How long will this cone last?

Yes, I am wondering how long this 33,000 yards of Bottom Line, white thread will last?? This is one color of thread I use on almost all of my quilts? If I am not using "White" I use "Off White" so...


I guess I should show you how much off white thread I have used since October of last year.


I think the amount of thread used is more dramatic in person. But if you ask me It looks like about half of the off white spool has been used. I never thought I would use this much thread in my lifetime. Looks like about a years worth of thread. :) I better get busy quilting.

Now what I have been up to lately....


This is Lisa up front with this months block. She is giving the demo for how the block goes together. This was our first class for the "Redwork Revival" quilt. Lisa and I have been getting ready for this for a couple weeks, praying for red and white fabric to make a beautiful BOM with all the ladies that signed up for out class at the Parkland Parish Quilt Co. I have to say things went real well, and I think we had a good time.
So... why not peak at next block for the Redwork Revival Quilt (this is block two) ...


This is a block Lisa named Applesauce, Marti Michelle named it Applause. The story behind the new name is quite funny, I will save it for a slow day.
I have had the pleasure of making this block about 3 times now.. not counting the 2 times Lisa has been lucky enough to make this block. I am pretty sure I have all the directions down pretty good. I just have to rewrite a part so I can address the directional fabric that we had to use. At first I did not like this block, but the more I look at it from a distance, I think it has grown on me?? We shall see how I feel after a good nights sleep.

If I thought things were busy now, I am about to get a lot busier... I am not too sure how I will do it, but I have to get a few big quilts finished. I would also like to get a few of my quilts done, and I have to continue to sleep sometime?
At this time I am looking for a dog walker and a maid. I have given up cleaning and walking the dogs. Thank god for Dan or I would be in the marked for a cook or on a diet.

Well I have made this post while on the treadmill so. I have finished my walk and I need to go try to polish off some white thread.

thanks for following along...
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One busy weekend.

Where to start?
What a busy weekend I had....
I had so much to get done and so little time.
My Saturday started with a couple miles on the treadmill, then going to Seattle and getting my hair done. I'm lucky enough to have my hair dresser be my daughter but, that means you need to take her out to dinner afterwards. She and her boyfriend had tickets for the opening sounders game, but we found time to go to a nice Indian food restaurant in the U district. Then it was a quick road trip to the stadium, and we we dropped them off outside of the stadium.
We managed to get home at about 8:30 - 9:00 and I found time to finish up the cutest little cat appliqué quilt.



Then Sunday it was time to get ready for the red and white debut.
Block one is Ellis Island! block one of 12.
Lisa did all the homework and got the block ready.


I then finished two small baby quilts for charity. While... Dan drove to Bellingham pick up a cute little featherweight (I plan to paint it bright orange)
while I finished up another quilt for my customer.





And then to finish off the evening, I finished the cute little scrap basket that we plan to give away to one of the lucky recipients at our class monday night.



Okay that's enough I have to go and get ready for work.
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Friday was my lucky day!

Look what the fedex guy brought....
It is so cute, and little... and it has an 8 megapixel camera. Perfect for quit photos, I hope?

what packaging...apple has got it down.

I can hardly believe it. I hope the camera is worth it...

I insisted on getting it up, running and synchronized last night....

HERE WE GO...
The hope is that the photos are better than my old ipad (old? 1 year old?? really...) so here we go.

okay enough showing off. back to work.
Here is a customers appliqué quilt. It is so cute cats and mic. I have done bead board (piano keys) in the border do it looks like the mice are running next to the wall. It is dark in the room so I hope you can see it? (I may have to work on the lighting a bit, I think I can handle that?)

Here I hope you can see the cute background fill. I think the continuous swirl is perfect for this quilt. I couldn't imagine a heavier fill for this quilt.

I am in the process of figuring out the treatment for the log cabin blocks. I bet it is feathers?? what do you think? Definitely feathers, but I may do my feather meander? We shall see.

so the good news is this blog post was brought to you while I walked up an incline of 8 (a scale of 1-10) on my treadmill :) a perfect world, workout and blog :)
We shall see if the new ipad will keep me blogging?
stay tuned, and thanks for following.
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