Busy!

Wow, another week flew by in a blink! It's been a busy week here for me with family life.... haven't had a chance to sit down at the computer at all!


Thank you for your interest in the Easter Tablerunner Tutorial. I won't be able to get the tutorial up for another week, so please be patience.

It was Open House on Wednesday at Sweetie Pie's school. The Basket Auction also took place that night. Sweetie Pie's class chose horses as their theme, and I donated a horse quillow for their basket.

My friend, Pam, did a great job of putting together the basket. She used a horse head for the front and added some yarn for the tail (the photo doesn't show it very well). There were some great themes and creative baskets this year. We placed a few bids on several baskets but didn't win any. :(

This is one of my favorite basket.... Crochet and knitting basket... lots of goodies in there.

Overall, the fundraiser brought in almost $3000... not as much as previous years, but a good turn out.... and the horse basket has the most earnings of $200... and has earned Sweetie Pie's class a pizza party.

Then on Friday, I taught one more Cathedral Window class. There were four students in this class, so it was easy for me to remember everyone's name: Barbara, Judy, Caroline, and Judy P. As usual, I love teaching this class. I get so inspired seeing all the different colors and fabrics combination that I wanted to rush home to make a few more CW..... so many projects so little time. *s*

Another CW Class & 1st Birthday

Hi there,

I'm back from my unintended bloggy/computer break. Mainly, just busy with work and life in general. Then, this last week my laptop had serious virus infections. The in-house tech revamped the whole thing to get it back up and running again. Yep, he fixed it while I was out teaching another class yesterday. So far it is running great except for when I tried to visit a couple of my favorite blogs earlier, then it froze up and shut down instantly. Blog hopping will have to wait another day. :-(

Hmmm.... finger crossed... hoping this laptop will let me finished with this posting. Anyway....

As I mentioned, I had another wonderful Cathedral Window class yesterday. This group of ladies sewed fast and furious and did a fabulous job with their pillow tops. There were a few finishes by the end of class.

Here's the whole group.... don't they look happy and go-lucky bunch of quilters? ....

This is the fist finisher of the class.... love that green... almost the same color as my bedroom!

More finishes!

These soft colors came out so adorable.

And more finishes....

Love that one in Batiks!

I love all those smiling faces! It made me feel great to see them still smiling at the end of class!

:D

Then right after class, I rushed home to pick up the family and headed to my sister's for my nephew's first birthday. When we arrived, the party had ended because the birthday boy had to laid down for a nap. Oh well.... we got to watch a clip of James with his birthday cake...hilarious and cute... and we had a nice visit with everyone who were still there instead.

Of course, we had lots of fun with the birthday boy when he's awake.

Here he is .... giving his cousin a big smile ... Sweetie Pie was taken the photo.

It's play time....Then it's dinner time....Look at these two! Lucy and Ricky! They belong to my sister and BIL.

I don't think it's the first time that James dropped a few morsels for Lucy and Ricky though. lol

It was a full and joyous day yesterday. LOts of laughter... and happiness... I wouldn't want to change a thing. Except... maybe slowing time down! I still can get over that James is one year old already!

Pillow and Class

This red and white Cathedral Windows pillow is my first finish for February (can't believe that we're already in Feb!). It's perfect for Valentine.... don't you think? This pillow was a lot of fun to make what with the polka dots and rick-rac. Unfortunately, I don't have the pillow here at the house; it is residing at the quilt shop as a class sample. I might have to make a couple more just to have them here.

Talk about class, I had another Cathedral Windows class yesterday. What a fun day it was! This group of students was hilarious! They had me laughing all the time. Apparently, they all knew each other, and most of them are in the Wednesday Friendship Group at the shop. It's so great to have a chance to meet them all.

I'm usually not very good at remembering people's name, but this time I think I did. So here goes ... starting from left (Sue, Pam, Nancy) ... back table (Ron, Arlene, Tonya is hidden)... Diana at the iron station... then Lora is behind Chris who is in that pretty blue shirt.

Yes, I had a man taking my class! That's Ron and his wife, Arlene, they make a great team. There's Tonya, in the red shirt, who also brought along a member of her family... who you will see toward the end of the post.

This is Lora. Instead of making a pillow, she's making a table topper with her Layer Cake.

Here are Chris's and Diana's. They used the same Layer Cake but look how different their pillow tops look!



Here are Arlene's and Sue's pillow tops. They also used the same collection, Fig & Plum, which I'm in love with at the moment.

Lastly, here's Tonya with her baby girl! Tonya used scrappy Christmas fabrics... you can't tell from the picture, but she has sparkly fabric for the "windows".... and her pillow top came out so cute! Even cuter is that baby; she was so good! Look at her go for it... she's a doll!


I truly enjoyed teaching and hope you like seeing my class photos.

I had a blast!

My first Cathedral Windows class was today. I had eight students in this class, and they were just wonderful. We started out with the basic steps of building the "frames" or folded squares, adding the "windows" to the frames, then moved onto constructing the pincushion. We had a lunch break next, and afterward, they started on building the "frames" for the pillow. We didn't get the pillow finish as I had planned, but I think, all of the students got the gist of building the CW.

These pincushions are the result of the class. They are too cute! I love all of the different color combos... so much fun.

Everyone is busy with building their Cathedral Windows.

What a fun time I had! I didn't know that teaching can be so rewarding. I mean... I probably wouldn't have the patience to be a school teacher, but teaching quilting is a blast .... especially when the students are awesome!