House Hunting

I really enjoy a great looking old house...

While in South Georgia for that three months I got a chance to drive around the back roads a great deal... I've started collecting pictures of my favorite old houses and will title the entries "house hunting".

This is the first entry... located on Old Highway 41 in the town of Sycamore, GA. What a beauty she must have been....

baby shower

Since you saw the corsages before they went to the shower I thought you might be interested in their tour of the shower... I didn't get many pictures at the shower, I had "game" responsibilities to preform...
Here are a couple of shower pictures... Granny or Great-grandmother and grandmother (but from conversations that I heard, she doesn't want to be grandma but rather MiMi...sounds good to me).
Enjoy...
k

I did it !!!!

I am going to have to watch myself...

Sometimes I just volunteer myself beyond my comfort zone...

My task this time was to get three corsages for the baby shower, one for the mother- to -be, grandmother and great-grandmother... after finding no florist available on short notice it fell to me to make the corsages. Had I ever done such a thing???? NO...

After gathering the supplies and some courage I stepped forth on uncertain ground...
But I think they turned out acceptably good. What do you think??? K

Better to Be DONE

I've never done a Block of the Month (BOM) of any sort... way too much responsibility and discipline for me. Well, this year I am participating in a BOM with one of my dear quilting friends... the shop that is doing the BOM has several going at the same time. Ours is the "Last Saturday of the Month-BOM". The trick to most of these deals is that you must get the first one done before you can go by the shop to pick up the next installment. Each installment has instructions and the fabric for completing the block. Well, we did a prototype of the block out of stash fabrics before we ventured into the "real" block construction. The thought was that we could get the mistakes over with on the prototype. An after thought was that it would give us enough extra blocks at the end of the year for a nice charity quilt... reasonable, we thought.

Yesterday we finally sat down to work up the real block.....
DONE...
Now I can go in with my head held high and my hand out (for my next block)

name tag pockets

I am a member of the East Cobb Quilt Guild.
We've been doing this activity in the evening group called Buddy Blocks. Since the majority of the group have day jobs and full lives we tend to take projects at a slower pace then the bigger day time guild group does. Every two months or so we are assigned another member of the group, we meet with them and exchange information with the intent of making a quilt block or other requested object for that person. Some folks intend to have enough blocks at the end of the project to make a bed quilt, others are doing wall hangings... the last three folks I've gotten have requested name tag pockets. Here are pictures of the last two that I finished.

Catching UP

Thought that I'd do a little blog "catch up" while I wait for my next activity to begin. I've been involved in the Olympic Challenge with my TreadleOn group for the last couple weeks but before that I was busy with locating finished projects for the Loving Hands Quilt Group (from our church). Like I might have mentioned, my sewing room tends to be a BLACK HOLE, things go in, ever to be seen again.

We got a new furnace, and with it came a new set of air returns, one required that I clean out the sewing room closet...... what a treasure. I found all sorts of objects that had been lost to time...... 17 red, white and blue blocks for a couple of soldier quilts that the group is doing. K