Wow, I can't believe it has been almost a month since my last post! What a busy month it has been, spring break with all of the kids was a feel killer, then right after spring break we did our first of two girl scout sewing days, check out these girls, I am so proud of them!!!

This is just a small sampling, over the course of two days-11 hours total cutting and sewing, these girls completed 14 quilts! Pretty amazing since some of these girls are very new sewers.

So between sewing, kids and starting construction on my new sewing room (got the foundation almost done this weekend) and work, life has been pretty insane.

I will post again soon with more pictures of the girls scouts and their quilts as I am hoping to get some finished shots tonight at our meeting!

blog again soon,

Ginny

I am so excited!

Well, after a whirl wind day yesterday I am now the proud new owner of a Grace GMQ, and a Babylock Quilters Choice Pro. What a wonderful day! Here is a photo of the Babylock

I do not have a picture of the Grace Frame yet as it is in pieces in my husbands shop, I willl get it together this weekend and post a few pictures then!

Thanks for stopping by,

Ginny

2008 quilt show

April Fools

Wow, It's hard to believe that today is April 1st, it is bleeping cold out!!!
It has been a few weeks since I have been on, I am finally kicking this rotten cold! On my 4th week, enough all ready I just want to breath!
So I had my birthday, what a great day, for 40 it was a day that I will remember for a long time. I took the day off I figured that if I am ever going to close the daycare for a birthday this is the one, I probably won't do it again till I am 50! So I took the day off, visited with my kid sister for a bit, ran off, had lunch with my bestest friend Wanda, and my other bestest friend Stuart (hubby). Then came home and lounged around till the girls got out of school. Now comes the fun part.
Picked the girls up and headed to the annual quilt show, What a blast, I will soon be posting a slide show of all the pretty quilts, so keep an eye out. Morgen and I had so much fun, she and I shopped and shopped and shopped some more, ended up with dozens of Batik fat quarters for a quilt I have been dreaming of. I also got to play with a Baileys home quilter (mid arm machine) nice, and the SuzyQ quilting frame. Art and Sue are two of the nicest folks I have ever met. I will be doing business with them in the future, I am very taken with their frame. I did play with the HQ sixteen long arm machine also..oh my love... but alas 7,000 (yes that is thousand) is a bit out out of my price range!
The other big news of the day, I purchased my sewing room, Yup the whole room! So we will start construction on the foundation this up coming weekend, the "room" arrives the end of April and we are hoping to have the framing, walls roof and electric done by the end of June. We will see... So I will have a place for my latest find... the pinnacle of my birthday actually happened today, I was given a great deal on a Grace GMQ http://graceframe.com/gfxoops/modules/sample_module_1/
And then Stuart found an almost new (11 months old) Babylock Quilters Choice Pro with a stitch regulator for less than a thousand,
http://www.babylock.com/sewing/quilter-choice-professional/

It is not as big of a set up as I had hoped for, but given the construction costs we are facing and the fact that I was going to have to wait at least a year or more before getting a frame and machine at all I am delighted. Plus when the time comes to upgrade to that HQ I should be able to sell the smaller set up for not too much of a loss. So all in all I feel it is a good investment, Plus if the girls continue to show and interest in quilting maybe a second frame is a good thing.

So that sums up my very exciting birthday Wow it really was a big week!

Hope every one has a prank free April fools.
Ginny

Is it Friday yet?

Well, this is just a quick sign in tonight. Still down with my cold, but due to State requirements HAD to o in for CPR class tonight, so took the girls, Torrie needed to re certify anyhow, Morgen I just could not leave at home alone for 4 hours, so she went to the class kicking and digging her heels in (figuratively) of course once we got there she was totally interested, ended up taking the class and got certified also. So that was the end of our very long day, and the end of a very long week. I took tomorrow off to try to beat this cold into submission, wish me luck
Ginny

Ginnys Quilts Slideshow

I should have bought stock!

I have always been an avid reader. I love books and I have passes that love onto my children. I remember reading C.S. Lewis, Narnia in 4th grade, over and over that year. I also remember the summer between 6th and 7th grade, I found a Novel, it was my older sisters I think and she was angry that I read her book, she tattled to mom, mom said that if I was old enought to understand it I was old enought to read it. (Thanks Mom!) And I blossomed. Books are almost an obsession. When the Girls were little I never had time to read with kids 18 months apart you don't have time to do much of anything. So I gave up my books, fast forward, the girls got older, but I had the daycare, still not much time to read, but then I found ebooks, Ah Ha I could read in the dark because my ebook reader had a back light, I spent two years getting about 4 hours of sleep a night...YAWN!



The point of all of this you ask, So I started quilting, and that as we know takes up huge chunks of time, and sometimes it is a pretty mindless thing. Now fast forward to Christmas 2006, having teenage daughters they always want the latest gadget, So for Christmas I got them MP3 players. Well, Stuart and I played with them before Christmas, Wow these little buggers are cool, so we both got one also, Stuart for his music, me well I figured I would put some music on, but as I am not a huge music buff.... Then I got to looking in the package and there was a free trial membership to a internet site called Audible.com. Audible specilizes in you guessed it audiobooks in MP3 format! I was in HOG HEAVEN. thousands of books, in every genre, by some of my favorite authors, unabridged, well read... I can sew, cook, clean, and listen in bed! WOW, Ok so I average about 3 books a week. Yes it is an addiction, Yes it annoys Stuart that I have to pull an earbud out when he talks to me. But to feed my reading soul, that is bliss. I do not even want to calculate how much of my paycheck has gone to the Audible site all I know is I should have bought stock.

Ginny

http://audible.com/