Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all. Hope its prosperous and that everyone stays healthy. We are not going out tonight to celebrate as we have had a week of Christmas celebrating. We belong to a card club and our card party is Friday night at out house. Also on Saturday our quilt Guild has their 1st. meeting for the new year. It is a work session so we are there all day.
Finally got all the snow moved that needed to be. 20 inches is al ot of snow- even in South Dakota. Am anxiuos to get back to sewing but may be another week. My DIL and grandson offered to do some painting for me so can't turn that down ; ) Be Happy!!

Our snow

I won- I won

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and that Santa brought you all you wished for. We were snowed in but our son and grandson managed to get here. Also our SIL and BIL. They had 4 wheel drives but very few people were traveling. We have had 16.5 inches of snow and expecting a couple more inches today plus strong winds so as soon as it quits we will have to clean it out.

I had a nice Christmas surprise as I won a gift of thread on sewcalgal's virtual Christmas show giveaway. Hope you had time to visit her show. I picked up some ideas from all the Christmas quilts and wall- hangings

Charming Chatter giveaway

Did you see Kelly at Charming Chatter is having a Christmas Memories Giveaway? She invites us to visit her store where there are lots of pretties. I love this FQ bundle~ Hushabye by Tula Pink. Although we have a few nice shops to find fabric~ no one carries anything like this!

My favorite memory is when our DD was bringing her friend home to meet us during the holidays. Before they got to our farm, a blizzard started and we were worrying about them (no cell phones then). She had told him to turn off a mile too soon and he told her they had just crossed the bridge and how far was it. She panicked~'bridge!! there's no bridge on our road!!' :-o There wasn't a bridge on our road and they were stuck. Luckily someone came along and helped them and they finally made it but were stuck in our drive where the car sat for 3 days. He got to know us really well and they did get married so it ended happily.

Gifts from Santa

Is everyone ready for Christmas? What did you hint for? I didn't ask for anything and we are cutting down on giving this year but if an angel came and quilted my finished tops I would'nt object. ; ) There are so many needy charities and we are helping when we can. I am almost ready for the holiday but they are predicting a snow storm to start on Wed. and last through Christmas Day.What a bummer. I have a ham and a turkey to cook so am hoping they are wrong. I hope you all have a happy Christmas and a healthy New Year.

A Christmas Wallhanging

I would like to enter this quilt in the virtual quilt show that sewcalgal is having. I made it for a challenge in my guild. The challenge fabric is used in the tree. The pattern came from a Leisure Arts booklet.

Thanks NeedledMom for the little push to get this done! :-) Good luck to all of us!

Signature quilt

This is a signature quilt that I exchanged blocks on a message board and also in my own guild. It is really a nice remembrance since several of the quilters in my guild have passed away.

Very cold in SD this week and I am writing Christmas letters. Keep warm! :-)

Another Wall Hanging

Good morning, Will soon have my home decorated for Christmas. Love doing it but don't like taking it all down. We had our guild Christmas party yesterday and had a fun time. lots of show and tell. They gave away nice big prizes like a Jim Shore Santa figurine and a couple Debbie Mumm cases and more. I won a rotary cutting blade. The committee did a great job planning.

I am working on some Gingerbread men this morning. Have a good day.

Cold morning

Only 7 degrees here this morning. Guess winter has found us. Wish you could drop in for a warm cinnamon roll. I just took some out of the oven and they smell yummy. The caramel recipe I have stays soft. I will share it. It is 1 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter and 1/4 cup milk. Bring to a boil- cool and put in a 9X13 pan. Put rolls on top and bake.
No sewing here today but will have something to show tomorrow. I am getting ready for our Guild Christmas party tomorrow. Am taking some fudge. Have a happy day.

Friends & Flakes

We had a few flakes today with wind and much colder. When it gets cold I like to stay in and sew or quilt. Have been sewing on my Jewel Box and marking my teal and brown quilt. Also trying to get some Christmas things out. This is a small door hanging I made just for fun.

Finished Quilt

Have this quilt finished and ready for the next grandchilds wedding. It was quilted by CBQ and I made it through the local quilt shop. It is a BOM sampler that I started in 2003- not very speedy on this one ; 0.

