Quilt Trunk Show part 2

Welcome back to part two of my quilt trunk show.  Today's is all about quilt table runners.  This is a very small percentage of what I have made over the years.  I have made many runners for family and friends.  I have sold some and yes there are some in those holiday bins, many.  I hope you enjoy today's trunk show.

 This pumpkin runner is rather long it is an extra bonus pattern from TB club.

 This is a Christmas runner probably hard to tell but I made it with a charm pack and charm pack pattern I bought while visiting MN.

 A quick and easy runner

 My own pattern I made up for a small cupboard.

 Another one I made up this also fits that same cupboard.

 I made this for the top of my toilet tank.  I have made many of these but different patterns.

 Another cupboard runner

 I wanted something red, white and blue for the fourth of July one year and took scraps and made this.

 This is my favorite runner, it is always on my buffet.  I love the colors and pattern.  Unfortunately I borrowed this pattern to my sister in law and never got it back.  I don't borrow things too often because of this I probably shouldn't have because I have wanted to make another one and I can't remember anything about the name or who made it. 

 I like this as well and is always with my tea cup collection.  This is also a charm pack pattern.

 Another fourth of July runner.  

 This little runner was in a challenge and now in my sewing room

 This runner is on the toilet tank of Mickey's bathroom

 This runner is one of those ten minute runners.  I have this on my dresser

 Mini version of the ten minute runner in my down stairs guest bath

 A fun mini kitty runner

These two are different but similar and are made for toilet tanks as well.

Check back part 3 is just around the corner.

Hugs,
Tania

Quilt Trunk Show -1

 Mission accomplished!  I pulled all the quilts and quilted items such as table runners and wall hangings out of the guest room closet and photographed them.  

I have been wanted to reorganize that closet as well so I feel really good to get them out of there...for now.

 Here is a start of pulling them out and bringing them to the kitchen.

I also had to go around the house and pull quilts that are being used. 

I also have more quilts that are in storage.  Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, Valentines and Fourth of July, which I didn't want to start pulling out bins so I will photograph them as each season is upon us.

Also I gave several quilts away to my daughters and granddaughter, my sister and her kids, friends and friends that had become grandmothers for the first time and my great nieces and nephews (first born) Which I don't have photos to share with you.

I also had made my mom an autograph quilt when she turned 60 and she was buried with it, I do have a photo of it but couldn't find it.

 Piper thought I pulled out the quilts for her.  The kitties do like the quilts too!

So I am posting today finished quilts only the tops even though I did take a photo of the backs for my record but thought that would be boring for my post.

There are so many projects I will break them up into categories.

 This was a block of the month from the quilt shop which I had worked. This is hand quilted.

 I belonged to a Thimbleberries club when I lived in Minnesota and we bought a kit per season this is winter.

 This was another year at the TB club also a winter.

 TB club autumn, above
Below is one big panel quilt.  The fabric is of paper dolls and I couldn't bear cutting it apart so I made one panel quilt with borders.  This is in the guest room as a napping quilt.

 My Halloween quilt which I also made a small one for Mickey.  I am missing that picture as well.  My laptop died before I could get all my pictures removed.  Lesson learned! Oh but I do have them printed out, just not on a drive.

 My friend Barb and I went to a GA quilt shop hop and we both bought this quilt kit, I have it in the guest room for a napping quilt.

 This quilt is pretty beat up but I still have it.  I made it for Mr. Man and I.  I picked this particular pattern because it is called the double T.  This quilt is also a tied quilt which I haven't done in years and probably won't ever again.

 This is a block of the month I did when I belonged to a quilt guild in Conyers, GA

 Oh my I should remember something about this one, I will have to do my research when I add it to my book.

 This is a TB club spring or summer?

 This was a quilt challenge at the guild in Conyers we had to choose so many polka dot fabrics.  I call this Ida's closet, that was my great grandma's name and she was the one who started me on quilting and sewing.

 A rag quilt that I collected fat quarters for sometime from GA to MN and back.  This quilt Mr. Man took as his own.  I may have to make myself one!

