I'm back in the saddle again!

Sorry the photos are flipped sideways. I will get the hang of blogging again, I promise. Thank you all for the encouragement. Hopefully this weekend I'll get some time to play around with things.
I decided to set up my Dear Jane block making station in my downstairs sewing/laundry room again and I've been able to whip out a few JanieBright blocks while doing other things, like cooking and cleaning.

It's amazing how much I can get done while doing something else...as long as I don't forget what I was doing in the first place...which has happened a time or two...lol
ranette

Did blogger change this Summer???

Cause I am having ALL kinds of trouble uploading pictures!!! I tried my regular way of emailing them to my blogspot address and it went to my Gmail account instead...hmmm...if anyone knows how to do this will you please help me!

Just a quick recap of a long....hot....hot....did I say HOT Summer!!! Things started out super busy because Emily, our oldest daughter, graduated from the University of Kansas in May and a week later, our youngest daughter, Allie graduated from Stillwater High school! YAY!!! Here is a picture of my three girls right before Allie's graduation.

Then Emily and I left to take my mom to Taos, New Mexico. My Mom has always wanted to live there, so she rented a condo for a month and I think she enjoyed it, but was glad to come home. Didn't really take any pictures except this one and Emily may have taken it.

I did manage to finish piecing my Cracked Pots quilt though. And what a lot of piecing it was. I was really, really happy to finish this! Yvette's version is in Civil War red, white and blues and mine is all Jo Morton fabrics. The pattern is by Carrie Nelson.

If these photos look crappy it's because I took them with my phone. I must get in the habit of using a camera again.

I also made Allie an 18th birthday quilt...and I finished it much faster than I did her baby quilt, which took me 14 years to finish. LOL! Well I had little kids and I hand quilted it! Maybe I'll show a picture of the baby quilt one day, but here is the birthday quilt. It's an Amy Butler free pattern and it's all AB fabric.

Okay, time to get busy. It's taken me over an hour to do this post...yikes! I've lost all of my skills. Should I try the new blogger interface? What is it anyway? And why do things have to be so complicated? LOL I've got lots more to share and I'll be back soon. I hope all my US friends have a wonderful Labor Day!

ranette

Dresdens!!!

More of these beauties are on my agenda! So...much...fun!!!

ranette

I'll be back in the Fall....

Every single day I think to myself that I've got to post on my blog and then I don't and then I feel guilty. It seems like time has sped up and there just aren't enough hours in the day to do it all anymore and that makes me sad. I've given thought to shutting my blog down, but that makes me sad too, so I think I'll just take a blog hiatus for the rest of the Summer and hopefully I'll be back in the Fall with some really awesome quilts to show you all. I am grateful for all of the wonderful friendships that I've made through blogging and I'll be checking in on all of you from time to time.

I hope you all have a terrific Summer or Winter (to my Aussie friends) and
Happy 4th of July!!!

ranette

Showing off my baby!

Saturday was Senior Prom in Stillwater, Oklahoma! Here is picture of my daughter Allie and her friends. Allie is the blond in the teal dress...she is just beautiful!

I'm going to take a little blogging break for the next several weeks. I've got two graduations, high school and college, and two road trips coming up and I just know that the computer/blogging time will come last. There's not very much sewing going on here at the moment, but it will pick up again later in the Summer I'm sure.

Remember....This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Psalm 118:24

ranette

Just popping in to say Hi !!

I was very spoiled by my lovely daughters and husband on Mother's Day. Look at the lovely flowers from the girls.

Just gorgeous! Kara, Allie and Jay started off by making lemon blueberry pancakes and finished up the day by grilling. I also received a nice gift certificate to the local quilt shop and some pretty new summer pajamas. It was a wonderful day with my family and I feel very Blessed to be the Mama of Emily, Kara and Allie!

I had a chance to get a little bit of sewing done, so I finished the courthouse steps blocks that will go with all of the houses. I took the picture with my phone, so it's not the greatest.

I'm going to put this quilt away until June, but I am loving the bright Civil War reproduction fabric. Oh and speaking of Civil War, I made this weeks block, Missouri Star.

I'm going to have to add more pink into the blocks because I like it!

And I've finished my Scandinavian Christmas quilt top.
TA DA!!!

It's just so darn cute! I will handquilt this one, hopefully starting by the end of the summer.

Well Oklahoma once again skipped Spring and it feels like we are well into July right now...lol....HOT and WINDY and HUMID. Not my favorite conditions, but I've got the air conditioner on and I think I'll go and sew for a bit.
Have a great week....ranette

Two posts in one week?!!! What?!!

Can you believe it? LOL I told you I'd be back in a few days to show a couple of finishes and here I am...WooHoo!

First up is my niece Brittni's quilt. She is getting married this summer and really isn't into quilts much, but she did ask her mom, my sister, if I was going to make her a quilt...hehe, of course I am! All quilted, bound and washed to give it that comfy feeling and all I need to do now is get it ready to ship.

I think I linked to the pattern in a previous post, so I'm not going to do the linky thing again....I know, bad blogger!
Here's a little quilt that I made a couple of years ago and decided I would hand quilt...which is not my thing, but I'm trying!

It laid around and finally a couple of weeks ago I said to myself, Ranette, finish that right now...so I did...LOL...I usually don't listen to myself very well. Here's a closeup of the quilting (see, I really don't have any pride).

I did a big stitch with Pearle cotton across the quilt and then free-hand baptist fans, in red Pearle for the border. It will be cute hanging on the wall this Fall.

And just because it's a lovely day today, here are a couple of my husband's gorgeous photos of a couple of the flowers in our yard. First up is a peach Iris

And this one is our fuchsia Peony...so pretty!

Have a lovely day! ranette