Well...it's been a long time since I've posted here. With all the talk about the new blogger interface....who knows if you will ever hear from me again! Sounds like Blogger is going the same way as Facebook and it's Timeline.

Just so you don't think I've been sitting on my duff (well I sorta have), I have been sewing 40 x 60 quilt tops for Project Linus. Right now I think I have 14 finished, four are at my friend's house to be quilted. The last quilt I made I gave to my great niece, Carynn, with a pillowcase to match.



This is probably the easiest pattern I have ever used. I found it on MaryQuilts.






The other quilt top that I've used came from a site that I found on the Internet. I get a chuckle every time I think about it's name. Kick Ass Quilts


I belong to a group of ladies that meet the first Sunday of each month. We call ourselves Piecemakers. Each month we do a Block Lottery. Our hostess will pick a block and everyone makes that block. At the end of our meeting, a name is chosen from those that participated, and they take all the blocks home with them. This is a picture of one of the quilts made from these blocks. I loved the fractured look of this quilt. I think one of these is in my future!



That's enough chatter from me. Hope you all are having a wonderful day!

Triadelphia?

On our way to Triadelphia, West Virginia Saturday morning. Going to pick up a new (to us) car for our daughter. Merry Christmas, Sara!!!

Leaving early and need to be back by noon so I can go to work. Wish me luck.

20th Anniversary Pumpkin Carving

Hi everyone! It's been awhile again since I blogged. I'm just not very good at this, but I do love reading the blogs I visit!

We have been having a pumpkin carving party since my daughter was 2 years old. I can remember her sitting on the kitchen counter pulling out all the gooey insides. You won't catch her anywhere near that stuff these days. She came home from Columbus this weekend just to be at the party and she brought a handsome young man with her.

Here are a few pics from our party:

This is Sara and Zack!


This is Evan


This is Carynn


Here you can see the pumpkins that we completed

Lots of good food and fun, it doesn't get any better than this.

Halloween and Christmas...Love Them Both!

So the next phase of my daughter's life has begun. She was able to get a job at a dentist office in Columbus! Very proud of her. There are far too many hygienists from her class that have not been so lucky. Once again, we will be going to Columbus to help her with the move to her "big girl" apartment. At this point, I'm just hoping to live thru the process.

I've been doing a little quilting. I found a cute pattern called "Flurry" on a blog I was visiting. I decided that this quilt needed to be made as soon as possible! I used the "Jingle All The Way" fabric collection and couldn't be more pleased. I have sent it to my longarm quilter already and hope to get it back in time to hang at our quilt show in October. You can see a picture of the pattern (and download it for free) here.

I have a cute Halloween pattern that made last year. It's called Spooks On Parade. As a matter of fact, I made two. You can see what it looks like here. One I gave to my baby sister, and the other one is sitting in a bag in the sewing room just begging to be bound!

That's it for me....hope you are all sewing up a storm!

One Last Ceremony

Yesterday was the last graduation ceremony for my daughter. The Ohio State University graduated over 9700 students yesterday. We could not have asked for a more beautiful day. Today, however, I'm suffering the consequences of sitting in the sun for 4 hours. I have a major sunburn!

Sara surprised us by decorating her hat in a tribute to us! Here's my favorite picture of the day!

Where To Begin

That's a great question. Life has been a bit of a roller coaster here.

Sara was home for Memorial Day weekend. We got to spend some time together. Since her college days were almost over, she came home from Thursday thru Tuesday. Lots of shopping and a great picnic at my sister's home.

While Sara was home, Jeff announced that there was something wrong with his toe. Not a good thing, when it is swollen to three times it normal size and is red, red, red! He took antibiotics for five days, and then saw the doctor again on Tuesday. He wanted to admit him immediately, but he felt he could not be admitted until after Sara left to go back to college. I went with him to the doctor on Wednesday, and by 10:30 am he was admitted and by 12:45 he was receiving intravenous antibiotics. They xrayed his foot and found that the bacterial infection had compromised the bone. Hoping for a positive result from the IV's....they gave him a couple of days, but by Thursday night, it had been decided to amputate a portion of his toe. All this is complicated by the fact that he is diabetic and take Coumadin daily. Surgery was Friday morning and he was released Saturday morning. He is still on antibiotics, but he must be feeling good....I can't keep him on the doctor's path to recovery. He is to be non weight bearing for three weeks.

Sunday we left for Columbus. Sara graduated from the College of Dentistry! We convinced him to go in a wheel chair for this one. Not sure what will happen when we go back down this Sunday for her large ceremony.

Does anyone have a chain so I can chain him to his chair??

Quilting has taken a back seat to everything right now, but I'm sure I'll get back to it soon.


This is what you get when you have a wonderful daughter....a magna cum laude graduate of The Ohio State University's Dental program!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Disappearing Nine Patch With A Twist

Here is one of those projects that has been hanging around my sewing room for far far too long. I'm going to show it to my baby sister and see if she likes it. If she does, it's going to her house! It's not a queen size bed quilt, but it should be great for a couch quilt, especially if she has her two beautiful grandchildren under it with her!