More Quilt Show Entries

The first quilt is my version of a Sudoku quilt. It's done in Oriental style fabrics and quilted by my friend, Rhonda. She did wonderful free hand Baptist Fans on it. This is one of my favorites of the quilts I've made. The next one also has some Oriental fabrics in it. (They are my new favorite type of fabrics.) It was started at an August Mystery Class our guild held. I was a little disappointed in how the colors all worked out. I would have liked the Orientals in the body of the quilt to have shown more. The next one is called Barefoot in the Park and is done with 2.5" strips and was a guild project too. Again my friend Rhonda quilted it. It's got lovely free-hand feathers in it. She quilted it as a gift to me for my 2009 birthday and our wedding anniversary. Thanks, Rhonda. You're the best! The jacket as you can see, if you look closely, is not done yet. I photographed it for the show entry with it just laying on the floor piece on top of piece. Hope to work on this Wednesday and finish it up. It will be donated someday to some charity cause.

The Quilt Show is Coming Soon!

It's less than a month away and there's still work to be done to get ready. The pictures here are some of my quilts that will be in the show. I still have labels to attach, a jacket to finish and a bag to start and finish. Not to mention some Silent Auction donations. Looking forward to our speakers, Karen McTavish and Sandi Irish. Life is busy!! The red/white/blue quilt is a wedding quilt for a young couple we know where both are serving in the military defending our country. The brown quilts are lap-sized and Quilts of Valor for that same couple thanking them on behalf of the USA for serving in the military. The lavendar kaleidoscope is a friendship quilt from a swap our guild did in the late 1990's. I finally finished it this year.

Grandson's and Their Vehicles

Here are the grandsons farming one day. As you can see, Brandon wants to be the macho-man that doesn't smile. But you also see that if you click quick you can catch that great smile sneaking in. Colin is Granpa's little farmer. He helps feed, opens and closes and electric fences, and of course, drives the Gator! Both are terrific kids, but certainly different personalities. Gotta love `em!

WINTER? ALREADY?

These are the images off our deck this morning. Beautiful, but way too early for those of us that love warm weather. Can't complain too much, we need the moisture. The weather people tell us that we will still have bar-b-ques and great weather. Can they be believed? We hope so!