to boldly go where no one has gone before......

yes, it seems that what began with the working title "Solar Power" is transforming itself into the solar system. Notice the 9 varied sized beads that have now been stitched to the background -- the trickiest one was Saturn.....one small yellow jade bead and one lavendar glass disc (second from the top on the right side)....this one took the most thought of all to get the impression. Have started the rays of the sun, and the blue lines on the backing are the rough guidelines for the colors, this will begin around the sun and spread upward with yellows, then orange, then red, purple, blues to black at the farthest back edge......light decreasing as you move away from the sun. Like many of these big pieces seem to do now days, there's a story to be told. This will probably need another title by the time its finished....suggestions?





Question for the day: What do you do with 2 pair of 36 inch long green and white striped socks? Well, the plan is to turn them into an entry in "Queen Rutabaga's 2nd Annual Sock Monkey Contest" !! Thankfully the entries don't have to be monkeys (euwwwww!), but any animal of our choosing......I'm working on an idea that should be fun, and hopefully I'll have enough time to figure it out and get it finished by the deadline for the entries sometime in the fall.

I finally got the first set of road stripes done on the Car Quilt. The idea had begun that I would piece all of the little black and white pieces for that section, but it quickly became clear that the first method tried would not work. After fussing with the problem for a couple of days, the Knight in Shining Armor (hereafter refered to as KISA!) aka the DH, made a suggestion which I tried and it WORKED!!! Yeah KISA!!! So now we're ready to work on section 3 -- the grass "outfield", which means I get to go through the fabric stash for the right group of fabrics for that section.

Spent so much time on other projects last night that I didn't get a whole block quilted on the Cat Quilt, so I shall have to make "restitution" on that one today.



We received an invitation from Teddy Bear and Friends magazine to submit a picture for a special issue they will be doing in the Spring of 2007. Titled Teddy Bear Faces, it will have a picture of one of our bears and our contact information. This is the picture we submitted this morning.



Its nice to be working again!!