December 23, 2008

Well, we're here! Kasey and I arrived safely at Mom's around 9pm. I forgot the bag of fabric I wanted to use to make QSnap covers for my 11" snaps but I remembered everything else. Mom was finishing up my little brother's quilt and I stitched, YES! I stitched, her initials and the year onto the border for her. It took about an hour, but I finally got it done. I guess that tells you how enthused about stitching I am right now. It's a good thing I'm not going for 100 finishes next year, at the rate I'm going!

Mom and I watched The Redneck 12 Days of Christmas, My Big Redneck Wedding, and Larry the Cable Guy's Christmas Extravaganza on CMT as she was tying the last few knots on Ben's quilt. She took it downstairs to wash it but decided to lay it out on her bed to see it first. As she was checking to make sure the batting wasn't bunched up anywhere she felt something hard in one corner and started laughing. She said a pen came apart as she and Ms. Sheila were working on it, but they never thought to look for the pieces. The ink cartridge and the endcap wound up inside the quilt!! Back upstairs she went and ripped out the seam to remove the pieces of the pen. I'm glad she thought it was funny, cuz I didn't want to deal with a ticked off Mother last night! All's well now as she got it stitched back together. NOW it's finished, washed, and ready to give to Ben on Christmas. I will get a picture later Wednesday so you can see Mom's completed UFO. She started this thing in 1984 and says now that it was way over her head and she'll NEVER do another! It looks great, though!

The slump continues, so there's no stitching other than Mom's initials on the quilt. I'll get back to it sometime...

Before I left home I opened Day 23's gift. Amy sent me some beautiful French embroidery scissors with purple handles! Now I have three pairs of scissors, a true collection! Hehe.

I'm pressed for time so I'll have to put double the freebies on tomorrow's post. I haven't run out of links so I will continue after Christmas as well. If you find any that I haven't posted, just email them to me at

bethxs@yahoo.com and I'll add them to future posts. I have lots of saved files of freebies on my computer but I'm reluctant to put them on my blog for fear of copyright infringement, so please only send web links, not files.