I Have Been Busy

I have been busy being a NJROTC Mom, sun printing and sewing table runners.

This is my son JB after doing 73 push ups and 75 sit ups. This the PT Team with their trophies and ribbons. This was the first time the unit hosted a PT Meet and they did a great job. There were 7 NJROTC units and about 100 cadets. The Navy Seals were the leaders and they sure did have fun cheering on the cadets. The cadets swam, ran, did pull ups, push ups and sit ups. The Seals showed a film and talked about being a Seal. A few of the cadets had a hard time with the heat and humidity.


More sun printing. I am happy how the orange one turned out. The yellow one is a bit light but that will change when I quilt and embellish it.

This is the template I use to make table runners. My hubby made this for me over 15 years ago and I use it a lot. I surge all the seams when I make table runners, place mats and coasters.
I go over all the seams that have been surged with a tight straight stitch just for extra strength. I want to make sure all the seams are strong and do not rip open after washing and drying many times.

Almost finished. All that is left is the quilting.

Sun Printing the Sun

Today I did a sun print of a metal sun wall hanging that was my moms. I will add this to pile of "winter to-do-list".

Debbi
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WIP - Wednesday 08-01-2007 With Lots Of Photos

Flower Garden 3 is ready to embellish, hand and machine quilt. Flower Garden 4 has the new sky fabric I made the other day. I will keep this one on the design wall for a few more days to decide if I need to add more flowers.

It is hard to believe today is the first day of August. As I was taping and painting this piece of fabric I was sweating up a storm. Today is going to be almost 100 and I love it. After this post I am going in the pool and may not get out until the sun goes down. Do you think my boys will bring me lunch or something to drink?

I was not sure what the fabric would look like under the tape. It is OK and now I have more space for surface design.

These are from the other day and are now washed, dried and ironed. The colors are not a bright but I still like how they turned out.

Because I am spending so much time outside sun printing, floating in the pool and working in the studio I am spending very little time on the computer. Thank-you for stopping by my blog and leaving comments. I really appreciate you taking the time to leave comments when I am a lurker and just reading your posting.

Debbi
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©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts

Sunday: Lazy Dog and Sunprinting

This is one of our dogs Crystal. She comes in every day in the afternoon and takes a nap. Many times she jumps in our bed and with her head on hubby pillow naps for an hour. Today she napped in the den with son#1. This is how Crystal sleeps most of the time.
The sky was very blue, no clouds and we had very little wind so today was a great day to sun print. I did two yards of pinks and two yards of green. I cut the fabric up to iron and will take photos tomorrow.

Debbi
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©2006 - 2007 DubiQuilts