Now that it's over:
Here is another quiIt I worked on in that round robin for the online guild. Sadly, I haven't seen all of them - some of the ladies didn't post the completed quilts. Oh, well.  I made the last row on this one.

   I finished and delivered the caring quilt for our friend and sister guild member, Becky.  She has Inflammatory Breast Cancer  - a very aggressive cancer - that most doctor's and patient don't know anything about.  YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A LUMP TO HAVE THIS BREAST CANCER.  Symptoms are redness, swelling, and warmth in the breast - go to this site: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/IBC to read more.  It could save your life or the life of a loved one - and you can be under 40 and get this.   Don't miss the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s9_UrVtc6c 

Becky is holding her own.  Please pray for her and all the others who have this.

Here's the quilt:
 13 of us in the Raincross Quilt Guild contributed blocks.  I put it together and Trina Andrews quilted it with a wonderful all over heart motif.  Thank you all!


I added about 16 new quilting books to my bookshelf.  Go see what these goodies are.  It takes me a long time to post one of these as I have a hard time of letting go of books - especially quilting books.

about the next quilt being for me??  Ain't going to happen.  The next two are for dear friends.  I guess I could at least say they are ufo's that are going out the door LOL!.  Ah me, and this one I am going to post (that I finished a couple of weeks ago) is a philanthropy quilt. 

I tried something different for the quilting part since it was 61 by 68.  I used the fusible batting.  I sewed the center together and then marked the center of the back, batting and top and fused it.  Then I quilted the center.  It was easier to do with out the borders.  Then I sewed the inner borders with the flip and sew method.  I then sewed one of the side borders on, flipped it and fused it and then quilted it.  These had to be done as partial seams because of the way they had to be pieced, but the quilting was easier as I could just concentrate on the one border.  It was easier to quilt than I expected, doing it this way,  and I may do another that way to reduce the bulk of the quilt I have to work with. 

This quilt is going to a hospital in San Diego for a wounded soldier.  The color is off in the picture as I had to take it inside and the quilt was too close to the kitchen light, but it gives you the idea.  

Oh and yes, I've added some more books to my bookshelf.  
2006-2007 Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co. Catalog
 Irresistible Forces
 Big League Sales Closing Techniques
 A True Story of a Single Mother
 A True Story of a Drunken Mother
The Goddess and the Bull
Pretty: The Nylon Book of Beauty
Everything Conceivable
 Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
Easy Applique Samplers
Log Cabins (Mini Classics)

We're thankful that it is raining here.  It's on and off with wind in between, but we need the rain and glad that we are half-way to the area's usual for the season.
Stay dry and warm,
Hugs to you!!

Made a new mini for the raffle.  This one is called Holiday Hearts for the Feb meeting.  Went together pretty easily.  I appliqued the hearts and made them into 4" squares.  I love dark borders. I'm binding a charity quilt now and when that is done I've promised myself to make a quilt for me!  LOL

Happy New Year

The Holidays are over and we're back to "normal" mode.  It seems strange after all the visiting, gifting, and celebrating to be getting back to the old routine.  But it is a new year!  2008 came in with wonderful weather around here( a bit windy for the Parade) and then some much needed rain. Yeah!  I did retire 2 years ago, but I keep wondering where the time went.  Any of you other retirees have an answer to that?
Let me know where I went wrong.

  Again there are some new books on our shelves:   

Contemporary Strategy Analysis by Robert M. Grant, 5^th edition

The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, compiled by Dominique Enright, 2001

The Flying Squadron by Richard Woodman

1805 by Richard Woodman

Under False Colours by Richard Woodman

The Poem of The Man-God by Maria Valtorta, V. 2

Anxiety and Related Disorders - A Handbook  edited by Wolman and Stricker

How People Grow - What the Bible Reveals about Personal Growth by Cloud and Townsend

1906 by James Dalessandro

A Woman Jesus can Teach by Alice Mathews

And for Quilters and Sewers:

Easy Appliqué Samplers - 20 designs to mix and match by Mimi Dietrich

Wrapped in Fabriqué by Glenda D. Sparling

When Quilters Gather by Ruth B. McDowell

Sulky Secrets to Successful Stabilizing by Joyce Drexler

Fancy Appliqué - 12 Lessons to Enhance your Skills by Elly Sienkiewicz

Join our newsletter at www.angiesbookshelf.com to get 80% off a book! Yes, I don't want to keep all of them - LOL.

Hope you are all well and looking forward to lots of fun and reading in the coming year.
Angie

 Oh, I never meant for so much time to go by without a post! But life has been busy with the good and not so good - probably just like at your house.  Besides the usual, had terrible days with an infected tooth which resulted in it being extracted and the likelihood of an implant until I heard the price - $4000 - so for now I'm passing.  It's a back molar so nobody can see its gone anyway.  Then came the wedding!  I made a mock-up of the bridal gown and a dress for the honeymoon trip plus a stole for the bride to wear at the wedding dinner and help bead the 12 + yards of hem of the wedding dress - so I was busy- but it was all worth it!  They look happy don't they!

And I had the fun duty of minding my 5 year-old grandson - we had a great time while the happy couple were on their honeymoon! 

Speaking of trips - it made me want to travel and got me browsing my travel books on my shelves.  Ready for sharing, you can find guides for Istanbul, Cancun, Bali, Mexico, Spain(brush up on your Spanish for this one), Bali,  and more.   Wish I could fit in a trip!

I love to travel.  Do share your summer adventure and write me.

First it was a bad crown - the dentist couldn't see me for three weeks.  By the time they saw me the root was well infected and the whole tooth had to come out.  Then the pain returned and two more molars loose!  Fortunately, it was the trauma from the pulling that caused that and then a week of acetominophen and back to normal for now.  Then a touch of vertigo - one can't do much when that comes on.  I also seem to get an electrolyte imbalance when I eat too much salty food, so another week gone as I tried to deal with that.  In the meantime, I try to keep up with grandson and email and not much else.  Hope to post a quilt picture and a review, but for now just wanted to say I'm still here.  Hope to get back to quilting soon as I found an great new site that has a BOM (block of the Month for you non-quilters) that is really nice and a challenge.  I bought a book entitled Quilt Mavens - Perfect Paper Piecing by Deb Karasik and Janet Mednick (ISBN: 1574329193) which should help me to conquer sharp points.  I've added a few more books to my for sale in the Needlecraft quilting category - once I make the quilt I want and learn the technique, I like to pass these on to other quilters, so check them out at Angie's Bookshelf .

As to reading I have picked up and interesting work by Jared Rosen and David Rippe recommended on the Simple Living Newsletter from the Simple Living Network - It's about turning your world around -from an upside-down world to a right-side up one.  Can't tell you much at this point - just started it- but it could be life changing...

Until later - take care of your teeth!