My 2 Grandsons: Simon and Sam with me. The sweatshirt I have on is one we made about 15 years ago when my sister & I made sweatshirts using the footprints of our grandsons. In the photo, Simon's footprint is on the side he is standing on and Sam's on the other side. Boys were 9 & 5 years old at time we made the shirts. 

An Extraordinary Christmas Eve Eve

 Christmas Eve Eve:

You know how it is when all you have to give to someone you love is a gift card.? Well, that is how it was so I asked my son, Joe, if he would like some cookies or a cherry pie for Christmas. He chose pie. Next part of the story. I went to Kroger to get the pie filling tonight. They only had 1 can. Got it and decided to go back to Walmart (where I had just finished some other shopping). They had many cans of the filling. Stood in line with the 3 cans of filling. A young man in front of me purchased his items. I looked down anticipating seeing the cashier start to scan my cans, but I noticed that the 3 cans weren't in my view. Just figured the cashier had already scanned them. Moved to up to pay for them and the young man in front of me handed me the bag with the 3 cans in it. I was dumbfounded...didn't know what to say. Was he handing me my items BUT I hadn't paid yet. Looked at the cashier and she was already starting to scan items from the customer behind me. I looked at the young man again and asked, "Did you pay for these?" He said, "Merry Christmas." I patted him on the shoulder and had tears in my eyes as I walked to my car. This happened only about an hour ago and I am still emotional about it. 
There are GOOD people in the world.

                                         Here is the pie.

Pieces of Love Baby Quilts

turned in on Oct 21st

Sister Day

Today Nelle, Ann and I went to Sharon Woods to view an 

antique quiet show at Heritage Village Museum.  

The show is open til next summer on

Mondays through Fridays from 10am til 4pm

Here is info on the show from the internet:

Current Exhibit:

Heritage Village Museum invites you to view a new rotation of antique quilts from our extensive collection during our Antique Quilt Exhibit. This assortment of nineteen quilts spans a century of American culture from the1840s through 1940s. Quilt patterns include: Log Cabin, Dresden Plate and Star of Bethlehem. The quilts are being displayed in the Village’s beautiful Hayner House.

This is Simon.
He graduates next week.
Congratulations!!

Sew What Friendship Quilts

Here are 5 small quilts which I made out of 6" blocks.  The blocks were made by my Sew What friends and myself from 2000 to 2005.

I am working on making sure all of my quilts have a label and I am attempting to catalogue each quilt.

Hopefully I will get to the point where I will have a CD with an image of each of the quilts I have made along with the pertinent information.

To prepare for that day, I took photos tonight of some of my quilts.  This is my first post regarding my completed quilts.  More to follow.

  

                                        

Catching up.

Well, as you can see, it has been a long time since my first and only post.
With help from my friend, Connie, I am now ready to start posting regularly.
Today is Show & Tell about a red and white baby quilt.
I joined a small quilt group a few months ago.
Their goal is to meet twice a month and to make baby quilts which will be donated to the Neonatal Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati.
Recently I finished my first quilt.  It was a very easy pattern...maybe that is why I was able to finish it so quickly.
Ginny, one of the members of the group, suggested that we make a red & white quilt.
This is my version.