First Day of School

You know how you take the first day of school pictures...

 Here's my hubby (a great grandpa) on his first day of first grade....(LOL)

as a substitute teacher in Superior, WI.  He did sub in the 80s in CA, so he is experienced.

Just thought you'd all like to see this picture of him on a milestone day in his life.  Love you, Honey,

Hugs,

Terri

Been on a Vacation

We took a little vacation to see the Minnesota State Fair

 We walked and walked.... bought shirts and (below) we visited with butterflies!

(Yes, those are small blades of a double wedding ring I attached to this shirt to represent my Grandkids.) The butterflies stayed to rest there because of the warmth and quietness of this old lady, and because my hubby kept catching them and depositing them there.

 The next day we went to the Mall of America and walked too much there, too. So we decided to go for a ride to our old haunts in Minnetonka. (We lived there for a couple of years in the 90s)  Here on Minnetonka Lake we enjoyed the lovely 70 degree weather and he fed donut to the edge dwelling fish and ducks.  They put on a great show for us with all the boats going out and coming in. Really was the best part of our trip... and nearly free.

 On the way to all that we stopped at a quilt store in Rush City and I bought some fabric....Surprise!

These are the Dolly Quilts I've been making.  Found a bunch of little blocks and sewed them together. I've got a lot of blocks laying around.... you know, UFO, WIP, whatever you want to call them.

 

So we are back now, he's mowing the lawn and I'm doing the laundry... samo samo.

 

Have a wonderful long weekend.

 

Hugs,

Terri

No finishes, but a new start!

We showed our house 20 times this week... got 2 offers and chose the best, a full price with no contingencies (except the inspection). Hurray! So we will be moving before the middle of July.

Here's the new start. I'll keep it a mystery for a while, but want it done before I move. Strips sewn together hanging around waiting their turn.

 The lime green got it's turn first. I love this combo of lime and navy.

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And under the heading

Hubby Antics

Here's the "Castles in the Sky" of being Diabetic and 72. When you were young did you ever dream of all these pills?  Me neither. Here's your spot in history, Hunny.  LOL

So I'm linking up the Whoop Whoop Friday at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  See what others have linked up.

 

Have a Sew Wonderful Weekend!

 

Hugs

 

A Family Visit

First an unusual occurrence  - I did not arrange these snippets   I think it looks like a sad Frenchman with a cigarette hanging from one corner of his mouth. I had to call my Hubby to see it.  Page down for the good stuff.

This is my Grandson the Tree. We are calling him the tree since he is only 18 and about 6'2" and still growing.  The shirt is about music, he said, but I know not of such things. Just that he is blood of my blood and a wonderful guy to behold. What a lovely legacy I have left.

Here is my Son - the Dad of the Tree - another wonder to behold. He is retired after 20+ years in the Air Force. Retiring as a First Shirt... a lovingly bestowed name for a Master Sgt. who has studied extra in order to help the guys  and girls in the lower ranks when they have troubles. He has lots of stories.

We took then to Fanny Anne's for lunch in downtown old town Sacramento. It's a fun place to visit and find souvenirs. I loved this little pink shirt, and my very excellent Grandson obliged me.(Not many 18 year olds would do that for their Grammies. He's a sweetheart.)

   You have to read this shirt. It says

 

Go Ahead

Push me around

But you ought

to know

I've got the Biggest,

Baddest, Meanest

Grandma

in town

    Sacramento, CA

 

 

 

Look at my hand and my Son's - I wear a large man's size in gloves... wonder what size for him? It's like holding a bear paw.  I remember when his whole hand fit in mine and I could cover over with my fingers to encase it. Ahhhh, the good ole days.

 

Here I am with the Tree. Yes, I am standing tall and not in a hole.

The handsome Menfolk.

There is a picture on her marvelous camera of the whole group including the photographer, Mother of the Tree, but my camera didn't get a picture of her. (She is the bestest woman for my Son. He's wonderful, in his own way, and she knows how to handle that all. Love her, too. Safe journey, Family. Wish you all the best.

Hugs,

Terri 

P.S. Grandpa loves those Big Foot shows where the witness tries to show how tall the furry person was .... here a comparison to the show. LOL  Hope to see you all again soon.

Design Wall Monday

I have a new Design Wall.
You remember that I'm trying to sell my house, and the design wall my hubby made was foam core nailed - with huge nails - to the wall. Well, that come down this week and the holes were patched and the whole thing painted... by my hubby, seen here hamming it up.

He did a wonderful job, you can't see the nail holes even when you know where they were!
I'd buy this house!

But, please don't think I have no place to design... (Oops! double negative...)

Foam core leaning with some Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks from several years back.

I've shown them before...

Some patterns for the next paper piecing project. I'm making potholders for some of my peeps.

 

Above is a new "I love you" hand in the works.

 

Oh, and this occurred this week. A hole. I picked the flowers for a backing on a H2H quilt, and had to add some extra fabric... did not notice that there was a big dip cut out of the middle edge of the flower fabric. Noticed that while sewing together. What to do?

