Creativity Time and Completion

Got the quilt done for my honorary niece. LOL Long story but I claim her.  From her and Pamela's first meeting at one of my nephew's weddings in Missouri they became immediate buddies.  Hannah and Phil's little guy was born before they got the quilt. I was a tad slow but better late than never right.    The fabric is woodland creatures and so is the quilting theme. My friend Donna at Donna's Lavender Nest did the quilting.

If you look closely you can see the tree and below it is a bear. There's also a moose but I didn't capture it here. And I have started embroidering my labels so they won't disappear like they do after so many washings by using the marker pen.

 

This was funny. My quilter shipped me the finished quilt in this box and I passed it on to Hannah and Phil. They like me, questioning why they were receiving puppy pee pads.  LOL 

 

I got this picture from Hannah the other day... He's sew cute on his quilt. Look at that happy face. I hope that means he likes the quilt auntie Carla and Pamela made him.

How this silly sweet girl curls up on this tiny dog quilt amazes me.  Sadie can get in the smallest ball or upside down with no problem.

The 4th of July was family time. Kaleb, Pamela and Bri came up to have hamburgers and hot dogs. I even made a macaroni salad that I hadn't made in years. It has shell pasta, sharp cheddar cheese, onion, and red bell pepper. They didn't have the boys this weekend so we passed on having fireworks.  

It wasn't even planned but we all dressed in red, white and blue. It was a nice fun day.

I needed a case for my new airpods since the others died and the ones wouldn't fit in the case I had. I was going to get the one that matched my phone with silvery magnolia flowers on a clear case but it wasn't available anymore so I got the next best one. Books.. LOL.  I love to read and listen to audible books so it's appropriate. 

Thursday 7/10 As I drove down the road to exercise class I saw this crane. Sorry the shot isn't better but I tried. Anyway at first I couldn't figure out why it looked so big. 

It almost looked like it was standing on grass but I knew there was a pond there so when I pulled up I saw the tree stump. LOL. He kind of blended into the background of the trees. I moved up further to get a picture of the pond and him but he said photo shoot over "I'm outta here".  

That evening was the G3 book club meeting. This time we met at Maricela's in Rockdale. Food was good but instead of putting us in the back corner they put us smack dab in the middle of the restaurant. It was too loud to really have a meeting. For some reason the meeting went downhill quickly and we didn't discuss the book The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg. It was a book about family secrets, abuse, validation and healing. Most of the ladies said they did like the book.

Thanks to Jamie, the gal in foreground of the picture we have pictures

Friday 7/11. I put together two projects that I plan on taking to retreat at the end of July. I have two quilts I need to cut out so I can sew them up at retreat and hand over to my quilter Donna Lynn.  

But while sitting there getting stuff together I had to sew up some more strips but then I also had 2 other blocks I was working so I had a mess again behind my machine. I'd sew two strips together, then sew two pieces together of my disappearing four patch and then I'd sew 2 blocks for the Granny block. I was chain stitching away. I'd clip it all and sew more pieces together.  

I actually got all the strips I needed for the project going to retreat with me done and in a tub, 

also got 3 disappearing 4 patch blocks put together 

and  4 Granny squares put together. It's all scrappy. 

That evening we drove to Crossroads Tavern in Cat Springs to hang out with our friends Larry and Sylvia. It's been so long since we've been able to get together again.

It was nice catching up and having catfish for dinner. We got to talking and then it was time to leave and I forgot to take a picture of us but I did catch this picture of the rainbow just down the road. It looked brighter in person honest.

I also finished up my Wonky Star Bee challenge quilt. I really like the quilting theme for it. It turned out great. You can see the swirls and star in the second picture. Perfect for this quilt I think. 

On the label I listed the names of the ladies that made the various blocks in my quilt.

Well that's it for now.

Until nest post..  Many faces, many smiles/ Remember me across the miles  May this quilt warm your body and comfort your soul