Wendy, I love how you're interpreting those doors.

Good evening all,
Today is the 8th and so it is my turn to talk about what I'm doing. First, a little background...
I was born and raised in White Plains, NY. I'm an only child; my Dad was born in Cork City, Ireland and my Mom in Poughkeepsie, NY. Typical parochial school education all the way through. I joined the Army Reserve and then the Air National Guard and spent over 23 years helping wherever possible. I met my husband while we both served; we raised 2 kids who are now productive adults (even though they both moved back home!)

I began about 25 years ago as a hardcore hand quilter, but realized after a few years that there were more quilts to make than I had time to hand quilt. I sent my quilts out until I decided to buy a longarm machine and open my doors for business. After 19 years of quilting for others, I'm closing my business per se and doing "my own thing". This includes an applique block of the month, and a ton of UFOs. I will continue to quilt for the Quilts of Valor Foundation as well.

Right now, I'm working on a quilt that I cut out with my Accuquilt GO. It's been so long since I did something just for fun. Hopefully, next month I'll have some pics of what I'm doing.

Until next update,

Wendy,
I know that the gremlins can come and go at will. I love your interpretation on the Church doors.
If it takes 3 posts to get things done, well,,,,,
And if you check out my blog, I got to a point last year that I just uploaded the pictures and never wrote the descriptions. Then when I checked what posted the pictures are so out of order that I have to redo the whole thing in order for it to make sense, arggghhh. And that may never happen,, lol

and again morning all and it is morning now. The forum was really misbehaving earlier I hope you understand my post/s I don't know why it gets gremlins. Perhaps it will be this year we get the new website.

I put a post on my blog. I'm really bad at keeping up to date and it's hard to keep to just a few things when you leave it 6 months. cottonfeathered.wordpress.com/

Looking forward to seeing what you've all been up to on your days and in between.

Silly forum still cutting off my text. Tea dyed cotton, silk noir Evalon, and scrim, plus a bit of hand dyed to brighten it up.
St Andrews CHURCH Walberswick, Suffolk.
Please forum do not delete my words again. I want to go back to bed

Good morning all and Happy Birthday Eileen
All my text disappeared so I'll add it again.

My group Strutts Stitchers is having a door challenge. I left it until the last minute

Marilyn,
Thanks for the beautiful pictures and catching us up to date with what’s in your ‘view finder’ at the present. Great work by both you and your husband.

Wow Marilyn love all your projects and your husbands bowl, beautiful. Nice to see what you've been up to recently.

The amaryllis is lovely as well, look at all your sewing on the wall and I can see a little nose peeping out. What a treat Happy Marilyn day.

Marilyn, your wool applique is so good! Love the loon. Don't worry about being late, I agree-better late than never.

I got a couple of amaryllis bulbs this yr, one red and one bi-color and put them in the pot together. The red one had 4 blooms .
but the bi-color had 2 stalks and the first had 6 and the second had 5 blooms! Never had an ordinary one do such a grand outcome!
Not great photos but...you get the idea!

OK..so here I am! Late again! The 6th is my day...but has connection issues yesterday so better late than never,Right?
Not much quilting has been going on here this past while. Mostly hand work and some knitting. I'm sooo outta practice with the knitting..
Here is a pic of winter projects.



Here is a cute dish DH did and a custom hanger for a friends loon project. He'd like me in the shop more but I resist!




I'll follow up with a couple more pics for fun! I'm aiming for some finishes this month...we'll see! Happy sewing!

Oh crap! Luann, I'm sorry!

Eileen,
I know that Lotti is the one that so often puts up the gorgeous flower pictures, but this time it was me, Luann. aka AnnieLu. And I ended up in SC when retirement time was imminent. The flower is an Hibiscus, we baby the two we have by putting them into the garage if it's going to get below 50. Not sure if we’re going to be able to keep them alive for the next 2 months, but it sure would be nice.

I forgot the next picture, it’s of 5 quilt tops, backings, and batting’s that were dropped off for Royal Family Kids Camp. I think I’ll be doing quite a few for this summer's campers. They said they'll need about 50 this year. Hopefully next year, people will make their tops, etc and get them to me starting in September. But,,, people get busy, and time slips away, so I’ll just do my best and pray that God has some helpers in the wings for me.




That should take care of my BDay posting, lol.

Lotti, I had to look the Stella quilt up, I'd never heard of it. That is going to be gorgeous in Christmas fabrics! If you were born in Wisconsin, how the heck did you end up in Switzerland, and your parents in Quebec? Will that be the next chapter?
The flower is very pretty, can you tell me what it is? I like macaroons just fine, but I like them better if they're chocolate covered!
Thanks for sharing a piece of your life with us!