Older quilts

I made this little quilt a few years ago. It's colored with crayons and I used reproduction fabrics plus a few feedsacks from my limited collection. The quilt behind it was a find in an Arkansas junk store. I think I paid $17 for the top. My friend Donna T. quilted it. I found the old ladder in a store in Broken Arrow.

The following pillow and quilt are also ones that I made a few years ago.

The quilt pattern was featured on the cover of the Keepsake Quilting catalog and I just had to have it. I machine appliqued the tulips, but for some reason I decided to hand quilt the quilt. Last year when we went to Vermont we sneaked across the New Hampshire border just so I could go to Keepsake Qulting. It was worth the trip.

Fall colors

Does anyone remember in the past that crepe myrtles turned this lovely color of orange in the fall? Maybe I'm brain dead, but I don't ever remember it before. They are so lovely.

I just love the contrast of this lime green next to the begonias and the orange crepe myrtle.

I picked these from my garden. Unfortunately, ever since then we've had a lot of gnats in the house. How do I get rid of them?

More needlework

My Grandma Few stitched this picture sometime before 1954. That year she had a stroke and was completely paralyzed on her right side and was bedridden until her passing in 1972. I reframed it in the 80's. She was a quilter, too. So the need to do something with a needle must be hereditary.

Mom did this one sometime in the 60's. It was a gift for her mom, my Grandma Few. After Grandma died, Mom got it back and she gave it to me. The embroidery work is absolutely beautiful.

Giveaway

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Carol Maples

Yesterday was my mother-in-law's birthday. She would have been 29....again. She always claimed to be 29, which made it difficult to explain when her kids got to be older than she. Then she claimed she adopted them when she was just a child herself. She was funny.

She and I had a lot of fun together and she was one of my best friends. We loved playing piano duets together and I'm so thankful we have a couple of them on video. It's a little long, so if you don't want to watch the whole thing, just go to the end because we ALWAYS had a good laugh at the end. It made it really hard to ever play in public because we couldn't help cracking up at the end. Yesterday was a hard day. But today I'm trying to remember the laughs. I miss her alot.

Civil War Birthday Blocks

These are the last two of the Civil War Birthday Blocks I've made. In my group at the Cotton Patch, each month we make a block to give to the birthday girl. I've been trying to make one to give and one to keep. These two are mine to keep so I have a total of nine. This Thursday......It's MY TURN!!!! I can hardly wait. My birthday is next Saturday, October 24. The group meets on Thursday and I'll get all my birthday blocks.

Also, for my birthday, I'm doing "Laps for Little Ones". It's a major fund raiser for The Little Lighthouse(www.littlelighthouse.org) school for children with disabilities. They are a completely faith based organization and take no federal funding. I'll be walking an hour. Tim's company "Williams Energy" sponsored me for $1500! Thank you Williams!!! What a great way to spend my birthday. Our little Timothy (grandson) was on the waiting list to go to school at Little Lighthouse when his sight miracuously improved and the doctors told my daughter not to send him there. That opened up a spot for another child and we've been supporting the school ever since.

Pow Wow

Since I'm on the subject of Quilter's Pow Wow....Here's the quilt I finished while I was there.

Remember what it looked like last year? This is what I got done in the class. I'm so glad I got it quilted while I was there. I put the binding on it last week and now it's on my kitchen table.

Here are the ladies I shared a cabin with. Except for the lady on the left in the back. I don't know her. I think she just wanted in the picture! ha ha
And these are ladies from my stitch group:

Katie (who went to Hawaii with us and is also Emma's neice), Emma, Leslie, June, me and Colleen.


This little group has become quite famous at Pow Wow. We've written 3 quilt related songs and have sung for 3 years in a row, adding a song each year.

Carolyn, Ann, me, Leslie and Peggy. Unfortunately you can't see the glue who holds us all together: Karen at the guitar. She's the best!