 This is an eye spy quilt I made Mickey for Christmas a couple years ago.  Luckily she was over and brought it to be washed so I could photograph it.

 This beat up quilt is all flannel front and back I made this for my step dad for Christmas one year.  He loved the old fashion sleds, he collected them and decorated them for Christmas.  The pattern is antique sleds.  When he and mom passed I became the owner of two of his sleds.

 I also joined the TB club that the quilt shop I had worked.

 This quilt was my first formal quilting class.  I made quilts by what my grandma had taught me and it was cutting out by templates!  Then my mother in law came across a quilt shop that offered beginner classes so she asked if I and her daughter Sue wanted to join her.  This is the first of the three classes.  By the way what a nice new gadget I learned how to use in this class...A ROTARY CUTTER!

 This was the second class.  I must have loved Debbie Mumm at the time because these two quilts are from her fabric line.

 This is our third class.  I made this one for Mr. Man, it has tools printed on the black fabric.

 This is a quilt I made for my mom.

 This was a block of the month from the quilt guild in Conyers.  I moved to North Dakota part way into it and a friend in the guild sent me the rest of the patterns.  She also gave me a piece of fabric to use in.

 I love this quilt!  This fabric came into our shop and I pet it all the time dreaming of what I could make with it and I came up with this turning twenty.  This is hand quilted.

Please visit again as I will be adding more!

I hope you enjoyed my first day of my trunk show.

Hugs, 
Tania

July

 Mr. Man asked me the other day again "when are you going to blog again?"  He's so funny, my biggest fan.  I kinda laugh because nothing really has been going on around here that is big news I guess.  Maybe I'm in a rut?  

First let me explain the picture above.  Every year around Mickey's birthday since she was born I take a picture of her and I have a very large  picture frame I put her 8 x 10 in every year she gets older and it's there until her next birthday.

Our baby turned 5 on July 3rd.  Time flies!  Wasn't my babies just 5?  She's pretty excited to be 5 because in her mind she has never been a baby.  Remember she walked at 7 months.  I keep saying she is an old soul, maybe my grandma since sometimes what comes out of her mouth is what my gma would have said!  CREEPY but I love at least the idea of it.

Anyway I took several pictures of her on our front porch I just quickly grabbed one for today's post and didn't clean it up as you can tell.  How tacky to see our alarm system sign.  I wanted our flag in it and to look Americana since her birthday is July 3rd.

Anyway back to being in a rut...Mr. Man has been home since early/mid April and I am not use to having him home 24/7 and I got out of my routine and found myself sitting around with him since he couldn't do too much.  Today he went back to work.  He was looking forward to it as much as I was but ya know I do miss him.  It was nice having him home with me, our conversation and running during the day to do quick errands.  Just as we get use to our new routine he has to go back.  So I take to my blog  he will be happy tonight.  (smiles)

 So like I said Mickey had her 5th birthday and it was a Monster High year for her.  That is what we got her and Candi sent her a Monster High backpack and lunch box for school.  Needless to say she was delighted!

 Mickey also joined karate this July so far she is really enjoying it.  They came over after her first class.

 Erica got a deal on Groupon for lessons to see if she will like it.  Last week she tested to get her first belt, white.  My dad and sister took karate.  I remember when dad was testing for his black belt and he got kicked in the knee pretty bad.  Bad enough he went to the hospital and he had knee surgery.  I remember going to see him and how swollen his knee looked.  His knee wasn't the same after that and was advised not to continue so he never got his black belt.  My sister also tested for her black belt and failed and she never went back to retry.  Maybe Mickey will be our black belt someday.
 Last Tuesday my friend Theresa posted on facebook that she had lots of blueberries and if anyone wanted some they could come over and pick.

So Wednesday morning with bucket in hand me and Mr. Man picked some blueberries.  It was a beautiful morning for a July in Georgia so picking was pleasant.  Theresa helped us and we visited and got caught up on our lives.  We had lost touch since Theresa's mom passed and I get it because I haven't been the same socially since my mom passed as well.  So it was really nice to see her and also her husband is retired so Mr. Man visited with him.

