One of my favorites. I had several extra reds leftover!!
Each plate has twenty blades. I made 25 plates x 20 blades =500 blades @ four and one half inches each. Geesh! The finished size will be about twelve and one half inches across. Woo-hoo onto the centers and sewing them on to the background fab by hand.

New project

I don't recall when I started this Dresden Plate quilt. Here are twenty-five plates that are now ready for their centers and to be sewn on a background.

Incorporate -- that's the right word. Maybe I need more sugar! tehe

LOL

I had to laugh at reading my resolution -- I was serious at the time I penned it. Don't think I gave up already - but I really didn't think (at the time) that that was the all-time resolution for most people and it never sticks. So here's my blog update for this -- Since I resolved to get healthy I've avoided more snacks than before...so far I've only had cold cereal for breakfast three times a week. I've eaten one bag of peanut M&Ms, yes, a large bag!!! I've not had more than two glasses of pop, um, that was with some ice cream. No cookies, oh wait!! Yes I did have cookies Lofthouse ones!! Sheesh! This isn't sounding too good is it?! But I did loose weight!! I got food poisoning. Not a great way to loose a few pounds. Made for a miserable night etc. Stayed home from church to recuperate and eat. I was starved. Hopefully those pounds I lost won't find me. Now to figure out how to incooperate exercise into a busy house.

Well this is what happens when I play with techy things. I thought I was getting black and white piano template....tehe...obviously I don't know what I'm doing.

Keeping Fingers Crossed

Good news or bad news - which first? The bad? Well we're keeping our fingers crossed that come the end of January we will still have a job. Dad came home from work yesterday and said that out of the 1300 employees at his company 600 will loose their job by the end of the month. That doesn't count the 350 that got laid off yesterday. All I can say is thankyou Obama. Good news though is - well, this may be a bit premature - but Alissa's doc can hear more than one heartbeat. So she is and will be nervous until next month. She is a great momma though and I know she can handle whatever comes her way.
My goal this year is to catch up. It's not a resolution. Just a goal. I'd like to get the house cleaned up a bit. You know, paint and patch and maybe a carpet in a room or two. Then finish up some quilts. I like making the tops and the rest of the process just hasn't happened. It would be nice tohave some actual quilts "done". And then to get healthy....exercise and eat right. cut out the unnecessary sugars. I don't know, sound like a dream?