I am Back ! Need to get busy & update my blog!

  WOW! I cannot believe it has been a long time since I posted a blog , when Life keeps us busy with other things we tend to slack off on our favorite things to do. 

So I am going to add a few photo's that I know I have on my computer , ,I have so many on my phone but will get to those later. 

These are cards made with buttons for "Operation Christmas Child ", I would draw the straight lines first then glue the buttons on the ends of each line then use colorful markers to draw and color the flowers ,leaves and grass. We would then add a note to the top or bottom  or the backs  

  

  

These were made a couple years ago , We need to make more for this year, I love making things for the shoeboxes  at my church , all of us help to make things and buy what we can to fill the boxes with , I love doing this. I also make scrunches, crochet& beaded necklace , bracelets , sewing kits in Med bottles with Pin cushion on top , or Altoids tin cans and cover top and decorate for sewing kits too .Plus many other little things we can make , When it is time to pack them we all go to church to pack them. 

                     

Quilt of Valor for Royce

Quilt of Valor I made for my husband 2 years ago .I also made a few more for Church Veterans and friends. 

New Quilts for OCC

 A Few Quilts that I made for the Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes ,most are at least 36 X 36 and do not have batting or binding for packing purposes, because we will have to roll them up and they are mostly for 2 to 4 year olds , my goal is to have 100 , so far we have 94 finished!
My Mom has made 45 herself and I made the rest some have the ties on that a lady from church and her friend did for us , most have a little bit of machine quilting on them.
We are hoping to make some little children happy !!

New Crazy Quilt

This is a new Crazy Quilt made by Myself and Mom We have been working on it off and on for 3 years finally finished it last summer . We decided we would put it in a quilt show, but so far I have not been able to do that ,  We decided just recently that we would like to try to sell it to anyone that is wanting a Family Heirloom Quilt ,Which we left lots of room for you to add more embellishments ,buttons ,Lace, ribbons,  tinkets ,charms and what ever you wish that would represent a family member in each block .

Close ups of what we have here , we have Velvet's  Satin's,  Lace, Brocades, Taffada Silks and some cottons , we have lace and buttons on each corner of the blocks  some Emboridery is on them too, you can add more.

We have a family Heirloom already for us  a block that represents family that has passed and some for us still here and we add more as we find something special. 

 If you are interested in this quilt please post in comments .Thank you !

Mom's Birthday Gifts I made for Her

 Old window that I had started about 3 years ago I Finally finished it for her in Jan of this year. I wanted it to be a barn Quilt for outside her house, We might be putting it on the porch.

A Elephant Ear cement bird bath or for a planter stand  That I made , I have huge Elephant Ears every year!

A few Christmas Gifts I Made -2017

 Wall hanging for Grandson

 Christmas themed table tops

 Blue Jean Pocketbook for Grand daughter

 African style cloth pillow for a friend , whom I quilted 2 quilts for her out of this same fabric ,it was sort of wax coated fabric '

Rag rug for Grand daughter out of double knits

Pillows and Rug to go with Memory Quilt

 This was a surprise to the mother of Jordon, I hated to cut up these 2 shirts and the poncho

 So I decide to make pillows out of them and used lots of left over scraps for the rug.

 My Mom and sister has made many of these types of rugs out of 2 " squares, so I did the same  but sewed them up a little bit different.

 Poncho or rather a sweat shirt with hood made in to a bigger pillow

 When I saw this picture of her holding his favorite shirt it made me cry too.

This shirt was what he wore to he last wedding I printed the picture on cloth 

She seems to be looking at how it was made