Picture Overload

Oh, I have been gone a while. My husband and I have moved from the country to the city about 80 miles distance. We sold our home and land and RV Park. We moved to the city and we love it here. We love our church and all the new people we have met. We have had a wonderful Christmas season beginning with all the Christmas cantatas. Today, we enjoyed my niece's Christmas program. My great niece was Baby Jesus. She was so good and my heart just was about to burst with thankfulness.  

I have made a couple of quilts since moving to my new home. I have a nice big room upstairs for all my quilting stuff. I could spend all day, everyday in my studio. Sonny has a new deer camp that is within an hour from here and has enjoyed running up there for an afternoon. We are so happy in our new home.

The first quilt is for a raffle for my granddaughters. One or two are raising money for a trip to Spain. They asked if I would make two quilts. This is the first one. The pictures do not do the quilt justice. It is really a fun quilt.

The second quilt was for my sweet great niece born early this year. It is a Sunbonnet Sue quilt. I just love Sunbonnet Sue quilts. The first Sunbonnet Sue quilt I saw was when I was in elementary school and my friend had quilts on all the beds in her house--one being a Sunbonnet Sue.

Wanted to post a photo of my granddaughter's shirt. I used Circut and heat press on the polyester to add their names and it did beautifully. I also replaced the buttons with medal snaps. These are some talented young ladies.

Here are a couple of Christmas projects. Christmas pillow made using my Bernina embroidery machine and Bernina machine to complete pillow.

I just had to make this crooked Christmas Tree. I tried to sew the binding with the sewing machine and did not like it as much as my regular binding method.

My dining table and new Amazing Grace canvas. Some of my kitchen is in the background.

 My living room. Taken before Christmas decorations were added.

And that is all for tonight.

Good night, all.

Jeff's Quilt

Jeff is the son who loves to golf and snow ski and hunt and fish and kayak. I saw this quilt in a shop in Tennessee and decided to make it for Jeff. He really skis in Colorado, but that is okay. It was fun to make, and I loved the colors. I did not take but two photos.

This is a photo of the quilting.

Clyde likes the quilt, too.

January 1, 2018

Baby, it's cold outside. It is so cold outside that I have stayed indoors and worked on my hexagon quilt. I began it in 2008 or 2009. So I have decided to get the quilt finished THIS YEAR--my 10 year quilt. 

I work on this quilt when I travel. It has been from Mississippi to New York (three times), Gatlinburg (lots of times), Michigan (more than 10 times), to Colorado and Wyoming, Indiana and states in between, then on seven mission trips. Many of the green hexies were sewn late one night in an overnight stay in Lima, Peru airport. 

I still have four more rows. Since it has taken so many years, I am wondering "do I hand quilt or machine quilt"? I am leaning toward machine quilting, because I may never finish it if it takes ten years to quilt. 

Happy New Year