Dustin and Gina

Mr. & Mrs. Dustin Graber -- Congratulations and Best Wishes!

We were glad to go to NY to our son's wedding.

My sister Polly posted wedding pictures here.

We celebrated Stacy's 3rd birthday at the house where we stayed.

What fun to open the gifts.

 And then the boys were anxious to use this fancy tub for their bath, leaving their clothes strewn on the floor.

We had a nice rehearsal supper with Dustin & Gina leading the way.

The bridal party practicing for the wedding.

Dustin came to our house on the lake all ready for his wedding. Here he has a good laugh with Mother.

Since the wedding didn't start until 3:00 p.m. I had time to visit Naomi at The Quilt Room. There were lots and lots of beautiful traditional quilts along with lots of other lovely gifts.

We passed this huge field of cabbage and couldn't resist a stop for a pose. The heads were large and it looked like it could be ready to harvest. I wonder what they will do with them all.

I was glad at least a few from my family could attend the wedding. Here Cheryl, Polly, Yours Truely, and Emily visit after the reception.

 

Red Velvet Comforter

Back in September when we were in Ohio for the Haiti Benefit Auction, my sister Coleen and I spied this red velvet comforter that was to be auctioned.

 

 

I guessed that it was made by my Aunt Vera Rose, Father's youngest sister. And sure enough she was there at the sale and acknowledged that she made it. My heart started beating fast and I knew I had to have ... rather, wanted real bad ... that piece of handiwork.

 

 

And when the bidding began my dear Paul kept on nodding until everyone else dropped out. I am so pleased.

 

 

The pictures just don't show how the fabrics sparkle, glimmer, and shine. And the feather stitching is so even and perfect. It is beautiful!!!!

Jed & Vicki and Random Happenings

Yesterday we attended the wedding of Paul's niece Vicki to Jed.

 

Then for supper we invited in all the Grabers and their company.

 

Our house was "buzzing" with people. We want our home to be open and everyone welcome, so our slogan is, "There's alway's room for one more." We counted 90 guests! We had hoped to visit and eat outside, but alas the weather turned cold so we opted to fellowship inside.

 

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After working hard on the combine and ...

 

... and fixing up the farm truck, ...

 

... Perry bought Blue Bell ice cream and ...

 

... treated the farm hands.

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Miriam gave Kenneth this whopper of a unicycle for his birthday!

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Emily & I went to the Pine Belt Quilt Show in Hattiesburg where my "Climbing Higher -- Jacob's Ladder" quilt won an honorable mention ribbon.

 

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Gabriel showed me a few things he's getting done on his Leagle Eagle ultralight.

Alzheimer's Quilt

I finished this quilt for The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative (AAQI) Raising Awareness & Funding Research Through Art.

Stripped Bare

As a tree is stripped bare of it's leaves, so my Father was stripped of his memory and often wanted Mother to finish the stories he would tell. He often asked "Now, (pause) how was it, Margaret? I can't quite remember."

Detail

The back.

Scraps & “George”

Yaaay! Emily sorted my scraps by color!

 

The FedEx man came today and dropped off this box.

 

They were right. It brought some excitement.

 

Maybe I can get some of those tops quilted now!

Quilt Progress

My "Jacob's Ladder" is being blocked as we speak! See that high velocity fan blowing it dry? The dead line is tomorrow. Yaaay! I'm on schedule.

Emily has made more progress on her son Andy's airplane quilt.

Dare To Be Unsquare

Remember the SLM quilt that Emily and I are making for charity? Well ... it's finally finished and we are so pleased with the results. We have named it Dare To Be Unsquare.

You can see this quilt in progress at the bottom of this post "The Blue Chair." Below is a picture of the quilt that gave us the inspiration. We started in the bottom left hand corner and worked our way up and right trying to make our quilt similar to the original one. Of course we had different fabrics and colors to work with and then we wanted our quilt to be much bigger in size to fit a bed, so we just kept adding blocks and sections as we went.

We got our inspiration from Film in the Fridge's "Lotta Charm" quilt pictured below. Can you see any resemblance?

This is a QAYG (Quilt As You Go) quilt that we quilted each section with straight lines about 1/2" apart, some going vertical and some horizontal.

The back of the quilt looks like this.

We made a label by sending fabric through the printer that had been ironed to freezer paper.

Can you tell we are pleased by our smiling faces?

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Last Friday I helped serve hot lunches at our Christian Day School.

No, you don't have to take any radishes!

Aaaww, do we have to look at the camera?

Mmmm, that spaghetti was good!

The upper grades waiting their turn.

Chowing down!

And then they played hard at a good game of dodge ball.