Neptune Finished/Bling Winners

First OPAM (One Project a Month) finish for June. Neptune is tagged, washed, and slung across a chair in the family room. Pieced Summer 2009, quilted late Spring 2010. Thnis one was most definitely a long time coming.

This is my little signature block, lost in the vastness of it's backing

And now, on the machine is Kiwi Jubilee. Walking Foot work done, working on freemotioning in the borders first. Have already burned through 2.5 bobbins of thread. Hopefully I'll finish this one up before the weekend.

This morning I asked the hubs to pick a couple numbers for the bling giveaway. I numbered the comments on the two posts regarding the contest, threw out mine, the hubs, and one of the duplicate comments and the winners are....Bertie and Victoria. I'll shoot you an email, but if you get your information here before I do, send me your mailing address (susanentwistle at yahoo dot com) and I'll get your bling in the mail.

Tomorrow night is our last Guild meeting for the summer and Secret Sisters will be revealed. Now I can see who gave me all the great gifts throughout the year....they were certainly intuitive with a bunch of them (especially the glittery day of the dead skeleton fabric). Should be fun.

Well, I'm off to finish that row of meandering on Kiwi and then into bed to ..... wait, a commercial for 'The OCD Project'.....I LOVE TV!!!!!!!!! Maybe I should have gotten a DVR when I upgraded the studio cable box to hi def...hmmm.....

The Official Paco Seal of Approval

No pins. Binding is on. Don't have the heart to take it away from him to sew on the label. He's sooooo tired. Poor thing.

The quilt show idea fizzled...an hour of highway driving, and though he said he'd go, I could tell the hubs really would rather not. The discount fabric place turned out to be a discount UPHOLSTERY fabric place (good thing I went to their website before heading up there), so that idea tanked as well. What to do.....I decided that we should drive to Baltimore to a quilt shop I've never been to where I could buy some Broder machine thread for applique. This is the best single ply cotton thread for hand applique on cotton, and it's not easy to find--it's made in France, which might be why. At any rate, 9 spools, on sale for under 3 bucks each....I'm a happy camper.  Exactly what I need for my Piece O Cake Designs project.

After that we drove to Westminster, MD to check out Westminster Mall (they have a Belk, which I love to go to when we're in Florida). Of course we had to pop into the Rite Aid that sold only alcohol (but your receipt had coupons on it for prescriptions). Alrighty then. It was a nice summer day, the hubs was driving, the scenery was great and I was able to bind most of Neptune in the car, and I bought home a bottle of French champagne (it was a French kind of day today, oui?). What more could a girl want.

Check in tomorrow for the giveaway winners, and a sneak peak at Kiwi Jubilee. I'm going to review a couple of patterns for some upcoming projects and I'm off to join Paco in Dreamland.

Scissor Bling Giveaway Reminder

Last call for free bling. These are the two scissor leashes up for grabs this week. You've got until the stroke of midnight Saturday night to post a comment and I'll announce winners on Sunday. Again, be sure if your name doesn't link back to your blog with an email on the profile, to include your email address in your entry. Excellent chances so far...only 3 entries.

I've been working on Neptune. A bit more work in the sashing and then I need to figure out a pattern to quilt in the border...something seaworthy might be nice. I've free-styled some 'waves' (and I use the term lightly---VERY lightly) in the sashing.

Tomorrow's adventure is either a trip to this discount fabric store I just heard about that's up in Thurmont (hmmm...maybe I'll run into Michelle Obama...it is right in the Camp David neighborhood...you think she's interested in 30% off already deeply discounted fabric?) or maybe a trip to the Quilters Unlimited show an hour in the opposite direction in Chantilly, VA. Depends on what the hubs is up for....he needs to play chauffeur to make up for playing softball Tues-Fri, and going out with our daughter Saturday night (Grace Jones and the Nocturnals at the 9:30 Club, and next week the two of them go see Patty Griffith and Buddy Guy..a bit of daddy/daughter bonding over beers and loud music). This is what happens when you're conveniently too booked to take me out for my birthday. Paybacks are Hell, aren't they, honey?