Wordless Wednesday

 

Some More Pictures

This quilt was pieced several years ago. I had a "turnover" of Moda's Swanky fabric. It was so CUTE! I couldn't think of anything cuter than PINWHEELS, so it was easy to decide what to do with the turnover.  But it took me a long time to decide how to quilt it. And now that I finally am getting the hang of free motion quilting, I KNEW that the Cabbage Rose design would be just perfect.  

A close up of the quilting...

I used a medium pink thread from Connecting Threads. I like their cotton threads and find them easy to work with. Have you tried their thread? What thread do you use when for your machine quilting?

Have a wonderful weekend!  Happy Mother's Day, Mom--I love you so much!

Finish It Up Friday

It started off like this...
Then the quilt inspector had to test it out.  

 

A little fresh air is good for everyone... 

 

Fragrant Friday

I wish you could be here to smell these wonderful flowers!  

 

If I Can Do It...

...so can you.

No photos in this post, folks.  I'm here to tell you about how I spent the last 3 days of my life, preparing for and undergoing my first colonoscopy. Of course, I like many people have avoided this like the plague. Horror stories about the prep abound, and they acted as a pretty strong deterrent. And every time I scheduled the darn thing, some family crisis came up and the plan had to be abandoned.

But this time I was going to go through with it. Years ago, the prep was a terrible ordeal, and many people avoided having the colonoscopy because of it. But things are different today.  On Tuesday I took two little pills and watched what I ate (low-fiber diet). On Wednesday, two more little pills and a liquid diet all day. Then on Wednesday, in the afternoon and evening, a cup of some fizzy, citrusy drink. Not too terrible at all.  Plenty of time was spent in the bathroom, as some full-scale system cleaning did go on. It was never painful, never out of control, and never horrible. It's true, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night, but I'd heard that the nice nap I would take during the procedure would more than make up for that.

And you know what, it did. They put in some kind of nice stuff through an IV, I was out like a light, and I never knew anything was happening. When I woke up, the nice nurse, Margalit, and my husband, were at my side, with a hot cup of coffee and something to eat. After resting for a while, I was on the way home.

I highly recommend this procedure to everyone over 50. If you have avoided it until now, please go ahead and do it. It could very well save your life.

P.S.  My test went well and the doctor gave me a clean bill of health.  I don't have to see him again for another 5 years. Thank you, Lord!

Woohoo!

Here is something for all you quilters here in Israel--a new source for fabric!

http://www.sewadorable.co.il/

Not available yet, but it looks like the website should be up in June!

Wordless Wednesday

 

 

A Finish and a Flimsy

I put the last stitches on the binding of this quilt last night. You may recall that I was planning to hand-quilt the borders with Baptist Fans, well I did do that part of the way around. Then I realized that my eyes were unhappy about quilting with black thread on black fabric yet again. Not only that, but the fans weren't even showing up anyway. So I did what I do best (lots of practice)...I RIPPED all those fans out! Marked some nice big triangles in the borders and quilted them by machine. And now my little quilt is done. It was fun to make. From a pattern in Gwen Marston's Liberated String Quilts.  All the fabrics in the center were scraps created when I cut the wedges for my Dresden Plate quilt. Aren't they cute?
 

These slightly wonky blocks are now officially a flimsy. The colors really don't show up well in the photograph, maybe because of the light shining through the fabric. The blue is a true navy, and what looks like red is really a lovely dark caramel. But at least you can get the idea of how it's coming out.  

My Favorite Trees

Every spring, I wait for these two trees to blossom.  They are the last ones in my neighborhood to flower, but oh so worth the wait.  

 

having a mother who quilts and blogs can be really fun especially
when they let you post on their blog (thanks mom)
my moms posts are awesome but she skips writing about all the cool things I do...
so thats why i have decided to post today and SUPRISE it isn't about quilts

the best place to start is where the fun starts :)
so i will start around pesach time(passover)
while my mom wrote about nice things like cream cheese and Christine i was doing pretty good thing myself

my nephew(donni) flew in for passover on Thursday the day before yom tov and in order to keep him awake we(me and my dad) took him to yad vashem (the Holocaust museum )
we had a really great leil haseder that lasted till 3 o'clock in the morning
on motzei yom tov we went rock climbing under teddy stadium
sunday afterwards we went to machtesh rimon,machtesh rimon is a HUGE crater with colored sand but we didnt go there to dig in the sand we went to go shooting with bows and arrows(super cool)in the scorching hot dessert

and then for the fun of being frightened we went camel riding,yup camel riding

(on the front camel you may observe me and my nephew and on the camel behind my brother-in law and his son)

after that on monday out of pure curiosity or insanity (somtimes they are the same)

we went to mount hermon to see if there was still snow there and there was:

after that we went to a beautiful water fall and the view from there was breathtaking dontcha agree 

on tuesday we were all really really tired

so my dad and my nephew decided to try and take a water-walk in the late afternoon at ein prat

only one problem ein prat was closed so they drove back home,but on the way spotted a tombstone which they assumed was jewish but after thouroughly examining it they came to the conclusion it was an arab tombstone and then came home so i could say i told you not to go

(im always right,well most of the time)

on wensday we went to netaniya to go paragliding but when we got there the weather was horrible so we had to postpone our meeting with death

(note the cloudy skys)

BUT on thursday we headed off to "CALIBER 3" an anti-terror training organization where they taught me and my nephew to shoot a gun and tried to teach me that my father isnt a moving target

(they didnt really manage that)

                               

(me with a gun)

(my nephew with a gun a word to the wise dont go near him when he is holding a gun he is really good at shooting as a matter of fact he is good at pretty much everything he can do like 50 push ups like they are nothing!)

the next sunday we set off to go windsurfing the weather was beautiful the water was warm and the wind wasnt too strong somehow the minute i got on the board the guy knew i was a dancer because i balanced pretty well my nephew of course was pretty good  at windurfing too

after wind surfing we headed to rosh hanikra

my nephew left monday morning really early and i went back to school on tuesday :(

(talk about super anti-climax)

yesterday yom ha'atzmaut i went to the beach with my friends and then grilled when i came home

today i grilled some chicken check it out:

well,i think i managed on filling you in on what i've been up to lately

untill next time

menucha