Could this happen?

Decluttering Ideas

I love this. So simple and doable. Fill one bag before bed and take it to the trash on the way out.

My Roooooom

I really should have ironed my bedspread...shame on me. The phone is on the window sill above the couch and my laptop is on the table in front. I have mucho good lighting and I can easily access the drawers under the bed, and put on the fitted sheet with ease!

The little table by my bed holds my reading and clock and I just need a stereo or radio to make it complete. I may order one online...

Links I sent you...

Birdie hugs

and cute stuff here:

http://pinterest.com/fibermania/my-style/

And my shirt ideas. which could use suggestions.

Mary's Beautiful House

Vintage Nancy Crow

I have always loved PARTS of this quilt, and think it was overworked, overdesigned and over busy compared to her later work when she was obviously not trying so hard.
Look especially at the stripes and then see the solids anchoring the design.
 This one is an improvement over the first Lady of Guadalupe. It is so much less busy. Love the colors and think I could use my stripes effectively with solids like this.
I am so unused to using prints...
  Beige??? She just had to use that fabric.
This is the supremo beauty, and while she pieced her stripes and made a huge work, I will use printed stripes in place of pieced ones and see what I can do with something similar. These are after all 40 years old already!
Mel

How Things Have Changed!

I can't believe it took me THIS LONG to finally sit comfortably at my sewing machine! It is so much easier to enjoy piecing and then quilting when my shoulders are relaxed and at ease.
These photos show I am at full messy working mode and have tweaked the arrangement to suit me better. It turns out that I cut and press standing up better than I would sitting so I moved that higher table to my right. My fabric was arranged neatly a few hours ago, but that didn't last. ha!


I had this sketch already so I used it as my jumping off point. I am thinking of making this layout several times (I hope) and perhaps you can see that this rectangle has a center line which makes it two squares more or less.
Now that I look at this again, I see a place where I need to match a seam...I think I can do it, with a little moving and trimming.
Here it is fixed..

The blue green purple color scheme is truly new for me. But I had more stripes with those colors so I went with them. Future panels might go warmer, we'll see.
So all day today I thought about going to the quilt show and I have decided against it. I would much rather spend a whole day at your house, sometime, or have you here. I looked up the Horne sewing cabinets and while they are lovely, I just feel like I have something right now that is working.