Mother's Day photo....

Here is a photo of me with my daughter and granddaughter. They were with me on Mother's Day weekend. Usually we don't get to see each other on that weekend since we live nearly 3 hours apart, so it was a nice treat to have them here and we took advantage of it to get a new photo of us together.


I have been doing some handwork on a project that I can't show for awhile yet. I don't want you to think I am being a slug!!! LOL

After today, I may or may not be online for a couple of days.....so if I'm not commenting on your blogs, you will know it's because I'm not getting to see them. I'll catch up, though, eventually!

Fun gifts.....

I have gotten a few fun gifts lately and am going to show them to you. One is from Steph (click on her name for her blog). She was going to the AQS show in Paducah. She'd not been to a big quilt show and I made a few suggestions to her that she found helpful. Because of that, she was nice enough to get me this Paducah shirt! Wasn't that nice of her? I love it and now can pretend I was at that show, too. LOL The card you see in the picture is a design done by quilt artist, Lyric Kinard. Stephanie was lucky enough to take an art quilt class with Lyric and enjoyed it very much. (Sorry I didn't do such a great job with the lighting when taking this photo.)

Next you can see two very nice books. They were given to me by a gal in my handbell choir (not a quilter and no blog). She is the gal for whom I did a favor last year by piecing together some old family-made blocks into a quilt top. I blogged about those blocks HERE and her completed top HERE. She gave me a gift at that time, but she was at a museum shop book sale recently and got me the book called Making Antique Quilts, which is a lovely book. Then...a few days later, she was at a used book sale and picked up the other book for me. She is a sweetheart to think of me like that and I will certainly enjoy these books.

This fabric has turned into........

Do you remember those fabrics? It's the 4 fat quarters I got (randomly) in the guild's "brown bag" challenge. The challenge was for me to make something for the lady who put these 4 fat quarters in a brown bag. (We are permitted to add other fabric but must use at least some of what is provided.) They are not due until the end of July, but I don't really know this lady and wanted to get a jump on the project. She put a note in the bag that her house is decorated "country". She said she would like anything I made. Photos are below.I used a pattern from a book I have which I believe is called "Patriotic Little Quilts" and made her this wall-hanging. I added the gold fabric. While it is machine-pieced, it is all hand-quilted and if you could see it in person, you'd know the quilting really gives it a great texture! If I can get some decent close-ups that show the quilting details outside one day, I'll post them on the blog.I even made her an "interesting" backing AND sleeve using her fabrics (and one other that I added since I didn't have enough of hers to do the whole back and sleeve). I'm really happy with the way it turned out, and I hope she likes it, too.

Okay...so I didn't win.....yet!!! LOL

I didn't win when EQ drew 10 bloggers to win copies of EQ7, but now I can enter at the blogs of all those who DID win. You can go find their blog links on the EQ blog (although some don't have their giveaways set up yet). BUT....one who DOES have hers set up is "Mequilter" from Arizona, so you can go visit her now and enter, although I would really prefer you don't do that as it will narrow MY chances of winning!!! LOL Maybe if you go there and enter, though, she will see I sent her lots of new followers and will give me at least one extra point for sending you, so please tell her I sent you, okay??

The news is spreading FAST......EQ7 is nearly here!

Yes....you might have already heard that EQ7 is nearly here. So...being a blogger, I read the following and decided I will enter, too!

Are you a blogger? Would you like to give-a-way one of the first EQ7 programs on your blog AND win a copy for yourself in the process? That’s right! We want to give you the opportunity to give one away on your blog! 10 bloggers will be randomly selected to hold a contest on their blogs and give one EQ7 as the prize. And as a thank you for helping us announce EQ7 we’re going to send one for you as well!

Here’s how to enter:
* Post an announcement about the coming of EQ7 on your blog.
* Send an email to sarahshriver@electricquilt.com that contains:
- Your name
- Your email
- A link to your blog post about EQ7

10 winners will be randomly chosen on May 3rd. If you are chosen, you then determine a contest and submit your contest winner’s contact information to sarahshriver@electricquilt.com. We will ship your EQ7 prize directly to your winner. OKAY...I'm entered and maybe just in time!!! Let's hope!!! I am determined to get EQ7 AND to learn it and show you lots of great things here on my blog!!!

Update on the postage due giveaway....

I told you I'd update here if I heard anything from Alice about this. I got a note from her today that said she was sorry about the postage due on her recent package to me and she included $6 to reimburse me. I understand from Tango that she got the same note and also $6. I wanted all of you to know about this right away.

Not much sewing time....

HAPPY MAY 1st to all of you! April certainly flew, didn't it? No sewing-related photos here today. Between my part-time typing job and also getting ready for a big music weekend at church, no sewing took place yesterday. Today I am in a handbell concert at church and right after that, I have a practice for tomorrow's folk group music at church....then have to come home and knock out some of the typing for the doctor. Tomorrow after church, I have to finish that typing, so....very little sewing either day, I suspect. I've posted here an assortment of flower photos that I've taken recently...some in our yard and others in downtown Lewes. Hope you enjoy them (I think they will all enlarge if you wish to see them close up). I hope I'll be back with some quilting-related photos early in the week. I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Some of our azaleas about a week ago.....more of them are in bloom now...I should take more photos this weekend.Our chives have gone WILD!!!Orange azaleas (a deciduous azalea that looks dead in the winter!)Some of the tulips that were at the entrance to our housing development recently.Remaining photos are of flowers in Lewes, Delaware, two weeks ago. I love living near this old, historic town!Yes...this next one shows a cannon. Lewes was a town with a fort that played an important part in the protection of the coast in years past.