Business license

On Friday, I filed by DBA and got my business license! Now, I can start taking the proper tax deductions.

We had out-of-town visitors from Saturday afternoon to Sunday afternoon. I'm glad to host my husband's friends, but I'm equally as happy to see them leaving. Beig a hospitality chief just wears you out. The married couple also brought their two daughters and my toddler son was delighted to have playmates. All of us spent Saturday evening on the boat at the marina which turned into a big dock party. I got home with the baby at about 11pm and I was really pooped. After a big breakfast on Sunday the gusts hit the road back to DC and then on the CA.

I did manage to squeeze in a Saturday morning guild meeting. I was not able to make the evening Bee and I really wanted to make the BOM and enter the BOM lotto because it was a sailboat.

I haven't even begun to make my challenge entry for the quilt show and prepare my EQ presentation for September Guild. I did manage to finish my bible blocks, but I still need to square them up.

TGIF

Finally (almost) completed quilt for co-worker who was diagnosed with cancer. I still need to put the binding on and I've been dragging my feet about doing it. Sadly, she lost the fight. The type of cancer she had was rare -- only 11 people in the USA have it. Once diagnosed she was gone in about three weeks. The original design in Electric Quilt had to be modified so I could add some speed to ge tit done. Frankly, I got tired of paper piecing. I friend put it on her long arm for the quilting.

Well my life as a blogger going pretty slow :) I don't find much "me" time with a 16 month-old running about the house. Today I'm trying to organize my sewing room which used to be the family dining room. Since we hadn't used it since my parents came to visit when my son was born, I figured it was high time to put it to use.

I finally finished the cancer quilt for a co-worker. I started working on it about a week after her diagnosis. Well, she didn't wait around for it. She died a month after her diagnosis. I laid the blocks out at work for everyone to sign them. Although, I still needed to bind the quilt, I took it to work so everyone could see it. When I went back into the office to see the the quilt "traffic" to my horror I saw tha t someone had tacked the quilt to the wall. Oh well, to the non quilters I guess they saw no problem with that. The posted picture is my EQ design, but once I started sewing I altered the design to speed up the piecing.

I went to JoAnn's yesterday and bought some art craft plastic storage boxes to put all my orphan blocks and UFO's in.

I've printed out my quilt design from Electric Quilt. My best friend asked me to make quilts for her sons a year ago. It took me a while to get inspiration for the design. Then I had to gather the fabric. I managed to find UNC fabric and I'll go to Wal-Mart in the next week to get coordinates.

February 3

My first blog post from home while trying to keep an eye on my toddler, listening to my husband's snores and monitoring a load of laundry. Typical Sunday morning. I am still working through the EQ6 Simplified book. I joined an EQ club. The meetings are an hour away by car and it's just too far to drive. The group members are beginners and while I'm no expert, I'm a tad more advanced.

The posted image is lesson 1. I'm not crazy about the colors. I usually choose a more vibrant arrangement.