Better World

I love books.  I really love old books.  I have been collecting since I was 18. My dream is to someday have a room for a library.  Wood floor, rolling ladders with books from floor to ceiling, and nice cozy chairs or loungers with a large window for daytime and a good lamp for night.  It would have to have a small study table as well.

I have been getting alot of books from betterworld.com.  They have a sale that goes on until tomorrow night. 4 books for $10.  I always try to get hardback books.  When you click on a book, you get several options from used very good to not so great as well as new choices.  The new are always current retail.  I have found some great ones.

Quilt Update

Here is RJ's finished quilt/bedspread.  I ended up putting 20 planes on it.  They are about 12" long.  I quilted the lines for a sort of wind effect.  The hardest part was quilting around the planes that overlapped the fleece clouds.  It is very thick and the stitches are quite a bit longer than I would like.  I like to fit 7-9 stitches on a quilting needle.  Nice and tight.

RJ seemed excited to get his airplanes.  He will have a nice warm quilt that will be hard to kick off in the winter.  I used a 12 oz. bat, so it is pretty thick.  As I was binding the courderoy, I was even getting a little hot with it on my legs.  It was Aug and pretty hot, so should be pretty snuggley for him.

It took me a little longer than usual to quilt as we went to St. George for 3 days.  I should have been able to knock it out in 3 days, but it ended up being on for a week.  I really liked the wide chocolate binding.  I ended up cutting it 5" wide so that it would be 2" wide on each side.  I machine stitch to the back and then hand finish the front with mitered corners.  The 20" drop makes it so you curve the corner, so no mitered corner there. I sew the miters by machine before I turn it to the front.  It gives a nice clean line.  Love miters.  They finish it off nicely.  I think they are well worth the little bit of extra time.