givio

In January I had laryngitis for a week, couldn't go to work (call center), and used up most of my sick time. I had a sinus infection, went to the doctor, and got a prescription. That helped with the fluid drainage problems, and I just didn't talk, giving my throat a rest. I hope you are feeling better Carrie!

Where are the pictures of the finished quilts we are talking about? The day bed one, and the one that went home with daughter? :-) I've been too tired to go to the laundromat and put it off a couple of weeks. My plan is to wash and dry my snowball/9patch quilt before I take a picture of it. Maybe today?

Canning time! Last year I canned pears from our tree, but this year we had so much hot weather there was not much production in our yard. The fruit dropped off the trees before it was ripe.

sewbizgirl

Ok Giv... here's the quilt that went home with a daughter. I let the baby play on it on the floor and it got dog hair on the backside, so I washed it before it went home with them. The pic of the baby shows the quilt before washing. After washing it crinkled so much that you can hardly make out the little clouds I quilted around the kites. Should have stitched them in blue thread!

Irish chain I Spy for my gd, Ivy Wren:

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Ivy is not eating real food yet... still on milk... but as we were eating watermelon her little eyes were following it all around. So we let her try some. She didn't much care for it and preferred to just squeeze it instead of eating it. LOL.

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oksewglad

So precious, SBG! Love the sweet quilt, too. I have been so bad at taking pictures here of late.

dublb

Now ain't she just darling? I'm here to say that there isn't anything better'n DGK's!

givio

Looks like you had some warm days when you took the pictures by the look of her outfits! It's been cooling off here. Starting to feel like fall will come, but we'll wait to see. Some rain predicted next. Love those kites, and the loopy tails on them. It's a clever motif for the white areas. Nice!

I didn't take a picture of the back of the quilt today where you would be able to better see the quilting-- but SBG did some great loops, meandering lines and lots of daisies. I love it! The 9patches are from the QB 9patch swap. I made 2 tops with the swap blocks. I hope to give the other top to my son, but this one I'm keeping!

It's 74" square.

oksewglad

Lovely, delightful quilt, givio

sewbizgirl

Your quilt is so charming!

And yes... warm days! It's still in the 90's and over this weekend the heat index was 105-110. Killer hot! I wish it would start to cool down here.

QuiltingNinaSue

Wow, I am so impressed by SBG and givio, too. Beautiful quilts and that is one sweet granddaughter!

carriem

Love both quilts! And the DGD is a cutie!

My sore throat has now turned into a chest infection. Started antibiotics yesterday. The cough is the worse part now... I really want to sew today, so will be heading out to my craft room after I get a little something to eat and see how long I last.

What project is everyone working on this week??

dublb

Givo! I do love your quilt! Such a scrappy beauty!
Carrie I do hope that you feel better soon.
Ya asked what we are working on. Well I have been trying to glue baste DFGD's quilt. It is the biggest quilt I have tried to glue baste. It is 102" X 67". I am using Minkie for the backing so I don't need any real batting but I wasnt' able to find any Minkie that has a design on it to follow for the quilting design. I did discover when doing #4DNiece's qyukt that when ya have Minkie for the back & ya quilt from the top ya get some bearding. So I decided to put a barrier of fabric in the middle. I had this flat sheet that I didn't figure I'd ever use for anything so it got elected for this project. It is 102" X 108". That thing made it very hare to deal w/while trying to get it glued onto the top of the quilt. Sigh. It took me 2 days to get it done. I have trimmed it down so am ready to glue the whole thing to the Minkie now.