More bazaar stuff

Seems I only get on here once a week to post. I've been busy anyway and when I'm not busy I'm still sewing for the bazaar. I feel like it will never end but it's on Nov 29 so I know by December we'll be finished.

This past week I made another small table runner, 4 more sets of wine glass coasters and 2 sets of microwave mitts (they want 6 pair). I've also been playing with sock monkeys which is more fun than work. They aren't quite finished. I need to put hearts on their chests and the guy in the middle is going to get a tie. I thought of knitting them vests but it's just too much work right now.

I'm going to miss having them sitting on the couch. They have such neat personalities :0)

I went to a sale at my LQS yesterday to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Now I know there is never that much of a deal there but I did manage to hit the jackpot with one thing. We were given paper bags (lunch size) and there was a pile of fabric - fat quarters, strips, etc. For everything we could fit in a bag it was $5. There wasn't much I wanted but I did take a few things that would make good microwave mitts or kleenex cozies plus I found this end of the bolt pillowcase piece. It wasn't exactly straight but I think it will be okay anyway.

I can't remember his name. I just know he has a cartoon show... well, obviously a cartoon show, what else kind of show would he have? *LOL* Original price for this (print on both sides) would have been worth at least $5 so that alone was worth going for. 

A month or so ago I got 3 advent calendar panels on eBay for $11 ($3 each). I just thought they were so cute I couldn't not buy 3 of them. I gave one to a quilting friend when we went out for lunch, I want one for myself and I made this one for the bazaar. The cookies are felt backed. Each day you take a cookie from the calendar and put it in the bowl at the top of the calendar. You can put snaps or whatever so you can hang some of the cookies but if whoever buys it wants to do that they can do it themselves. 

I'm whittling down my list bit by bit. I have a top for a wheelchair lap quilt but no backing fabric so that may not get finished. 

I'm not done last months  Brutus much less this month's two - although I do have them printed out. And I haven't started Val Laird's last one either. My daughter's quilt is still sitting there crying out to be quilted on again. 

Actually my daughter and husband finally found a place to rent. They've been looking for months cause they place they live in now is horrible. It's very depressing and is just a house that someone bought for the property so is in bad shape and not going to be fixed. There are 3 other houses on the block that a developer is waiting for to go up for sale and then he'll buy this one as well and put up new houses. 

We all use the same hairdresser (gotta love small towns). He has a house with a carriage house out back, which is the latest style here. His tenants are moving out and he'll rent it to them AND let them have their cat. Otherwise all of the apartments in town are owned by one developer with a no pet policy. Not really fair to people with small pets like a cat but I guess it depends on the pet, even cats can make a mess of a place. 

A couple of you asked about Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books. I loved them and I've just put up my blog review here.