Another Wedding

My Niece Marcia's weddding was coming up, so I decided to try a Tulip Quilt.I used a small red print, and a small green print for the leaves. It worked up quickly. I mostly make machine quilts.

When I finished that I made a small lap size quilt for her mother, who is always cold. I made her a small nap size quilt. Just the right size to pull over you while snoozing in your recliner, or couch.

Three of my friends, are in a Woman's Club,and were running a raffle for some cause, so I made them a tulip in darker reds and greens. I liked the darker colors best of all.

Christmas with Cy ,2 year old grandson

My two year old grandson Cy, lives in Waterville, ME. with my son, Charles, and his wife Laura. I live in Massachusetts, so we don't get to see each other that often. They always come down Christmas, and I get up at least once in the summer.

When he was born, I made him, a couple of quilts. One was embroidered blocks of bears and bunnies. The embroidery took too long for my taste. I made a mistake on the border. Where it met at the corners, I should have joined it diagonally. Thought of that too late. I can't remember what the other quilt was. At 79, I am allowed to be forgetful.
Last Christmas, seeing that he was nearing two years old, I thought I would make him a twin size quilt. I found a Ships at Sea pattern on About.com. Christmas day he ignored all presents, but loved the bannana box we carried them up in. He sat in it and played with an old favorite toy.

Pinwheel Quilts

Evelyn, a friend of mine, made a beautiful pinwheel quillt in red print that I loved. Of course I had to try one. I decided to make one as a Christmas gift for my friend Lorraine. I first met Lorraine in Sunday School when we were probably about eight years old, and have been friends ever since. I chose a pretty small flowered print of blues and pinks. It was called Scrappy Quilt. I can't remember what site put it out. It has kind of a 3D effect. I also made a couple of the pinwheels, and altenated with a simple square block.

A great buy

One day while at our favorite entertainment, namely, going to yard sales, I found a great buy. I came across an around the world quilt top. It was all put together, except the borders. The borders, were with it, plus several extra pieces that I put together for a baby quilt. I thought it had beautiful colors.

Mary's Fourth of July Party

Every Fourth of July for the last several years, our friend Mary , and her husband, Jake has had all our crowd, and her family. Mary is a marvelous cook, enjoys entertaining, and loves people. We never go anyplace without bumping into someone she knows.

We go early as their is a parade that the younger ones go to. We feast on appetizers, then the main course. When we are sufficiently stuffed, and can't eat another bite, we go out on her front lawn and watch the fireworks. Of course they are always spectacular.

As Mary will not let us contribute any thing to this affair, I decided ato make a quilt for her, and her husband to commenorate the occassion. I made her a Log Cabin quilt out of red, blue plaid, and white. In the center block, I copied a picture of a fireworks. Unfortunately, I had only been able to pick up the small transfer paper, so the next year, I made another the same, but with a larger picture. I labeled it with Mary's Fireworks Extravaganza, and date.

Curtains and Quilts

Last year, I decided I needed to make all new curtains for the house. I have a very small house,but still needed nine sets of drapes and two picture wndows, I lined them all, as it is good insulatiion in the winter.

My sister and friends love to go to yard sales, or as a friend says shopping at sidewalk boutiques. on It This is our entertainment, you could say. You would be surprised at how much new material you can find at yardsales. Any thing, I buy I just throw in the washing machine first ,then I know it is clean and preshrunk. All my drapes, have been made from materials that we picked up that way. I usually line them all, so I buy the inexpensuive white twin size sheets at Walmart. Yard sales are great places to look for sewing machines also.
If you know anything about the care of a machine you can get some really great buys.

One of the last finds we bought, was a huge bolt of material, that we devided between three of us. We have all made one set of curtains each and used some for backing a quilt. I know I still have some around in my stash.

One of the last bolts of material we found and split, I made my son's curtains, and then made a quilt to match. The name of the qult was patience Corner. My son is very tall and I did not make it quite long enough, so I had to make several more blocks and add on to it.

At the same time I made one with different colors for a nephew in Virginia.

Nova Scotia Trip

Last summer, Evelyn, a friend of mine, and I took a trip to Nova Scotia. We have been their several times and enjoyed stopping at a nice Bed and Breakfast in Creignish. It use to be an old schoolhouse. We love it as the dining table is set in front of a huge, (really huge) picture window. In front of the window are all sorts of flowers. She has quite a few hummingbird feeders hanging right outside. Their is also food put out for rabbits, red squirells, and chipmonks. It is facinating to sit their eating breakfast and see the panorama of flowers, constant hummingbirds, and other animal life.

We became friendly with the woman who owns it. She tried to teach us how to make jewelry with copper wiring, and jewls,etc, and to play the Dulcimer. Unfortunatly, I am not a very good music student.

Evelyn, and I decided we would share our craft with her. That fall we decided to make her a Maple Quilt, and send it to her.

At the same time I made the exact quilt for a Nephew, and his future wifes wedding. I like to put their names, and the date of their marriage on the back.

I have a lot of friends that come from Canadian background,and a Maple pattern seems to be appropriate for them. They are very pretty and easy to make.

If you ever get the chance, to go Down East, Nova Scotia, has beautiful scenery, and not a lot of traffic, but great roads.