My first Video

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Today I learned that anyone can see where I live on Google Earth. 37 degress 31 minutes, 21 seconds N by 126 degrees 59 minutes and 30.44 seconds E. I can also see Chris' office and the parking lot. I also saw a faster way to get to the coffee shop where Michele and I take our Korean lessons. Yea!
After that, I decided to make a video showing a method for putting piping into a halfsquare triangle block. It went straight to Facebook so I do not know how to load it here. I made a whole set of 5 inch blocks and put them together in a small top.
Chris delivered Michele to a babysitting job and returned 1 1/2 hours later. That gave me time to get a head start on my lesson plans for Wednesday night. So far I have typed 10 pages of notes. I am starting to think I have bitten off more than we can chew in the 2 1/2 hours I have reserved for the class. I may have to re-think the project.

An Invitation to teach

It is thrift store day and I went, but I forgot my blue shoulder bag which carries water, nuts, items that need returning to the library, etc. Thankfully I did have the key to the cafeteria, which I returned. We volunteers went to lunch at Burger King. I had salad. Then we did a little more and broke up for the day. Mary Ann and I got to talking so we went back to Burger King and sat for a couple hours. Then we had to return home to our respective children.
Michele fixed spaghetti and we ate before Chris got home. After he ate, we went to Gate 1 and walked to the coffee shop where our Korean lessons take place. Chris got on his computer while Michele and I listened closely to our teacher. She asked me to teach english to her kids. If I understood her correctly, she wants me to teach 20 7-year-olds in her home once a week. I hardly knew what to say. But I invited her to my quilting class next week. That should be interesting.
Andrea sent me a picture she took during our ski adventure. That's me on the right wearing my brown hat/scarf and green coat.

First Quilt Meeting

Last night after writing to my blog, I stayed up to iron all my fabric and watch 'Excaliber'. Michele warned me that it was creepy and it was, at times. It was trite at times and had some funny lines. They must have changed directors several times during the movie.
Anyway, I got to bed VERY late. Chris had to be up early, and I didn't get up to make his sandwich. I slept right through making Michele's sandwich, too. I got up around 9:30. While working on my e-mail and chatting on Facebook, I got a SKYPE call from my f-i-l who just got back from a trip to Florida. Sounds pretty good to me. I spent the afternoon cutting, sewing and preparing for the quilt group to meet tonight at the cafeteria. After work, Chris drove me to the cafeteria and carried all my stuff. We had to figure out how to use the 'key' which was a rectangular piece of metal. I turned on the lights and dismissed Chris. However, being there alone was a little uncomfortable. No one was on-time and I began to wonder if I'd be alone all night. I had just enough juice left in my phone to call for a ride home. But one lady called to say she wasn't coming and talked until my phone went dead. By that time, other ladies had arrived so I could breathe easy. We all had a great time and it was well-attended even though some people who were expected didn't come. I showed them my idea for creating piping in the middle of a half square triangle block by sandwiching a double-folded strip of red between two other squares and cutting between twin rows of stitching. The meeting broke up around 10 and everybody went home.
I am tired tonight so I think I will leave the sewing for tomorrow.

Good choices

Today was the AFSC luncheon. The theme was Make It, Bake It, or Fake It. Everyone was encouraged to participate by bringing something they had made or bought. These items were arranged around the ballroom and each was accompanied by a paper bag with a label and a slit. Each person who donated an item was given 10 tickets for free. Additional tickets could be purchased and many people did. We went around the room slipping numbered tickets into the bags of the items we wanted most. I won a carrot cake. I also won the teacup I donated (I only put the ticket in to make sure the bag wasn't empty). But that was embarrassing, so I quickly handed the ticket to Pam and let her claim it.
Prior to the luncheon, they had vendors set up. I bought fabric as usual, but got away with only 17 pieces instead of 20+. I also had a tri-fold board set up for announcing my class. But only three people signed up. The traffic was unusually light. I think they were all in the ballroom examining the donations. The biggest prize was a dinner for two with the base commander and his wife.
Afterwards I washed and dried all the fabric I bought. I made a list of all the class participants and put them together on Yahoo so I can send them e-mail reminders. I read through my e-mail. Chris came home and we had supper, including the carrot cake. Mmmm. A DVD came from Netflix. I watched it on my computer and it almost immediately put me to sleep. It was in English, but I couldn't understand a word of it. I woke up at 10pm alone. Everyone is in bed.
My in-laws SKYPEd me from Augusta Ga this morning. It was good to see Mike and Kelly again. Gotta love SKYPE. It's expensive to call the states, especially on a cell phone. BUT, on SKYPE you can SEE and talk to the person for FREE.
In this photo I am showing my fabric choices for the spring block exchange. The focus fabric is the purple flowered one.

