Charity quilt...Check out this quilt that was auctioned off for charity...

I found this darling quilt that is a scrapbuster at http://bumblebeansinc.com/ . Scroll down on the right side bar until you come to 9 patch gather quilt auction and then double click the button. The quilt was donated to charity and was made of nine patch blocks set into X's. I fell in love with it because of two reasons: it used up scraps and I loved the setting and the eccletic look it had. We have been asked by our quilt guild to donate quilts to birth mothers who bravely give up their babies in hopes that they will have a better life with adoptive parents. It is supposed to give the birth mothers comfort during this difficult time. I thought the name, Nothing but Kisses was just adorable and I felt it was an appropriate design for this purpose. I fell in love with this blog and you might just fall in love too!!

Barrett 7th Annual Quilt Retreat

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Another successful retreat and what a fun time we had!! This is Carolyn, my sister and Rhonda, her sister-in-law, busily sewing away...

Rhonda, working on a fun project!!

This is my mother's cousin, Eileen and her sister-in-law, Flo. They are really a fun addition to our retreat!! My mom has very few cousins in the states as she is from England.

My cousin, Emmy. She traveled with her mother from California. We are really glad they made it!!

This is Marin, who married my nephew, Scott. She is such a cute girl and she made this adorable wreath out of an old book she bought at the DI.



My niece, Kalie with Marin. Kalie's baby is due in August. They just relocated here from Arizona. Her husband is doing his medical DO intern in SLC.

This is our group, minus my little sister, Marciea (She is taking the picture). I am on the back row 5 from the left with a cream shirt and glasses. Many people travelled some distance to be here and we sure enjoyed ourselves!!

This picture is so cute. Allison, Emmy's daugther and Kit, Rose's daughter are modeling the dresden plates on their little heads--makes a cute hat. That is my little sister, Marciea in the lime green shirt and my little sister, Rose in the black shirt holding the blue dishcloth. Can't wait until next year...It is so good to get together and have so much fun!!

My Boy is Home!!!

My boy arrived home from London safe and sound. He is his father's son after all, right down to the flat cap. Two years literally flew by--I just sent him off and he was home again.

Of course I had to take in Pine Needles on the Shop Hop enroute to the airport...one must do a little retail therapy now and again... The store was amazing!! I really like this birthday banner. I'll have to coordinate this with the other banner I'm in the process of making...

Darling quilts everywhere in the store...

Love the dresden plate. I'm doing a family quilt retreat this upcoming week and we are doing the dresden. It truly is a classic pattern...

Had to buy this patriotic Uncle Sam--love holiday stuff--love the yo yo beard...

More fun 4th of July...It makes my heart sing!!! I love this country and the freedoms we have!!!

I am amazed at the cute things people keep designing and I got a couple of these cute bib patterns for the sweet babies being born....

More adorable bibs...





More dresden...love the dresden!!

Fun day. What could be better than getting your son back and retail therapy??? Not much!!!

What do you collect?

I have a weakness--I love to collect. We have been making some improvements to our home, namely painting. I finally after 6 or 7 years, will have one color of paint instead of 3. I have had great indecisions about this whole paint thing. I love the colors that I picked out years ago, but we would start to paint and given the light in my home, and an open floor plan, the paint did not look good and was way too dark. We finally settled on a light yellow paint, which lightens and brightens up the whole house. I'm delighted with it and we can finally get back to one color that we like instead of 3 colors from indecisions. As a result, my blue glass collection had to come down off the cupboards and get its semiannual bath to remove dust and residue. I guess I come by collecting fabric naturally because I seem to collect so many other things.....

Trunk Show--Patchwork Friends Closing Social

Deon Richards presented a trunk show. This woman is the most remarkable woman. She has Parkinson's and took up quilting when she was diagnosed. She hand quilts, does silk ribbon embroidery, regular embroidery and lovely piecing. It was a real delight to have her come and share the evening with us!!

Hope you enjoyed the show. Sorry the angle was bad in taking the pictures.

Show and Share at Patchwork Friends Closing Social

Carrie and her lovely quilt--I just have to say that Carrie gets so much sewing done...every guild meeting she shows at least 2-3 projects completed. She's amazing.

Carrie showing a prom dress she made for her daughter...

This is a turning 20 that I pieced and had quilted for a dear friend who is moving. Names of our circle of friends have been quilted in...

My scrappy flower garden quilt--all quilted. This is one of my most favorite quilts and it was so fun to make.

Another picture of the scrappy flower garden quilt.

Carolyn's Texas Log Cabin. This quilt has a gazillion pieces in it and this picture does not do it justice. It just sparkles...

Cousin Lucy's log cabin quilt. Lucy is truly the queen of log cabins. She makes them so beautiful. When she makes the log cabin, anything and everything go into them.

This quilt was a quilt guild project a few years back. Cousin Lucy did hers in 30's fabrics. The pattern was taken from a shop hop and this particular setting and design was from the Red Rooster Quilt shop during that shop hop...
Another log cabin quilt from cousin Lucy. They just seem so majestic. Great classic pattern...

I don't know the name of this particular pattern, but it seems to be half square triangles. Love the contrast in this...this quilt is cousin Lucy's.

Lisa made this great tote for carrying her quilting tools...

This shows the tote all closed up and ready for toting...great project!!

Alissa and her quilted yellow brick road. Great colors in this quilt...

Alissa and her first paper piecing project. She is making a runner out of this one...

Holly and her summer flip flop quilt. It was really bright and fun...

This quilt was made after we had a class in quilt guild about English paper piecing these hexagons...

The back of Carrie's road trip quilt--love the license plate fabric...

This road trip quilt of Carrie's was a round robin quilt and it is so creative and darling...

Carrie demonstrated a class on bargello quilts and this is the bargello music quilt that she put together for one of her children. Every fabric has something to do with music. Fun, fun quilt...
Hope you enjoyed our show and share...stay tuned for the trunk show....