Miss Rose

Good morning everyone,

With my daughter's wedding, babysitting 6-year-old-twins for a week, and having a booth at the Livermore Harvest Festival over Labor Day weekend, I've been remiss is updating the Blossom of Friendship blog site. Well, today seems like a good day to get back on track by introducing you to Miss Rose. I think I will be adding an embroidered outline stitch using a darker yellow around the yellow petals to add a bit of emphasis. I also need to stitch in a tail on the dragonfly. But of course, I'm here at the cabin and all of my embroidery thread is home in Livermore.....somethings will just have to wait until I get back to town.

Here's a picture of our booth at the festival. My husband enjoys woodworking and makes items out of wine barrels and wine barrel staves. He calls it "re-purposing".


He's up in his little shop right now just working away and having a ball. On more than one occassion though, he's slipped with the sander and he's minus a few fingerprints. I accuse him of trying to be in the witness protection program!

Speaking of husbands, on this date thirty-seven years ago, I spoke the most intelligent words I've ever uttered. I said "I Do" to this wonderful man.


This is a picture of us several, SEVERAL pounds and gray hairs ago that was taken in Hawaii at a formal event.

Here is how we really look. Jeans, boots and enjoying nature.

Treasure each and every day with your loved ones and friends. I saw a bumper sticker the other day that was a very gentle reminder about life. It said, "Wag more, bark less." So, let's all remember that and wag to our heart's content.

As always,

Lynn

The Wedding was beautiful......

My daughter's wedding has consumed most of my time for the past several weeks. I'm back and ready to dig into the borders for the block of the month.

Here is a very short Smilebox of the event. It was beautiful!!! The location at Edgewood Country Club in Lake Tahoe was spectacular.

Make a Smilebox photobook

In the slideshow you will see all my adorable little grandchildren...my three children with their spouses....and my wonderful husband that has been by my side for the last 36 years. Life is good.

As always,

Lynn

Scrappy Leaves quilt

Dear Blossom of Friendship followers,

The Scrappy Leaves quilt is almost finished. Just a few more hours on the binding then the hanging sleeve and it will be ready to hang up in the shop. It's always a good feeling to get something completed before teaching the class!

The quilt took me two and a half days of laborious stitch in the ditch around each leaf and border sections on my long-arm. Stitch in the ditch quilting is not very much fun. It becomes tedious and doesn't seem very creative. I'll quilt feathers any day over ditch work.

My admiration goes out to anyone that can machine quilt a large quilt on a smaller machine. The next time you see your machine quilter, give them a hug......they deserve it! Machine quilting takes a lot more time than you think. I usually spend about one hour just loading the quilt on the frame. It has to be perfectly lined up or else you'll pay for it when you get down to the end.

The whole idea of this quilt was to imagine the sun shining down from the top left hand corner through the leaves and trees in the forest. I can't tell you how many times in my walks around the neighborhood that I was trying to capture that feeling. On my walk with Zinny this morning, we saw our first dogwoods ( I think they are dogwoods) changing color. They weren't changing much, but there was definitely some fall color.

I used wool batting so my leaves would just pop right out. I quilted swirls to depict the wind carelessly tossing the leaves every which way. That's my story because my swirls are quilted every which way. I'm consistently inconsistent with the entire quilt.

Look what ambled by the critter cam last night on the game trail! We've never had an animal get this close to the camera.....ever. So, if you go out in the woods today.......................

As always,

Lynn