Mostly quilt and family related..... but still things in my daily world.Photo taken of the Professor and me last year in Fayetteville, AK Christmas on the square, with The Princess and Little True
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Life has definitely taken me to places I never thought I would go to....but nothing more exciting than where I am right now! Welcome to my world...
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Special thanks to all our Veterans...
Just a quick aside. How thankful and appreciative I am of all the Veterans, current and past and their families who share in the service of our Country. We are so fortunate that they are prepared to serve for us. It isn't easy for the Veteran or their families with seperations and training, but I am so thankful they do it with honor and dignity. Thank you to each of them. About this time a few
years ago...myself and some Rotary Anns ( The ladies Auxiliary for Rotary) hosted some local elderly folks for a tea. The funny part was that some of the Rotary Ann volunteers were older than those being hosted for the tea. Such a lovely group of ladies..... I still think of them often. These are a few photos of the tea held in the Rotary Hall. These lovely little children dressed in their Indian costumes danced for part of the entertainment. They were well received as you can imagine.
Then these darling little school children who accompanied their teachers on pay day to the grocery store. They loved getting their picture taken.
We saw the gatherings at the memorials in the villages on rememberance Sunday & watched on TV the big parade & wreath laying in London - always makes me tearful. Lovely pics & memories, as always. :0)
February 2010- Red and gold quilt done, rust and blue PIG from 1988 done, PIG blocks from 1999 all sewn together... looking for sashing fabric to finish.
January 2010 - Buck a Block quilt from 2009 pieced, Simple Turning 20 type quilt started
December 2009 - X Block top pieced, Christmas Table Topper, Bargello Quilt, South African Schwe Schwe quilted and done, Donation quilt,Bugs in a jar top pieced
November- Harvest Table topper done,Baby quilt done for Coworker, Buck a Blocks done, now need to be sewn into top
October finishes- True's baby quilt finished, 17 DJ blocks done, 207 to go, swap blocks complete,15 Batik blocks finished...woo hoo!
Sept. finishes.... DJ blocks 12 complete, 12 batik blocks complete for UFO quilt, DD's quilt finished, Charity quilt for Rakasaans 101st Airborne, True's baby quilt pieced, 10 Christmas blocks done
August finishes- DJ- 7 blocks completed, 218 to go, Scrappy 9 patch with sunflower applique ready to quilt!!! Sister quilt sewn, adding final border
January- Baby quilt pieced and quilted for Ethan, Dana's quilt...quilted and bound,Children Charity quilts...x 2 quilted and bound another made... waiting to be quilted
February-John's Library quilt completed and delivered,Tested Floating Bubbles, Jen's design. done with borders to add..then quilt,Red leaders and enders quilt completely finished
March- Quilted African Anike's "gift" blocks; bugs in a jar blocks complete
April finishes- Baby quilt, Cancer charity quilt finished, Floating Bubbles, test pattern for DD in law, Quilted tote for charity, Apron for charity Cotton District Festival, DD mystery quilt blocks together, now sewing up borders
May, finished challenge blocks for guild, Charity quilt, Challenge quilt ...done, Floating Bubbles quilt -finished hanging in the fabric store,
June, UFO- Bargello flag finished, African quilt- done for Jen, Birdies quilt cut out, D's quilt cut, Bugs in Jar being sewed together
9 patch UFO pieced...not quilted as I am adding applique to it
July items finished- Dana's quilt finished, quilted and delivered. Sleve added to under the sea quilt, Dear Jane started.... 2 blocks complete- 222 to go
I am the oldest of 14 children, been Married almost 41years, have 2 boys 1 girl, a small family by my parent's standards! I have fivr grandsons, and three grandaughters....all of whom I adore!I love quilting,and scrapbooking.I ADORE my family,traveling and messing about on the computer.I have been preoccupied with my return to this wonderful country of ours,excited to finally have a longarm machine, 4 yrs in South Africa went by fast,I thoroughly enjoyed that new experience,living in Mississippi for past 4 yrs. while the Professor got his doctorate,who knows what I can get done over four years.we moved to Boone NC for him to teach at Appalachian State University. It's a bit far from kids...but time will go fast until we retire. If interested in donating books to a South African library email me. I am trying to coordinate a shipment to a township library.Thanks for stopping by.
3 comments:
Yes,we have many veterans we have to honour. I loed the post!
Micki
We saw the gatherings at the memorials in the villages on rememberance Sunday & watched on TV the big parade & wreath laying in London - always makes me tearful.
Lovely pics & memories, as always. :0)
A wonderful post with beautiful pictures....so grate to all our veterans past and present.
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