String Quilt & Ashton's Birthday

Another quilt in the making. Strings of blue and peachy/orange/rust.

The foundations to sew the strings to.

Which way is best? Peach block with blue border ...

... or blue box with peach border?

Ashton recently turned 3. What a great way to celebrate with cousins.

And what can be in this big box?

Darryl helped put the prized wheelboro together.

Vicki's Quilt

When Paul's niece, Vicki was just a little girl she used fabric paint sticks to color fabric blocks.

Her mom put the blocks together and made a quilt that they used for many years.

And then one day the dog got a hold of it and made a hole in it. It had a gathered bed skirt which they took off, and now Vicki wants to bind it off and preserve it.

Sewing & Cleaning With the Youth

Yesterday the youth girls came for a day of sewing.

In the afternoon the boys came to wash off one of  CAM’s  bunk trailers.'

Some of the girls took a break from sewing and washed & scrubbed the inside clean.

We fixed pizza & salad for supper.

It’s amazing how fast some of the girls can sew up a dress.

After supper we had a fun evening of games.

String Blocks & Three Boys

I finished Step 2 of Bonnie Hunter's Orca Bay Mystery Quilt before midnight. Now I'm ready for Step 3 when morning comes!

Other activities of the day included these three boys and a fire engine!

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!