Stash Count Week 6

I'm going the wrong direction on this stash count. But something is going to happen soon when I start making my next quilt. Something is going to happen when I put the backing on my Spiderweb.

Remember that song from West Side Story? It has always been one of my favorites. Tony is stacking soda bottles in the back alley. He has a feeling something good is coming and he starts to sing...

Who knows?
Could be?
There's something due any day

I will know right away

As soon as it shows

It wasn't about quilting for Tony. For me it's about quilting fabric! I know, how romantic!

But there was a time, 24 years ago. I was a single mom. I'd get the kids to bed and then wander around the house. Many times I'd end up at the back door and look up at the sky. I knew someone was out there. Something was coming.

My wonderful, amazing, kind...I run out of adjectives, husband. There's nothing a words can describe. He has changed my life in ways that I never could have expected. He has helped me become a better me by believing in me and supporting me. He has his faults; I have mine. But I love this man with the kind eyes and the serious and silly side to him.

I am the luckiest woman in the world.
I guess it's Valentine's Day early.

But I digress...

Here's My Report

Stash Count Week 6

Used This Week:  0
Used 2013: 9.5

Added This Week: 6 yards
Added 2013: 24.5

Net 2013: -15 yard

Mosey on over to Patchwork Times (click here) and see how others are doing with their Stash Count this week.

Stash Count Wk 4

I have been putting a lot of time in on my Get It Done quilts.
1.  One more border to go on the Spiderweb, then piece the back
2.  Put border on Marie's Square in a Square, bind and it's done.
3.  Bricks & Stepping Stones has been put on the back burner.
4.  I've "started" the DWR. I pulled it out, read the pattern and looked at fabric templates.

My Stash Count:

Used This Week: 2.5 yds.
Added This Week: 3.5 yds.

Added 2013: 18.5 yds.
Used 2013: 9.5 yds.
Net Amount for 2013: -9 yds. 

Head on over to Patchwork Times (click on this) and see how Judy and everyone else did on Stash Count this week.

I woke up at 4:30 this morning and got up at 5:00. My usual rising time is 6:15. I like morning time because it seems you get so much done, so today was, perhaps, a bonus. I'd rather get my full 8 hours of sleep though. My alarm just started ringing--time to get up and get at 'em.

As I go, here's a couple of pictures to enjoy: The first is a picture I took of Hubby feeding the squirrel at a local park. Next is a picture Hubby took of me feeding a duck. Hmmm, what's missing in that second picture. This is why I have a school picture taken every year, so my grandkids, years from now will know what I looked like.

Wives and Lovers

Here it is Saturday afternoon. I slept in till 8:30--blessed. Got up and immediately went to my quilting room. I have been here for seven hours, except for a little intermission for breakfast.

Just a few minutes ago I went into the bathroom and caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. Yikes! I was still in my "pajamas"; well actually I didn't need a mirror to tell me that. My "pajamas", because I haven't done the laundry for about five days are a grey turtleneck and flowered bottoms of stretch material. It's a lovely ensemble--and no there are no pictures here. I get very cold at night and my flannel pj bottoms and long sleeved tees were waiting in the laundry basket. That's how I came up with this fabulous outfit.

Then there was my hair. Eeek! My bangs were sticking up in four different directions and the rest was just unruly. My husband was in the hallway and I said, "Wow, you've had to look at me like this!" He quipped, "Well I haven't turned to stone yet!" Smart aleck.

As I was coercing my hair back into some semblance of order, I started thinking about the song, "Wives and Lovers." When I was eight or nine, our family lived in Northern California in a rural resort area. My Mom had several Andy Williams albums, one of which "Canadian Sunset." The song Wives and Lovers was on it. I cannot tell you how many, many times I listened to, sang with and danced to that song.

Me, at eight years old

Here I am, brushing my hair and I start giggling as I remember the lyrics. Saying they are slightly outdated would be ridiculously dishonest. I've found the song on YouTube just so you could hear Andy Williams dreamy voice and have some giggles yourself about the lyrics!

By the way...I'm dressed now!