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Mother's Day has come and gone... but my clematis is still blooming. Rod bought one for me for my very first Mother's Day after Chad was born. We moved it out with us to the country (in the middle of December!) ... and added another. Now you can't tell where one stops and the other begins! It's blooming and growing. Looks great!!! (That cool black thing is my bird feeder.)
These are some of the plants I got this year. Rod planted them at the bottom of the flower hill. So far, so good!
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We have a new addition to the household!
Isn't he cute?! I found him last week. I just think he's adorable. By fall, he should just be peeking out from behind a bunch of flowers! Hard to imagine with how scrawny they look in the pic!
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QOV = Quilts of Valor
I met a woman online named Alycia. She started her own Quilts of Valor program out in Colorado with the fifth graders at her sons' school. They work on different blocks together. Sometimes high school students help out. And they make several quilts each year. The quilts are donated to wounded soldiers at the base near them. Anyway, the chaplain at the base expressed a need for more quilts...way more quilts....and Alycia put out the call for quilts on an internet quilt group. She got more than she hoped for! In 2009, she has already received more than 700 quilts! Most have been delivered, I believe.
Ok, so how does that tie into to me? Well, on the Fourth of July, 2008, I spent the day cutting up fabric for Quilts of Valor. Almost all of my reds and blues. A lot of tan and white. And then I found a bunch of state flower fabrics left over from a project several years ago. Added the white and a few other fabrics and actually had enough for two throw size quilts. Not all QOVs have to be in patriotic colors....right? Maybe some female soldier would like a flower quilt.
Anyway, I finally got one top quilted over Memorial weekend!
Now I only have six (?) more to go!!!! A friend from quilt guild, Sharon, has been piecing the blue, red, and tan tops. She pieces much faster than I quilt :-0
Better get busy. Thanx for stopping by.
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at the Bernina Sewing Studio, 1501 Pine Lake Road.
Everyone is welcome!
The show will continue to hang through May 29th.
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It seems I have become a weekend blogger! That's what happens to you when so little happens in your life during the week.... you can fit it all into one or two blogs on the weekends! Oh well, boring is good... right???
Rod got a new wheel barrow/wagon. Miss K thought Max needed a ride. Max however did NOT think it was such a great idea!
Friday afternoon, Sam checked my birdhouse for me. Last week he found the eggs. This week, there are five babies!!! (Sam checks it because his mother is a coward. The first time she checked a house, she was divebombed by the momma and poppa birds! Almost couldn't get the house back on the pole! So now, it is Sam's job because Miss K won't do it either!!!!)

Hope you're having a great weekend!
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Heard of better late than never? Well, that seems to apply to my quilting these days. I started Sam's graduation quilt a couple years ago... before he graduated! Got it all quilted back in December before my surgery. Even got the binding machine sewn onto it. And got the binding hand sewn between Christmas and New Years! Then it took 4-1/2 months to get the label on it!
So here it is with Sam on Friday afternoon. It's made from Ami Simms' Twisted Sister pattern... obviously known here as a Twisted Brother quilt! And no those are not swastikas! I made a variation of the quilt... the first block is red with black and the alternate block is black with red. Not until I saw this picture did I realize it formed the weirder larger crosses!!! Oh well, it's in great colors! And Sam likes it.
Hope you're having a great weekend!
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Miss K and I went shopping for flowers this morning! We went to Low.e's and I was very surprised at the variety of plants there. It was hard to decide what to pick!!!
Impatiens... notice the white stars in the centers.
Asparagus ferns, pansies, bee balm, and dusty miller...
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