Back from the quilt show and exhausted!  The day was wonderful.  Time spent with my BF, beautiful workmanship to see and plenty of items to purchase.  As promised I have uploaded some pictures from our day.  As there are too many to put on blog, I have attached a link to the online album, just click on the picture.  Hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed the day.

World Quilt Show-New England IX

Well today will be a great day!  We are off first thing this morning to the quilt show.  Lots of beautiful quilts to see and merchandise to buy.  We will be there all day.  Doors open at 10am  and close at 6pm.  Lots of demo's for new products and you get to try all the long arm quilting machines.  This will be the 5th year we attend.  I always go with my BF Sherry.  Looking forward to a great time.  Will post pictures when we get back. 

Ladies........start your engines!

Well, I've been away for awhile. My brother has been gone to Seattle, Washington for the last 3 weeks, so I've busy making sure Mom is all set.  Haven't had any spare time for sewing projects and it's depressing.  Paul was on vacation for the last 2 weeks, and although I LOVE having him home and unstressed, it changes the normal routine.  Paul & I and our grandson Kyle did manage to build my daughter a picnic table for her backyard.  It only took us a day and then we delivered it a few days later.  Our 28th anniversary is tomorrow, but the children and grandkid  gave us an early present.  They sent us to TANGLEWOOD to a concert by TRAIN and then an overnite stay in the Berkshires.  It was a great concert and fun to get away...just the two of us.  Other than the fact that I put too many eating places addresses in the GPS and then picked the wrong one and ended up eating at some place that we really didn't want to eat, everything was perfect.  I have set myself up an account on craftsy.com and have had quite a few comments.  Check me out if you have a chance.  It's a nice website with lots to look at and show.......Until later!

Heat wave has begun.  Today is scheduled to feel like 105 with the humidity.  Busy day today, so won't be able to get into the pool until late afternoon. Can't really complain, at least we have the pool.  Posting a few pictures of recently finished wall hangings.

This one is a fabric translation of an oil painting.

This one is just a touch of color

Well today I will travel to Manchester, NH to drop my brother off at the airport, and then back home for some pool time. Expecting it to be 90 today and a heat wave coming by tomorrow afternoon. Unless I can figure out a way to sew in the pool, I don't think I will be doing much sewing or quilting for the next few days.

I have just finished a few more pieces using some new techniques and a few old ones. I made myself a wallhanging for the sewing room which came out really well. I used a Loralie stamp and enlarged it. Then I used the fusible applique method to "color it". Added a few touches of acrylic paint and voila!! I received permission from Loralie to post the picture on my blog and Webshots.

Well, I've been gone longer than I'd hoped. Mom was in the hospital for 12 days and then home with 24/7 care for the pass two weeks. There was only time to do so much, and working on the computer was not priority. I was able to take my machine with me to her house and get my sewing done. The sewing that was most important, was a diaper bag, two embroidered bibs, and a little girls outfit, consisting of a sundress, sunhat and tini-tiny shoes. They were gifts for my boss to take to the Dominican for the arrival of his new grandbaby. Happy to say that they were delivered on time for his trip.
Here in New England, we have had mostly rainy gloomy days but I have my own rays of sunshine as this week is the first week back to a normal schedule and happy to report that Mom is doing wonderful. She has gotten back most of her strength and is doing things for herself again. Will continue to check in on her before work and bring her lunch and then check back in after work before going home. I will post pictures of the baby outfit as soon as I have a minute.

Yesterday was a busy day , but I did manage to install the new rails on my Little Gracie. Spent most of the day visiting at the hospital with Mom and talking to the doctors. She is in good spirits, but is very tired. Testing scheduled for 11 this morning. Hopefully everything will be fine. The sewing room has been reorganized and looks pretty good. New cubicles (daughters idea) did the trick. Here are pictures of the latest quilts I promised to post.