"EH, WHA'D YOU SAY?

Most of my friends are in the same boat as me, about the same age, same hearing capabilities...

This is us trying to figure out where to be-dazzle my quilt.

"So, did you come up with this quilt all by yourself?"
"Just me and my graph paper."
"Who are your craft friends?"
"My 'craft friends'?"
"Yes, you said your craft friends helped you make your quilt."
"Craft friends?"

Craft friends?? Craft Friends. Graph Paper. I guess they sound the same if your hearing isn't what it used to be. You hear the first word... sort of and assume what the next word ought to be.

Anyway, these are my quilt friends and they have be-dazzles. My be-dazzles are on back order. I'm borrowing theirs if mine aren't here by Thursday. So, hang in there. Soon. Soon I will have my first quilt with "Bling."

Meanwhile, I finished my Christmas quilt.

It's like having the toilet---

without the toilet paper!

I'm so BUMBED!

Waited all this time for my bedazzler and then it comes without the BE-DAZZLES!

Our Quakie Lane in all its glory!

Fall was beautiful, but it's about gone. Snow is in the forecast for tonight. Darn. Then I'll just have to stay home and find something to do.... maybe sew?!

Never say never....
or prepare to be
BEDAZZLED!!!

So I've seen all these quilts with rhinestones on them, and I thought, "Not on MY quilts. Never. No way!!" Guess what's in the mail? My own Bedazzler! Be prepared to be surprised, you're going to say, "Oh yea, that quilt needed the bling."

Do You Quilt EVERY day?

Some one actually asked me that. I have 6 kids, 13 grandkids, one acre of flowers and grass and trees, church jobs, a house to clean, a husband and a dog that need walking, meals to cook, laundry, ... and yes, that's what I do. I have to find some time every day to sew something. Well, not EVERY day.

But this was my first quilt I came up with on my own. I love it still, so I decided to do the pattern for it.

Every day... like I don't have a life. LOL

Seeing Dots....

This was a nickle exchange with my quilt guild. A nickle being a 5 inch square of fabric. Everyone bought a yard of bright fabric and cut it into squares and then we traded. This is what I came up with to "spend my nickles."

To quilt it, I went around every single one of those little colored dots.... a pebble design... I was seeing dots every time I closed my eyes for a while.

This quilt was made by my Grandmother Ivie before she died in 1950 from old clothes!

My sister asked me if I had any idea how many quilts I'd made since I got started in 1972, which is when I got married. I took pictures of a lot of the quilts I'd made and put them together in a book with as much info about them as I could remember. This was the first picture and that was the first line.... So, not sure how good my documentation is.... well, I am sure and I'm just a little worried.

I've made over 50 pieced quilts of all different sizes, all hand quilted. I would put one on the quilt frames and then it would take all winter to quilt. My mom, bless her heart helped a lot. Sewing and sitting still are just not her thing. She'd rather build something.

I think that's why I've gone crazy making so many quilts since I decided it was ok to quilt with a long arm machine.... you can get a WHOLE bunch done and you don't have to wait for winter.

And I don't have to use old clothes! Apparently, that's deadly.