Another Kitty Distraction

and this time the distraction is Grizzly.

But I did finish binding these two quilts this evening.

Top Drawer's Calipso group of fabrics

Top Drawer's Secret Garden group of fabric

I am loved and that feels nice!

From Jeff. He spoils me.

From Joel

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Wednesday This and That

Another morning goody.

Sour cream cinnamon coffee bunt cake.

Better than yesterday's cheese blintz.

To some of my young men, a clean sock is a clean sock even if the socks do not match and one happens to belong to his six year old sister and the other to his 17 year old sister. Face and name withheld for obvious reasons but this young man might be a McDonald's Manager and hitting the big 19 in June. But like I said, identity withheld. You could not torture the name out of me.

Loki finally let me get back to my quilt.

It turned out VERY pretty!

I have two more quilts waiting for their bindings and then it will be time to put my Brother away for a while and go back to dress sewing on my Kenmore.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Loki, How Is This Helping?

Loki, you cute kitty, you...

I would like to finish my quilt.

But I can wait.

No need to hurry.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Checked Off

My five quilts needing to be quilted went pretty smoothly.








I made two almost duplicates of the Babushka stacking doll quilts.



The difference is in the block arrangement as well as how I quilted each one.



I just love the orange backing on these two quilts. Isn't the color eye-popping? And bonus! I found some orange thread in my thread box so I used it to quilt with.



Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Five Up and Ready to Go

I have a backlog of eight or nine quilt tops needing to be finished.

I had enough wadding to put five quilts together.

So I hope to get these five quilts completed this week.

The others will have to wait but it will feel nice to cross these five off of my to-do list.



Stay tune!!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

A Long Weekend

Guess what I am going to do since Jeff has tomorrow off of work?

Sleep late.

I kind of feel like it should be Jeff who should have a chance to sleep in and I should get up early.

A good wife would do that...

Well, maybe...

Jeff's idea of sleeping in is until maybe eight or nine.

That is SO not sleeping in!

No!

I call getting up at twelve or one sleeping in.

My sleeping in trumps Jeff's sleeping in.

Maybe my 'wife example' should not be followed.

Don't do what I do.

Instead, do what I say.

Let your husband sleep in.

Be a good wife.

I do not mind being the bad wife just for sleeping in purposes.

But you should be the good wife.

I will be humbled by your selfless example.

Actually, I really would.

Jeff being the great husband he is ok'd my sleeping in.

In honesty, I feel like I could sleep for days and days.

My body is already preparing to turn...any one speak Icelandic out in blog land?

No?

Well, like I was saying my body must be preparing to turn fjörtíu og fimm soon.

On to other fun stuff...

We had our first Real Group today and I LOVED it!!

I am really looking forward to our group this summer.

I also did a tad of quilt top sewing this evening.

The pictures are not spectacular but these two quilt tops will look great once I get around to quilting them.













Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Newest Project

I have not had a bunch of time to sew the past few weeks but I squeezed in a few hours this evening thanks to Jeff.

This sure is a bright quilt!

I guess I am thinking ahead to when our Minnesota spring finally starts!

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

A New Project

I was off and sewing a new project this past week.

I had a pretty steady headache almost all of last week but during headache lulls and quite children every now and again, I got a little sewing done.

I decided on a sort of eye-spy scrappy quilt.

As you see I just have to sew my twelve 9 block strips together.

Here is a closer look at the different five inch squares I used

I think this dragonfly fabric will make a fun backing for this quilt.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

M is For Monday

Josh (12) made Elena (18) this wonderful pillow.

It is very pretty.



He even included a zipper.

Josh is amazingly talented and Elena is very deserving of such a thoughtful, wonderful gift.



Fun news. I added my five quilts to my Etsy quilt shop and within 5 hours of them being listed I sold one!!!



I think that is a record for me.



Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

A Few AWESOME Quotes

Here are a few awesome Dual Survivor quotes from season 1 !

From Swamped:

Concerning Dave's wrestling an alligator (or was is a crocodile?)

"Here you run with the big dogs or you stay on the porch" ~Dave Canterbury

"If you're going to hang out in the swamp, leave your skirt at home." ~Dave Canterbury

From After the Storm:

Concerning Dave's quest to get honeycomb from Africanised bees for food.

