WHOOOO what a week!!!

 Wow was I surprised when I attended our quilt show and I had won some ribbons:)

You think you know which ones will win what or that none will win and you got it all wrong:)

So this post is VERY picture heavy!!!

Through the Prism.

She won a first and a Best Use of Color:) The judge described it as 3d:) That is just awesome!!!

Perlz

As you can see a second place and Award of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in Quilt Making:) Gushing!!!

Diamonds R Forever 

She got a third and I really thought she would be the big winner... what do I know anyway:)

So there was a lot of celebrating and happiness spreading around!!!

The ribbons were made by guild members and you have seen some of their quilts here... Erlene, Mary W, and Martha. Great job ladies and I am SO proud to own a few:)

Hubby and I had been there Wed to help setup poles and curtains and on Thursday they judged. I attended on Friday:) and then on Sat hubby and I went to help take quilts down and to help tear down everything.

I felt it was a successful show and loved it being in the church... seemed to be so much friendlier then in a big building! Hope we do it again there in 2 years!

Okay so I did get some work done before the show work got going:

This is Kathy J's baby quilt.

Just simple loops and hearts all over:)

Pat made this patriotic quilt.

Just simple loops and stars all over.

Oh look it could be reversible:)

Linda W made this for her great grandson for Christmas.

More loops.... loved looking at all the different fabrics!

Spiderman backing.

Judy W made this sweet table topper.

More loops....

Love the backing.

Shelley N donated a kit and I threw the directions away and made 3 Project Linus tops instead of just the 1 quilt.

I think they turned out sweet!

Other news:

MIL went to ER on Wed.. yes as we were finishing setting up... she passed out and they could not wake her up. The ER Dr said mini stroke but the next day we were told it was the benign tumor between her brain and skull. It grew some and put pressure on her brain. She is well and back at the center. She will see a Neurologist to see what the next step will be.

It was 106 on Thursday:( UGH!!!! 104 Friday and was still 99 at 7:30 pm. The heat did arrive! The weatherman is saying we may drop to highs in the 90's by the end of the week... I am happy about that! The heat is just miserable!

I am SO glad we have AC!!!!

Well home most of this week so will be quilting a lot:) yea!!! Was good to have the break but I am ready to get back at it!

Have a fantastic week!!!

Strange July.... rain?

Hi all:)

It is strange weather here in Texas this year! We have almost hit 100 a few times and do you believe we had rain today??? We NEVER get that in July! Not much but a good down pour... still will need to water the backyard as I have many trees that block the rain.

Was very busy quilting this week! I am getting ready to only quilt 2 days next week as we prepare for our quilt show:) Hubby and I will be helping setup and tear down... yup manual labor:) And then of course have to attend the show:) I have 3 quilts I am submitting:) 

Ok so here is what I got done this week:

Joann hand appliqued all these beautiful flowers!

I played and gave them all some character.

You can see the work on the back so much better:) It is a late wedding gift for a grand daughter I think?

Marlene made this applique beauty!

I have done quite a few house quilt for her. I played and accented a lot!

Just plain backing to really show off my quilting!

Then the Project Linus and Chemo quilts began to pile up and get in the way... so I quilted them:)

Just stippled.

Loops in border and butterflies got outlined and the bodies just pebbles.

This is a chemo quilt.

Just loops and meander.

Nice to have some room to move again:)

Sewed all the ABC blocks together for grand daughter 2's quilt. The lace in the corner will be put on when the binding is attached.

Another Project Linus quilt. Just meander and loops.

And the August wool block is finished. I keep saying it's September for some reason??

I went through FIL closet and got a bunch of his shirts and am deboning them so I can make a quilt:)

I don't have anything else to do right? HA!

I have all the Lucy Boston Crosses pieces made and will start making rows so I can put together:) yea!!!!

Well enjoy the week and sew some!!!

Where did the week go???

Hi All:)

Not sure where this week went but it is gone:(

I was home more then expected since my car Marissa went to get her oil changed and hubby discovered she needed new shoes (tires) VERY badly! So much so I could not go to retreat. He only allowed me to drive to HEB and back on Thursday:( Turned out to be a good idea anyway since I caught that bug that is going around hubby's work and was on the couch all day Friday:(
So I feel better and so does Marissa:)

I pretty much quilted on the same quilt all week and am still not done:( Maybe Monday???

This is one of the Project Linus kits I finished up... now to be quilted.

The last of the black and white quilt I made hubby:) There were way too many leftovers to just throw away! This is a chemo quilt:) Needs to be quilted also but the backing is made:)

Grand daughter 2's alphabet quilt all ready just waiting for sashing ... will work on at Bee this week:)

My Lucy Boston Crosses on the NEW design wall:)  Seems as if 1 project seems to take over the design wall so now have 2:) Hope that will help? Or else I need to do only 2 projects at a time??/ NOPE! ha ha!

This is the quilt I have been working on all week... only 2 more rows to go:)

A map panel for Margaret.

Just looped this one.

To Ruth Ellen .... this map also does not have the extra piece of West Virginia:) And I know about it now since we drove across it.

Since we made a new design wall I moved the purrtraits in the house. Jax is checking it for flaws... nope purrfict!

My daughter attended the Jane Austen 200th anniversary in Kentucky this past weekend. She made her period dress:)

She did an awesome job!!!

Well that's all for this week:) 

Hope everybody stays cool and sews everyday:)

July is not as hot as usual

Hi everybody:)

Busy week with temps in the upper 90's and heat index in the 100's and do you believe we have had rain??? I know! Just crazy!

Hubby and I were in the heat yesterday. Our lovely city of Copperas Cove had time on their hands so they went around our neighborhood and issued a warning to all of us that had tree limbs reaching over the sidewalk. Yes we were included:( So yesterday that's what we did... we used our brand new pole saw and whacked tree limbs for about 4 hours. The trees look great and the lot has 2 ginormous piles of tree branches on it... of course it will sit until the next brush pu. The neighbor is using our saw today to do his. Hubby was pretty peeved until he found out others got the same letter....  But now it's done until next year:) Hubby fell out of the truck once but caught himself before he hit by hanging onto the side of the pick up. He would of hit his head right on the driveway otherwise:( He was trying to not get hit by a branch... I did keep him off the roof:)

I am back into the swing of things and got some quilting done:)

Chris found this quilt made by her grandmother in her mother's truck. She hand pieced all those 4 patches... bless her heart! There were 240 of them!

Chris wanted me to add the border, quilt and bind. I think it turned out so nice!

Love the texture on the back! She loved it and will use on her bed:)

Elaine made a baby quilt using leftovers from all of her other baby quilts she has made.

I recognized a lot of the fabrics:)

Just loops and heats all over... has flannel backing:)

Margaret made this patriotic quilt.

Quilted loops and stars all over.

You can really see them on the back!

Lucy Boston has the hole filled and all the elongated hexies are made and now are waiting to be stitched together... I am getting there:)

I had been doing quite a bit of x stitching and wanted you to see KoKo helping:) haha!!!

Hope to work on it some more this afternoon:)

Busy week again... lunch bunch and then a retreat on Friday and Saturday:)

Got almost 2 charity tops sewed at Bee... just need to piece one backing and sew the border around the other one:) 

Have an awesome week!!!