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Quick Update
May. 11th, 2007 02:07 pmWell, quick inasmuch as my home internet will go quick. Then again, I am down in the basement, so it's going to be a little slower. On the positive side, this is doing wonders for my mad Spider Solitaire skillz.
I finally unearthed the quilt I've been working on for two years. I took a quiltmaking class my sophomore year of college where I made a twin-size quilt top. I put it together with the batting and bottom part and I've been hand-quilting it ever since. To be fair, I've had to take time off from quilting during school because I just didn't have the time to sit and quilt. It is nice to have something for my hands to do while I watch TV. I get really fidgety when I'm just watching TV or listening to the radio. I always have to be doing something whether it's quilting, playing my computer, doodling in a notebook or nibbling my nails (really bad habit - never get into it). The only bad thing is that I can't take my quilt to church or anything like that because it's so big. I do have some cross stitch patterns I found that I haven't started, so maybe I'll start putting those together.
Also, something really sweet happened when I came home that I haven't mentioned yet. When I went down to my room last Sunday from being gone, there was a small stack of stapled-together papers sitting on my dresser. It was actually some computer paper that my 11-year-old sister had drawn a story (it's called "Fight Over a Kitty") on and gave to me as a welcome-home present. She wanted to sit down and tell me the story because it didn't have any words - just some really cute drawings of a couple of puppy dogs fighting over a kitty cat (that was the basic story, anyway). She came up with this story on her own and drew the pictures. Admittedly, it's not going to show up in the children's section at Borders any time soon, but just the fact that it's something she made up and wanted me to have -- *sparkle, sparkle* This is the sister who's had a lot of problems in school, but she can write a story and put it together. She would ace her spelling tests if they could put her spelling words to the tune of a Disney song (name any song/line from a Disney animated movie and she'll be able to tell you which movie and the next line - and not because she watches the movies all the time. It could be a movie she hasn't seen for a while). Yeah, she's a pretty smart kid.
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
I finally unearthed the quilt I've been working on for two years. I took a quiltmaking class my sophomore year of college where I made a twin-size quilt top. I put it together with the batting and bottom part and I've been hand-quilting it ever since. To be fair, I've had to take time off from quilting during school because I just didn't have the time to sit and quilt. It is nice to have something for my hands to do while I watch TV. I get really fidgety when I'm just watching TV or listening to the radio. I always have to be doing something whether it's quilting, playing my computer, doodling in a notebook or nibbling my nails (really bad habit - never get into it). The only bad thing is that I can't take my quilt to church or anything like that because it's so big. I do have some cross stitch patterns I found that I haven't started, so maybe I'll start putting those together.
Also, something really sweet happened when I came home that I haven't mentioned yet. When I went down to my room last Sunday from being gone, there was a small stack of stapled-together papers sitting on my dresser. It was actually some computer paper that my 11-year-old sister had drawn a story (it's called "Fight Over a Kitty") on and gave to me as a welcome-home present. She wanted to sit down and tell me the story because it didn't have any words - just some really cute drawings of a couple of puppy dogs fighting over a kitty cat (that was the basic story, anyway). She came up with this story on her own and drew the pictures. Admittedly, it's not going to show up in the children's section at Borders any time soon, but just the fact that it's something she made up and wanted me to have -- *sparkle, sparkle* This is the sister who's had a lot of problems in school, but she can write a story and put it together. She would ace her spelling tests if they could put her spelling words to the tune of a Disney song (name any song/line from a Disney animated movie and she'll be able to tell you which movie and the next line - and not because she watches the movies all the time. It could be a movie she hasn't seen for a while). Yeah, she's a pretty smart kid.
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
