how to spend a lazy day

How to spend a lazy day in NYC...

First, to spend a lazy day in NYC, avoid TICKER TAPE PARADES in downtown NYC...
Fun though they maybe! (yippee Yankees!)
(I almost said TWINS! (wishful thinking)
Getting around is a bit of a hassle with happy Jeter jersey wearing fans everywhere...

Spend the day with friends!
like Andrea and myself, having some stitching, tea and muffin time!

Have some show and tell time... ooh and ahh over quilts
(Black and gray Windows on left and the pick up sticks on right)

Admire Charity projects and talk about how you can help in your own way...
(PIXIE DUST QUILT back from Linda at cottage garden quilts)

(these three just recvd today in the mail from Linda, now I have MORE binding to do!)

Head to City Quilter , and try to get out of it without spending a hundred bucks...
then grab some dumplings for lunch...

Then go to ABC HOME and get inspired by all the Christmas decor.. then go back home, avoiding Crazy Yankee fans, put on the kettle, kick up those heals and read your latest Blog giveaway prize...
That's my kind of a lazy NYC day...

(great book by the way, packed with fabulous things)
Thanks Andrea!

plugging along...

I'm plugging away on my stones quilt... Slowly but surely... Can I just say that I am going through an obscene amount of thread to do this! I don't think the KING size quilts I've quilted have gone through as much as I have done on this little quilt! I guess the dog, and more dogs are being quilted out of it!

I hope to get these little place mats done today too. But that maybe wishful thinking...
At least they are ready to go...

Binding is ready for the PARSLEY PATCH... I just love the feather quilting on this, that Linda did... Something to inspire me to keep going on my own little machine quilting adventures....

Here's the Black and Gray quilt, Quilted! Gotta love the zig zags...

And lastly the Pixie Dust Quilt is quilted!! It's on it's way back to me from Linda's I can't wait to see it in person, and get it bound... The quilting looks fab! Linda has always offered to quilt my Donation quilts... I so Appreciate it! Linda, your a doll!
And on a totally different note, Last night, I went along with my hubby to the Sotheby's Modern Art Sales... ( You hear about these sales sometimes or see them in movies...)

It's pretty fun to watch! Here a Kandinsky Painting sold for 10.6 million dollars.... Can you imagine having that amount of moola hanging on your wall? Fun to watch the bidding and the prices go up, up and up!
This little Giacometti for 19.3 million. Fabulous!
Total New York Moment!~