I did it...

I did it as Biscuit says. I finished my camping quilt. The seams are not as nice and straight as Mrs H could do but they worked. Here I am trying it out on the floor of the living room. I must say I think it will work very well. It also fits in with the time of the year being orange with black ties for the quilting part. Now I think I can make my tarp tent. Off to see how much the materials will cost.

I did not know...

Two days ago before heading off to the gym I decided I needed to hard boil some eggs. I took a couple out of the container and put them in water and turned on the stove. I decided to go on line and read the news etc. I did that for a while and than started putting my stuff in my gym bag when I heard a muffled pop. I went into the kitchen and my hard boiled eggs had boiled dry. I did not know they could make such a mess when they pop from the heat. It took about an hour to clean the kitchen. I even mopped the floor. I guess I had always better set the timer.

Off to finish my project.

A new Project...

I started a new project making a camping quilt for backpacking. I also purchased the stuff bag kit for a project to do first. The stuff bag was fairly easy to do but the silicon coated nylon was really slick and a little hard to sew. But it came out OK and should function just fine. I have been going slow on the quilt so I don't goof up. I have only had to rip out one seam so far. Down to the last big step sewing it all together and turning it correct side out. I will do that later today.

I am looking forward to trying it out. The idea makes sense you crush the bottom part of the bag anyway and the pad insulates you from the ground. So why not do away with the bottom. Plus it gives you a little more wiggle room. Plus I like making my own stuff. My Pepsi can stove works great. Only weights 1/2 oz and the complete cook set only weights 7 oz. Over a pound saved off my old stove and cook set. If this project works well my next one is a tarp tent weighting in at about 12 oz.

Off to do some pinning and sewing:) I won't show any close up of my seams since I can't seem to sew as straight as Mrs H.

I can't every make up my mind...

I have been looking at the Sony Alpha 100 and the Nikon 40X for months just trying to get myself to buy one. I have after tooooooooo much thinking decided digital is the way to go.

But as my kids will tell you I take a long time to buy anything over $5.00. Went to Borders yesterday to get a magazine to help me decide on which camera. It was $6.95 so it is still at the store. Now today Sony now has a new DSLR the Alpha 700. It is soooooooo nice. And soooooooo pricey. Someday!!!! www.dpreview.com/ Click on link to see....

But on another note my next project arrived in the mail today. A little company called Ray-
Way has kits for ultralight backpackers. Well I decided to try his quilt kit as a replacement for a normal sleeping bag. Again I have been reading about this for, oh about a year and half. And finally decided to buy. So here it is still in kit form. I used to make Frostline kits all the time. They came with all the parts cut out. This came as a pattern, material, thread, and directions. With hand written corrections. Mrs H may get a few calls for advice.

In order to get to the sewing machine I had to clean out Biscuits room. I did not know she had that much stuff at our house. The hall way is full. Another project. She does have a nice little new bed. WB even found a new mattress for it a another garage sale. Along with a new kitchen batteries not included. And a neat trike with a push handle. Mrs and Mr H need to come and take home what you want......

I guess I was wrong...

I guess I was wrong about the garage starting to get cleaned out. On Saturday WB was off to her weekly garage sales. She is very good at finding things to buy at a good price. She had been gone about 30 minutes when she called and said she had found a great day bed for Biscuit. I told her I didn't think that we needed it. So an hour or so later she came home with the new trike. A good buy, I think Biscuit will enjoy riding it. A complete toy kitchen which needed batteries. In the trunk lots of plastic cooking, things and plastic food. Which we washed but I do not know where it is. For most of the day she kept telling me how great this bed was. Well around two I gave in and told her if if was still there to go get it. Well here it is. No mattress, the owner was keeping it for the $700.00 crib they had just bought. I would think for $700.00 you would get a mattress. Off to do some Biscuit room cleaning to make it all fit. Mr and Mrs H you are welcome to any of these great finds. We added the batteries and the kitchen works great even has sounds.