Vince told me I look like the Beverly Hillbillies. My poor car. It may never be the same. I have jars of canned food, a medium size canner, pears, quilts, big framed prints that I don't want the movers moving, the larger loom. I don't even know what all is in there. I've been packing the car ever since I got back from the last trip. Oh . . I do have some fabric shelving units that I can get ...
Favorite Cowl
Some days I love the big floppy cowls; some days I love the more snug (but not tight) cowls. They're probably the thing I'm most excited about getting to wear in MO. I wear sweaters a good bit in Texas because we rarely need a coat. In MO, I'll wear more coats probably than sweaters. I don't think I was making a lot of sweaters when we lived there before so I don't know. I wear wool socks all ...
Pears
We have at least 9 pear trees and we've done everything people have told us to do - water, don't water, fertilize, don't fertilize. We've probably had a dozen pear trees that died and we've replaced them but several years ago, we gave up on pears. As the trees died, we didn't replace them. We had two dead pear trees that Vince had been meaning to remove and the last time we were gone, we had some ...
A Bargello Quilt
I've made one bargello quilt. I love it now that it's finished but it was crazy working on it. That was during the time that we had two homes an I'd work on it some at one house, then take it all down off the design wall and take it to the other house. I stayed confused and can't believe I ever got it all finished. Remember the other day I mentioned that I found down comforter? It's ...
Purple & Gold Quilt
This quilt was made in 2006 according to the label. This is one that was made for one of the books but I used a different quilt for the pattern. This one is actually purple and gold but the photo is a bit washed out. Addie love LSU (because her dad loves LSU). She told Nicole the other day that she wants to be an LSU cheerleader. Nicole said "Oh, so you want to go to college at LSU?" ...
A Day of Quilts
Vince found another of quilts so I took them all out and washed them. Over the next few posts, I'll share those and some of the stories behind them. The first one is a sampler of sorts. It's definitely not an award winning quilt but when I started my first book many years ago, I realized that the first few blocks I made might need a bit of tweaking or as I was writing the instructions and ...