Trying to catch up....

Gosh...I have so many photos I've taken over the past several weeks with all good intentions of posting, but time just gets away from me. So....I'll try to put a few photos at a time here. They probably won't be in chronological order, but.....I don't think that matters much.

First, we have one of my feet wearing the very comfy and attractive socks made for me by Margi......I've talked about this in a few posts...how she rescued me and made the socks for me after I failed at my attempt to do them.  I love them!!! Thanks, again, Margi!

Next we have a closeup of an absolutely gorgeous poinsettia plant I got yesterday.  It was given to me by my quilty friend (and blogging buddy), Michelle.  She and her hubby came to visit my husband and me.  Michelle and I had some fun time with the GO! cutter as she cut out some HST's for a project she'll be starting soon. The hubbies talked...and then we all went out for a supper at a nice Italian place we like in downtown Rehoboth Beach....Nicola's.  Then...it was home so they could see my husband's Christmas light display where the lights twinkle in time to music that you tune on your car radio.  (Sorry I don't have pictures of it, but...trust me...it's a very nice light display.)    We all had a very nice day!  This last picture below shows part of my tumbler quilt (did a close-up in hopes you could see the nice quilting on it).  Michelle quilted it for me on her long-arm and brought it back to me yesterday.  She does such nice work.  Today I went and chose binding for it. Well...actually, I let my friend, Sherry, who works a the LQS and is excellent with color choice, do the choosing for me.  She chose something I'd never have picked, but it's a fun fabric and will look great when it's done!  (I'll take another picture at that time.)  OH...and great news.......the young gal in our family who is in the Air Force and was in Iraq has come HOME safe and sound...and just in time for Christmas!!!  We are truly blessed!

Gotta love long-armers!!!

I did an AccuQuilt demo today in my favorite local quilt shop with my quilting partner, Kathy. While there, I got TWO quilts back from two really great long-armer friends....Woo-Hoo!!!  (No...for you who are uninformed, they are not friends with long arms....they are friends who have long-arm quilting machines and each quilted a quilt top for me recently.)  I will show them both here.  Not knowing which order blogger will decide to post them, I will describe them both and you will know which I'm discussing. You should be able to click on the photos twice to enlarge them and see the quilting in a little bit better detail.

One is my "pineapple chunk" quilt made using my GO cutter to cut all the pieces and Gyleen Fitzgerald's Pineapple Ruler to trim the blocks after each round of sewing.   I used only my stash of Christmas fabrics for that and love how it turned out...and it is for ME....Yay for keeping a quilt sometimes instead of giving it away!!!  LOL   Michelle did a great job of using a really nice swirly pantograph on it and it really "fits" the quilt well....although my photography doesn't really do it justice because you can't see the quilting in the blocks.  (Look at the top itself a couple of posts back on my blog.)

The second one is a "girlie-fabric" quilt.  This is a lap quilt that is going to be a Christmas gift for my daughter's landlady.  She likes these colors......would never be my choice, BUT...I have to say after seeing the custom quilting job, I find myself wishing it was staying here with me.  I cut all the pieces for this quilt with my GO! cutter, also....and most of it was made as using the Disappearing Nine Patch pattern (along with several girlie-colored borders).   Jackie quilted this one and did her usual terrific job!  (For some reason, blogger rotated this and I can't get it back the way I wanted it......Darn you, Blogger!!!)

Anyway...believe me that both of these tops are beautiful and I say thanks to my long-arming friends....I love you both!!!