Sewing with Amanda

Yesterday and today I got to spend some time with my dear, long time friend, Amanda Jean! Amanda and I rarely get the chance to sew together so this was great fun for both of us. We spent some good time at her house sewing and catching up. I always come away inspired to try something new when she and I get together. I also got to see a bit of a sneak peek into some of her upcoming surprises! Might I say everyone is in for a treat when she finishes these!

Amanda's sweet little daughter is already planning their next trip to our house when they will have pizza and M & M cookies and we will play Memory. :) She is just too cute.

For a project I pushed myself a little bit and finally finished my "One A Day" quilt-a-long top. Yay! I had the nine patch blocks finished a long time ago, but just never got it all put together. It took a little longer than I expected to finish, but I got it done just in the nick of time before I had to leave. Amanda graciously offered to pin baste it for me. She knows all the crawling around in the floor is murder on my knees. :) It's not the greatest picture since I had to take it with my phone because I forgot my camera, but here is the finished quilt top. I made mine a little smaller than the instructions called for. The thought of trying to quilt a big quilt on my little machine scares me. LOL

Bits of randomness...

1.) I finished a set as a prize for a bingo game on one of my ebay groups.


2.) I made a couple of really easy simple magnet boards for our little Magnetic Poetry sets. I just got two 12x12 frames and two 12x12 pieces of galvanized metal sheets from the craft store. Then I put them in the frames and there you have it. I just put the glass behind the metal sheets. I thought it gave them a bit more stability and made it easier to put the backs back on since the sheets were kind of curled up. I hung these in our hallway. Now we can play with the Magnetic Poetry and not have them all over the refrigerator and falling in the floor and such.



3.) My sister and brother were here for a little bit this weekend. It was a short visit, but it was so nice to have them here. We went walking in an old granite quarry that is now a park and nature preserve for a while yesterday afternoon. The weather was perfect. It was in the 60's with warm sunshine and a cool breeze. Too bad most of the leaves are gone up here, though.

My gorgeous sister :)


My brother in his element... taking pictures. He's quite the photographer.


Me and my sis.


Old granite quarries which now are filled with water. Some of these are very deep and people actually scuba dive in them.

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