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November 23rd, 2009

I was in Utah from Nov. 10-15. It is GREAT being able to spend time with the little kiddies. There was one problem – I missed seeing one of my little Grandson’s while in Utah, but he is coming to Grandma and Grandpa’s in December so I will get to see him then!

Autumn working on crafts.
The craft project Prairie choose while at JoAnn’s.
Zephry and his mommy!

Autmn in her new skirt from the fabric that she chose during our visit to JoAnn’s.
Autmn celebrated her 6th birthday while I was there. Here she is on her new bike.

Prairie on her “new” bike. It sure is wonderful when the Big Sister gets a new bike and then the little sister gets a new bike.
Jennie with her pogies.
The last night I was there I stayed up kind of late making this outfit for Autumn and her doll.

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Video from Houston by Bonnie McCaffery

November 22nd, 2009

Bonnie McCaffery has put together some videos from 2009 Quilt Festival. My quilt, “The Generations Unite, is featured in the following video. (I am at around the 5 minute mark.)

2009 Houston – Show Us Your Quilts

Go here to see the other videos from this year’s Festival.

Enjoy!!!!!

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Yankees Seats

November 5th, 2009

Last night, Tom brought out his Yankees seats to watch Game Six of the 2009 World Series. When we first got married, he said that his Yankees seats were only to be used when the Yankees were playing in the World Series. (This was revised to any World Series games because of the lack of use during the past several years).

Last night, the seats came out in their full glory – being used exactly how Tom’s original intent was – watching the Yankees in the World Series.

This fan was very careful to hit the garbage can with his peanut shells since he is the one that usually cleans up the floor on garbage night (which happens to be Wednesdays).

Great field level view in original Yankees Stadium seats. What more could a die-hard Yankees fan want?

For the Yankees to WIN, of course! It was a great night – #27 it is!!!!!!!

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Disappearing Rainbow

November 3rd, 2009

I will be teaching at Northern Star Quilters Super Saturday in February. I am considering offering my Disappearing Rainbow quilt as the project for the day. I have been testing and working on putting the pattern together. The project uses 24 Rainbow FQs; one dark and one light in the 12 colors on the color wheel.
Here are the FQs that I am using for this round of testing. I love this way of presenting FQs. I shared this stack of FQS at the Pelham Quilters meeting last night. Most of the evening I was fiddling, arranging and rearranging the folds on these FQs. (Actually, I was just using that as an excuse to just feel and pet the fabric.)

Here are the blocks that I am using for the quilt.
When I made the last rainbow quilt Autumn, my five year old granddaughter, requested that she get that quilt when I die. Well, today when I told her that I was making another rainbow quilt she asked if someone else had requested a rainbow quilt when I die and is that why I was making another one. Too bad all these layout options are not actually quilts – I could make alot of people happy when I die.

Now to decide how to lay the blocks out. Which one do you like?

Layout Option 1

Layout Option 2

Layout Option 3

I have another couple of layout ideas – but they will require making more blocks and changing the placement of the lights and darks on the nine-patch blocks. I will have to cut more fabric because I DO NOT want to use my Rainbow FQ Tower.

Happy Quilting!!!!!

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This is a test!!!!!

November 2nd, 2009

This is a test to see what happens to pictures when I upload to this blog and can I figure out how to get them to be “Clickable”.

But can you name the quilters in the picture?

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Grandma to the Rescue

October 21st, 2009

At the end of last week Emily and Ben’s family had to make an unplanned trip to Iowa for a very sad event in their family. Their unplanned trip put Emily’s plans for working on the girls Halloween costumes on hold. Prairie wants to be Diego this year so Emily looked on Esty and found a patch that she could order. I told her not to worry about it, I would take care of ordering it. I got involved in all my activites in Houston (and did not really have a good internet connection) and just did not get the patch order. Yesterday I knew that I had to make it myself. (I know it is not an exact circle – but I am hoping that my 3 year old granddaughter will not notice – I think that I will stick with quilting.)

I had the patch completed and called Emily to see if she wanted me to do anything else. She said I could make a Diego vest – so I do. I completed it about 15 minutes prior to my classes starting. Man am I glad that the post office is just 1/2 block from my house. Ran to the Post Office and was back in time for my class to start.

