T Stands for Tuesday & Fiber Arts and Quilt Show& Christmas Cards

Happy Tuesday Everyone,
      It's T Time again this Tuesday. 
        In this blogging event we join our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth for T. We share a drink related post with friends. 
     You are Most welcome to join us, just show us a photo of your beverage and then link up with our hostess. Find the link in my right hand column.

   This past week was definately an Autumn week-very cool temperatures with rain or cold drizzle most days. Tonight we are to get a frost or possibly a freeze.

   If you missed my last post, I wrote that I want to send out handmade Christmas cards again this year.  With the postage getting more expensive I can only send out within the United States though, which does really sadden me since our group is mostly overseas.  I may rethink that and see how expensive it would be to send out an atc or postcard overseas.  I will post about that if it is doable for me.
    Last year I hand stamped Christmas postcards, but this year I want to make cards with an envelope.  I have some new ideas from Elizabeth I want to try-her Thursday tutorial last week.
   If you would like to swap please contact me with your slow mail address through my contact form here in my right hand column. I have tested that out and it works, for some reason using the contact in my profile is not working. 

   I still have not done anything creative this past week. I did hand quilt a little but I am thinking soon I need to take that down again and off the frame and put it away for now.  Our deer camp is coming soon in early November-our last one, and real soon my friend in Kentucky will be driving up to pick up my big rug loom. and the quilt frame is totally in the way-I know I will miss my big rug loom, but I still have my smaller loom a 30" and also a mini loom to play with. Just will not be able to make anything that takes a heavy beat like rugs, although I wanted to try weaving yardage for clothing-but in the end it's all good and a friend is getting it.

   Hubs is doing well selling things online, so far I am only selling a book or two a week-but I am getting more money for them this way.

    I have been wanting to check out a fiber arts guild event that is more towards the lake for the past couple years-but I don't enjoy going alone-I need to get over that.  
    This year in the same building they also had a quilt show sponsored by the quilt guild in a different city also towards the lake.  My friend (that has the log home)  went with me-we totally enjoyed it.
   This was really a good idea to put both events together I thought. Many times quilters especially only quilt and do not explore other fiber arts-this way a good exposure for both.
   I grabbed my camera and got a few photos of the quilts-but the way they were displayed in narrow aisles I couldn't get the whole quilt and after we were there for about 15 minutes it was packed with people.

  The guild made the show more interactive by giving us a piece of paper with the categories to vote for our favorites. They had already given out the ribbons from the judges so I am thinking they will probably award again from our picks
   They had many categories, sorry I didn't get allot of photos after the crowds came in

The one above and below are more vintage-all hand quilted-the one below was a very large king size with this block-lovely work

The next two are also hand quilted

The one below was vintage

Below was a large quilt-I loved the blocks, and the borders were all appliqued
   There are a few quilts I wish now I would have tried harder to get photos-there were some amazing detailed applique pieces and also clothing.

The quilt area also had some things for sale.
     I had my friend  "model" one of the aprons-I thought these were just too special and clever-made from a large men's shirt-they just cut around things to make this and added some lace-love it!!
    I didn't want to show her face in the photo-but the collar is still attached (you slip it over your head) with the sleeves and the back cut off.  I asked permission to take a photo of one of these.

They had lots of wall hangings, purses, things for your tablets and phones, cute things for baby.

I had followed a blog in the past (she no longer blogs) that loved to make these pin cushions using antique tea cups and things-so I enjoyed seeing these here at the event-someone also made spool holders for hand sewing.

After the quilt event we walked down the hall into a large room for the fiber event. For some reason by this time I wasn't feeling real well-kinda "spacey"  These sudden changes in weather does that to me for a couple weeks. 
     Soooo I didn't get any photos-which would have been difficult anyways as the room was filled with vendors around the edge of the room and in the middle the fiber art guild members had their booths. And by this time the room was packed with people. There was a woven garment I really wanted to take a photo of to figure out how she put it together, but didn't think that would be proper.
   My dye teacher had a booth and she remembered me-I will be watching her Facebook page to see if she has another dye class near where I live. She teaches an indigo class that I would love to attend.
     and Speaking of Facebook if you happen to be on there the guild has a page with lots of photos from this event-just scroll through the posts-there were hand dyed scarves and blouses as well Once we get moved and life settles down I will be looking into perhaps joining this fiber arts guild-looked like allot of different talents. I am thinking their meetings would be around half an hour drive from either where I live now or from the lake house.

   Afterwards my friend and I went out to eat-it was after noon by then. Of course since I am not in the habit of taking photos I didn't remember to take any photos of our lunch-sigh  
   I don't go out to eat very much at all any more, but the Mexican place we went to always has consistently good food and the fresh veggies and guacamole are always fresh looking. and with my no gluten diet I have not gotten sick here.  My friend had tacos and I had the tequittos- fried beef filling wrapped in a corn tortilla.  here is a link with photos to the restaurant

   While we we spent the day having fun. Hubs and my friend's husband met with the inspector at the lake house and also went out to eat afterwards-we had found a really nice place to eat Chances R in a very nearby town to the lake house- Laurie, Mo.  This is one of those country diners that has been around a long time. here is a link  I think we will go here from time to time once we get moved. Very homey place with good food.

I had water with my lunch but since I didn't take a photo I will share a drink I made Sunday evening. Hallmark Mysteries channel was showing a new series Darrow and Darrow. It was good but I fell asleep the last half hour and missed the ending-don't you hate it when that happens?? lol  I found it repeated next Friday so recorded it.  the recorder is totally new for us and I really enjoy it.

I had found a bottle of my homemade Kahlua over the summer that I had made years ago-so the flavors are now excellent and very smooth. So I decided to make me a Kahlua drink with coconut milk and a little cream, with whipped cream on top.

I drank a few sips and decided this was way too rich lol-so I mixed it with my last can of root beer-much better   
     another version of a root beer float 😃

This is Monday morning as I type this up-off to get a pot roast going in the crock pot-perfect weather for it-no snow here as it stopped in Kansas before it got to us

Happy T Everyone

PS I know my post is already long but I wanted to say something about the comment format here on Blogger.
    I have always used embed comment option because my blog post is shown with the comments under it and any one can also reply back to any comment-I really like that feature.
    My friend Barbara for some reason-who knows why with cyber stuff these days-could no longer comment on blogs with the embed option. So she figured out if she changed it to full page she can comment. This full page option shows comments only but on the top of this page you can also click on the blog post title and it will open up with the text-this allows you to read through the post again while commenting.
    Then we learned that the pop up comment option works with the post in the background and a seperate page on top in left corner with the comments form. what I do not like about this one or the full page is now I have no way to reply back to a comment-I really do not like that. Especially since the email notification for me is still not working.
   For now, so Barbara can read and comment on my blog I went to the pop up option.
   These problems are occurring because I believe Blogger must be doing something to their software to make things "better" and don't see it or know that is effecting other parts of the program-this is just a guess-I know nothing about computers except to type on them lol

Anyways I am not complaining about Blogger as I am thankful that we still have a blogging platform to share on-and it is free after all. Google + is getting deleted so am hoping we will not be.