My Forever-friend's quilt top

1. Hello again,  It has taken me a while but I finally got this image uploaded to the blog.  I am trying to use a real camera instead of my phone camera ..... so far, not so good.

This is the quilt my forever-friend (Marcie) and I made while she was visiting here last month.  The fabrics she chose were all jewel toned batiks from Indonesia.  Gorgeous !!!  Working together, we got this queen sized bedspread (110" x 104") done in about 10 days or less.  It is an Eleanor Burns (Quilt In a Day) rendition  of Lover's Knot.

Because Marcie knew she would never get it hand quilted or machine quilted, I finished it for her into a duvet cover using another batik for the back and binding.  That way when she got home she could just slip her current bedding into the duvet cover and immediately have a brand new look for her room.
Presto!! Change-O !!  And there you go !!

I am working on the pillow shams to match now .... but have been a bit side tracked ....

My DD2 that got married in June, has been here for several days with her 2 daughters.  They came to say goodbye as they are moving to the Washington, DC area ....  3000+ miles away.  :-(  Her new hubby is in the Coast Guard and was transferred shortly after their wedding.  She, her 2 DDs and kitties will be driving across country the end of this week.

By the way, the Quilt In a Day shop is about a 1/4 mile from my house.  It has been fun to watch Eleanor's business grow over the years.  Luckily for Marcie, the shop was having a big sale when we went looking for fabric for this ambitious project !!!

My apologies

I know I promised to post pictures. I took them but they came out yukky and now I can't find them !!  Will try again this weekend.

It has been so long...

I have had nonstop company since May.  People coming and going from all over the place.  All people I love seeing and whose company I enjoy, but it is time for a break ..... please!

One visitor was a friend I call my "forever friend" because we have been friends for over 30 years which I find amazing considering how much I moved around over these 30 years.  She has ended up iliving in a place that I grew up in ... Syracuse, NY.   And I have ended up living in her hometown ... San Diego, CA.  I KNOW I got the better deal !

While she was here, I helped her make a quilt top for her bed at home.  She kept saying she was going to take it home to quilt.  I knew I could not do it for her.  After some honest soul searching, she admitted she would never quilt it.  So I finished it into a duvet cover for her with matching shams.  It is lovely!

Despite all my visitors and working at my day-job I stayed true to my comittment to sew.  I did a little here and a little there.  I got the top to my DGD's Pinwheel Party cuddle-quilt finished .... even adding about 10 or 12 extra blocks so it would be the right size for her AND I started my DD1's minkee quilt.  I must have been insane the day I committed myself to that project .... that fabric is hard to work with !!

I promise to post pictures this weekend, but I wanted to pop in and say hello so I can comfortably visit all your blogs and leave a greeting.  Later .......

It is over !!!

The wedding festivities are over !!  And I survived !!  The last of the guests are leaving tomorrow, but I already went back to work at my day job.  So my DH gets to play host. Ta ta!!

The wedding was lovely!!  People came from as far away as Idaho, Florida  and New York and even Italy!!  Some old family friends of ours that are now scattered all over CA were here too.  We have not seen them in over 20 yrs.  One of their dgtrs used to babysit my kids and now she is a lovely young lady with kids of her own.  It was fun introducing her as my dgtrs'  babysitter.  I just cannot help myself ... I still enjoy embarrassing my girls !!

DD2's new husband is of Scandinavian background and his family was wonderfully warm, friendly and fun.  It was a pleasure to meet them all.  It was impressive to see how much they all think of him.  A whole new life ahead of them. A brand new start!

They knew each other many years ago in Tyler, TX. They even dated for a while when DD2 was  just out of high school.  All their friends at that time thought they would be a couple, but life intervened and they ended up going their separate ways.   20 years later they connected again and really fell in love !! Now they truly are "a couple". Some of their friends from 'way back then' were able to come to the wedding and rejoice with them.  What a story !!

But ENOUGH !!!  I am ready to get sewing again.... besides altering wedding clothes.  Can't wait to finish the Pinwheel quilt and my DD1's Minky quilt.   Yeah !!  (Oh, I will post pictures later.)