What’s on my Design Wall – July 25, 2011

| July 24, 2011

On my Design Floor this week I have THE FABRICAHOLICS SUMMER MYSTERY 2011  – CLUE #5  – designed  and hosted by Marge Gordon. I absolutely love to make mystery quilts…..it is ever so much more fun for me if I don’t know what the quilt will look like when I am finished!  Anything for excitement, […]

What is on my Design Wall, July 19, 2011

| July 18, 2011

My DESIGN FLOOR  is in Kansas City this week……..I made my FIRST  flower in my new GRANDMOTHER’S FLOWER GARDEN QUILT…  I have been wanting to make a SCRAPPY one for ages but couldn’t quite decide how I wanted to do it.  SO, I have now DECIDED and I am really LIKING THIS.  So, this shall […]

What’s on my Design Wall July 11, 2011

| July 11, 2011

Today I have BINDING ON MY MIND…….yes……my Hidden Pinwheels Quilt is begging to be bound……so I guess I will put it on my design wall! This is one of Augusta Cole’s patterns that she gave us at her Cutting Bee.  It is made with 4 1/2 HST and 2 1/2 inch SQUARES.  I believe that […]

Quilting is good for you

| July 8, 2011

Doing something that is creative, fun, and social is GOOD FOR YOU! In fact, when I was doing research a few years ago, over and over again we found that social support was one of the NUMBER ONE PREDICTORS of life satisfaction and well-being in older adulthood.  A few other predictors of good assessment of […]

What’s on my Design Wall, July 4, 2011

| July 4, 2011

FIRST – HAPPY 4th of July, 2011! We just got home from the parade – it was WONDERFUL!  Abe Lincoln was in the parade…..:) Grandangel Sarah was in the parade with her swim team….and that is my SIL shooting a water gun at us! We had so much fun decorating ourselves…..love Grandangel Leanna’s hat and […]