Shirley Anne’s Heart

Posted By drsao on February 4, 2008

Four-year-old Cooper (pictured above with Poppa Greg) told us tonight that he told his friend, David (at preschool) that he wanted an X-BOX for his 5th birthday and that David could get that for him.

His parents (Greg and Christi) EXPLAINED to Cooper that David wouldn’t be able to buy him an X-BOX because David didn’t have that much money.

Cooper thought for a minute and then replied – “Well, I hope his Mother does.”

DUH…..Oh, the innocence of youth!

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Posted By drsao on February 3, 2008

Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.com has organized yet another online quilt party in cyberspace……a Scrappy Bargello Super Bowl 2008 Quilt that we all made together – from far and wide across the world.  It sounded like fun to me so I got busy and cut my 128  2 1/2 inch x 16 inch strips.  Since my “tendency toward having control, coupled with a strong need for organization” interfered with a totally randomized scrappy pattern;  I made a PSEUDO SCRAPPY PLANNED RANDOMIZED Bargello.

Here are my strips – because I hoped to have a  wave effect, I cut four strips of each color…..so each panel had the same materials and in the same position.    The cats (Cuddles TinkerBELLE and Midnight) were onhand to help! I think they really love the colors in this quilt.

The first Bargello strip is sewn together here – and it was time to make a tube and cut the large panel into six 2 1/2″ strips. 

This was a bit scary to cut into this panel – I had never done this before!  I hoped that  it would work out!

This was really exciting – I just couldn’t believe that it was  actually beginning to look like a Bargello Quilt!   

Here is the first panel – I am so pleased with it…..and now for the other three panels and the center of the Scrappy SuperBowl 2008 quilt is complete! I will probably add some kind of border later – but now for the Super Bowl 2008 – GO GIANTS!

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Posted By drsao on February 2, 2008

Tonight I joined the ranks of the TEENIE TWEENIES and took my grandangels, Nanna (11)  and Sarah (8) to see the Hannah Montana 3-D movie.  It was a sold out performance – and even with tickets people were lined up more than an hour ahead of time just so they could get a good seat!

It was great fun – and somehow I managed NOT to sing – although there was a song “bubbling up and trying to escape” during THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS!  🙂

Here we are wearing our special 3-D glasses.  The 3-D effects were really fun – at one point it looked as though a drum stick was headed right for us!  Nanna said it was her BEST experience in a theatre – and Sarah even got brave enough to leave her 3-D glasses on!

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Posted By drsao on January 29, 2008

I recently visited some of my family-of-origin in Kansas City, MO.  One of the things that I did on the trip was to bring back one of our family’s FAVORITE PHOTOS of my brother Fred, and his date, prior to attending their High School Prom.  Oh my, have we ever giggled and teased my poor brother about his tux – which in 1973 must have been HIGHLY FASHIONABLE – but by today’s norms, his tux resembles what one might find at a RENT-A-CLOWN facility.  I just HAD to give it a place of honor on my blog.  (Click on the picture to get a LARGER VIEW!)

And of course, we have to wonder if Fred got his sense of fashion from his Dad – check out our daddy’s jacket – he was all dressed up for a Caribbean Cruise..also taken in the 70’s.  Now this black checked jacket doesn’t compare with my brother’s plaid pants, ginormous bow tie and those “clown shoes” – but somewhere we have a picture of my dad wearing yellow pants – and by the way,  those plaid shorts of yesteryear are making a comeback!

Our mother also has a famous photo – yes, we are a “COLORFUL FAMILY” – and here she is, my mother with her two Great-Grandangels, Leanna and Sarah in 2006!

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Posted By drsao on January 29, 2008

Here is a close up of the Center and the completed top (without borders) of my Carolina Crossroads Mystery Quilt – all sewn together – I love how it looks – and it was all made with stash on hand, and that is pretty wonderful.  It is a REALLY GREAT FEELING.

Not only did Bonnie Hunter, of Quiltville.com, design a wonderful quilt pattern, but many of us (from all over the U.S. and the world) made this quilt  from stash on hand and some of us managed to CHAT ONLINE  and encourage one another throughout the process.  It was really interesting to see the colors that everyone used.

I am so pleased that my Carolina Crossroads Mystery Quilt top is all put together, complete with two borders…..the inner border is cut 2 1/2 inches wide and the outer border is cut 5 1/2 inches wide.  The quilt measures 80″ x 80″ just like the designer, Bonnie Hunter, predicted.

Since I have only been doing this “QUILTING THING” since March, 2007, I still get pretty excited when things work out as expected.  🙂 I am even MORE THRILLED to know that I have used 2,650 VERY SMALL PIECES in this quilt.  It didn’t seem difficult when each step was revealed to us over the course of two months.

Our little kitten, Cuddles TinkerBELLE and our cat, Midnight Jr., both just love this quilt.  Afterall, they did help me put it together (using “HELP” loosely!)

I will have MY long arm quilter, Valerie of A NEEDLE RUNS THROUGH IT (Goochland, VA) quilt it – and then it will go to its new home  (I can’t say who it is going to – because that is a SURPRISE!  I am also getting very very attached to this quilt!) 

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