Rita, Just delightful.

Rita, it's amazing. It will be a real blessing to them, and they'll cherish it forever.

WOW !

Rita, What a treasure you have made for your parents! It looks happy. Wish them the best from me! I am so glad you were able to get it done for the special day!

LOVE your wall quilt Rita!

Here's a photo of the wall quilt I made for my parents 60th anniversary. There is a heart/leaf for each member of the family with their name on it. I got the free pattern from the internet.

I didn't know it was a sew along today, but I'm impressed with what everybody's done. Lois, you deserve a medal for perseverance, reminds me of a gal I know who took Pure Science for four years because she wanted to be a doctor, but after failing four years in a row, she reluctantly chose another career. You're gonna get it done, gal! You are a really tenacious lady. That's great. ( But I imagine not so much when/if you're in a bad mood), but I think that's probably rarely!

I also sewed today, got the stars made, and the log cabins, and then notice I used the wrong ruler for the strips, and then figured I just increase the size of the following logs, which wasn' t too too bad, but I didn't like the center, so I re-did them again, and this time used the right measurements, but put the two lights on right after each other, instead of a light, then a dark. I think I'm running out of that fabric, but I love it. Whine Whine....wine? I was beginning to think that I was just breezing through this sampler without any glitches, and then the simple log cabins bit me! Now, I not sure if I even like it that much.
It will be neat to see the show and tell after all this work. It sure has been fun!

All you Brits have a great show, so glad you've got a new skirt, Lorchen, or is it Rosemary? I just can't keep up with you gals.

Have a fun weekend. I'm going to google lemoncello becasue I just have a hint of what it is, based on who's talking about it. I wonder if we have it here?

Everyone's blocks are looking great and you are all giving lots of good advice. I didn't get to sew any this week, but I did sew all last weekend so my top is finished. This weekend will be family time so no sewing will be done. That bird fabric reminded me of the state bird and flower quilt I started in 2004 and thought I'd have finished long before now. I don't think I've done any work on it since 2004 but I've pulled the blocks out and looked at them occasionally. The alternate pieced blocks are going to have fussy cut birds hand appliqued on them. And I wanted to do some trapunto. That may be why it isn't finished. I hope to finish it before my grandkids get much older. Maybe next year.

It was a great day in our sewing rooms far and wide. Congratulations on all our accomplishments. Rosemary, you were a whirling dervish. Hope we see a picture of you in that skirt. Nancy I love your blocks. BJ, you are far to critical of you QST's and the birds are lovely. Wendy, the stars with stars are adorable. I hope I didn't miss anyone. BTW the coffee stains are fading on my white woolen lap robe. It was awful looking. A whole cup of coffee got spilled on it. I will soak it for as long as it takes. It is no good to me the way it looks now. So I seem to be having some success in the laundry too. Have a great weekend everyone.

You too, Rita !

Hurray! I finished the wall quilt for the parents. Will have to wait for tomorrow for a photo in daylight.

I have been enjoying everybody's activities as I just read through the posts. Rosemary I am impressed with all the washing and other things you got done. My house has got so bad in the past couple of days because I have been working flat out on this little wall hanging and getting the kids sorted for going back to school yesterday.
It must have been really bad because DH vacuumed this afternoon. :shock: I spent the past couple of hours hand stitching the binding and applying buttons whilst watching various programmes with Paul Simon on the TV. Really great. I have discovered that I can't machine sew with headphones on listening to music - I just keep stopping to concentrate on the music! But it works for hand sewing.

As for the log cabin blocks - I am going to have to really think about this one. So far I am not liking my fabric combinations very much - it is faaaaaaar too boring. I didn't want to introduce any other fabrics into it but I am going to have to or else I just might die of boredom and I will never complete it.

Renata, I hope you have been relieved of all your guests and that you have some energy left to sew this weekend.

Wendy your stars are soooo cute.

Lois, I like where you have ended up with your log cabin blocks.

Limbania, I love your new avatar.

BJ, love the pretty birds - maybe I need to think like that for mine.

Nancy, stop working and start quilting now.

Have a great weekend everybody.

Lois - I love the colors that you ended up with! I think they'll all play nicely together now. Hopefully someone else will remember where we've seen the fabric before. I'm stumped.

Wendy - Love the stars! Those center squares are so cute and sweet!

Nancy

Aw thank you

Wow! I'm so impressed with everyone's sew along results today! I even managed to get started putting mine together. It would never win a contest, but it might win a heart. Wendy, I love your starts