Gina Makes a Quilt, Hangar Talk, and Guests

Gina obliged me by making a fresh modern quilt.

It was fun watching and helping her make her first quilt.

And she had fun doing it.

Gabriel, getting ready to cover the horizontal stabilizer of his ultra light Leagle Eagle.

He had lots of help.

Amy & Ashton served cold drinks for all.

It was a fun evening in the hangar for these siblings, cousins, and friends.

Dustin & Gina. We were so glad they could come from Penn Yan to be with us for almost a week.

Gluing, clamping, rolling, and ironing.

Talya had her first birthday.

We stretched out the table good and long for our pizza supper and fed 28. A few of the little ones sat at their own small table in the kitchen.

It’s good I made 4 pizzas. We only had a little left over.

Katie Jo and Ashton try their best to comfort Tina.

Guests other than our family were: Darren & Becky and Corina …

… Jeff & Sherri, Chloe, Skylar, & Campbell …

… and Jason & Karla, Katie Jo and Lia.

So … which floats in water, a regular Pepsi or a diet Pepsi? And what are the implications?

And like I said before, it was so good to have Dustin and Gina home for a while.

A Mountain QuiltFest

I met Mother and a few of my sisters in Pigeon Forge for a week together.

The WonderWorks house behind us there would have been an interesting place to visit. However, we didn't take in a single tourist attraction.

Instead, we enjoyed each others company and sewed when we weren't out and about. Emily found an old Milky Way Feed Sack and added quilt blocks and flying geese to make a nice throw for her son Adam. She found the perfect table cloth at a thrift store for the back.

Barbara took a "Dancing Dots" class with ...

... me and ...

... Emily. We learned how to machine applique to make it look like hand applique.

Our teacher was Nancy Mahoney.

This bear quilt was an amazing work of art.

I was so "proud" of our Possum Town Quilter, Judy Stokes who won "Excellence in Hand Workmanship" in the Mountain Heritage Challenge.

Another quilter I met was Paul's dad's mother's brother's son's wife's, sister, Fannie. Somehow we found a connection! She is a professional longarm quilter and made this lovely "Blueberry Deight."

I also met Cynthia England who made the amazing quilt behind us. Her technique is interesting and something I'd like to try. Everything is sewn with straight lines.

This man provided lovely background music for the quilters. He is with the "Smoky Mountain Aires" and has been playing for 28 years.

This quilt belongs to Dolly Parton. It was made by her aunt ...

... from her stage & costume clothes.

Lunch with Mother, June, Barbara, and Emily (taking the picture) at The Tomato Head was wonderful on this pleasant day.

One evening we had BBQ at Corky's. Delicious!

Emily, lovin' the pig!

Inside the lobby was a nice waiting area.

We found and stopped at a lot of thrift stores.

I took this picture for my friends from church, Thelma & Louise.

This is a truely amazing quilt with all the colors and values changing around the quilt. It was drafted by the quilter's husband and inspired by Judy Mathieson.

I like the crisp, clean look of this quilt.

This is one view from the upstairs balcony at Wyndham where we stayed.

The pansies at the front office were beautiful!

June working on her velvet comforter at our "home away from home."

It's going to be beautiful with the feather stitching.

Our hostess, Cindy showed us a "Stack a Posie" quilt she is making.

She is also cutting up her husbands old shirts to make a quilt.

Orca Bay Continues

I'm slowly working on my Orca Bay Myster Quilt by Bonnie Hunter. I finally have 224 oversized hour glass blocks pieced, but I have yet to trim them down to 2.5" square.

In the mean time at our Graber Reunion I helped put the finishing stitches into Heidi's quilt.

I love, love, love this "fresh modern quilt" ... and the little girl in front of it!