Two Finishes This Week!

Finally! I'm getting some projects completed. I've been working consistently, but there are lots of steps in the quilts I need to have done by May. T-shirt Quilt number one for my friend Nancy's daughter is COMPLETELY done. The last stitch on the binding was done yesterday afternoon. 

The rag quilt that I've worked on between projects is DONE, Too. For years, I've wanted to do a Just For You Quilt, the donation quilt project of the Gwinnett Quiter's Guild. This is the year. I pulled blue and brown flannel fabric from my stash. I was thinking of a quilt for an older child. I think my son, Michael wanted it. He was asking who it was made for. That's a good sign that another teenage boy might like it too. 

I'm working on sewing the binding on Michael's T-shirt quilt. After that is done, I can work on any project that I want!!!! Yes! Now, what project......

.... And they continue to grow-up

Last night was my son's high school senior prom. He didn't want to attend last year as a junior. We were pleased that he wanted to attend this year. He went with "a friend". It was really a group date :)  He even had to drive the Atlanta freeways to get to the mid-town restaurant for dinner and the hotel where the Prom was held. His Dad went with him on Friday afternoon for a practice drive. It was fun taking picture of the kids all dressed up. Today, we are hearing "snippets" of the event.

150th Post Give-away

Celebrate good times! This is one of the songs that we sing at our Silver Thimble Sewing Club sewing sessions. My one year anniversary was in January. I missed that. My 100th post was near that time. I missed that too. I really think that I should just hibernate in the Winter. I definitely go into "half-hibernation" mode. This is my 150th blog post. Yahoo!  For someone who just never even wanted to post a comment on the blogs that I read religiously, blogging has been a positive thing in my life. With that in mind, I purchsed Moda's Hello Betty charm pack for a give-away. The pattern is the pattern that I've used for my T-shirt quits. I found  an extra copy. Please leave a comment on this post explaining what you like about quilting blogs. You don't have to have a blog, just enjoy reading them. I'll do a random drawing next Sunday, May 3rd. Please join in the fun. I love reading your comments!

Our Author Quilt Makes the Local Newspaper

It was a wonderful week. I shared the quilt with our fifth graders who did the project as fourth graders. Hoping to get the quilt hung this week.

http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/

Staff Photo: Jason Braverman Sydney Watkins, a fifth-grade student at Mulberry Elementary, helps fold a quilt that was made with autographs of famous authors. Mulberry Author Quilt Last year, fourth-grade students wrote to 42 children's authors asking them to sign fabric squares that would be sewn into a quilt. Below are the authors whose autographs appear on the decorative blanket. • Judy Blume ("Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing") • Betsy Byars ("The Summer of the Swans") • Dale Christopher, on behalf of his late father Matt Christopher ("The Kid Who Only Hit Homers") • Beverly Cleary ("Beezus and Ramona") • Christopher Paul Curtis ("Bud, Not Buddy") • Kate DiCamillo ("Because of Winn-Dixie") • Tony DiTerlizzi ("The Spiderwick Chronicles") • Russell Freedman ("Lincoln: A Photobiography") • Dan Gutman ("Jackie & Me") • Nancy Krulik ("Katie Kazoo, Switcheroo") • Lois Lowry ("Number the Stars") • Ann M. Martin ("The Baby-sitters Club") • Christopher Paolini ("Eragon") • Barbara Park ("Junie B. Jones") • Dav Pilkey ("The Adventures of Captain Underpants") • Patricia Polacco ("Thank You, Mr. Falker") • Barbara Robinson ("The Best Christmas Pageant Ever") • Louis Sachar ("Holes") • Roland Smith ("Peak") • Jerry Spinelli ("Maniac Magee") • R.L. Stine ("Goosebumps") • Mo Willems ("Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale") • Henry Winkler ("Hank Zipzer")