Christmas Ornaments

Here are a couple of ornaments I made today. I found the pattern on Elsie Marley's blog

Belated Happy Thanksgiving

Hope you all had a great day- we didn't plan anything big but were happy when a grandson came for lunch and even brought a pie. Pretty neat for a college kid. We made some home- made ice cream to go with it.
Finished sewing the binding on my black, red and white quilt but can't show a picture. Think the gremlins have been using my camera and I haven't had time to straighten it out.
Didn't go out for black Friday- just don't like the crowds. The weather is beautiful- 58 degrees on Nov.27 in South Dakota. Can't beat that.

Help- cross hatching (maybe)

Another beautiful day in South Dakota- I have the center figured out. I want to do cross hatching on the borders that hang down but don't know quite how to go about it. I do not want to cross hatch in the blocks. The four corners are like the picture I am showing. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Cards for our military

XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL

If you go to this web site, http://www.letssaythanks.com/ you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq.

You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services.

It is FREE and it only takes a second.

Our soldiers over there need to know we are behind them.

Another busy Sunday. Had planned on marking a quilt but had a pleasant surprise- Our Grandson and his new bride visited us. They live about 3 hours away so don't see them as often as we would like.
Today I will show you our challenge fabric for our guild's quilt show. We have to make a mini-quilt using some of the fabric. It can't be any larger than 8 1/2 x 11 and has to have some paper piecing(groan). I just am not a paper piecer but will give it my best shot. Have been searching for ideas. We have a show bi-annually and in between we go on bus trip shop hops.

Scrappy quilt

Good afternoon- another nice day here- hope it stays this way until at least March. Went to a funeral in N.E. a fifty year old cousin who died from cancer. Very sad.
Today I am posting a picture of a quilt my daughter and I each made. There were 54 blocks in it and we wanted to use our scraps so the rule was that we could not buy any fabric and had to use only scraps. We each made 54 blocks and then exchanged 27
of them.

Paper Piecing ; (

Have you ever felt like crying when you are working on a block?? Our guild had a class on paper piecing on Sat. and I really don't like paper piecing so it wasn't good. I am posting a picture of my block that I am NOT going to do over. I haven't even pressed it but it didn't turn out too bad if I hadn't goofed. I think I'll try another -soon. (maybe)
I spent the afternoon playing with a Singer 99K that my DH brought home from an auction- it works like a charm.

Christmas tree ornament

Found a new Christmas tree ornament today ; )

Its a beautiful day in South Dakota. Today I am showing you a pretty wall hanging I received as a gift.

Eleanor Burns Wall Hanging

Here is an Eleanor Burns wall hanging our quilt guild did as a group.

Table Topper

-Finally finished with "outside work"

Now maybe I can get back to sewing. We have the garden cleaned up and the leaves all raked. Had lots of them this year because we had so much rain. Now I am going to mark my quilt and some friends are going to help me with the hand quilting.It measures 98X112. Also am getting ready for a paper piecing class my quilt guild is having on Saturday. I do not like paper piecing but maybe this will change my mind. It will be a fun day . Hope to have some pictures soon.

Quilt Top Finished ; ) Have a good day.

Another dreary rainy day here- should get some sewing done. I finished my quilt borders so am going to mark it. It measures 98x112. Some of my friends have offered to help hand quilt it. I have several fat backs but are all too small. Since I have some blocks left I can use my leftovers to make it fit. Doesn't that sound like fun ; (

Fun Evening

Each fall our county extension clubs have a fall get together. Each club decorates a table. Our theme was Autumn. We have jar raffle and lunch. This is my clubs table.

A Great Giveaway!!!

Brenda at Pumpkin Patch Primatives has a great giveaway- hurry on over because it ends soon.

A work in progress

Thanks for the great bloggers welcome. I also think my daughter is a talented quilter. I have at least one more quilt that we traded blocks and will show it later. Today ( If I can figure out posting pictures) I will show you a work in progress. This one needs a couple more borders and lots of pressing. It is a little outside my box as I consider myself a tradional quilter. I got the blocks in a HGTV swap.

Happy Halloween!

About me ; )

Just a little about me- I'm new to blogging so bear with me. I have been quilting for a looonnnng time. My DH and I are retired from farming. I have 3 children- 2 boys and a daughter, and 7 grandchildren. Also a great grand child. I am trying to finish up my projects and use my stash which I swear grows. We will be moving to an apartment before to long. I have joined lots of swaps so do have lots of blocks. Enough for now.