Quilts In Progress

 My quilt "Nebula" is almost completed. 

Here is a close up picture of the quilting in "Nebula".

 Here I am saftey pin basting a quilt I finished piecing of Terry's (husband) great, great aunt.  The pieces of this quilt were cut out and placed in a box and later sold at a family auction.  Terry's cousin bought the box of pieces and years latter saw she would never finish the quilt.   She gave it to us hoping some day it would get finished. Now it is pieced and I am ready to hand quilt it.

I need a name for this quilt that I just put the binding on.
  Any suggestions?

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March

So happy Autumn is home. She was in Germany 

with YWAM (Youth with a Mission) for the past 6 months.

She has already dived into piecing a scrappy quilt.

Autumn and I spent the day at Mother's.

  

Here Mother is learning a new new technique, machine quilting.  How spunky is that for an 88 year old lady? Notice the picture in the background.

This is an oil painting Mother painted on the wall of our home when I was a little girl.  I was always so proud to tell my friends that my Mother painted it.

A delicious meal at Benjamin and Melissa's.

A van load of Weaver's and Cline's heading to a.....

.... UVA basketball game!

  When the children were little our two families occasionally went to UVA games together. A great evening of bringing back old memories.

While the snow flakes fell we played games.

Nathan Zirkle learning how to make doughnuts.

One day I went to Linda's for a sewing day.  
Linda teaching Heidi how to make a dress.

Heather, Heide and Linda.

 Heidi looks so sweet in her first garment.

Enjoying Life

Niece Sheri came home to Virginia from Nevada for a week.  One evening the Cline family and the Helmuth family got together for supper and the evening.

 Sheri and Caleb

 Reminiscing about when they were young.

Hope, Joshua and Christian

Laughing at old pictures.

 Nadia, Melissa, Hannah, Rebecca and Hope.

"Ryan, don't you believe me?"

 Ryan, Mike and Benjamin.

Sheila whispering sweet nothings to Sanford.

"Yankee Doodle" a quilt I just finished and shipped off to McCalls magazine.

Class at Patchwork Plus I taught.

Pauline's Kalidascope Quilt.

Barbara made two quilts, one with a white background....

and one with a black background.  Barbara changed the strip width to a bigger size.

Joyce used a different color for her setting triangles.

 Deanne Quill gives a trunk show at Patchwork Plus.

Deanna and Phyllis

 It is always fun to visit with another quilt teacher.

 Sewing Day at Oren (my brother) and Cheryl's.

 Mother, Preston, Cheryl, Oren Jr. and Emily

Mother carefully trimming.

 Cheryl making a dress.

Emily working with flannels.

What is this contraption?

A gear shifter that is hooked up to Preston's computer game.   Alex his brother made it for him using a joy stick.

Finishing up the quilting on "Star Chain" table runner.

This year's sewing retreat with my mother, sisters and some nieces was at Hilton Head, SC.  We had a time share for a week. Here is a taste of what we did.

Polly working on a modern scrap quilt.

Julia is one of the die-hard sewers.

June did mostly hand work for the week.

Jolene and Jillian added spice to our retreat by coming.

Emily is pinning her quilt together, getting it ready to machine quilt.

Rebecca chain sewing.

48 diamond chain ready to into my quilt.

Mother is enjoying a quilt Polly made of Father's shirts.

The next generation is getting into this sewing addiction.  Dexter spent one day making a quilt top too. 

Sheila enjoying making fancy stitches.

This is the beginning of Clair's creation of a cupcake backpack.  She makes all of her nieces and nephews one of their choice. Check out her Russian  Stacking Dolls backpack on Polly's blog.  

Some of our creations from the week.

We did get out to enjoy the ocean a little every day.

♪"Singing in the Rain" ♪

 Check out these links to see more about our sewing retreat.

Julia
Polly
Niece Jillian