Rediscovering UFOs 11-16-19

I have temporarily moved my sewing machine table into the family room to take advantage of a medium sized table I can back the machine table up to so I can work on a larger quilt than I usually make.  Normally the machine table backs up to the dining table, but it is so piled with stuff I can't work on a quilt there.  It has worked well with some slight shifting of my recliner and KoKo's chair.   

And it gave me access to a couple plastic boxes of stuff under the dining table that I can't get to with the machine table in place.  So, I pulled those boxes out and discovered some ancient UFOs.  Oh, my goodness, some of them I just vaguely remember.  And many are partially hand quilted.  I haven't been able to hand quilt for several decades, since the arthritis in my hands got worse and worse.   I have no memory of why I stopped working on any of them, except a few from classes that didn't engage me very much.  I don't know what I will do with most of them, but I do remember this one and will probably finish it with machine quilting.  A friendship group I belonged to at the time did a project where everyone brought a paper bag with a certain number of cut squares (1-3/4").  Looks like the color choices were red, beige, blue, and green, but I don't remember how those were chosen.  Then we put the bags around a table and everyone went around and took a certain number of squares from each bag.  At least that is how I remember it.  For some reason they were called Laundry Room quilts - maybe because if they turned out badly they could hang in the laundry room where nobody else could see them.  We were to sew them together into a quilt adding whatever we wanted to add.  I was very much into spiky borders then and sewed many by hand as a carry-around project.  Here is "Red Bird's Quilt" from 1991!!!!

"Red Bird's Quilt"  Del Thomas August 1991

21.5W x 23.75L

Cotton & metallic fabrics, cotton batt, cotton thread.

Machine and hand pieced, hand applique, pen work,

machine and hand quilted.

This is the only spike that is quilted and it is out of align. 

Red bird on the back, a 13.5" block.  I paper cut this bird and used her in a number of different applications. 

Here is the label written right on the back right corner. 

This really takes me back in time when I was much more productive than I am now.  Gosh, 28 years ago. 

I will look deeper into the box when I have more time. 

Who knows what treasures I might find?

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Friday Food 11-15-19

Lunch out today with two friends.  We went to Fitness Grill in Yorba Linda, one of my standby places where the food is always exceptional and they have outdoor seating so I can take KoKo.  He is a very good dinner companion and the waiter brings him a bowl of water.  Since he is always excited to go out he always drinks water if offered.  

I did not take pictures of our main dishes, but we all had some kind of seafood, which they do so well.  Mine was a salmon burger that I ordered on sourdough and I ate half, bringing the rest home in a box for dinner tonight.  I wanted to have dessert and the waitress brought the dessert tray - hard decision.  I chose the Hazelnut Torte and it was fabulous.  I have always liked hazelnuts and buy them at TJoe's, but rarely see them on menus.  I did take a picture of that:

My two friends each had a tiny bite and I scarfed the rest.  I wondered if they put it on such a large plate so it would look like a smaller serving, in keeping with their fitness theme.  They have Keto, veggie, vegan, and such on the menu. 

There is also a Fitness Grill in Brea which I have not been to in many years, Yorba Linda is closer for me.

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Wordless Wednesday 11-13-19

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KoKo is home and Christmas lights are going up! 11-12-19

KoKo had a lovely weekend with friends Cherie and Jim, they even let him sleep with them!  He is such a happy dog and just loves everyone.  I am glad to have him home, I hadn't realized that I had not been home without him much in the last three years.  It was lonesome around here. 

But I finished the quilt I was working on and at some future time will post a picture.   I found a few places I missed in the foliage and will have to do some more stitching there.  

On our walk tonight there were two houses with Christmas lights up - ALREADY!   This one has the "icicle" lights and the other has colored lights, but their garage was open so I will take a picture some other night.  

Today has been my sister's 84 birthday.  Hard to believe.  I doubt that anyone in my family reads this blog and sister doesn't do computers.  But, anyway, Happy Birthday to Ellamarie Kathryn Spencer Goleman of Portland, OR!

Re-visiting a quilt by Beth Miller of Austrlia 11-10-19

I know I haven't posted the rest of the quilts from the SAQA auction, but I will try to do it next Sunday.  Life has sort of gotten away from me this last month. 

Australian quilt in TCQC 01-15-17

This quilt was part of the Long Beach quilt show in 2009.  It immediately reminded me of a trip to Australia I took in 1972 where I saw sunsets like this one and baobab trees in silhouette.  And, of course, orange is one of my favorite colors.  So, I bought it. 

 

Kimberly Sunset  Beth Miller - Australia 2006 32"W x 50"L

Fused raw edge applique, machine quilted.

 

 

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