DID YOU MISS ME??

Bubbles (my computer) wanted a day off--she said she had been working really hard for me lately and that everybody deserves a day off--even a computer!!!

So this is how "Bubbles" spent her day----

But I did not get a day off----on the way over to the quilt shop at 11:00 am I found this sweet tree and took it's picture--

Had to go over to the shop and see the quilt instructor Sharon, for the Bliss classes I took in 2008-2009--as I had missed the last class and needed to know how to finish the blocks--

This was a hand-piecing class and we did 7 blocks--I just loved this class and I love to hand piece--but had not done any in a very long time--so while Bubbles was in the bubbles--I  hand pieced--and was in "heaven"---

I was able to get the top all done--even the borders on it--and today I even got the back and batting done -- basted -- and one block hand quilted!!

Oh--forgot to tell you what I did Saturday night after I got done in blogland--

I actually "sat" still for two whole hours and watched a movie--watched "Marley and me"--and yes -- I cried---loved the movie.

Today--

I love hand basting a quilt top--cause I can get really "intimate" with it----

It is a time that as I am basting it I can really see the detail in the prints and how the blocks and seams all went together--I see colors in some of them I had not noticed as I was sewing everything together--and I see designs that I missed in the prints  --it really is amazing what we miss when we are just planning, cutting, and sewing the fabrics together--plus I really get to study the block layout and shapes and it helps me decide on the quilting design to use.

This morning I basted Sunday Best--then got the Bliss one ready with batting and backing and ate lunch--when "who" should appear--none other than Little Sister--we decided for our walk today we would go here--

Our local SPCA has an Upscale thrift shop---we went here, because I had cleaned and cleared off a shelf in the closet of alot of counted cross stitch books and knitting books--I will never have time to do all those patterns--so there is no need to take up space with them!!!!

When I got home and opened up my purse--look at what I found inside--

AH--so this is where my $5.00 went before I left the store--one bunny hopped into the purse for a ride home--

Is she not the cutest---this is a different "pose" than I have seen before--so just had to give her a new home--but---now I want the "other" one--that one stands upright!

Sometimes one is never happy--but why should I stop at one when there is two??

And this was in today's mail--my Rural Jardin order---
I just love this line and these colors--totally "spell" country to me!!!

And if anyone is interested in how I do my quilt as I go quilts--I just did a tutorial over on my workbasket site--so have a looky see!!

Have a great day tomorrow--keep those sewing machines a hummin--

Hugs for all, Di