http://solje.thedevins.com/blog My online journal about: creativity, humanity, some of my life events, and irony that I find amusing Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:45:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I received the fabrics I was thinking about using for this quilt (that I already had in my stash, but can't find). I like George up there in the corner, the Declaration of Independence looks a little washed out, but it kind of works. I also turned the ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=682 I have shown this quilt to a couple of quilt groups and at facebook, but thought I'd add it here. I don't have a name for this one, but for a long time (years), it was known as "that dang quilt" because the quilting was so terrible that it ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=665 with wild cats! :-) Pattern can be found here: Paradigm Shift. I have talked about this on a couple of different groups I am in, but wanted to post it here to be able to refer to. This was a fun and easy quilt, and the quilt ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=659 ok, so far it is still just in the partial block stage, and I still have more strips to cut. But aren't they fun? I used strips from the Folklorica line and Moda Marbles. I caught the bug when I came across this site: http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/2010/03/hexagon-quilt-along-supplies.html I have no idea ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=654 I planned to make this Boy Scout quilt for Daniel for his birthday, but in reality, he received it three months later. He was thrilled with it :-) Very simple pattern by Robert Kaufman. I thought it would be on their site, but I am not seeing ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=651 Well, not in my household, but a new great nephew was born last week to my sister's oldest son. I have seen so many great BQ quilts out there, I wanted to try it out. I enjoyed the pattern, but these blocks were just 9" finished compared to ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=648 I am playing with scrappy right now. I don't know how much I like this, so if you have an opinion--let loose! I decided to do a quick project tonight with two charm packs. Both are of patriotic fabrics from a few years ago that I have just ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=644 long time, no posts! It's been busy, my head full, and very little seems to even connect to quilting or art type stuff I normally write about. I am homeschooling again, so our days are full... but I am happy to say, the change out of public school ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=638 I have written about some of my sponsored Women For Women sisters in the past. Today I received a large envelope that had a letter and this beautiful beaded doily enclosed. After spending the weekend at Warm Beach on our church's woman's retreat, I was emotionally overflowing. ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=635 Unless someone is for certain otherwise, I am going with a Townsend's Warbler for identification. They are pretty! I think the birds were around all day yesterday. We must be have good enough seed to be on the permanent snacking route or something :-) I used Kevin's camera ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=633 Today was a quiet, pleasant, foggy morning. But there was a flurry of activity through the trees and the bird feeders. Though, it would appear that Daniel's peanut butter pine cone with birdseed was a little more popular with one bird. I am not positive, but I ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=629 First, Julie... I am so laughing right now! I JUST read your comment about suggesting a red border etc! :-) Guess what I did? I am thinking about adding some length to it, considering some scrappy squares or something (like a pillow tuck), and continuing the border I ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=626 sorry for not doing a better picture. I didn't want to move my table because it has things underneath and it was too much of a hassle for this quilt in progress. Blocks together (grrr on the corner starting to fold down). Now what. It needs something else. size ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=624 Here are a little less than half of the blocks. I tried out another fabric (posted at flickr if you'd like to see the difference) that looked like I had enough yardage to use as the background triangles, but I think this black/white snowflake batik had the look I ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=620 ok, so it wasn't muddy water. Had Kevin chosen to be baptized during the summer, perhaps so since our church goes to the lake for baptisms. Instead, it was in a hot tub :-) My sister and her family came for the event, and Kevin's testimony ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=618 I love Troll Beads. If you haven't discovered them yet, either don't... or be ready to get sucked in (btw, bring your $$). I just went out to get the mail, found a package from Denmark, thinking that I hadn't ordered anything from there lately, and was surprised ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=615 I was in need of a sewing project and looking through Bonnie Hunter's site, I came across the String-X Quilt. I had the strips for it from an exchange I did with another WASIQ quilter years ago--Christmas fabrics, about 80 different ones. Now I am trying out different ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=613 I have purchased the Swarovski annual ornament every year since Kevin and I married. Maybe I should have staged the ornaments better for the photo, but I was finishing up putting away the stars and snowflakes and decided to snap a shot anyway. Starting with 1996-2006 along the long row, ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=610 Straight No Chaser from 1996. They are awesome! Not much fiberwise going on here, unfortunately. I'm sorry to those that read for the quilting/knitting :-( Hopefully that will pick up again soon. Its hard to get into projects right now. http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=608 Pan of delicious slow roasted romas... Its hard to believe that when I started these this at noon, the tomatoes filled the pan with no wiggle room. Voila, 8.5hrs later. I sliced the tomatoes in half, longway. Drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled diced garlic, rosemary, sea salt, and ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=605 Bonnie's eyes are smiling! A snail in the mouth... kind of an odd shot :-) http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=601 Happy Fall, everyone! I took some pictures of our Japanese Maple yesterday. This one little leaf was back lit nicely by the sun. I love how it turned out. I wish the photos I took looking up into the tree looked as rich. I was planning to ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=599 We went to the South 47 Farm today to pick our pumpkins. Every year more and more people show up. I guess its good for the farm, but it was once less crowded for our own convenience. I checked out the produce, but for the most ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=596 I think I am back up to about 80% on my laptop again. A second round of hard drives arrived today, and the backup from June 2007 was implemented. So far I have all my financial stuff back in order with all years accounted for, but I am ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=592 This is a public service announcement: Back up all your pictures and financial data, as well as anything else you treasure. Guess who's hard drive is now toast? Sigh. At least I have my old Toshiba while a new hard drive is being ordered, but in the ... http://solje.thedevins.com/blog/?p=590