An afternoon with friends

Sunday we spent the afternoon with some friends.  We met at the Winchester restaurant on Wealthy (in Grand Rapids, MI).  It was great to catch up. 

 

 After lunch we went to the antique shops on Century.  This is one of our favorite antiquing stops.  

Hopefully, we won't let so much time go before we get together with them all again.  We always say that and before you know it months have gone by! 

 

We did have an absolutely wonderful day.  I really didn't find any treasures on this shopping trip, maybe next time.

 

Happy Birthday Connie!

Here is another card my Aunt commissioned for one of her friends.

Here are the threads used.

 This is the embroidery after the first set of colors.

 This is the second set.

This is the third set.

Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the finished card! I was told it looks stunning!!

 I hope Connie has a great birthday.

 

In my Garden quilt finished

I wanted to share with you the wonderful job Terri did quilting my quilt.

It still amazes me to look at it! During the several days it took me to sew the binding on, I had it draped over my cutting table in my studio.  I would constantly walk over to it just to gaze at another section in awe of the quilting!  I get giddy just typing about it. 

Here are some close up shots.  The photos may take awhile to load. I was taking photos to use to enter this in the AQS show and you have to use your highest setting, but trust me they are worth the wait.

My application for entry for the AQS Grand Rapids show was completed online.  Now I just have to wait for June 21st when the rejection and acceptance notices go out! 

I won!

I won block party!  Now I have 6 more fantastic basket blocks!  What to do with them? Oh wait, I just realized what I won was another unfinished project!!  Just one more to add to the ever growing list!!

It's still exciting to win!

Basket Block

I made a basket block for the WMQG block exchange.  Each meeting they do a different block. Everyone that makes a block gets their name put into a drawing and depending how many blocks they get you might end up with 4 or 6 blocks to make a small quilt!  It has been awhile since I made a block to exchange, I'm glad I took the time to do it. Its all about participation!!

Happy Birthday Lynne

I made another card for my Aunt to give to her girlfriend, Lynne.  I forgot to take the end picture of the completed card!  Gosh, that made me mad!

This is the original picture.  Yep they are all in front of that dang tree!! 

This is the picture cropped with the background painstakingly removed.  I had to start over 4 times with this one, but it has to be perfect.

Lynne's colors!

 This is after the first set of colors. 

 The 2nd set.

 And the 3rd set.

It did turn out very nice, sorry I can't show that to you. I will have to make sure I remember to take the final picture with the other ones!!

Moving Mom

We helped move my Mother and Grandfather into my brothers house.

 It has been a long time since I've seen my mom. It will be nice now that she is closer.

Brianna kept Sophia entertained while we were carrying things in from the moving truck.

Those crazy girls!!

We also got to meet Mom's new baby, Rosebud.  She is so tiny and cute.  She was just a hyper little wiggle worm!!

 I spent some time with Gabriella and Sophia even asked me to play!

Sophia has really started talking more and she was not as shy around me.  I was very excited when she asked me to play.  It lasted about 10 minutes but that was long enough for Uncle Bobbi to be sitting on the floor!!