Life Happens

I could whine.  I kind of want to whine actually...I think it would make me happy if someone felt sorry for me a little....but at the end of the day, we do what we have to do and I'm a big girl, so let's just start blogging and pretend it's December 21st:

I'm going to retire on December 31!  I've been around since the Paleolithic Era and felt a bit like the Last.Man.Standing. - everyone else I started out with had already retired.  I would have been happy to just sneak off into the night but the "kids" I work with wanted to do lunch and say bye.  I picked a nice restaurant near my home so I could just finish the day in sweats rather than go back to the office.  I didn't want a "retirement party/present" so I decided to give THEM presents instead!  I made a holiday (or in one case: winter) tablerunner for each of them.  They knew I quilted but I hadn't ever even made a baby quilt for anyone ('my bad...).

Since I was mass producing, they all got the same pattern but different fabrics.  On the design wall:

This one is finished:

And the stack!

And of course I spared no expense on the gift wrap!

And here we are at Facci's for lunch!

I did get a lovely surprise - Cierra baked this beautiful cake!

100% edible!!!

November UFO and more Holiday quilting...

No surprise here - the October UFO wasn't even touched.  So, now we have November and the number is 12...and this top is to be quilted.  And once again, I don't see that happening...the biggest reason again this time is that I don't already have a back.  It could take me the whole month to get a back together and squared!

I'm still working on my Holiday tablerunners - realizing not everyone celebrates Christmas:

...along with season 2 of Outlander!

Still Working on Christmas Gifts!

Still October and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!  I'm working on Holiday tablerunners and I just finished quilting them!  Next up (and last up!) is the binding...Can.Not.Wait.

Quilting:

And a finished stack:

Is it Christmas already????

Hell has officially frozen over - I'm working on holiday tablerunners!