The last thing that Emily has to deal with on this costume is the hair issue. Prairie is insistent that she has “Boy” hair, in fact, she wants to cut her hair. Stay tuned for the end of this story.

Have a GREAT day!!!!

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This Little Quilter Went to Market

October 19th, 2009

This little quilter went to International Quilt Festival/Houston.

George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX

This little quilter was happy because she was able to attend church.

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This little quilter saw many “out of this world things” at NASA.

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This little quilter had an underwater dining experience at the aquarium.

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This little quilter saw wild animals at the zoo.

"Tribute to Tolkien" by Sue McCarty

"Clam Session" by Karen K. Stone

This little quilter was in awe of the beautiful quilts at the Winners’ Circle Celebration.

: “Santa Claus Has Come to Kirara’s Hometown” by Ayako Kawakami

"Hearts and Garlands" by Liz Jones

"Protection" by Hollis Chatelain

"Snapshot: Shannon's Bantam" by Denise Havlan

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This little quilter felt like a little kid at the Children’s Museum.

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This little quilter was video taped by Bonnie McCaffery as she shared the story of her quilt – “The Generations Unite” at the Preview Night for Festival.

"Grandma's Hexagarden"

This little quilter was very proud to see her two quilts hanging in such a prestigious quilt show.

Quilt by Philippa Naylor

Quilt by Philippa Naylor

This little quilter learned many great machine quilting tips and techniques at the Machine Quilting Forum.

: “Garden of Dream” by Fusako Takido

This little quilter was very proud of one “special” Quilt Angel who volunteered three hours and received his angel wings.

Project made by Daphne Greig

This little quilter was exposed to many wonderful embellishment ideas at the Mixed Media Medley.

Houston Temple

This little quilter was pleased that she had time to go to the LDS Houston Temple.

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This little quilter was pleased that the Super Walmart had the needed items to replace the ones left at home.

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This little quilter tried to spread the love of hexagons by passing out “I’m a Hexamaniac” ribbons.

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This little quilter learned about Texas history at the George Ranch Historical Park which included seeing cows plunge into a 10’ deep water bath.

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This little quilter enjoyed a fun evening at “Wild Women Quilt” present by Karen McTavish and Sue Patton.

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This little quilter attended a program presented by Ricky Tims and was so impressed with his music that she purchased a couple of his CDs.

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This little quilter was deeply touched by the Priority Alzheimer’s Quilts exhibit organized by Ami Simms.

"On the Wings of a Dream" by Caryl Bryer Fallert

This little quilter sat by and visited with Caryl Bryer Fallert (Best of Show Winner) at the Gala on the Green.

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This little quilter slept, slept, slept all the way home!

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Learning Curves

October 16th, 2009

A quick note from Houston.

Tom and I have been in Houston since last Saturday. Market and Festival have been wonderful, but totally overwhelming. Also, my new website went live the day before we left New York which entailed switching it over to Word Press (and the fact that we have to sit in the lobby to get internet access) has made blogging an all new experience too. If that wasn’t enough new stuff in my life at once, we also purchased me a Blackberry a couple of days before our trip. I am feeling totally overwhelmed with all this new stuff.

I have seen some wonderful quilts and I am so excited to get back to my studio and creating!!!! We have also done a lot of the tourist things while here.

It is all GREAT and I will write more next week (and share some pictures).

Mary Anne

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Can you believe it?????

October 9th, 2009

I have actually done something creative in the kitchen.

The Pelham Quilters monthly meeting was Monday evening. A couple of hours prior to the meeting I remembered that I was suppose to bring refreshments. Since I had classes to teach, I was really glad that I had purchased a couple of brownie mixes last trip to the grocery store. I had also purchased this magazine with all these fun Halloween food ideas. I am not sure why I buy this type of magazines, except I like to LOOK at the pictures. Well, I pulled out my magazine and found this fun idea.I think this was alot more exciting than just plain brownies.

The magazine said to make the spiders out of gum drops. Needles to say, I don’t keep gum drops around just waiting for the perfect project. So, the pom pom and chenille stems came to the rescure.