It’s May, It’s May that lovely month of May…..

I could sing the song to you, but I’ll just write about Spring instead.

It is spring at my house. I have started planting flowers in my yard and the pots that were looking a little frozen are coming back.

I have been busy inside for the last month, both sewing and painting. I have almost finished the cabinet I was working on, just the drawer, which I don’t have, is unfinished. While I had the paints out I started painting on the cute box/foot stool I had waiting for attention.

 

Last but not least is the Millennium Quilt I am working on with my Clothesline Line Club. One quilt with 1000 pieces! The class is using kits, but of course I got working on my and decided to cut some of my own fabric, I now have 835 different pieces of fabric for my quilt. I started it is a couple of different sizes, etc. , and decided to cut them into rectangles. Well, mine will be a very strange looking quilt. I forgot to cut off some of the threads; I have sewn 161 pieces together so far. I’ll keep you posted1

Bye for now.

 

Spring Thoughts

Hi, I think spring has finally arrived!

I have been able to enjoy the last couple of days out side with my family. Friday we went to the zoo and yesterday we went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point!

Isn’t nature beautiful!

There are so many wonderful sides to nature, but we all have to live through some of the sad, unexpected sides of life.

A few weeks ago I attended a funeral of a very influential member of our community. She had been very well known and she had given of her time and money in many different ways that helped the people of our state.

There were many, many important people at the funeral and just looking around you could tell that this was someone that everyone wanted to know and to have on their side.

I had met her at church; she was very polite, quiet, and humble. She did not flaunt her position of wealth and power.

The speakers at her funeral were her family members and close friends. They spoke of the wonderful person she was, the mother who was there for her family at all times. The grandmother whose grandchildren were the center of her life. And a wife who cherished her husband through all their years together.

They did not once talk about the money, influence, or power she had in the community. They loved her as their mother, wife and grandmother.

I left feeling close to her and their family, and felt their sorrow. Then a couple of days later my friend/walking mate told me that her niece who was pregnant had just find out that her baby did not have kidneys, and that he would not live. She was told that she would have to go through the delivery not knowing just how long their sweet baby would live. It could be minutes up to a couple of hours.

What a terrible loss to this young couple.

Two different loses, two different experiences.

I will never lose a baby that way, but I can imagine the pain and loss of a sweet baby before he has had time to become the person he was sent here to be.

As for Cleone, I just hope that I have been the mother, wife and grandmother that inspire my children to feel as her family felt for her.

May is coming this week and time goes by too fast. Back to quilting and painting.

Next time I’ll post some of my new ideas!

   

    

 

 

 

Hello!

 

I can't believe how time goes by sooo fast! I have had a busy 5 weeks!

My birthday was at the first of the month and the best present I received was my son coming home from his mission to Mexico. He is still the same wonderful, loving, young man that left 2 years ago, but he has grown in so many ways.

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On my birthday I went to a special "Flea Market" here at our Salt Lake City Fair Grounds. It was fun to look through all of the booths and trying to find just what I needed to bring home. I found some darling Milk Glass vases, a wonderful "vintage" bird cage, and chalk paint! Yes I did get other things, but these were the most exciting.
 



 

 

I have some other birds in my house here are just a few of the shelves in my family room.

 

 

My birds in the middle are vintage from a antique mall in our city and the cute blue bird on the orange is from Anthropologie.

 

 

 

 

I love tiny creamers and I am trying to find as many as I can on e-bay, antique stores , etc., and Egg cups, mine have chickens on them.

 

(OK, so much for the house show, I sorry they are a little blurry.)

 

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Last week I was at a painting seminar with the most wonderful artist and painter, Michele Walton as the teacher. Her boxes are much more detailed and darker in color than my boxes will be. We painted all last week and of course I am not finished with my boxes, but this is the preview of what we worked on.

 

 

(This is the original box)

 

 

 

 

 

This is the top and front of our Bread Box. Of course I will never put a loaf of bread in my box. but they will be placed some place much more important when they are finished.

 

I have changed the colors and some of the design elements from what the originals pieces. And now that I have posted them I will have to finish them to show you later.

 

This darling box is really a pin cushion. The top opens up for stowing things we need when we stitch and the bottom draw is small enough that I won't lose what I put in to it.

 

As for quilting, I am still practicing my paper piecing.

