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Ring of Fire

January 11, 2015 by Angie Leave a Comment

It’s Sunday and I’m going to call it my story day (at least for today).

So, my normal routine of the day is I wake up, feed Miss Bella and grab a cup of coffee as soon as I can make my way over to the coffee pot.

Next up depends on how I feel … if I’m dog tired I’ll sit down and watch some TV on my Kindle Fire (I’m currently on Season 7 of NCIS) … if I feel slightly okay I’ll check out Facebook and if I feel good I’ll go straight to checking email (because of the volume of email I get … I have to be prepared to do battle … I’m just joking ….. but it can be stressful to watch the count go from 3 thousand to 4 thousand in a 24 hour period).

This morning I woke up feeling slightly okay … so I went to Facebook … and this is where I fell down the rabbit hole!

So, here it goes … I discovered the video you’ll see below … then listened to it about 4 times before I reposted it on my Facebook Wall. Then I spent the next two hours … researching the band (Facebook, website, google) … then the artist that appeared in one of their videos (googled that person) … and then to the Walk the Line movie version of Ring of Fire.

That’s what I mean by “I fell down the Rabbit Hole”! I have a million things to do and I get obsessed on a song.

Oh well, I’m past it now …. kinda sorta! (although I do want to watch the movie tonight.)

Before I end I’ll share a little story with you … Every time we hear Ring of Fire in our house … we laugh!! The Walk the Line movie came out when my children were in middle school … and I tend to get fixated on a soundtrack or a CD. Chase and Brooke had to listen to the Walk the Line soundtrack for so long that they memorized the words ….. not realizing they had done so …until there was an event at the school and the Ring of Fire song came on …. and Chase started singing it… word for word. I wasn’t there … didn’t see it but I guess the kids thought it was funny that he knew the song and knew all the words. (It’s way funnier when Chase tells the story!!!)

Ring of Fire by Home Free

Here’s the Walk the Line movie version (I love Johnny’s version but I love this one too!).

See ya!

p.s. I used the picture from Walk the Line for my post …. I figured it was better than a picture that did not relate.

Layer Cake Quilt Complete

January 10, 2015 by Angie 4 Comments

The next time you see this quilt ….. it will be complete.

I finished sewing the rows together …. completing the quilt top. The backing fabric arrived today and it’s ready for the long arm quilter.

Daddy’s birthday is in March ….. it should be ready in plenty of time.

When I make the next Layer Cake Quilt …. I will try making it 6 Blocks across and 7 down. This one is 5 blocks across and 8 down … making it narrow and long. After I change it … I may decide to keep it 8 blocks down and just add a few blocks across…. maybe going from 5 to 7. But when we do that … it will take more than one Layer Cake.

The next picture I’m sharing today is of our breakfast room … it’s decorated for one of Brooke’s friends. We’re having her birthday party at our house and they’ve been working on it since yesterday. They’ve done a great job!! The only help they got from me was I removed all my stuff and I cleaned (yes that means we moved my office back down to the basement … as well as all my sewing stuff … insert sad face!)

The party is officially taking place at this moment … Miss Bella and I are in bed.

See ya!

New Fabric

January 9, 2015 by Angie 3 Comments

My pictures today are my new fabric.

I had my doctors appointment this morning and I figured since the fabric store was right down the road from there …… I would treat myself to some new fabric.

The first stack of fabric is Wrens & Friends by Gina Martin for Moda Fabrics (I bought one yard each of 5 designs).

The next stack of fabric is a mixture. When I walked in Quilters Haven someone had left the bird pattern fabric on top of the other fabric …. it caught my eye instantly and I got one yard of each. The larger bird fabric is Natures Poetry Robert Kaufman and the rest of the prints are Basic Grey by Persimmon for Moda Fabrics

The last stack is some fabric I’ve purchased before and I was happy to get my hands on some more. If there’s one thing I can teach you …… it’s buy the fabric when you see it … other wise it will be gone!! All but the yellow print is Fancy Free by Lori Whitlock for Moda Fabrics. The yellow print is by Blank Quilting Pattern BTR-6957. I bought three yards of all five patterns.

I’ve already made one small quilt with this fabric …. you will see it soon and it’s so pretty I wanted to make more.

See ya!!

Layer Cake Quilt #1 Diagram

January 8, 2015 by Angie Leave a Comment

Quick post for you today ….. I only worked for about an hour today …. (too much pain to do much else .. even my elbows hurt).

So, I decided to draw a diagram of daddy’s quilt (also known as Layer Cake Quilt #1)…so that I can make another one…. one day!

This is as far as I got and ran out of space.

His quilt is 5 rows across and 8 rows down … for a total of 40 Blocks. (You get 42 Layer Cakes in a pack.) My diagram is 5 rows across and only 4 rows down … I need to fit 4 more rows … meaning I need to make the spaces smaller … but then my eyes can’t see it very well.

Oh well, I’ll think on it and see what I can come up with. I could just say repeat pattern until you have a total of 8 rows doing down (sounds good to me!).

I’m using Pages on a Mac … I could buy a software for designing quilts …but I’m not interested in using a PC …. so I’ll do it the hard way. It’s not hard … it’s just my lines are not completely straight.

See ya!

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