Fall Colors

We have been having ball with the Glorious Fall Colors !
Every drive on the bike we oooh ahhh at the mix and variation of the colors. God was wonderful painter.
Last year with all our drives and trips to the chiro I was inspired to
save and preserve these colors. The quilt top is finished but not quilted yet, however it is in a photo contest.
Tim had fun using the old 35mm at the Landscape shop nearby.


He caught me too!

We did several rides this fall as the weather and colors changed.

Couple trips were for Toy rides with the bike group. This was a new thing for us and very exciting. The Police closed off the route escorting the group of 500+ bikes ! (very noisy) People stood on the porches and cheered. This group gathered a gym full of toys and food donations.

The next week we did a smaller group of only 100 bikes... same escorted parade set up with chili lunch furnished afterwards. This group accumulated 2 trucks full. That's a lot of Good Deeds.

Summer FUN

This is currently more fun than quilting ! Gardening ! Housework ! pool !

nuff said. ~~K

summer flying past

Summer is flying past at a Too Quick pace.

We have been up north couple times.

Rode the bike a bunch around here.... down to Osage beach..... out to a Mexican place for nachos.

The garden is doing nicely with cukes, eggplant and tomatoes to can.

I'm still sewing.. just finished a Large Quilt for a lady at work.

Also have several stars on the table to stitch up for Susan in Tx.

In between all that I redid the kitchen. It was very simply done with new iron door handles and a flashy black cherry paint job. wowwwwwww !

Time Flys

Time sure flys when your busy !!! Since I last did the blog. Tornadoes tor thru New Hartford w a friends house shredded. Several friend and family filled a Huge truck with goodies for those in need there.

Flooding caused trouble from one end of Ia to the other with more friends and family fighting that mess.

Most of the Gang went north and we closed up the family home.

Here: Hubby and I have taken up Motorcycling!! yes we have helmets. So far we haven't gone to far we take a ride do b'fast or lunch and come home again.

The garden is growing, Diva loves setting out there watching over it.

The 5 quilts shown went to eastern Ia. for some women's help. The red one is lady bugs. It was the most fun to make.

Have a fun summer ~~~K

Some Favorite Quilts

Look what I found in a box of pics tucked away::
Broken Star quilt 2000-2001

MaryJanes Quilt, My take on an Amish flavor

Gift Baskets From all the chatters, at KC 99

Organized by Nancy, blocks were made round the world!

Paducah

This past week we did a road trip to Paducah, Ky !

We went to see the town, NOT the ZOO of the International Quilt Show.

We went to Hancocks of Paducah fabric store, like a warehouse of designer fabrics with designer prices.

We went down town to the river history of the city. Nice restored old buildings.

Elenor Burns has a shop there.. I did buy some fabric and enjoyed her samples on the walls.

From there we explored the quilt museum. It had wonderful artsy, complicated, masterpiece quilts.

The nicest part was cruising the big park with the trees in bloom ! Wish you were there Lin.

Coming home, was heavy rain and the roads we chose going far around St Louis and its flooding, were filling up. Anything that could be a mud puddle was !

Its always nice to do a trip... but nice to get home too.

This month a 55 yard roll of batting was delivered. I now have 5 finished Good Deeds ready to go !

shining star

Here's what I've been fussing over since Christmas. This will be the Holiday quilt to be given away by drawing to family next Christmas.

For those that do stash or scrap quilts this ALL fabric from the closet ! 1/3 yd this box.. 1/2 yd my box..... 1/4yd another box.. and the Christmas border print from Nancys box.

Now to get it hand quilted by then !

Part of January was spent making lined grocery/beach totes from donated upholstery fabric. I made 22 bags. We sold some to friends at work. Thank you to those that purchased them. I'm sure they will hold lots of good things for you. I used the proceeds for thread and batting.

Next up, is more Good Deeds that are on hangers in the closet. Its time to get EM done and put them to work.