Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hope everyone's Thanksgiving was wonderful...spent with people you love...

decisions, decisions....

I am having trouble attaching the letters and numbers to the quilt...perhaps, if I'd thought it through before starting, I would have sewn them to the squares before sewing the squares together...heehee.. oh, well...it's done now... 

After seeing the solid grey, and the grey outlined together, I think I like the solid grey...

starting on the letters/numbers...

I've cut out the "GHS" and jersey # (63)... I think the size will be right....still have to fuse the two tones together then decide on placement, & attach to quilt top...

more progress on ghs top...

I've sewn the GHS top!!!! In my picture, the G is just pinned in place, but it has been sewn down...I'll post a better picture tomorrow... I still have to do a border and corner squares for the GHS and the jersey # and something that they call "the rock" (their tradition is to all touch this engraved rock before each game??.. I'll have to get a picture of it) and either a football, helmet or rocket in the fourth corner....

homecoming 2009

My baby is growing up!  This is his first girlfriend, and first date...homecoming 2009...

my car is back..

I've had my car in the shop since the Huntsville quilt show...it has been a stressful event, in that I did not let my husband fix it...even though the check engine light has been on for over a year, with no evidence that it was going to magically be fixed one of these days, I decided to let someone whose profession is to fix cars do it... oh the drama...well it's fixed (I hope).  It was way more work than I was expecting...It wound up needing a valve job...I was running on 3 cylinders, and it needed a timing belt and a sensor or two, then something with the computer was messed up... mixed signals or something...I prayed that they would figure out the computer issue today.. and I have my car back... I think someone else must have been praying for me too.... probably the mechanic..ready to be rid of this frazzled lady's car... my husband's pride was pretty badly wounded....hopefully he will settle down now that the car is back.

background squares for the "G"...

... I think.... not sure if I like it, but continuing on...  The lighting is not very good, and they are wrinkled from being snatched out of the path of wild animals and sitting under a pile of folded clothes...but you can sort of get the idea... more squares to make.  I've never worked with curved piecing, so I am worried about getting this together... 

some progress...

ok, not a whole lot of progress...but some... I have started cutting out the background squares for the main body of the quilt top...maybe I will be able to post progress on that tomorrow...

It has begun...

GHS Rocket quilt part 1:  the center logo has been cut out, ready to sew together...
I had it laid out flat on the floor, but the dogs came trampling in before I could snap the picture....so you get the crumpled version for now...
This G was a bear to get right.... think Georgia bulldog G or Green Bay G logo, and increase size to appx 50" x 35" (I did not get it measured before the dogs came in, either) I still don't think it's perfectly accurate, but close enough!

new project

I am starting a new project, a quilt for my son in his school colors, with football number, and logo...possibly other school related images... not sure at this point.  I think some of these fabrics will be included...fabric selection still in process... maybe I will finish it before he graduates in 2011 : )