Helllloooooo???

I'm alive, I'm alive! LOL Seems like just yesterday that I last posted. So much has happened since then, even a little quilting. I thought about giving up this blog, but found that I missed it and the record that it kept of my life and my quilts. Here's my Great Pumpkin quilt totally finished. Sorry for the picture quality. I've been experimenting with Instagram and I'm not totally up to speed with it yet :) And here's a terrible picture of Diagonal Madness, pattern by Kaffe Fassett You really can't tell from this picture, but I big stitch quilted using Pearle cotton thread. I really liked quilting this and plan to do more very soon. Here's my latest finished quilt top. Le Jardin, pattern by Bunny Hill. Oh I so enjoy applique and I am planning on making another Bunny Hill applique quilt very soon. Well that's all for now because my brain feels stressed! I can't figure out how to take the Christmas background off...why do they change a good thing? I'm re-learning how to blog again. Also, does anyone know how to blog from an Ipad? I would prefer to blog that way, but so far I haven't figured it out. Have a wonderful day.... ranette

Happy Thanksgiving!

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