Sent.....

Organic Ride On For Maddie

 Two Quilts sent off to two teen Grandgals....Ride on and Urban Beads in the straight line Organic Quilting....Fun!!
  Crop duster flying low over the cabin as I stained between the boards on our back porch....staining is a tedious job, so the diversion was great!!....
   Summer is going forward....it has been a cool one here; only 2 days of Air Conditioning needed
....thats' Craziiness!! but nice on our budget.
   I enjoyed working on these quilts...it is always nice to get them also sent to their new homes and lives!

Waving in the Breeze at the Cabin 

Crop duster!! Having fun, I am thinkin'

Sweet Urban Beads for Meg

 Have a Blessed Quilting Day!!!

Come On! Let's Hand Quilt

From Pinterst

I want to hand quilt, do you?..... I want to start ..... I think it looks relaxing...I have The Thimble Ladies Thimble to use...what kind would you use?
....here are a couple videos on it....Let me know if you give it a try...seriously!!......please watch Andi Perejda 

That is so awesome!  This one is a bit longer but it is sweet too.....Hand Quilting Hints  is what I am going to  call it.
 If you have never hand quilted, please give it a try.  My older sister prefers hand quilting.

 I have a quilt from the 1920's I found with pink houses on it...someone put the pencil marks for hand quilting...I want to get it basted to my quilt frame and give it a try or my lap quilting hoop would be fun too.
By George,  I think I just inspired myself :).....Gonna do it!!.......Blessings!!!

Hot Hexies

My Loft with new dressings....wink :)

My Suzie Bell is calling me!!

I came across this sweet and fun video with Elenor Burns called Hot Hexies. It is short and sweet.
  I do have some already cut Hexies from Bonnie and Camille and so it would be fun to put them together soon too.  You can find Hexie Quilt Ideas on Pinterest too.  I wish I were quilting right now....but with the 70 degree days I am going forward with my paint/stain brush!....we may even get to show the filled up Koi pond soon too....have to run to Pond Supply store today to get more 2 sided tape.....it is awesome for fixing holes in heavy vinyl pond liners....FYI ...wink!   Yes, after being involved in building this cabin with my hub for over 11 years now I have become somewhat of a DIY gal!!.....and it is OK with me!!.....it has been a great journey!.....Ok! I really want to finish my outside work so I can redeem the time again in Quilting....Have a wonderfully cooler than normal, Summer Day!!  Blessings!!!
Had to add this find too at....Scrap Book Girl  

From Scrap Book Girls

STAIN my trim!!....I will!!  I promise!!

Color Me Yellow

Just Sharing some photos of what has kept me away from my longarm "Suziebell"

My soul mate Gary rests.  He has an undying devotion and love for me,  his family and Lord.  An Awesome, soon to be retired ER RN!!
....I also found a wonderful bag pattern on Swoon Patterns, Coraline Clutch.  
Please check out the photo of her clutch below....I have not made it yet myself.

I am just thinking that it was named after two of our sweet Grandgals, Coralynn and Caroline, and to be found on an online site named after my favorite pattern.. .Swoon. That was too sweet, not to share it with you!!

I almost missed drying these!!

Devoted!!

Hit by a Cheery Tree!!

I stain because I am!! summer 2014

Indiana Sunsets are ON Display!!

Coraline Clutch by Swoon Patterns......so far :)

 May your day be your favorite color..

 Let me know if you try the clutch pattern out and  how it works for you too.

             Quilted  Blessings!

Paper Piecing Vintage BOM

This  video on paper piecing is very good.....it is in parts of instruction and free.....please enjoy it!
 I love to paper piece....I plan to do a Geek Glasses soon and also a Vintage Bike to make shams to go with the Grandteens Quilts I just made...Got to ship them soon!!

Please visit  Sew Hooked 
for the detailed instructions from size of needles to paper and so forth....

Also, you may want to Visit
Craftsy  for the pattern for the Sew Hooked BOM....it is sweet, don't you think?  

Quilted Blessings!!

His Lap Now and Forever....

His Lap

Is Anyone struggling today?..........From my home to yours...... I am posting this again due to the news of a friend of ours in SC husband passed on Friday.  They run a wonderful natural foods and bakery in Aiken.  They help anyone and everyone they meet.  John passed in a treehouse that he built and designed for friends. Please pray for Rebecca and her family; it was sudden; she had been asking for prayers for just a couple weeks.  God is our Great Shepherd and Great Comforter.....  Keep our focus on Him Alone.....

