Tidbits, April Showers and Keds

Been pretty crazy here. I am working on skirts. One fail, one I love. Pics later. I have discovered that my hips need a not so tailored skirt. And bright colored fabrics may not be the most trendy thing for skirts, but I like them! The Chinese Takeout fabric I bought is just too cute!

April showers should be here any minute now. We should be getting 2 inches and lots of lightning. Good thing I brought a book to work. If the power goes out...

OTHER NEWS:

My grandfather had surgery before Easter and he is in a rehab center now. It seems that either his dementia jumped way ahead or he has delirium, which I have been reading about here.  Either way, he is feeling good, but thinks he is back in Pennsylvania, not here in Florida. He needs some therapy to see if they can get him mobile again. His legs are very weak. I pray that my grandmother makes it through this without collapsing. She is just flat worn out and a bundle of nerves. She is definitely someone who thrives on an unchanging schedule. Good thing my aunt and uncle and their kids are coming to visit next week, right? She should perk up with them being here.

I have spent some time trying to keep up with the blogs I follow, and at True Up I found this!  Heather Ross Keds shoes at Zazzle.com!! I LIVED in Keds when I was pregnant with my son. Cute little gray jersey lace ups. But these from Heather are adorable! I just need $60 plus shipping to get that pink unicorn pair. Or the roses. Or Princess and the Pea. Can't decide.

I got 3 quilts back from the longarm quilter last weekend. A hexagon quilt, a small lap sized 9 patch, and the one I made for Laura's granddaughter. See earlier post. Need to get those trimmed up and bound. I should be doing that today, but my gameplan is a little off. As in, I didn't think about getting the one I want to work on first out of the baby's room until after he was asleep. So it is still in there. I'm at work and I will have to try to remember to get it out of there before bedtime tonight.

That's it for now. Have a happy Thursday!

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So many ideas, no free time!!! I feel like I am in mental labor and need a c-section! I got all these lovely fabrics on Saturday and I am TOO excited to stand it. I want to be making skirts NOW!!!And that is despite the fact that I have had NO LUCK on finding a Florida state map tablecloth for the adorable travel skirt found in Sew What! Skirts. Most of them on Ebay are Moda reproductions and should be $24.99, but are selling for over $50 each. Too much $$ to cut it up for a skirt, thank you.

But back to my new fabrics! I would like to thank Quilt Fabric Closeouts and also Over the Rainbow shops for not only having super prices, but incredibly fast shipping on these beauties! You need to shop there!  Okay, second from the right is a very cute lime green floral from the line called Chinese Takeout. Far left is a very pale aqua with brown bandana type floral all over. Peeking out 3rd from the left is a very neutral floral in an oatmeal color. Should be able to go classy or fun with that one. And the far right is an oriental print in pinks and lime greens that will be first up, as soon as I prewash it. I hope you get this book if you don't have it. Such cute ideas in there.

Will someone please send me some spare time? Maybe I should check myself into a motel - under an alias - and just sew for a few days?

I have quilts that need finishing on top of my Spring Skirt emergency and not getting much done there either. Therefore, I feel like all my plans and talk about To Do Lists is just blah, blah, blah. Like Charlie Brown's teacher. Oh well, you can admire the pretty fabrics with me. And if you have the book, you can try to imagine where I am going with these fabrics...someday.

As a sidenote, I would like to thank whomever has fixed Blogger. Many of my pics in previous posts were missing all day, and when I tried to write this post, no new pics would upload correctly. I am so glad it got debugged (or whatever they did to right it!)