October OMG - spiderwebs!

My goal for this month is to finish up the last three rows on my spiderweb quilt:

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September OMG - done

Found them!

I have been sorting through my piles and boxes and more boxes.  A bit ago, I found the missing pieces buried deep at the bottom of a box I thought I had sifted through before.

I also found the layout, but I remember when I started sewing the triangles together, I forgot to mark which way was up...  So I might need to improvise a bit.  :)


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This past weekend, I finished up the rest of that row:

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September OMG - Halloween spiderweb quilt

Early last October, I took a class at my LQS on spiderweb quilts.  I got half-way done before Halloween came and went.

So I set it aside and moved on.  Seriously, I packed up all of my stash!  ...and the rest of the house too, plus kids and cats, of course!  We only moved one town over, but I was not very organized about packing, so I'm still searching for some things, like the other blocks-to-be.  They are buried in a box somewhere...

I know where the rest of the row in progress is:

I even labeled the pieces so I know what order to sew them in, yay!

As well as the box of scraps I was using:

scraps!

My one-monthly-goal for September is to find those other 15 blocks!   Thanks for hosting, Patty, and encouraging me to sew more!  <3

AUG OMG - DONE!

I completed my goal of taking apart my UFO and re-sewing it.  Now it looks like this:

And the little one that was this:

Became this:

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13 years

Today marks my 13th year in the Air Force.  Only 7 more years to go until I can be the crazy cat lady that I have always wanted to be!

33 and 1/3

Today I am 33 and 1/3 years old.

I "started" this blog in September of 2013 to document my second tour to Korea.  My family and my heart stayed in California that long year.  I think I had posted maybe twice that year...  I was scared it was not going to come out "right".  So I deleted those posts.  Silly me.  Now I do not remember the details of what it was like, to be there alone.  I recall staring at the wall a lot, at the pattern on the door.  I made it into a mini quilt I gave to my Grandma!

I named my blog after the song from "Rent" that goes like this:

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes

Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes

How do you measure - measure a year?

In daylights- in sunsets

In midnights- in cups of coffee

In inches- in miles

In laughter- in strife

I like coffee.  I like lattes even more - vanilla, extra hot!  Cups of coffee seems like a pretty good way to measure things, huh?  But I also like sewing and playing with yarn - all the pretty colors!  I want to be better at taking all the ideas I have bouncing around my head, and actually creating something.

I do not want to waste another day, or 1/3 year*, or 525,600 minutes.   "Forget regret, or life is yours to miss."

*Seriously, I need to get ready now for Christmas because I get so easily distracted.  :P  I only mailed 6 out of the 20 cards I made for New Year's 2017.  And that was in April...!

Aug OMG - UFO from 1997

20 years ago (way back in the summer of 1997!) when I was 13, we moved from CA to CT.  We stayed with my grandparents while my newly-retired from the Marines father and mother looked for a new home for us.  I missed CA, but I enjoyed that summer because I got to sleep in my Grandma Taylor's sewing room!

I made this not-quite-square block:

8.5" ish

And this dinky (4.5" ish x 3.25") little fussy-cut piece:

My seams were not even or straight...

Still, I like the colors I used. These are scraps from Grandma!  My favorite is the one with those purple, green and yellow flowers.  <3

My OMG is to take this apart and straighten it out.  ((extra credit: add border and turn into a wall hanging))    Linking back to our host:  Elm Street Quilts