Family vacation

A few months ago I emailed my brother Bill in Michigan to ask him how to patch a leak in my roof. Well guess what!? He came for a working vacation! He brought his sweet wife Kellie, precious little girl Erin and Mom. Then brother Shon from MD came for an overnight visit with his two great kids Kirstin and Brian and then later my third brother Jim from DE came for an overnight visit. And everyone worked. Bill and Mike got the roof patched and tracked down a few more leaks, Kellie was scrapping, priming, painting my 5 fancy windows, with Bill reglazing. The Porte Cachere was scrapped, power washed, primed and painted also. I am truly blessed with a wonderful family. And for the first time ever, I cried when they pulled out of my driveway to go home. I hated straightening up my house because it was removing evidence they were here. Here are the photos, probably in two parts.

Lilacs

I made this quilt using 4 different lilac prints for the Stanley & Isabel Bristol Family Reunion raffle. My mom won it! My friend is helping me hold it up. The partial body is me. This was from a couple of years ago. I'm going to make another one in this pattern but using flame fabric.

Regina's Monet

I finished this quilt top at the retreat this past March. It's for my friend Regina. It is Monet's Countryside. I had enough fabric to make one for Megan also. The Pattern is called Summer Window from a defunct block of the month website that they graciously left the patterns up. www.sewquilty.com Go take a look at the patterns!

teaching

I taught two of my friends the basics of quilting. And they started out with hand piecing. I did! and it was a great learning tool. The larger quilt was made by Pam, the smaller one by Joanne. The borders and sashing is by rotary cutter and sewing machine. I'm not that heartless!

Alley Cat Angels

My backdoor neighbor is Alley Cat Angels. They capture feral cats, take them to Angels of Assisi in Roanoke where they are spayed/neutered and rabies shot. They survive on donations. The first quilt I gave them they said it helped many many cats! Their second one is at my LAQ in Oklahoma, so here is their third one. I won these cats from a Block of the Month drawing on my yahoo group justquilting.

The Delicacy and Strength of Blue

I finished this quilt last night also. It just needed the final border. It is for my son's girlfriend Lena. She is such a sweetheart. We really like her. And thank goodness she is didn't mind the state of my house the first visit since I was elbow deep in quilting. LOL I showed it to her today, her bday is in June, but I might not have it back in time since I have 2 rush jobs ahead of that. So we are shooting for August

Boy Scouts of America

Here is a quilt that my friend help me finish last night. Thank you Joanne! It measures 80" square. I designed the layout. Her husband Ron helped with the final placement of the framed boyscouts.