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My Thanksgiving quilt is done!

June 26, 2012 by Sue 2 Comments

Any of you who read this blog know I’ve been working on this quilt for a long time, but tonight I got it completely done and ready to show off!!! Here it is:

This is my fourth completed quilt, machine-pieced and hand-quilted. I’m on a roll. Wink, wink! For this quilt, I received the fabric for Christmas 2010, got the pattern and cut the fabric for my Independence Day birthday 2011, started sewing for Thanksgiving 2011, got the top done for Valentine’s Day 2012, and did the hand-quilting and binding before my Independence Day birthday 2012. I’m like the Tortoise, slow but sure. The pattern is “Off the Grid” Sliced Nine Patch by Quilt Dad and I’m so HAPPY to have it done! It was my hardest pattern yet and turned out great with all those lovely fall colors and prints. It will really make my living room railing festive come November.

I’ll get back to quilting a “Tall Tales” quilt and piecing a “Wild Things” top, so other stuff is in the pipeline. Wa-hoo!

100 books

June 20, 2012 by Sue 1 Comment

Well, I hit a milestone yesterday. The year is only half over and I’ve read 100 books. Never done that before. Granted, many were juvenile and young adult as I tried to empty my shelves to donate to daltongirl’s classroom library, but still. That’s a lot of books. I don’t think I’m going to stay on this track for the rest of the year because I have some adult books I want to get through. But here’s to reading…excessively! Squeee!

Hopping

June 15, 2012 by Sue Leave a Comment

Three days of the Beehive Shop Hop has resulted in the following:

My camera and the lighting is showing these as a somewhat black background for the frogs and lizards, but it’s actually a warm chocolate brown with greens, teals, and oranges for the other colors. I’m going to be using this pattern:

It’s going to be an awesome boy quilt! Someday……..

2 years old!

June 14, 2012 by Sue Leave a Comment

One year ago, Scott & I participated in a miracle by attending Aaron’s one year party and releasing balloons in memory of all the Trisomy 18 babies not fortunate enough to have made it to that milestone. Well, last night we released 4 balloons, one for each of us in our family, at Aaron’s second birthday party. What a miracle! You can see lots of photos at the mom’s blog and you can play “Where’s Waldo?” to find the photo of my back.

What’s blooming today?

June 12, 2012 by Sue Leave a Comment

It’s June and the daffodils are done but the late spring flowers are on. Here’s a sampling of what’s going on out in my flower gardens right now. They’re starting to look pretty good now that all the seedlings are finally in the ground and it’s warming up. I have 5 varieties of penstemon blooming, 3 varieties of poppies, and several different gaillardias. With vigorous spraying, I’ve managed to keep the deer from eating the rosebuds, so they are just starting to open on some of the bushes.