What day is it?

My head is spinning with all that's going on. Fabric. Books. Kids. Oh My!

Just wanted to remind you of the 30 blogs 30 days 30 books tour for Geared for Guys. There have been some amazing posts so far (THANKS GUYS!) Including todays over at Jaybird quilts. That girl is a fast quilter! If you want to see some fun sneak peeks at the book you should hop on the tour now. Plus, there's tons of chances to enter to win a copy of the book! Many of the bloggers posting about the book are excited that G4G is available as an eBook. I'm not very techy but this is a mustin today's fast moving world. But don't forget, it's also available in hold-it-in-your-hands paper too. So climb aboard and head over to Julie's to see what funs she's stitched up and see who's posting tomorrow. :o)

Wanna see?

The full reveal coming soon.  :o)

Jack the Ripper

Last night was one of those nights. I've been going to bed way too late the past few nights and last night was going to be different. I even planned on taking a minor sleep-aid to help clear my mind when my head hit the pillow. My goal was sleep before 10pm.

Yeah, well, things don't always go as planned.

I had just finished another quilt top that is scheduled to be dropped at the quilters this morning. I laid it out on the floor and stepped over to my computer to wrap up a few emails. I was ready to go to bed when I turned to look at the quilt and something just wasn't right. I kept staring at it trying to figure it out. I finally pulled up the template I had done on the computer and there it was- plain as day. I had forgotten a very important element of one whole section of the quilt. The middle section.

ARGH!!!

So at 10pm, the time I was supposed to be laying down to sleep I was instead searching for my seam-ripper. Now, I usually don't take out seams. When I'm working on a small block and make a mistake that block goes into the scrap bin and I start over. On larger projects I usually just RIP the seam. Meaning I grab both ends of the fabric and pull. I've had many a quilting friends cringe at this practice. However last nights project was just too special for either scrap-binning (uh, no!) or RIPPING apart- it is for quilt market after all.

I sat in my chair for nearly an hour picking the seams apart. As I was doing so I sang 'Seam Ripper' in my head to the tune of "Heart breaker". I also tried to think of other silly/funny sayings to replace the word seam-ripper with. Hence the title.

When all was said and done and the clock was bridging midnight my quilt top was done. A quick press I could feel good about the finished product. Now it is morning, much earlier than I would like to be up (almost 8 am :) and I should be getting the back prepped. In a minute. I can't wait to show you this one. Even through all the blood, sweat and tears (there was a little of each) I think it's my favorite of the new patterns. I'm calling is RIVIERA. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Pick a Pic

I'm exhausted today. I was up way too late last night and running around all day. I wanted to post today and my day just got away from me. So I grabbed my camera to show you a little of what's going on here.

A snippet of what's currently laying on my studio floor. 

A cute little prop I found at Michael's today. The perfect color and just what I need for market.

 Sitting right next to my computer to keep me going. Along with a Dr. Pepper, of course.

And this little monster child that just had a birthday a couple weeks ago. She recieved some roller-blades (the first of our children to own them) and is always rolling around. Good thing the sun came out or I'd be yelling at her while she rolls around my kitchen to "Take those things off before I throw them away!"  C'mon, you know what I'm talking about.

Did you stop by John's blog today? It's not too late. Besides, if you want to know who's talking about the book tomorrow you're going to have to check there.  :o)

G4G!

I'm talkin' with PAT SLOAN today at 4pm (Eastern). this link takes you directly to Pat's blog where you can find directions on how to listen there. Hope you'll listen!

Also, tomorrow kicks off the 30 blogs, 30 days, 30 books blog tour for Geared for Guys (G4G as I've started calling it!) The one and only QUILT DAD, John Adams is starting it off. If you want to follow along all month long and enter for several chances to win your own copy of G4G you'll need to go to John's blog tomorrow. He will blog and then tell you who is blogging the next day and so on and so forth. So if you want to know who's blogging each day, you have to follow the blog-hop.

I'm heading out to lunch to finalize our caravan plans for Kansas City (quilt market) Talk to you soon!