Quilty Day

I just spent a great couple of hours with my friend, Rhonda, at the Windmill Quilters Quilt Show. We looked at every quilt and shopped the three vendors. Found a great fabric with dogs laying on quilts to use for our dog's quilt/rug for the living room. Also found a new pattern for a tablerunner using charm squares. Looking forward to a Monday road trip to a couple of quilt shops and lunch.

2 for Quilts of Valor

These two will be heading to Alycia who's collecting many Quilts of Valor for distribution next spring. The HeartStrings one is from our summer gathering. The other is from a pattern I found in a magazine. Love how quickly that one goes together too. The fabrics in the red/white/blue one are from those three of use shared at the WI/MN sew-in. They were up for grabs and 3 of us just kept sorting through them and each taking a small amount of each fabric. I still have more to start another red/white/blue quilt and I intend to use this pattern again.

Donation for Paul's Benefit

A good friend of our's has needed to sell his business and move across the country to receive medical attention for a failed kidney. A couple of area fire and rescue departments held a benefit a few weeks ago to raise funds to help Paul. We donated this quilt to the event. Best wishes, Paul. We hope to see you this winter in better health. This is another of the quilts from the summer HeartStrings WI/MN Sew-In. Thanks to Carol for quilting it as she does so many of the charity quilts I complete!

Going to Grace Place

This is another HeartStrings quilt from this summer's sew-in. It will be going to Grace Place in Somerset, WI at Christmas time through a donation by Hudson Heritage Quilters. Grace Place helps families in transition with housing as they move on with their lives. They have used up their money for this year and helped lots more people than they did in 2007.

Granddaughter's 10th Birthday

Here's our Granddaughter with her cousin and her two brothers (our grandsons) along with her birthday cupcakes. Where in the world did the last 10 years go? If she's 10, I must be.....oh, forget that stuff!

One Last Tree

This is the last of my October 2008 fall tree pictures. The tree doesn't show it's colors so well in this photo, but I like the farm buildings in the background.

Another Pretty Tree

Love those reds and golds of autumn in Wisconsin!!

Autumn in Wisconsin

We had some really pretty trees this fall and I just had to take some pictures. As you can see, one shows part of the farm in the background....an additional element I didn't notice as I was looking at the tree.

This quilt top is from HeartStrings and was started this past summer at a WI/MN sew-in at Warren Town Hall. Everyone liked how it turned out using HeartString blocks and a cheater cloth panel.

Quilt of Valor

On November 4, General Election Day, the library was honored to have Cross Lutheran Church hold a Chili Feed with Pie and Ice Cream, craft and bake sale, used book sale and a booth set-up by the local Tastefully Simple customer representative. With all the events and matching funds from Pierce-St. Croix Thrivent Financial over $3500.00 was raised for our new building. It was a wonderful evening for visiting with friends and neighbors while supporting the building we hope will become reality in the next year or so. At this event I presented Kim Gunderson, Tastefully Simple representative, with a Quilt of Valor for her husband who has recently returned from service with the National Guard. He's been on a couple of deployments and has served his country well. Above is the quilt I presented them with because I felt the heart and home theme was suitable for a family happy to have Dad/Husband home again.

Wayne's Foot is Healed

On October 8 Wayne was released from his orthopedic surgeon with a well healed foot. He still has the plate and screws in the foot. They will remain there unless they cause him discomfort in the future. He talked to his boss at work the week before and asked when he should plan to return to work. With the economy the way it is, the boss said "Prepare for lay-off instead of returning to work." So October 9 was Wayne's first day of lay-off for the 2008-2009 winter season. He's been continually busy since then with fall harvest and preparing the farm for winter. He's loving the situation and not complaining at all. This pre-retirement stuff is very good.