Quilts finished, The Idiot's Corner, It is Hot

It is Hot...............
Southern Louisiana.........is it hotter than normal?   It feels like it.  I can't wait for winter.  I am sick of my summer clothes, I am tired of being hot.  My flower garden needs weeding and there is no way I am going out there and suffer.  It will just have to look bad.  I think everyone up north should put one of those wind "things" that produce electricity in their yard.  Point it towards Louisiana, we would be cool and you could blow our hurricanes (when we have them) back to the gulf.  I think that is a great idea.  The government would probably put it in your yard.  Now, I know if you live in Arizona it is hot, but you don't have humidity.  I'm through whining.  I feel better.

Quilts tops are finished.............

Eyelashes for a Lady

This is a quilt that has been on my design wall for a longgggg time.  I decided I just have to finish it.  Actually I would like to get it quilted.  I probably will do it myself, but at the moment, I have another on George.  This is a Judy Neimeyer pattern.  She named this pattern Tumbleweeds, it is appropriate.  It does look like Tumbleweeds.  But you know me, I looked at it and saw eyelashes.   Those of you who know and those of you who don't know (now do) the curved piece with the points is known as The New York Beauty or Lady Liberty.  Lady Liberty does not have eyelashes.  I decided that if she had a box of false eyelashes they would look like this quilt.  I have not seen Lady Liberty up close, so I don't know what size her eyes are.  If they are really big, and  I sort of think they are, she might have to put all the pieces of one color on one eye.  Wouldn't that be jazzy with one eye one color and the other eye another color?  Dress that lady up................

This quilt was supposedly one of my quick quilts.  I pulled this line of fabric plus a couple more pieces out of my stash.  It really does have a pattern to it.  The pattern is not based on the 4 patch squares but on the 4" block.  I did them by color.  If you set down with a piece of paper you could figure it out.  This quilt took me longer because I was using 3 pieces of fabric with the same background color.  It would have been easier if I had used four and I think it would have looked better.  This is a Sharie scrappy since Sharie cannot do scrappy.  I have not named this quilt top as yet.  I need to give it some thought.  By time, I get the back made, and I am ready to quilt it, I will have come up with something.

The Idiot's Corner...........
I try really hard to ignore what is going on in the world.  But now and then, there is some idiot that comes up with a stupid idea that they want us all to abide by.   A few days ago, I got up in the morning, read my email, went to my news page to see what was going on in the world.  This hit me in the face.  Seattle, wants to ban the words brown-bag and citizen because they are potentially offensive.  I went to Komo News (in Seattle) on the net, found the article and proceeded to tell them what I thought of the idiot who came up with the idea.  Of course he was in the Civil Rights Division, which means he does not have common sense.  I also sent the same emails to Mr. Bronstein of the Civil Rights Division.  Mr. Bronstein did write me back with a huge excuse trying to cover his butt.  That really ticked me off.  Can you imagine going to jail or being sued for saying the words brown-bag or citizen.  All this guy is trying to do, not make this a better country, but gain power for himself. 

Hope you all have a cooler day than I have.  Hope all is well.

The Queen and Etc...........

Yethi - The Queen

Yethi........
This is Yethi.  She think she's a queen.  I went in to make my bed and here she is snoring away.  The picture of comfort.  She had a hair cut last week.  I had the groomer cut her short.  Her hair is a lot to take care of.  She is really a beautiful dog with or without hair. 

Quilting......
I have not worked on my nine-patch this week.  I am binding two quilts.  Both must be done.  One is for my brother.  It is his birthday present.  It is late.  The other quilt is being entered in a show in March.  I am quickly running out of time.  In a few days I will be back at it.  I am anxious to finish the nine-patch quilts, I think they will jazz up my bedroom for spring. 

Log Cabin

I was pawing through a magazine the other day.  I found an ad for this quilt.  It is a Judy Niemeyer design.  I love log cabin quilts and I thought - this is up my alley,  points and logs.  Somehow I must restrain myself from starting this quilt.  I already have a Judy Niemeyer on the design wall.  It is nearly finished, and will be soon.  So many quilts to make, not enough time.

Sulphur.........
Have you ever fought city hall?  I am finding that it is much like doing genealogy.  It is sort of a mystery.  It is hard to understand why they do the things they do.  I believe that probably the biggest reason they do stupid things is for votes.  Another good reason is they are just plain stupid. 

Why would any city in their right minds (speaking of the powers to be) give a drainage ditch to the land owners along the drainage ditch.  They gave it to them for their own use.  Now what would their use be?  For what purpose would they need a drainage ditch?  This ditch is used to take out the rain water from the area.  Those of you who are familiar with Louisiana know that when it rains, it pours, and it just doesn't pour a little bit.  Now, unfortuately, that ditch runs in the back of some property owners who do not take care of their own property so why would they take care of a drainage ditch.  When the drainage ditch has trash, dirt that moves in from other areas because of rain water, weeds grow, there is not room for rain water.   The neighborhood is dependant on that ditch taking the rain water out of the area and keeping their homes from flooding.  Now the neighborhood is dependant on people who will not take care of their own let alone a drainage ditch.   This ditch must be maintained.  I just cannot believe that these people are so stupid.   If you live in Sulphur, you best watch what city hall is doing. 

I hope you all have a good day.