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.