

    LOL Barbe........your sewing experiences are sounding like mine at the moment.  The idea for your DD's birthday is a fabulous one and I'm sure she will appreciate it.  She has probably forgotten about the top all together so I can imagine the look on her face as she opens her parcel......priceless I would guess.  Don't forget to get some pics!!!!

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited July 2011

    Barbe - What a great idea - your DD is going to be so surprised when she sees it.  Don't forget to post a pic or two of it before you wrap it up.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited July 2011

    Here is a better pic of my latest quilt.  Ignore the safety pins - I haven't had a chance to baste it yet.

                             

  • chrissyb
    chrissyb Member Posts: 11,438
    edited July 2011

    Jo that is soooo nice!!!  Well done!!!!

  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 765
    edited July 2011

    Jo that is very pretty. and Barbe, your dd will love the wall hanging. 

    I am not quilting right now. I am crocheting cotton yarn roll brim hats for the chemo patients. My mom's cousin Donna passed away last year suddenly from a stroke and she was a 'yarnaholic'. When ever she went to town, she insisted on going by 'Wertz 5&10' to purchase more yarn. She had 8-10 large storage totes of yarn some of it cotton and some of it acrylic. Her family gave it to my aunt to do with as she sees fit. My aunt works with a charity group that knits/crochets for homeless and disadvantaged families. I was able to get some of the cotton yarn for my chemo cap project (enough to make 25-30 hats). I modified a pattern I found on Lion Brand and shared it with her knitting hearts group. They will also be making chemo caps for their area (ohio). While I was on vacation with my parents, I was able to make 8 hats and I have several ladies in my area wanting to learn how to make the hats as well.

    Sheila 

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited July 2011

    Sheila - What a wonderful idea.  I used to crochet hats for premee babies and take bags full at a time.  I could do several in a dayy.

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited July 2011

    Wow!  It's great to see you ladies haven't being idle!  I have been spending a lot of time gardening.  After five years in this house, we finally put in a permanent automatic sprinkler system in the backyard so I will need to spend less time just watering and can use the time on other fun suff, such as caring for the plants and sewing!

  • anumacha
    anumacha Member Posts: 61
    edited July 2011

    I dont know why I didnt find this board earlier. From the time I was diagnosed until I went to work fullt ime I was doing chemo caps, ice bag covers for tiney ice pouches to tie to the bra strap, and hand sewing MX arm pillows...I still have a bag to drop off, but it is an hour away and I only got to the ONC now. ONC group does a positive counseling thing on FRI afternoons so I sent lots of earrings - I have given hand made ones from my shop to a church to raise money and the rest went to cancer ladies who needed cheering up.I had a tub of baby yarn so the afghans last yr went to Catholic  Charities baby wellness group. Now I am working on simple bed jackets -sis took one and small afghan for her time in the recliner, neice has one too now. They are so simple to knit (just tired of crocheting) and they are just a rectangle with split front panels - I bought one at a sale for $2 and made granny squares for another one then crocheted a few...these will probably made to the ONC office in different colors for the women and men that go there.

    I have trouble concentrating so school work is on hold for a while. Ok, I cannot blame this on chemo brain - I found fancy yarn I forgot I had in tubs when I moved. My sewing machine is circa 1960 but works and I have a tiney light wt one but I have not sewn in years. My neighbor's mom got one 2 yrs ago maybe I need to set up camp with her and get her sewing- rt now she does huge granny square afghans. I gave her one for their couch and it was something she could do before cataract surgery- now she hasd made 15 in 2 years plus she does those knitting looms - maybe like 20 hats and scarfs plus several shawls.. We are going to do hats for the local grade school this fall. She is 73 and can spend the whole day in her chair with the Tv on and cant remember anything, so I started her crocheting...her sons live with her are both in their 50s and go buy yarn or drag her to a craft shop to pick colors! I am so bad I have corrupted her in to hoarding yarn! But she feels better, is cooking again and getting out.

    My garden is organic & between rain and heat I dont spend much time there. It has been too hot for my lawn guy ?& I told him to do it when this heat wave is gone. I only put the a/c in the bedroom this yr...the other one does 3 rooms but i cannot lift it. I have rescue cats...I have the ongoing hair puffs and hairballs glad i have all tile! Now if they could sweep n mop we would have it made!

  • Meece
    Meece Member Posts: 10,618
    edited July 2011

    Wow, Anumacha, you are one busy and giving woman!  I am impressed!  That is so nice that you have helped your neighbor's mom be productive.  Thank you for joining us here!  We'd love to see some pictures!

  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 765
    edited July 2011

    Welcome Anumacha! Glad to hear all that you are doing for the commumity. I am currently unemployed and having fun making things to give away. I am also working on quilted pocketbooks for my church's bazaar this fall. And I don't think it is considered yarn hording if she is actually doing something with the yarn.  

    Sheila 

  • anumacha
    anumacha Member Posts: 61
    edited July 2011

    my sis crochets on and off...I might have several projects going but I will get them done. I donated for a friends church roof and candle/flower fund - I do not donate to them anymore because they were quite rude about the crosses being handmade I ran out of my supplies and had to substitute stiffener and beads- no they were not the same and I did not ask them to buy or give supplies. "Well they dont look the same and people will be upset " Then I had to hear about all the earrings I make are for pierced ears, and why didnt I have more crystal ones and on & on. I never went back, never gave them things to fund their causes and never got a Thank You so I donate to folks who need something to brighten a day! Quiting should count...I just hand stitch the quilt a friend gave me, so it needs hung up it is fan pattern and I would share pics but the stuff flies out if here as soon as it is done! at is chewing speaker wires and keeps checking for a movie or treats... i hid their tin again...bad momma!

  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 765
    edited July 2011

    anumacha, you wrote about how old your sewing machine is, my mom has a circa 1940's Singer Featherweight that she takes to quilt classes but her main machine is even older, a singer/white Treadle machine. She actually has 2 treadles, one she inherated from her mother in law and one she purchased at a yard sale in 1976 at a yard sale for $50. She has tried other machines for her everyday quilting but always goes back to the treadle.

     My quilt guild is making comfort quilts for a local children's advocacy program to give to the children when they come in after suspected abuse. the guild has made about 80 so far, we will continue making them. Last year there were about 140 cases of abuse in my county and we want each child to have their own quilt to show that someone loves them.

    Sheila 

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited July 2011

    Sheila - What a nice gesture to make comfort quilts for the children.  I have made them for children down here than barely have enough to eat and it can get cold down here in the winter - especialy if there is no heat in the house.  I have also been known to crochet hats for newborns.  I would make a whole bunch of them and then drop them off at the hospitals.

  • apple
    apple Member Posts: 1,466
    edited July 2011

    I am not a quilter.. maybe someday.  I though you'd enjoy seeing this quilt my brother found in his house.. the owner's said they didn't want it and he gave it to me 'because I liked colors'.

  • jo1955
    jo1955 Member Posts: 7,545
    edited July 2011

    Mary - That is absolutely beautiful.  I love all the colors - someone put a lot of time into making that quilt. Thanks so much for sharing.

  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 765
    edited July 2011

    Apple it is gorgeous! I can't imagine someone not wanting to keep it.

    Sheila 

Categories

Join Us on Zoom: Upcoming virtual meetups. Read more...
Give your account some personality! Add a profile photo.