A quilt for me

Well I was very surprised. A friend/quilt customer called and said she had two quilts for me. She lives an hour away, and happen to be comming to town. I was not home so she left the quilts with her mom and left a message. It took me a few days to get there to pick them up. Her mother said "You really need to look at the purple one." She knows how much I like purple and would love to see her next quilt. She is quite the quilt artist. I always tease my customers that when they bring me a purple one they might not get it back.

Well I got home and opend the bag and there was a quilt I had already quilted and it was finished with it's binding on it. On the label I found that it was for me. I do all her quilts of valour quilts and she decided to do one for me. I love it. Here is a picture.

Another Son Married

Well the wedding was beautiful. We had lots of fun. Fortunately my back held up. It was wonderful to see our grand babies. They were all sick though and now we suffer with the crud they have. Hope I get over it soon.

Here is a picture of us with the bride and groom. Doesn't our son look handsome in his Dress Blues?

Wedding Hanky

Well I finally finished the wedding hanky for my d-i-l to be. I will presenting it to the bride, tomorrow, her wedding day.

I embroidered this card and then you slip the hanky in.

Inside it has the poem. I also put in a copy of the instructions on making it into a bonnet when the time comes.

AZ, Parties & Red Bell

Well we went down to AZ and visited my folks & grandmother. We had a wonderful time, except for my back kept me from doing much. Got a little sun burn. Delays getting home, do to Denver weather. Arrived in the middle of the night to 14 degrees and a frozen car.

Since we have been home it has been party and work and rest. Still had some customer quilts to finish, but can only stand for so long before I have to rest my back.

Last week I had a quilt guild Christmas party. We had lots of wonderful food and fun. We also exchanged our friendship blocks. Only 17 of us participated. We had to make 17 blocks. I chose to make a Christmas Stocking and I embroidered their name on the cuff. Here are pictures of our blocks.

Saturday was up to Spokane for wedding prep with my d-i-l to be. Then back home to clean up and dress for my husband's company Christmas party.

Sunday I had a Christmas brunch to go to with the quilt shop I work part time for. We did a gift exchange. I tatted another bell for the employee whos name I had been given. I did this one with red thread and red and white beads.

Another Bell

Here is a picture of the bell I just finished. I is one of my favorite bells of Terrys to tat. It will be going out in the mail to................

Still working on my d-i-l to be's hanky.

Snowflakes, Flowers and Kleenex Things

Well I have been so busy, I have not had time to update my blog. This is the busy season for my quilting business.

Plus having a son getting married in December.

Their wedding colors are navy blue, white and silver. I embroidered out lots of snow flakes to decorate the reception area.

Then I tatted her some flowers from Linda S Davies' book "From Petals to Pearls" These will go into her and her bridesmaids bouquets. I will leave it up to her how she wants the flowers to look. The are bendable.

I am still working on her wedding hanky. Here is how her edging looks so far.

I also made a Kleenex case for the mother of the bride.

Broccoli, Teaching & Baby Quilt

What a week I had.

I tried to grow broccoli for the first time this summer. Since my husband and I and our golden retriever love it so much. Well it likes cooler weather, and this year we have 105 days. So I crew weird broccoli. Here is a picture of what I harvested off of 4 plants.

I had to wait for the thread to come in, so that I could finish quilting the Latte quilt. Finished it on Friday. While I waited, I worked on sewing projects with three young ladies. (8, 10 & 13). They wanted to sew something for the fair. I thought we could do potholders, but the girls wanted to make wall hangings. Each picked a different kind. The 8 year old was doing dimentional pinwheels. The 10 year old was working on a patriotic friendship star. The 13 year old was doing some fusible applique cats. We worked from 1-6 for three days. We had lots of fun, but the teacher was drained by the end of the day. We have three happy new quilters who will have wall hangings to enter in the fair.

I finally finished the binding on our new granddaughters quilt.