So many birthdays!

June is a busy month for birthdays in our family!  Baby Jack turned 2, and Caleb is now 6!  Mommy had a birthday as well. They traveled to Disney World to celebrate...I am jealous!  But we are going in September...a first for me...so excited! 

Our grand-daughter celebrated her 16th birthday, another daughter turned the big 40 and our daughter-in-law, had a birthday....all of these occured within one week!

Saturday, our quilt guild had an all day "Sew-In".  I got all of my stars made and my quilt top put together for my Patriotic Strippy Stars quilt.  It was a good day to be inside sewing with friends while the thunderstorms as they rolled through.

I decided to start getting out my patriotic quilts for Flag day and the 4th of July.  This is one of my favorites...can't remember the name of it, but it is a design by Barb Adams.  It was made a few years ago at one of the quilt retreats I attended.

Hope everyone is getting some stitching done, and enjoying family times!

Tuesday tidbits

At last, it is quilted and bound!  I made this "Bull's Eye" quilt at least 10 years ago for a class I was teaching for our quilt guild.  Then it spent the next 10 years in the tub of quilts waiting to be quilted.  It will probably become a birthday gift for my son.

Thought I would try to get my "Patriotic Strippy Stars" done in time for the 4th of July.  If I make 3 or 4 stars everyday...MAYBE it will be done.  It is hard to get much quilting done in the summer, the flowers are always calling me to come outside and take care of them!

Hope everyone has a great week, and can find some time to sew!

Magic birthday party

Jordyn celebrated her 6th birthday with a Magic birthday party.  She has decided she likes performing magic tricks and her stage name is "Alexandria".    I decided to make her a magicians cape and she was delighted!  Now she can be a pro!

Happy birthday, Jordyn!

2010 Quilt Festival

Grab a glass of ice tea or a cup of coffee and check out all the lovely quilts at the 2010 Quilt Festival !

This is my entry for the Spring quilt festival.  I made this for a challenge in 2000.  Each member of our quilt guild was given a fat quarter of blue fabric with 2000 printed on it.  We were to make any kind of quilt out of it that we desired.  Since bright colors are a bit of a challenge for me, I just did not know what to do with it.  It seemed to need stars, so I started with the pieced stars.  Then angels came to mind, and these were appliqued on.  I embroidered the phrase: "For every soul, there is a guardian to watch over it". 

It was fun to make, I won the challenge, and it now hangs in my sewing room. 

Clean house or quilt?

Laundry, dusting, sweeping, mopping......hard choices here!  I wanna get this quilt pinned and quilted! 

Quackers anyone?

For the past week, I have noticed a pair of Mallard ducks in my front yard. Every morning when I go to work they are there.  Yesterday, I noticed the female duck walking around in my flower bed and the drake was standing on the steps to the porch.   It made me wonder if they were looking for a place to nest....sure enough, when I came home there were 3 eggs hidden under the iris.  This morning there is another one!  Wonder how many she will lay before she starts to sit on the nest?  The lake is a few blocks away, hope they figure out how to safely get their babies through the neighborhood to the lake. 

I have my courthouse steps sewn together...need to get some backing and get it quilted.  Not such a great picture, but I made the border out of 2 different fabrics.  I love to make blocks and I love the quilting process...but not the pinning so I can get it quilted....major road-block! 

I need to get busy cleaning house...yuck!  Then I think I will reward myself with a card-making class at Archivers this afternoon.  It is too wet to work in the flower beds again.  And more rain this weekend....oh well, it makes for lovely flower beds!

Hope everyone has a great weekend...we are going to my grand-daughters 6th birthday party tomorrow.

Happy Mother's Day!

Making a decision to have a child.....it is momentous.

It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

Hope everyone is enjoying your day!