Tisket a Tasket, block 9

Wow, summer is almost over and school is beginning again!  Where does the time go?   Pretty soon this wonderful block of the month that Anne has given us will be over.   Seems like it just started, doesn’t it?   The weather is starting to cool off, so it’s a perfect time to work with wool. (although you all know how much I like working with wool when it’s triple digits, LOL).  Okay, get busy now!

 

I wanted to thank all of you who have emailed me or my friends wondering where I’ve been.   Well, my Mom has been seriously ill for the past 3 weeks and I had to go to California.   She’s still not out of the woods, but hopefully she’ll be fine and back to her normal vibrant self soon.   

I’ll probably be going back down there next week if she’s released from the hospital as expected, so don’t worry about me if my blog seems “silent”.   I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you caring about me.   You’re all the best!

I took my little netbook with me, but wasn’t able to get any wireless reception in her neighborhood or the hospital (believe it or not!).   She has dial-up and I didn’t feel like I could tie up the phone line using her computer.  And, I never had time to go sit at a Starbucks.   So, the internet and bloggy world weren’t available to me.    I actually came home to 535 emails.   Yikes, how will I ever get thru them all.  Oh my!    Anyway, if you emailed me or commented on my blog, please forgive me if you didn’t get an answer.   I’m sure you understand.  

Hugs, Anne

Quilt show, part 2

Jill Monley was the featured quilter. She made this quilt for her niece who is getting married this week. She had taken a class from Mary Lou Weidman in July (of THIS year). Talk about getting something done quickly…Wow.

Isn’t it cute? Do you see the quilted "I do's"?

And some more of Jill’s.

The guild has an annual retreat and there’s always a class you can take if you want to. This year they made quilts using the snail’s trail block.

And it looks like I wasn’t the only person thinking of the holidays when it was hot. LOL

This one depicts a grandma hanging out with the kids.

Parking was in a vacant DIRT lot across the street. What with all the wind, I got back to my car and you couldn’t even tell what color it was. I’ve never seen it so dirty. So, look what I did…

It was a great day. Congrats to the guild on another successful show.

Quilt Show in the Park

I was just visiting Carrie’s blog and she mentions that I have quilt show pictures.  Unfortunately, at that point, I didn’t, but she sure gave me a push to get this post done.  

Saturday was the annual quilt show in the park by our local guild, Mt Bachelor Quilter’s Guild.   Nadine and I went and had a great time catching up with friends and wandering the park grounds looking at a wonderful display of quilts.  Check out her blog for more pictures.  

Alot of these quilts are going to have shadows on them because of the trees.  I did the best I could to edit them so you can see them.  

  I love this next quilt.   Those leaves are so tiny and are all hand applique’d.  

and a close up.

It was kind of windy, so  you’ll see some quilts that were “blowing in the wind”.  

  Go Ducks!   (that’s University of Oregon ducks). 

And look Anne, your Baltimore Bunnies!   It looked wonderful.

More tomorrow.   

Wa la!

First of all, thanks to everyone for wishing Mr. CnW a happy birthday. Who woulda thunk a man of his age (old) would get his feelings hurt by not making the blog cut? I’m still smiling about that. He read each and every one of the comments and you all made his day!

Now, on to quilty stuff.

Remember these?

This is what they turned into.

I was a little concerned about how busy the neutrals were, but once it got put together, I decided I like it. The pattern is called “Glory Bound” by Bonnie Blue Quilts.

I think I’m going to tea dye it or distress it or whatever you do to give it an aged look. I’ll have Mary from Quilt Hollow help me with that part since she does it to most of her quilts. Okay Mary?

Went to the guild’s quilt show in the park today. I’ll post pictures once I get them edited.

Hugs, Anne

A sulking hubby

Yesterday was Mr. Cottons ‘n Wool’s birthday (from here on out to be known as Mr. CnW), and his feelings were hurt that he didn’t make the blog.

This is the cake I got him. It’s a tiny little cake but oh so good.

The insides? A spice apple caramel. Oh, yumms!

So, Happy Birthday Mr. CnW. I love you!