Picture yourself as a child, crawling up on Jesus' (or your Heavenly Father's) lap. He welcomes you, and holds you securely with one arm–his left arm.  With his right arm he is conducting all the affairs of your life and indeed, the whole world, as a conductor would conduct an amazing symphony.
In this picture he is also singing. With you on his lap, he is singing about how much he loves you, how delighted he is with you. He is singing, "You are my beloved son/daughter, with you I am well pleased." He tells you to rest, since he has done everything that needs to be done. All you have to do is receive all he has for you. He is bursting with joy at all the gifts he has for you..

He also rejoices in his own ability to conduct the affairs of your life and the whole world, how he will make sure everything is OK. Every atom in the universe is subject to him, and he is Love, and wisdom, and he is the mighty warrior who has conquered everything and will one day finish what he started, to make all things right and all things new.
He has already begun that work, in you. He is shining his light into all your dark places, he is working all things together for your good, he is straightening out the bent places and smoothing out the path before your feet. His life-giving light shines all the time, and it brings complete healing, peace, and right relationships with him, with yourself, and others. His life-giving light brings peace, and joy, as he fills you with his love.
Listen to him singing; feel his love and delight in you, as well as his quiet confidence in his ability to save and to conduct the affairs of the whole universe. From the smallest subatomic particle to the details of your life to whatever it takes to keep the heavenly bodies in place, he is quietly confident in his ability to take care of anything and everything and to work it all into a beautiful harmony.*

This Blessed Me.......

Trapunto?

Tell me the truth....do you trapunto and do you trapunto
feathers...and even backwards?.....Well, take a look at this video with Leah Day....it is short
and sweet.....

Trapunto

This  2nd video on hand quilting will "take you back"....Simply
Quilts with Alex Anderson..( 2011)....she is now on The Quilt Show if you weren't aware of that.....

I have to admit Every time I hear the music on these old videos I am with my Mom watching Alex!....Mom passed
10 years ago this fall.

Now, Please enjoy this video too... Try it you will like it!

 Hand Quilting

Have a blessed Saturday....promise of rain here so this stain-lady will be piecing......Quilted Hugs!!!

Civil War Friends

I ran across this great pattern by Bonnie Blue Quilts.....a person could do this pattern in Civil War or you could use Vintage or even the bright Camille or Fig Tree fabric too....never limit yourself because of how you see a quilt put together with some colors or prints that are not you....please "be you"....  I am me ....so You be You!....ok, the sun and stain is getting to my brain....I need thread fiber!!.....Keep it up Girlfriend!!....wanted to post this for you ....please enjoy....wink!!

Tavern Blues

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Swirls & Fearless Feathers

You know what I am up to.....still staining....but when there is a final "stain stroke" this is something that I want to do...swirl on my neighbor in SC Nautical Quilt.....so give it a try while I am outside getting sun while I work.
  God Bless You this July!  Quilted Blessings!!  Free motion or not. :)


 Just hit the tab to see Angela's Free motion.  She takes the fear out of free motion for this chickadee.......
Swirls Video
Fearless Feathers

Star Blossoms

Others may have this pattern but I know it is on my project to piece lined up for this week, after Wish Upon A Star....:)

Here is the link to .....Star Blossoms    !! 
It can "light" up your world.
See You Later!! heading to the stain and my brush!!  So, I can piece later!! Goal is front and back porch logs today.
 It is All Good!!  Quilted Blessings!!

Do Over?

Here you go girlfriends!!
 We have a new door :)....old French ones are going upstairs off a deck that needs new doors.....we have that deck roofed now.  Auction coming soon....well, August or early September and that seems soon to this chickadee!!...but enjoy the pictures of our winter pond now summer....dogs Golden heads bobbing up each with a wet ball....the new door is great...more practical to get out onto the porch with a arm full of picnic goodies too.  I am sewing on my Wish Upon A Start tonight...so fun...back to the Staining Maniac tomorrow.  God Bless!!...Just wanted to share our little bit of "do over"!

His Lap

Is Anyone struggling today?..........From my home to yours......