It was like Christmas

Today being Monday, Pam picked me up at the gate and drove us to the ACS building for our weekly meeting. A man from the Bernina place came to do a demonstration. but I missed it because I was in the back room rooting through a big box of fabric samples. It was stuffed so full that even after I put aside a large stack of fabric for the quilt class next week, I could not stuff the remainder back in. I had a ball! After I finished that, the man was almost finished. We did some more cutting for the baby quilts we make, and had lunch. I had brought my sign up sheet and the sheets announing the nights we would be meeting at the cafeteria. I wanted some feedback from the group and it was all good. Then we packed up and left.
Pam drove me to the post office where I mailed a manilla envelop, and then to the middle school where I made sure that our request for the cafeteria had been approved. Not only did they approve it, but they let me sign out the key on the spot! Then I came home and did the e-mail thing and the Facebook thing. That took far longer than I planned, but doesn't it always? Now I must finalize my advert board for tomorrows luncheon and print out more sign-up sheets. I think this beginning quilting class is going to be popular.

Surprise!

We had church as usual, but with the warning that we were temporarily moving to the hospital chapel for two Sundays because the church is being renovated. It looks fine to me.
We spent the afternoon on our computers. Chris left about 2:45 to see a movie at the theater. I talked to my brother AND SISTER via SKYPE. That was the surprise. She doesn't have SKYPE, but my brother conferenced her in. Reception was bad, but my brother and I (being on our computers) could text each other with whatever we missed. Faye, being on a phone, couldn't see our texts, but she is planning to get DSL so she can SKYPE me herself.
After that, I finished the top I started yesterday and made another one out of a really fluffy, loosely woven fabric. That was interesting. Michele paid it the highest compliment by saying she might steal it from time to time. During construction I watched "Marnie", an old film with a young Shaun Connery. And "Dance with Me", which was a rough draft of a movie, I think, because it was out of focus, and the sound was off, and the box was sparsely printed, and few credits.
I just finished constructing and printing annoucement sheets for three events the Yongsan quilting group will hold in the next month.

New top

We slept in a little, then got up for breakfast, only to find that we are almost out of milk. So after the obligatory handling of the e-mails, Chris and I went to post, leaving Michele to do the laundry. (Isn't that why we had her?)
First we went to the thrift shop and got some VCR movies and some DVD's. Then we stopped by the library to return a book and get another. Then we made our way to the commissary for milk and other stuff. We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening watching the movies. While watching several movies in my sewing room, I cut out and started sewing a new top. The fabric is dark blue with a motif on it that appears once every yard. I had bought 2 yards. So, I centered the pattern front on one motif and had the two sleeves share the other one. Problem was, after fussycutting like that, I had a hard time finding a piece big enough for the back. I had to skimp on the seam allowances to do it. Then I found out that I couldnt sew on the fabric. I had run into this problem once before and discovered that if I cover the seam line with paper (or in this case tearable stabilizer) then the machine can make stitches. So even though the pattern proclaims that the top can be made in 90 minutes, I've spent at least 7 hours so far and still have to put the second sleeve in. I'll be so glad when it is done.
BTW I got a message from my cousin that her mother is in the hospital. Please pray for her. Her name is Barbara.