Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.

As school starts to come to a close, with so much to do, my craving to sew gets stronger and stronger, a craving that has to be satisfied.  Because I've been so busy, I have gotten behind on some of my BOMs.  Friday was all about going through applications for students who have applied for scholarships, That took from 3:00 till 6:15.  But it's done.  Not including the the three hours of review before the meeting.  That left me exhausted on Friday night, and no time for sewing. This Saturday was my catch up day.  I went out with a friend, had a great day around Fort Langley.  It's north of Langley, right by the Fraser River (which by the way is now receding, thank goodness.). There was a fort at one time (there is still a walk to the area) but they moved it in the town, and you can pay to enter it, it's huge.  It shows realistically what living in the fort was like.  It's well worth the trip for that alone.  But there is so much more to do, including tons of ant

I forgot to blog about a quilt that I finished about two weeks ago and have already shown my quilt.  It was touch and go to finish this one.  I got the pattern and material in 2015 from a shop that was suppose to teach me how to do the wool (I just loved the pattern), and they closed.  A wonderful shop in Fort Langley.  It seems all the small quilt stores are closing, and that's too bad.  Quilting hopefully is not a dead art.  With Quilt Con coming here in Vancouver  it will  certainly revive the art otherwise.   Anyways, here's the one that I was missing, and this is on my   2018 Finish list  (#1 on the list) and also on my American Patchwork and Quilting List .  I need to catch up on that one, as well as keep up with a quilt a month on the 2018 list.  But I love a challenge.  So without further waiting here's the quilt for my cousin Garette and his wife Carol.   They will have to pick it up at my Aunt's house in Manitoba.  My cousin lives in Ohio, and it

Actually it's been a busy weekend, but what else is new about that!!!!  One good thing about being ADHD I get a lot done.  For those of you that don't really know what ADHD is it's  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder which  affects children and teens and can continue into adulthood.  Usually it's hereditary.  My father was like that and so was my older brother.  ADHD  is the most commonly diagnosed disorder of children. People with ADHD can  be hyperactive and unable control their impulses'm honest to being blunt, and talk really fast, to the point of missing words.  Knowing me is knowing how to fill in the blanks when talking to me  :)   Luckily I have great friends.  I do get side tracked easily, and can't read a book but I can read 3 books at a time and not mix them up and I can't do a repetitive pattern but I can do more than one quilt with each having a repetitive pattern, so I don't get bored easily, and YES I get  bored really easily, thus

 UPDATED! Joining another group that I was part of previously.   I make a list, filling out their form (see below), they call a number once a month, and you try to keep up.  So, because I started this month, I need to start work on their last one which for May the number 6 was drawn.  that means you do what you listed in section 6 - the Green Wool Flowers.  Everything in yellow is what I also need to catch up on.  After next weekend I'll say a status for each one so I can do more than one.  Some are partly done.  It motivated me last year, lets hope it does it again this year. Come join, their is a facebook group that is supportive as well in this endeavor. THE TWENTY EIGHTEEN ufo challenge   AMERICAN PATCHWORK & QUILTING PROJECT STATUS BEFORE STATUS AFTER 1 Pat Sloans BOM Have about 55 to go out of 100.   Need to step it up 2

Got to get this done fast, and considering my busy schedule, I'll be lucky to get it in - have 3 hours to do so.... It's easy to decide which of my UFOs to do this month, because my husband is complaining about how we only have one door for the quilted barn doors made and you can see into my sewing room. I never got around to the second one. This weekend I got around to cutting out the rest of the strips, and making a few more curves using the Sew Easy Curved ruler (I love that thing and considering I can't do a curve without it - it's worth it's weight in gold), and I'll be on my way.  But the quilting in the first one is going to kill me, so I'll need the time to do the leaf quilting on the leaves and the spirals on the rest.  It will be at least two more weekends for me.   Hooking up to OMG (One Monthly Goal) at Elm Street Quilts.