Friday Night Sew-In Results!

For the past three Friday nights, my daughter, Valerie and I have had a sew-in.  This week, we joined Heidi and friends in participating in their sew-in.  This is such a great idea to set aside time to do the sewing that we tend to put off.  I have made GREAT progress on my Dutch Doll quilt that my friend, Laverne, helped me to get started.  You will see in the pictures, that there are really two different patterns of dolls we have included in this quilt, I like it that way...this quilt is not boring!  Each little doll will have it's own personality.  I am so excited!  I only like sewing two strips of dolls, before I begin the sashing between each strip.  I am still working on the fabric that will be included on the sashing.  I have placed a strip of floral fabric between one line of dolls, to see how it works.  There will be some two-inch squares including in the sashing.)  The pictures you see do not have the sashing between the cross strips of dolls, to separate them.  With all the fabrics in my stash, I am sure I will come up with a good combination.  This quilt has been such a joy to work with.  My goal is to have it quilted by a quilt store in my area that do that on a long-arm, after which I will hand embellish the dolls with lace and ribbons, etc. 

Thanks to Heidi and Valerie for the Friday night Sew-In idea!  and for those who joined us, including our wonderful blogging friend, Mary, better known as Needled Mom! 

FRIDAY NIGHT SEW-IN NOV. 20TH!

Above is one of my quilt blocks for our Saturday Sampler quilt we are working on at Lavender Lime Quilt Shop.
For the past two Fridays, my daughter, Valerie, and I have been having our own Friday night Sew-in!  I have accomplished a lot on my dutch doll quilt.  I imagine within the next two weeks I will have the top finished.  I basically only like doing the sashing between the blocks.  I will show the finished product soon.
Join us for the Friday Night Sew-in!  It is November 20th and hosted by Handmade by Heidi!  You can
sign up to join us here
 I believe we will have a great time!

The Star-Spangled Banner Lyrics (USA National Anthem)

Weekend Trip

One of Brenda's Granny quilts.

Go over to Valerie's blog to see the Granny quilt stories.

The Farm

I had a wonderful trip to see my daughter, Brenda in the Nashville, TN area. It was a gorgeous time to travel. The leaves were so pretty on the mountains on the way up and back. Brenda and I had a great weekend. She had homemade soup made for me when I got there, and did I enjoy that!

These are a few pictures of her lovely home. She has it up for sale, along with 20 beautiful acres of land, much of it undeveloped which has lots of timber, a pond, and a creek.
Brenda bought a sewing machine while I was there and is learning to sew. I was so proud of that.

Feather, their horse.

Feeding Feather her favorite food, an apple!

This is where their Cocker Spaniel is buried.  He lived 15 years and was a dear companion.

Just a few or Rob's trophies from Karate.

We had a very wonderful visit!  Thanks, Brenda and Rob for your great hospitality!

My Obsession with Books

I am a person who would rather read a good book than see a good movie!  I have gotten to the point, though, where the books are taking over the house!  When I see a good review of a book by a friend, or an author interviewed about something they wrote that appeals to me, I cannot help myself, I buy it!

Mostly, my books are Christian related, but I like all kinds of clean novels, romantic, or otherwise.  I have many books about the Civil War battles and their generals, and many many health related books.

My latest finds are two that were recommended by our wonderful blogging friend, Karen Dianne Lee.  I have not read these yet, but I am looking forward to doing so.

Then there are my many garden books and cookbooks, below are just two of my favorites.  (The Paula Deen one is personally autographed by Paula!)

I could go on and on about the books I love .............Of course, my Mama's Bible is in use every day!

I Won the Silent Auction!

I won this cute little wall hanging above at the silent auction at the Blairsville Quilt Festival!  Isn't it cute!

Below are two more quilts from the quilt show that were beautiful!

Trip to Apple Country!

My sister (L) and our friend (R)

This past week I took a few days off to get my vacation days taken before the end of the year.  On one of the days, I took my sister and a friend of ours over to Ellijay to Apple Country.
On the way, we stopped at the top of the mountain and took pictures.  It was so beautiful over there.  We were about ready to get into the car and leave, when a pickup truck came barreling down the mountain, and turned around quickly and parked in front of my car.  I told the ladies, "Let's get in the car!".  They were in that car so fast and so was I that by the time the guy got out of his truck we were in our car and locked up.  Our imaginations ran wild when we were trying to figure out why a lone man turned his truck around when he saw us and parked in front of my car.  Was he there just to enjoy the scenery like we were, or did he have something else in mind, like steal a purse or something?  Why did he turn around from the direction he was going and come back?  Why did he park directly in front of my car?  It just made us all alert to our safety and we drove out of there as he stared at us.  It is so sad that this day and time we have to be afraid of everything and everyone.  Crime is so bad.  There was no traffic hardly at all across the mountain that day, so we felt like we had the mountain to ourselves until he showed up.  He might have been totally innocent,,,............or not.  We did not wait to see.

Anyway, we went on over to the Apple Barn and loaded up on all kinds of apples, dried apples and fried apple pies.  A stop back on the way home for lunch and back home.  It was a very good and relaxing day.