 

 

I am still adjusting to using the correct size prints for the size of the blocks. But it has been fun to see how they are coming together. Some of the blocks are not paper pieced, but they are part of the quilt.

 

That is the update for now, Easter is in 2 days and it is my grand daughter's 5th birthday, so it will be a special day for our family.

 

Happy Easter!

Hi!

It has been a while since I posted. With Christmas, New Years, decorating, & undecorating, time went by fast. But now I can take the time to say a few things about what my new year is going to be like…

I have been told that I am a “Has Been”.

Have you been told that you are “been there, done that”? It is hard to explain how it feels to have that happen to you when you really don’t real like a “Has Been” at all.

What is a “Has Been”? What do you look like when you are a “H-B”? My clothes are clean and I hope fairly stylish, so I don’t think that is it. I do brush my teeth and take a bath most days. And I try to make someone’s day a little better every day. So what is a “H-B”.

This year I have been on a cruise with my wonderful husband, spent time with my family, and that consists of 2 darling Granddaughters. (They rule the house whenever they are around.)

I have been learning to paper piece, which has been interesting, if not a little confusing at first. But it will look good when I’m finished, I have learned that you should not use BIG prints when cutting pieces into ½ inch strips. And I have finished my row quilt, just adding the outer border, I will post photos as soon as I finish it.

I have so many new Ideas for quilts, dolls, knitting, that I don’t know which to start first. I am going to go on a few more trips this year, CanCun, San Franciso, Idaho, who know were else.

So speaking as a “Has-Been”, it’s not so bad.

Don’t let anyone make you think you are a “Has-Been” because no one knows what you have inside just waiting for the right time to come out. You might just surprise yourself!

Row Quilt!



 

I have been wanting to make a row quilt for about a year, finally I have started one!

Here are the pictures of how far I have come on my quilt.

I have kites, butterfiles, baskets with flowers and blocks I love.

 

I will add at least 2 more rows, so this will be a big quilt (for me) with the borders.



If anyone is interested in any of my rows, just let me know and I'll get you the pattern.

 

One more thing tonight, I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow. I am thankful for my family, home, country, church and many friends that make my life so full and happy.

I have not posted for a while because I have been out of town and busy working on fun new ideas. 

My first trip was to Houston, Quilt Market. It was a fast, fun trip. I was my friends and met new friends, along with fabric, antique buttons, ribbons, and more.

The talented sisters of Pine Needles Quilt Shop were there with the darling new line that Sandy has designed with Riley Blake Fabrics. 

The Riley Blake Booth was full of inspiring ideas, patterns and fabric just across the isle from Pine Needles. The whole corner of the floor was full of the talented women from Utah!

My next trip was up to Deer Valley last weekend with the Quilt Retreat by Quilt, Etc. Quilt Store. We got to spend 3 days at the Chateaux at Silver Springs. I left Friday morning and drove up to the top of Deer Valley in the snow. It was just like a Christmas Card with the snow and lights on the trees. Some of us had a hard time driving up with all of the snow, but we all made it safely.

This is the 2nd year I was able to go, and for me it is different to sew a mystery quilt. I all ways like to know just what I am putting together, but i finished my top and I have a fun Christmas quilt for the season.

Here are a few of my room mates as we go down to the Pajama Party. Boy the hotel robes are made for Big people!

  Connie sat across from me at the table and finished her quilt the same day she started! 

It was a wonderful get a way and after the snow slowed down Sunday morning I drove home ready to start a new project, to finish a few I have started.

A few I have started are a Row Quilt with kites, butterflies, flowers and more. I will  post pictures next. I am also working on a wool project from wool I was able to buy at Quilt Market.

Enjoy the snow, it's perfect weather to quilt!

Good bye till next time!

 

Pumpkin Pillow

I designed this pillow for Mormon Handicraft for the fall Shop Hop. I will post the pattern for this pillow. It was easy and fun to put together.

 

 

Here is the pattern for the Pumpkins Pillow. Of you enlarge this page to fit the normal 8 X 11 size paper you will have the correct pattern size. If you need help for want me to email you the pattern, just leave me a comment and I will send did off to you.

 

Sorry for the delay in the pattern, I never know when my computer will work the way I want it to work.

 

Happy Stitching!!