Ready, Set....

Another block of the month top that is ready to be quilted. I'm going to put a large button in the middle of each flower to add some dimension. When Jon saw this quilt he told me not to give it to him, it might give him nightmares!!!! It is pretty bright.

Nashville Shopping Trip

Jennie, Jennifer and I enjoyed a day of shopping. This is the nativity that I have started. I wanted to go to Stitchers Garden in Nashville to get a good array of batiks for the project. The store is un-believable. It took us two hours to get all 24 fabrics chosen, I can hardly wait to get going. I'm not going to start until the wreath quilt is done.

After a tasty lunch we set off to find JoAnn fabrics. I probably should have stayed away. They were having a HUGE sale, and I could not resist all their darling flannels that were 50% off. I also had to have this gorgeous pink fabric, no we don't know the flavor of the baby, but I love pink.

Illinois visitors

We had a family that Josh knew while he was on his mission come to visit us. We had a great time visiting with them. I felt that I had truly met a sister. Hope our paths cross again Cheryl.

The boys had fun playing the Wii and the DS

This is Cheryl and her son Josh with "Elder Moser"

David, Cheryl's nephew is going back with them to Illinois.

Did I mention I HATE computers

I'll get the hang of this thing, but right now I'm just plain aggravated. I thought I was adding text, and it ended up obscured at the bottom.

Any who, this is a block of the month from several years ago. I mailed it off today to be quilted. One thing to check off of my list. Don't know why it takes me sooooo long to get things done. Maybe because I LOVE to start projects.

Sending it on it's way....

okay, so I'm a dinosaur!!!

Well, I was trying to learn how to put pictures on my blog, which I did, but I put the pictures on first and was then going to add text.... yay, didn't happen, so here is the text.

For the last five years our stake has hosted a Christmas festival for our community. Our stake choir prepares a 30 minute concert which they perform several times an evening for three nights. In the cultural hall we display quilts and nativity sets. They also have a live nativity set up in the back rooms in the church. It is very nice, and well attended. The first four pictures are quilts that I have displayed in the festival.

I didn't have any new quilts this year, so I got to thinking that I would like to put together some for next year. I started looking for some unique patterns that I would like to do.

The first one I am working on is this wreath pattern. I thought it was very stunning, and it has been fun to work on. I have one more row of blocks that I am currently cutting out that are white, and red that will frame the wreath. The finished quilt will be 56 x 56.

I also found a pattern that looks like stained glass for a nativity. I have started that, and will post something tomorrow on that. I would also like to do one which I will call star of wonder (wonder what I was thinking when I decided to do all these) I should be finishing up projects, not starting more new ones.

Thanks Lori for giving me the nudge to learn how to post pictures, you might have created a monster.

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