Quilting for Jane

These quilts belong to Jane. I quilted them for her and just got round to take pictures.

Love, love, love this one! Its my colors! And Stars!

sshhhhh ... it may get lost in my sewing room :)

I quilted it with a small all over stipple.

This one I tried something different, stitch in the ditch on either side of the sashings. Then I did a medium stipple on the outside border and setting triangles with a free form flower in the center of the pinwheels. Can't really see the quilting from the front so here is a picture from the back.

I hope Jane is happy with them. Better get them to her before they find a new home in my sewing room :)

Bad . Bad. Dog.

I looked out the window and what did I see?

A whole in my flower bed!!

Made by Gabby!!!

Bad! Bad! Dog!

Busy couple of weeks!

Last week I went to Tucson to help Kati (my daughter-by-marriage) with her office. I don't have pictures, but it was an amazing redo and actually quite easy. We mostly rearranged furniture to make it more open, put up some shelves from Ikea (Thanks Chris!), and she is going through and "rehoming" old equipment she used to use for her videography. She now has several work surfaces and it feels so much more open! We worked in the office at night and played with the grand-kiddos in the day. It was tons of fun, love playing with those adorable grandkids!

The day we went to Ikea for shelves, we stopped at McD's and the boys had a great time playing in the play yard.

This week Alli and Macy came up ... we made bows for a Holiday gift fair in Holbrook, and got ready for her friends bridal shower. Course we also did a halloween costume for Miss Macy.

Macys Halloween day outfit :) Her shirt says "Im so cute its scary!"
Melanie, Alli, Stormy- the bride, Chelsey
food table

back of Macys costume

The pirates and bugs :)

Trav, Macy, Brelee, Wes, Nate

(Its nearly impossible to get 4 kids to look at the camera at the same time!)

See that little white ghost? Macy carried that around all week...too funny!

Brelee got first place in her age group for her bee costume at their HOA Halloween party!

All the kids went home this morning, sad Grandma :/.

New bag :)

Last Saturday a group of my quilt friends (we took classes together many years ago at a "shop that shall not be named") got together and made bags! I love bags, no-one can have just one!

Monika, Kathy H., Kellie

front: Judy, Ramona - back: Aleta, Sue

(not pictured- Jane- I don't know where she was?)

This is the bag I finished. It was a kit from "The Christmas Goose"( pattern by Sunshine Garcia) in LasVegas. The bag is a dark pine green upholstery fabric, the inside and straps are a red woven, and the pocket is a tan texture. Its embellished with wool & buttons and buttonhole stitched. I love how it turned out!

Purple, green & yellow quilt

This is a quilt I just finished quilting for a friend. She made the top for a wedding gift. I quilted it with swirls that echo the pattern in the purple batik on the outside border.

"The girls" playing on the quilt.

Close-up of the center

Peaches & Grandkids

As soon as we got home from vacation, Meghan & I had peaches waiting in the kitchen to be canned. 24 quarts and 8 pints of peaches. Yum!!

The first weekend of October the kids were all here and we had some family pictures taken. The kids worked on the garage, and we cleaned out the 3rd bay! It looks wonderful! a load to the dump and a load to Goodwill , Tada! Derek has a parking place inside the garage. My kids rock!

Miss Macy and her funny, squished up nose smile.

Wes and Travis at the park

Nathan racing Wes down the slide. Love that smile :)

Brelee was sleeping in the stroller and Chris and Kati were rollerblading around the lakes.

Maine

Thursday night we stayed in Portsmouth Maine. Checked into the hotel- Anchorage Hotels (wouldn't recommend them :/)

Headed to "Bob's Clam Hut" for dinner in Kittery , Maine. It was awesome!!

"Bob" had great places to eat everywhere!! Wished I had kept track of all the places he owns!

Outside the hotel- Friday morning

Too cute!! The pumpkins back east don't rot in the sun! Weird!

Portland, Maine

My sister was in Portland, OR at the same time!

Could you just live here!??

This is NOT a postcard! Its how it really looks!

The views were breathtaking! The air smelled crisp and clean, the breeze a bit chilled.

I could just picture myself sitting on that porch in a rocking chair, wrapped up in a quilt, reading a book with grandkiddos on my lap- playing on the porch. *sigh*

Cute, Cute!! Bobby ate at another clam place and I shopped, the shops were adorable!

In one of them Bobby asked if this was the end of the busy season. We had seen so many vacation rentals on the beach available. The lady said tourist season was letting up , but it was the beginning of "leaf peeper" season! How CUTE!

In AZ we call "them" "snow birds" , in New England "they" are called "leaf peepers"!

In Portland we ate at Gilbert's Chowder House. I had the sourdough bread bowl with clam chowder- it was amazing!

And back to Boston we go... it took us around 2 hours to pass through 3 states- taking our time. Drive 2 hours here and your still in the same state!

Met Gail and Patty for dinner, and spent the night at Patty and Gerrys. Their house is soo adorable, as was Gails! Bobby asked me if it ruined the "cuteness" to stay inside a New England house- NO WAY! The adorable woodwork, rooms, stairs, wood floors, great views, trim work ... it was so comfortable and cozy- I loved it! I might not love shoveling snow, hauling firewood, uncovering the car, freezing cold or snow on the floor ... but call me a "leaf peeper" any day- I'll own it !:)