Picture yourself as a child, crawling up on Jesus' (or your Heavenly Father's) lap. He welcomes you, and holds you securely with one arm–his left arm.  With his right arm he is conducting all the affairs of your life and indeed, the whole world, as a conductor would conduct an amazing symphony.
In this picture he is also singing. With you on his lap, he is singing about how much he loves you, how delighted he is with you. He is singing, "You are my beloved son/daughter, with you I am well pleased." He tells you to rest, since he has done everything that needs to be done. All you have to do is receive all he has for you. He is bursting with joy at all the gifts he has for you..

He also rejoices in his own ability to conduct the affairs of your life and the whole world, how he will make sure everything is OK. Every atom in the universe is subject to him, and he is Love, and wisdom, and he is the mighty warrior who has conquered everything and will one day finish what he started, to make all things right and all things new.
He has already begun that work, in you. He is shining his light into all your dark places, he is working all things together for your good, he is straightening out the bent places and smoothing out the path before your feet. His life-giving light shines all the time, and it brings complete healing, peace, and right relationships with him, with yourself, and others. His life-giving light brings peace, and joy, as he fills you with his love.
Listen to him singing; feel his love and delight in you, as well as his quiet confidence in his ability to save and to conduct the affairs of the whole universe. From the smallest subatomic particle to the details of your life to whatever it takes to keep the heavenly bodies in place, he is quietly confident in his ability to take care of anything and everything and to work it all into a beautiful harmony.*

This Blessed Me.......

 Kar

Keep Calm and Hike On!

This is where I want to be today........

                                             But I will be here.......staining..........:)
                                             God Is Good........All The Time........
                                             Seen or Unseen, He Will Not Forsake.
                                             Have a Sweet Quilted Day.......Karen

Summer Bliss

Recently our son and his family came for a visit. Due to his experiences since last Sept. with his kidney issues, it had kept him from traveling.  Now he is waiting on a transplant and is having success with dialysis at home with a 10 hour over night cycler.  That gives him some freedom and added strength in his daily walk.
 I had wanted to longarm with his girls for a long time, this was a great chance since we plan to auction the cabin when we can and it may also have been their last opportunity.  We need to find something easier to maintain and that may even give us the freedom to retire and then "work" on that end of our lifes' journey.  So, the girls got to swim and quilt and swim and quilt and also cut grass with Papa on the mower.  They have no idea of our plans but they will have this great memory with us here.  We caught fireflies one night and went for a walk around the pond.  They gathered eggs everyday with Papa too and even got to help move the chicken house so our sweet breakfast of champions egg layers would have new grass to eat.
We have a White Goose, I call her Mother Goose, that the Canadian geese have adopted and she even even came to visit.  We stayed home mainly to just enjoy each others' company and to let the girls play and relax....along with their Mommy and Daddy.  Daddy enjoyed the World Cup immensely and his wife got caught up on a few friends and book reading.  My hub?...he had to work his ER nursing night schedule but he was home one day too.
  Busy few days.  Loved it.  As you  Enjoy the pictures, add your own voices.....they even made a quilt for their best little friends who are moving to Cleveland soon....we did the straight line organic stitch on the small quilts....just a cut layer of fabric for top and bottom....The girls thought the stitching was the "cats' meow!!" I have precious memories and statements that tug at my heart, since we know we are selling and moving.....Dobbie, this cabin is beautiful, you love it,right?.....yes, I do!!!.... Papa is so good building, he can build anything,right?.....yes, yes yes!! he can!!!.....Dobbie, this is so beautiful!!!.....as we were catching fireflies in jars at dusk!!.....Dobbie, when I grow up I am going to Quilt and be a Mommy and live right here!!!........OOOOH!!! my heart surged!!!!.... Dobbie, I love to quilt.....my heart pounding!!!
.... Papa let them mow on his lap and I heard their giggles and excited faces as their steered it too.....they swam and played for hours on perfect Summer days.  We even had a tornado hit in 2 places in Plymouth, no one was hurt....and Kevin had just got on his dialysis cycler....our electric flashed.....we prayed about the storm....and we were protected.....his dialysis continued and his wife took the girls to the basement but it passed so quickly.....some excitement, not ordered, at 1am!!....   Please enjoy the photos....just a few of them, trust this photo bug Dobbie!!

We have a large treasure box of memories stored up from this cabin with the family.....we will hold them dear, as I pray they all do too.....Enjoy the pictures.....my projects of 2 teen Grandgals quilts also done in the organic stitch......it is so so fun.....just ask Cora and Millie!! God Bless !!!