"I know there are bees in there and that there are a lot of Africanised bees in the area but...I am as serious as a heart attack. I got netting in there. I've got tarp in there. We've got duck tape. I can get myself wrapped up so I don't get stung..." ~ Dave Canterbury

"I think Dave is simply being Dave. And like he puts up with me and my bare feet I will put up with him. Now if he loses his life he has given me permission to eat him which is good. That's a friendly gesture." ~Cory Lundin

" Full circle. What comes around goes around. Be dumb a**. Experience dumb a** consequences." ~Cody Lundin

I just think these two are just a hoot.

I am a sucker for semi mindless shows... but at least now I know covering myself with netting, a tarp, and duck tape will not keep Africanised bees from stinging.

~~

On to my nine patch.

I decided on setting the nine patches on a point. It will look good!



I have them all sewn together. The quilt will be pretty big. Right now without a border the quilt measures around 44" x 50". I will dig around my mounds of random fabric to see if I can find a suitable border.







Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Unmotivated Week

I have been kind of unmotivated to blog this past week.

I have been very tired. Maybe I am coming down with a cold or something.

It could be the late winter blues...

I spent a good amount of my spare time planing our next year of home school needs this week. It is pretty sad because now both Elena who graduated in '12 and Grant who graduates this spring are dropped from my home school planning schedule for this next year. Wow. I wish I could rewind the years a bit. I did not do 1/100th of what I wanted to do with them. Gal-darn that time goes WAY to fast.

I also realised that even some of my history home school textbooks that I still consider new I actually bought back many years ago or so. Gee, I guess Bush is not just newly elected is he? It seems like I just bought them for Elena yesterday but have now been used by at least seven other children. Time to update? No, I will wait...

Today the HeavenWord Handler performance team (ten of which are our kids) ends their six week tour of halftime shows.

They traveled to Rochester for the Northern Sun (NSIC) Conference tournament today. They performed at the women’s championship game at 3pm (MSU-Mankato vs. Augustana) and the men’s championship game at 5:30pm (Bemidji State vs. MSU-Mankato).

I stayed home with Lily, Grace, Joel, and Josiah. Josiah was very sweet. He picked out a video from the Library for the three not so little little kids to watch with him. I think it was a lonely day for Josiah with all the other kids gone. I let him play xbox to his heat's content which was actually a long time. Josiah is very much a people person.

The quiet gave me a little time to finish binding those five quilts so I could get them in my Etsy store. After I finished those I moved on to my nine patch quilt squares.

I am not sure how I should lay them out. I ended up with 32 6 1/2 inch nine patch squares. I could lay them out like this but then the quilt would be a bit small. I think Jeff would appreciate it a little bigger. I would too...



I will think about it over night and see if I get any inspirations.

Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy

Today is Tuesday

"You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.”

~Winnie the Pooh~

Schooling was a little challenging today.

First, I was having a hard time staying awake thanks to my two hour You Tube 'Is Micheal Jackson really dead?' late night investigation last night. I thought you would like to know that I did conclude after watching all the You Tube 'evidence' provided that Micheal Jackson did not fake his death but is indeed dead. Sorry to you mysterious blond lady who has Micheal Jackson's ears as well as you unidentified old dancing man who seems to show up at as many Micheal Jackson events as possible. I am not being sarcastic. I am a big MJ fan. I am as I type this listening to Micheal singing Rockin' Robin on my Micheal Jackson Pandora station...hey now why is a Glee Cast song playing!!! Thumb that one down!! Ah yes,this is better Leave Me Alone. Anyway, I was a tad tired today.

Second, I think there were many kids who woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

Third, my homeschooling jr/sr high kids seemed to get done with all of their school work way faster that I was ready for. That led to a lot of loudness while I was still teaching the other kids. Arg. I was getting very stressed with all the noise.

Fourth, most everyone seemed to need me at the most inconvenient times for various squabble issues, schedule decisions, permission requests, or just as general verbal punching blame bag.

That all made it a frustrating school day.

Anyway

I kept my camera by my side not to capture the gray clouds of my day but the silver linings of my day.

There were a few...

Listening to Joel read.



Don't tell Lily but I colored one of her workbook pages.

It was an appropriate choice.

I am near to the craziness but would like to be far away..



I know you are probably so over the quilts I made but I had a few minutes this evening to put the binding on this one. This quilt is declared finished!



I also am gearing up for my next projects.

Love the Russian Babushka Dolls fabric.

And remember spray starch is a quilters friend.



Warmly, A Dragonfrye Mommy