Mother and Me

I so much enjoyed having mother here for 2 weeks.

When she finished her “Blue Ribbon” quilt top …

… I took her outside for a photo shoot.

Back inside, she started on her third quilt. Remember how Emily sorted my scraps by color? I chose the orange drawer and the purple drawer for a crazy quilt.

Mother cut out the foundations and then pieced the blocks like she has been doing for years with velvets.

She took both of these tops home with her hoping to quilt them with her sewing machine.

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Parting Shot

Emily

I have enjoyed having my sister Emily come and visit fairly often the last while. She is getting more and more into quilting.

Here she is working on our charity quilt for SLM.

Emily, Barbara, and I took a class, "Dancing Dots" with Nancy Mahoney back in March in Piegon Forge. And now Emily has her quilt finished.

I remember Emily showing this quilt back at our Heatwole sewing retreat in January. She used the "Quilt as You Go" technique.

Here she utilized a "Milky Way" feed sack and made these two quilts.

And she made this wonky quilt here in our home from my scraps for her grandchildren to play with. (Let's see, you aren't really supposed to end a sentence with a preposition, are you?)

The Blue Chair

This week's photo challenge theme is "chair."

I first put Ashton's plastic adirondack chair in the shrub bed in front of the house and took a picture of it.

Then I printed the picture in sepia onto fabric that was ironed to freezer paper. The blue chair was cut out and fused to the sepia printed fabric.

I also sent the backing fabric through the printer, layered the three layers and then quilted and bound it.

Detail

Emily is here again and we are working on a charity quilt for SLM Ministeries.

The inspiration for this quilt came from Lotta Charm by Film in the Fridge.

This and That

I am impressed with Emily's Wonky Quilt that is on my design wall, ready now for quilting.

The Day's Catch by Amy & Ashton.

Planting time for Quinten & Paul.

Slappy and Ashton

It was such a pleasant evening; why not take our plates outside for supper?

After the SMBI Chorus gave a program at our church, Laura kept these friends for the night.

More farm work for Paul.

Amy had a Creative Memories party with these ladies, Hannah, Ashley, & Alma.

The bob truck brought a load of sand to church the day we had sewing circle.

It's safe now. You may go play in it!

A hive of busy bees!

Emily's Wonky Quilt

It's been fun watching Emily put together her Wonky Quilt. I gave her free reign of my scraps.

Mansions, Wedding, and Family

This week I have been cutting out mansions and roofs and windows and arches and flags and much more.

I went fabric shopping with 3 of the Possum Town Quilter ladies to find something suitable for a block challenge. We came back to our house and got to work. Here’s Brenda cutting out strips.

Here’s Bobbi cutting squares.

And Sandi helping to get them all into individual bags.

Today we attended the wedding of Bryan & Emily.

Kirby & Stacy were happy to ride with us from the church to the wedding.

They had a unique square tiered wedding cake made of cupcakes.

White with chocolate icing or chocolate with white icing?

Friends, Mel & Carla are waiting to  help serve the guests.

Busy little Georgi sat across from me.

The bride & groom with the bridal party served themselves.

Do you want me to sketch your face?

Ryan with his puzzle gift for being a gift receiver.

This evening we had our children & families in for pizza. Kirby was glad to hold Tina.

And then Stacy wanted a turn too.

I was just hoping no one would get hurt in this romp and tussle game

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Momma makes Tina smile.