Happy Holidays

Wishing all my friends a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Lavender Quilts is having a birthday give-away. The reason for her give-away is her birthday is December 27. Check it out. I know exactly about having a birthday so close to any other holiday because mine is New Years Eve.

http://thequiltinggarden.blogspot.com/

Another rescue

This is a 2 year old Chaweenie that was abandoned by his owners when they moved away. I hate people that are so cruel. I am naming him Tyton. He is getting along with Bear really well. They tried to run themselves ragged so far this morning. He has a good home now tho.

I hope everyone has a great week.

Carla Barrett's new class and giveaway

http://featheredfibers.wordpress.com

Carla is a fabulous quilter, designer.....and most everything else there is. I have always loved her work.
She is offering a new Quilt Whisperer class starting January 9, 2012. It's a creative class on quilting designs for all levels of quilters. A must have for either beginners or professional quilters.
Check out her blog.

New puppy

This is my 13 week old Shih Tzu named Bear. He is having a ball catching the leaves as they blow across the yard. But the wind is strong today due to an incoming storm and it's scaring him when it goes through the trees.
He is such a good boy......almost. He usually lets me know when he has to go outside, he can bring his ball to me to roll it for him and he sleeps through the night without making a mess.

As you can see, our trees are starting to drop a lot of leaves that I will have to rake up pretty soon.

I also make and sell quilts and now knit stitch markers. I have made some simple ones that have 2 to a card for $1 and pretty glass beaded ones that are 1 for $1.98.
If anyone is interested in any of them, let me know your color preference for the glass bead ones.
They would make a great Christmas gift along with a pattern, yarn and needles for someone that you know that knits.







I hope everyone has a great week.

More charity quilts

Last time I went to guild (Dogwood Quilters) up at Lake Arrowhead, I gave them 10 quilts for CPS (child protective services). Sometimes kids have to be taken from their homes for their safety. Either from domestic violence, abuse or drugs. Sometimes they leave with nothing but the clothes they have on and sometimes naked. They are each given a quilt (as we can produce them). Something to hold onto.
I just finished putting the binding on the 5th quilt for this month and still have 2 more to quilt. And I still have a lot of fabric to use up.
I am also busy with customer quilts. And yes, I do have time to sleep.














I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend. Be safe!

My mom

This is a pic of my mom taken sometime in the 1960's. She was a beautiful woman but I never really knew her. She was a very busy woman. Having 7 children, cooking, cleaning, feeding field hands in the summers. We grew up on a large farm just outside Mogadore, Ohio. But she took her own life on March 15, 1969. I miss her more and more every day. It's too bad that my kids never got to know their grandmother. Happy Mothers Day mom!

My son wished me happy Mothers Day as he walked out the door for work at 5:30 this morning. Then my daughters, Mari and Nancy called. Plus I had my grand babies since yesterday so it was a very good day.

Bad Blogger!!

Yeah I know. Not a whole lot happening tho.

Get to have the grands on Saturdays now. At least we don't have to pay for supervised visits for 2 hours a week now. It is so much fun to have them here. I really miss them.



Here is a pic of beautiful 11 year old Jessica when she fell asleep in her daddy's lap. Priceless!







On the quilting front. I got 4 quilts in from another town and they were all custom. I am on the last row of the last one now. The drunkards path was all appliqued circles hand stitched to squares then cut into quarters. Beautifully done!!











Here is a close up of the 10 1/2" inner border detail.

This would make a great take-along project.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.