Quilting Like There's No Tomorrow Part 2

The Quilt Story continues….

I've been living in a perpetual state of guilt that I haven't been able to finish most of the stacks of quilt tops stored in my cabinet. I’ve tried and I really have but from the look of it all, the speed is ever so slow.

However, I promised myself to make a baby quilt for my new grandson, Trevor Kent, and I which I did and am so happy to have at least the quilt top assembled and machine-pieced. For the quilt’s center, I used a block with patchwork of a baby crawling, which I made way back in October 2003. Voila! The quilt looks vibrant and wonderful! I have a big smile both on my face and in my heart!

My DIL was delighted to see the quilt top completed and looking forward to see the finish result! You see I am so touch to see how happy my DIL is with this very special quilt made for her first born. This quilt is made with lots and lots of love and only grandparents who dotingly love their grandchildren wold know what that words mean.

Now, the next task is the process to put on the batting and backing and sewing in the motifs. Well, I am going to sew a very simple motif so as to ease myself from spending too much time working on just one quilt. Remember, I said earlier on that I have stacks of quilt tops squeezed inside my cabinet! LOL!

There goes Part 2 of the quilt story and watch out for Part 3 that will be shared with all here soon. Smile.

Quilting Like There's No Tomorrow

Howdy! I have been amazed at how busy I had been lately. In December 2006, there was Christmas preparations done and Christmas Day was celebrated with a low key then. My third grandchild’s early arrival was not in our 2006 plan, so we were all caught unprepared. My daughter in law’s due date was supposed to be in February this year but seemed that was some arithmetic error somewhere.

Well, December last year was celebrated with both happiness and sadness. The happy and sad events were that two little angels was born in the festive season of Christmas but one of them passed on to have Christmas with angels and saints in God’s beautiful heaven.

Then came the Chinese Lunar Year of the Pig (my Chinese Zodiac Year) and the activities that kept me busy (besides the usual routines, of course) was taking our family for visiting dear friends who invited us to their “open-house”. Usually like any festive seasons celebrated throughout Malaysia, sumptuous Malaysian cuisines and cookies and beverages are served. On Chinese New Year, my young nieces and grandchildren looked forward to receiving “ang pow” from the host of each celebrant. Besides visiting, my grandchildren and I were chasing after the Lion Dance performances around town! See, the New Year started with lots of interesting events and basically I could hardly find the time to ever continue with my interests and hobbies like gardening, quilting and sorting out boxes of stamp and coins collections.

It saddened me to see all those piles of unfinished quilt blocks, tops, scraps and stitchery blocks lying on the quilting table. Everyday I will be looking at the same sight again and again. J Guess I didn’t think about getting them finished once the top is finished. Heck!

Well, I have to admit that having several quilt tops (and by that I mean between 10 queen sizes and 25 small) quilt projects going at once I can pick and choose what I am in the mood for on any particular day!

I promised myself last year that beginning year 2007, I must spend time on my quilt works and get at as many small quilts completed before Christmas this year. Now that job did not start immediately any less! Duh! What is wrong with me? Am I having a terrible time management or is time managing me instead? I am itching to get my hands on those quilts since then but seems that these fingers are getting shorter and the person is getting lazier.

I must not let whatever the reasons maybe let me down. So, today I started with cutting and piecing blocks (yet again, more UFOs) for my new grandson. The story about this baby quilt continues and I will share with you the end story soon (hopefully). This quilt got to be finished so I can give it away as a gift at my grandson’s baptism day.

Till then, happy quilting to all quilters and to all the hobbyists out there enjoy whatever you are doing. God bless and wishing you and yours a Happy Lent Season.

Netball

The company I work for is celebrating it's mega work-life-balance activities and this year will be organising a series of outdoor and indoor games in the run-up to April's Mega WHPH. Eligible staffs are encouraged to participate, both in the run activities as well as during the mega event in April. The "heat" of most of the event has started as early as March and I am participating in the netball game. Netball is not a foreign game to me but a new sport for me for the reason that I have never ever play netball before in my life! Due to the shortage of players to form a team in our department, I was invited and I voted myself voluntarily as "reserve". Well, my team members believe I could do better than as a reserve player so they put me as "centre" and/or "wing defense" player.

Prior to the BIG Day, we learn more about the game rules; we practised, keep fit and held a few friendly game with other teams. Our first game was held on Friday evening 9th March at the Petroleum Recreation Club's netball field in Lutong. We lose in our first game but we won on another, which was held on Friday evening 16th March at the Basketball court of the same club.

Now we are looking forward to more competitions lined up for the next few weeks until April 2007.

The above picture was taken during our first game. Those ladies wearing yellow bibs are my team members and see how aggressive they all are! LOL!