They loved it!

Here is a picture of Rachel and Asante with thier welcome to Pocatello quilt.

Happy Scrappy Houses

This morning I quilted up the second quilt top from the Happy Scrappy Houses Swap. This one is going to my niece Rachel and her guy Asante. They moved to my town this week.
Welcome!

It is fire season!

Here is what I see out my back window today.

Yummmmy Pie

Lately in blogger land I've been seeing that someone has been making a lot of yummmy looking pies. There have been peach pies, and chocolate fudge pie (my fav.) something called icebox pie, strawberry rhubarb pie. Elsewhere in blogger land they have been making yummy stew, recipe by George. You get my drift. Beautiful food. I don't eat like that. As I was eating my oh so healthy dinner tonight, I was thinking of those yummmmy pies. Now generally I don't have the watermelon, just the frozen dinner, so truly this was healthier than usual for me. But, as I was eating the "individual size" watermelon, well half of it anyway, I was thinking..... Do watermelon seeds count as a whole grain? Most everyone who knows me well, knows I don't like "green food", I was also wondering...... Does watermelon count as green food? And, just to clarify from the start here. Yes, Stormy I did eat the green beans in that delicious looking frozen dinner by Marie Callendars. Yum! Gotta love Marie Callendars and PIE! LOL

Sixteen Patch Quilt

I finally got around to making the quarter square triangles for this, and sewed it all up today. I will quilt it tomorrow. It will be a gift for Christmas for my father in-law. Thanks Sophie for the help with the qst's earlier. I kept all those e-mails for info., and I like how it turned out.

Spring Fling Sampler

This past spring I participated in a block swap on MSN Quilting Around the World Group. I made 2 flying geese blocks for each participant, and received the rest of these blocks in the swap. I backed it with very soft minkee, and quilted away on it. Its definately not perfect, but for my hmmmmm 4th quilt on the machine, its not bad. I'm planning it as a gift for my ds's girlfriend.



Flower pot up close


close up of border feathers, my first.

Fun cat in the bird house.

Close up of bird.

Matt's Quilt

I have a guy friend, Matt. We've been friends for quite a long time. Matt is the guy who will drive across town to change the lightbulb I can't reach in my stairway. Or prune my tress, cut down dead trees, pretty much anything I need help with, Matt is always there for me. He's been wanting me to make him a quilt for a while, and I've finally finished it today. Here is first a closeup of the quilting. This is the 3rd quilt I've quilted on my new HQ-16. Then there is a picture of the entire quilt. I quilted into it, For Matt from Colene 2007, but was unable to get a good picture of it.