I love this quilt and would do it again.  It is the Big Ass uhh Star quilt.  I finished it earlier this year and don't remember if I posted it.  I used this quilt to choose colors for our remodel.  I love sleeping under it.  Just testing my blog to see if any one reads my ramblings.  Life goes on and until we meet again....

Sweat hog goes public

This past week has been a busy week.  Hosted a sewing group in NC before I left.  We all learned to make the little clam shell bags.  Our instructor was a new friend, Glenna Beaver. And she did a great job giving us step by step instructions.  I used Halloween fabric and I like the finished product...Emily, GD, has already weasel end away from me...which is fine because she loves treasures.

We drove home from NC on Friday, so I could attend a garden tour at Ryan Calohan's home.  He and his wife Katrina were wonderful hosts to the get together.  We got to see all of Ryan's beautiful Plumerias, addeniums, cacti, and other lovely plants.  I looked like a sweat hog having just come from much cooler weather.   My hair was plastered to my head and actually dripping in the back.  No, I really don't look good when I am melted down in my shoes.  Anyway, I enjoyed seeing  old friends and meeting new friends.  After the tour, we all had breakfast/brunch at a local diner in Melbourne.  We sat across from Bryan and Bill from B&B Exotics and Plumeria at brunch and we finagled an invite to see their nursery and gardens which was only about 6 miles away.  They have a very lush garden with several hundred beautiful plumerias, addeniums, cactus and just gorgeous plants.  I felt like Alice in Wonderland in their back yard.  They also was very hospitable to us.  All in all, it was a great day even though I presented my self as a very sweaty old lady.  Today, I planted my seedlings from  the last group that have sprouted.  I also had funerals for about 10 plumeria cuttings that had rotted in the rooting bags...so sad to lose Plumie stalks...but oh well,  I avenge about 15 new plants that did root from the stalks I planted and bag rooted before I left.  I am happy those look like they will make it.  I also have an addenium seed pod, first forth me and two new Plumie seed pods.  Whoohoo.  Yes, head was sopping wet today to, but I am in for the day so and a shower just fixed the sweat hog queen!  Until we meet again.....
 

Whoopdedoda! I got a seed pod!

I have learned it does not take much to make me joyful.  Yesterday, my friend sent me a picture of a seed pod on one of my Addenium plants.  Also known as a dessert rose.  I immediately ran to Walmart to pick up some fabric (netting) to make some clothes for my new baby.  If you don't protect the pod, when it opens, the seeds blow to never never land and no more babies.  You never know what the babies will be either...might be like the Momma plant or might be totally different so you don't want to lose them when the pods open.  I am prepared when I get home to cover my treasures with their new outfits that I crafted up.

I seem to have difficulties posting pictures from my iPad which is so irritating.  Now if I can figure out how to add the seed pod pictures.

Until we meet again.....

Sometimes, we just need to be lazy!  Maybe need is not the right word...want might be a better choice of words.   It has rained for two days and the temperature is cool.  I have not broke into the sweat hog mode for several weeks.  The rain has made me so lazy.  I have read emails, looked at all their beautiful plumeria that my new online Plumie friends have posted and thought I need one of those!  If I got one of each that I think are eye candy, I would need a couple of acres and a green house to house them in the cooler weather.  I napped...faint days cause your eyes to get heavy and the napping fairy sprinkles her dust and poof I am dosing.  I finally got off the couch, made dinner and looked at some sewing projects.  I picked a scrappy quilt that one of my friends started.  She passed away and her husband gave me the scraps and 4 rows she had put together.  She had ripped a lot of it apart.  Some of the pieces were not cut the same.  I just decided I would try and figure out what she had in mind.  No one can figure out what a woman has in her mind, even another woman...silly me.  Anyway, I have sewed all the blocks together, some a little off but the colors are bright and they make me happy on this gloomy day.  I am putting the rows together and enjoying the memory of my friend.  It will not go together perfectly because I am using the strips she cut and I don't want to destroy the work she did on the quilt. It will be less than perfect but a happy little quilt and a fun remembrance of a funny friend.