 

See the hole is quite big.

 

To the rescue.... a little paper pieced apple core, fray checked and zig zag stitch and now it's a whole.

 

 

 All for the backing to this....

 This is the quilt with the apple core on the back. I pin basted on my dining room table. It was easier on my back than putting it up on the design wall (now nonexistent) and stitching the basting. Since then I've done some straight line stitch in the ditch, but I don't like it... Gotta do the yellow with yellow, and redo the blue, too. So there is some ripping out in my future. You know I'm putting that off.
Sew that's what I'm up to... How about you? What project occupies your mind this week? Our neighborhood has a parade of school kids on the 4th...
Oh, and Shay (in Australia) of  Quilting in my Pyjamas and I are having a giveaway and showing off our ineptness at FMQ on posts from Thursday through the Fourth... You will want to come back and see that.

Sew Hugs to you all - especially if you got this far down in the reading.

Terri

Greens, etcetera, on the Grandgirl Wedding Quilt

Remember last week when I miss cut one of the blocks?

The top right is the remake. Lucky I had more of the two fabrics. The position of these will be changed. There is a whole color category that we missed! Orange and yellow!!! Can't leave them out.

 

Below is another newer green one...

 I'm short of time making this quilt. (Changing your mind a bunch of times will do that.) So my hubby says "I'll help you any way that I can...."  (Isn't that romantic! At my age it is!) He wants to cut with the rotary cutter.  Sorry Honey, you are too klutzy. I could see lots of red in the quilt, if he was allowed to cut. I've been having him choose colors that go together... LOL! (He's always good as comic relief.)  At least he is picking fabric out of the boxes. He says he's trying - and that is true, but just not the definition he's thinking. There are maybe three combos that he's put together.
I've asked him to cut some chained pieces apart to save me time. He is so meticulous .... it takes him forever. I've had him place blocks on the wall, but he can't seem to get the "light next to dark" rule. I've made some changes there, too.  The best help he has been, is doing the laundry, cooking and dishes. That does save me lots of time.  Thank you Honey!

And sew it goes. There are some more blocks off screen, so we are about half way making the blocks.(8" unfinished) Who knows, it might turn out to be an anniversary gift.
Come back next week to see the infusion of orange and yellow.

Hugs,

Terri

Some of everything...

Howdy Folks! Yes, I'm still alive and living in California. We've had 3 Open Houses and 5 private showings of our house now, and nobody has offered anything.  We did okay at our 2 rummage sales, but only just okay... still have lots of stuff to get rid of.

We had a ball at Halloween!  Lots of folks told us they'd miss us (if we ever sell). They have enjoyed, over the years, our Hogwarts Greenhouse and all the plants.  Our neighbor across the street brought over their Friendly Cactus so I could see that it had grown A LOT.  Here's a picture of them.

The Trick or Treaters come in all sizes, and they all got plants if they wanted them.

(That's me in the chair explaining something about the plant - probably a Cork Oak Tree. )

Above is Harry Potter (played by my hubby) holding the Sorting Hat.... he did that all night. Some kids even came back to get a second reading.  One of the teenage girls across the street WANTED to be in Slitherin... she got her wish.

 

 

 

 Below is the abstract art that decorates our bathrooms during the Fall.

And I have gotten some time to sew lately. I've given up playing the games on the computer... lots of found time there. They are red, white and blue... the white looks a bit grey here, but it is white prints on white fabric. (Pattern is a freebie paper piecing pattern from Aunt Reen's Place.  Thanks to you Aunt Reen!) It's a really easy paper piecing pattern.

And a close up. I think I'll put a white strip between the rows. It'll save me from the bunchy joins. (I hate when I get the bunchy joins - don't you?)

I've been enjoying reading your blogs. (Love getting away from the incessant cleaning!)

Hugs,

Terri 

Report on the Lighted Seam Ripper

Here's the thousand words...

As you can see the seam ripper lights, magnifies and slips into the 15 stitches to the inch stitches really easily. The working end can swivel a bit so it is at an angle you prefer. (That's the first paper pieced block of a QOV I'm thinking of giving to my Son who will be retiring from the Air Force within a year. All the blocks will have either a blue or red center and white around the edges. I might add a strip of white between rows, too.)

You know we've  been packing to move - 2,000 miles away.  We're finding things while we pack...

This is the Hubby in his old letter jacket from High School. (His sister used the jacket after he went to the military, and the letters have never been seen since.) And the old glasses he wore when we were dating....  I know, why did I marry him? Anyway, he makes me laugh, and that's a good thing. We are lucky he couldn't fit into the gym shorts... very lucky.

 

See in the background the "end of boot camp" pictures of our two sons? I'm very proud of them.

 

So it's Friday (again and already)! Really doesn't mean much when you are retired. But I hope you all are enjoying a lovely (sew filled) weekend.

 

Hugs,

Terri