I Gave Birth Today

| July 7, 2008

Tomorrow is the LAST BIRTH OF A SAMPLER CLASS and I really really really wanted to get the top completed BEFORE class……but Cuddles kept impeding progress (she decided that SLEEPING on the pieces was a grand idea!)  How long can a cat nap last anyway? I hung in there and I am PLEASED TO SAY […]

Featherweight – Antiques – TOO MUCH FUN!

| July 3, 2008

Singer Featherweight 221 I am really excited – on July 20 – I am getting a Singer Featherweight 221 – all the way from England from Graham Forsdyke (who I understand is the King of the FW and of the antique world – thank you, Peggy, for that insight!)  I have been wanting a little […]

Birth of a Sampler – Bargello Border in Process!

| June 27, 2008

Our nine months are almost up for our BIRTH OF A SAMPLER QUILT (class taught by Sherry Whitfield at “The Quilter’s Corner.”   Sherry designed this – and I am pretty impressed.   I must say that I was a bit apprehensive about making a 20 inch bargello border…..but I plunged right in.   It takes eleven 2 1/2 inch strips […]

The Dance Recital and LILIES and QUILTY STUFF

| June 7, 2008

The DANCE RECITALS (one at 3 and a second at 7 pm)  today were wonderful (and as one might have already surmised, I MIGHT not be the most objective person in the world to have an opinion!)  In fact I am such a SAP that I cry every time my grandangels dance (yes at tech rehearsal, […]

BIRTH OF A SAMPLER QUILT – Crafty Grandangels – Flowers – Birds – Dancing Fun – and OC MYSTERY SOLVED

| June 4, 2008

  Sarah (8) was so excited when she saw me making YO YO flowers for my BIRTH OF A SAMPLE QUILT (pictured above)…….that she wanted to make one too…..and so she did (and she wore it in her hair to school today.)  I had a PINK CAT BUTTON that we pinned in the middle of the […]