New granddaughter

I have been off line as my Internet was down. I am back now and a new provider and faster connection! Yea!
My new granddaughter Mallorie was born Wed. May 18 at 2:19 am. She weighed in at 7 lbs and 9 ounces and is 19 1/2 inches long. It was a long labor and grandpa and I were there the whole time. We have seen each of our grandkids being born. It is so exciting watching them being born. A real miracle!

Here is a picture of Mallorie and daughter Samantha.

Here is a picture of my hubby with Mallorie

Baby's Room

Here are pics I took of mom and the baby's room with the rest of the things I made!
Here is the crib bumpers that match the diaper stacker.

Matching quilt and curtains. I added the pink with the white polka dots as she wanted the feminine touch added to the Jungle Babies.

Sam sure is big! Only three weeks to her due date!

The mobile that matches the Jungle Babies. This I bought! LOL

Practicing Free Motion quilting

I made some table mats and a runner from charm square packs so I could practice some free motion quilting. Not real good.....I still have trouble with curve control. But I like how the turned out. Love the pattern on the square mat.

This is the square tablemat pattern.

I need tons of work on my feathers

Diaper Stacker

Well, I have been remiss in taking pictures again. I made the the crib bumpers, curtains diaper stacker and bound a premade quilt for my daughter's baby's room. I did get a picture of the diaper stacker so you can at least see the fabric my daughter chose. It is a cute jungle baby theme.
She is having a girl!

Quilt Show

This last Saturday and Sunday was my quilt guild's quilt show. It turned out really nice. Here are a few of the quilts at the show.

The lady on the left was our featured quilter. She is Geraldine Nall, a member of our guild. She is an excellent minature artist. These are some of her quilts.

Here are some felt quilts. I really like these.                                                             

This is looking down one of the rows. We have our show at the refurbished Blue Goose Shed. It adds a lot of ambiance to the show. It is an old fruit shed next to the railroad where local growers would send off there produce to markets.

This is another of Geraldine's minatures. The pieces are so tiny!

Ribbons for quilt show

I am chairman of the ribbons committee for the quilt show next week for one of my quilt guilds. We are a rather poor guild so I chose to make the ribbons and donate them as opposed to turning in receipts. They took me a while. Our show is called 'Romance in Bloom', so I made ribbon flowers for the awards. Here is a picture of them. Four categories and three winners in each plus 3 honorable mentions for the quilt and wall hanging category as there are so many entries in that one.

I was also sick last week so lost time in making them. Had the flu but feeling better now. The only thing was I was sick when my daughter's baby shower was held so I didn't get to go. But we are doing baby shopping tomorrow for stuff she didn't get at the shower.

Finished my next challenge quilt

The theme for the challenge was wedding. We were giving a hankie and a pice of white on white fabric. We were told to use lace. This is what I made. It is titled 'Penguin and Turtle'. It is my youngest daughter's wedding. This is their first dance.The hankie I got was black. I used it and lace on the first border. The colors yellow and burgandy were her colors for the wedding. The ribbon below is left over ribbon from the wedding with the names and date on it. There is a turtle button at one eand representing Brian and a penguin button representing Samantha. We tried hard to find a cake topper with a turtle and penguin but ended up with a glass one of penguin bride and groom. The turtle and penguin are the bride and grooms favorite animals.

This is a close up view. I used bullion stitch to simulate the flowers in her hair

These are close ups of my not so great machine quilting. It is the first time I have done anything but meandering!