Later Theresa text me and said I forgot to ask you if you wanted tomatoes.  YES please!!!  We went back that eve to pick up a box of 15 nice home grown tomatoes, YUM!  I love tomatoes especially home grown I buy them often and eat them for a snack so I am one happy, happy girl!

Like I said Mr. Man is back at work today.  A little over a week ago he had seen a neurologist because of some issues and when he came home from his appointment I asked him what he said.  He said I was normal, HA!  I think you need a second opinion!  hehehe just kidding of course I was so thankful.  He thinks the episode at PT was because of nerves being pinched.   It's nice tho' that his spine doctor wants to be sure he isn't missing anything.  Also that week Mr. Man got two injections in his spine, they are slow releasing medications and by 7 days it should be at full effect but sometimes it takes two injections.   Last night Mr. Man said on a scale from 1-10 in feeling good he was 8.5.  I think that is pretty good and he agreed.

Erica is in Minnesota, she left Thursday night because she is to be in a wedding this past Saturday and will be there all week as another girlfriend is getting married this coming Saturday.  I on the other hand will be picking Mickey up tomorrow sometime and having her until Friday afternoon since Friday night is karate.

Mr. Man had a birthday yesterday July 20th.  I made him breakfast, we went to see the movie Tammy...funny!!!  We had a crab leg dinner at home and I made him from scratch lemon meringue pie his favorite.  I have made this pie several times over the years and it has been a hit or miss, like I said I really can't bake but he said it turned out delicious...did it?  or was he being a nice husband?  Who will know I don't eat that kind of thing.  Anyway I think he had a nice day.  Next Sunday once Erica returns we are having a small party for him.

Well I think I am caught up.  I do have some ideas that maybe coming up in my blog that I will share...if I share it may get done right?

After seeing that Theresa moved her sewing room into the basement I am very seriously thinking of doing the same, Mr. Man is so on board since he just has my walk in closet to do his stain glass this too would give him more room.

Also I need to clean out the upstairs guest closet and I need to move out all my quilt tops and finished quilts.  I also need to take a picture of all of them to record them in my book.  I have several of them in my book but not all so I thought I am just going to put them in laundry baskets take them outside and photograph each one on the clothes line and start over.  I thought also I will post a trunk show of all of my creations that I still have in my possession.

Well that's all I have today, thankfully huh?  Lots to catch up on I guess, nothing too important mostly chatter.  But I want to thank you for stopping by it truly means a lot, you are the reason I do this.  (well for me to document too)  I do this for my family and friends and friends I've never met.  Those I've never met you taking an interest in my life means a lot!

later!

Hugs,
Tania

Florida-Sanibel Island

 Thursday morning I woke up feeling so exhausted, I had no energy and all I wanted to do was stay in bed and sleep. I told Mr. Man this because we were scheduled to go to Sanibel Island.  He said you need to come we are going to the beach.  I was in a grumpy mood because I just didn't feel right and my comment back was isn't this a free country?

Mickey came in after and talked me into it with her cute smile and wonderfully sweet words.  So I got up and mustered all I could to get ready.

It was a 3 1/2 hour drive there...a long 3 1/2 hour drive.  We have had several friends and reading on line about it that it is a wonderful shelling beach so we thought it would be worth the drive.

Mr. Man and I loved this beach, I think Mickey did too.  Erica not so much she wanted this beach to be like Cocoa, one she could walk out and swim in the ocean.  Too many little shells that hurt her feet to walk out on.

We stayed three hours and collected a lot of small shells.  They were right in the many shells but they were all small, I sure wished they had some larger ones too.

We had a long drive home as well while sitting in sand, that is the worst about going to the beach.

We got back to the resort at about 9 pm and went out to dinner at a restaurant at the resort, they had an all you can eat ribs.

A lot of sun, full bellies and time to sleep.

The first picture in today's post is one foot of Mickey's, Erica's and mine.  The reason we did that was because when we left for Florida Erica noticed my nail polish and she thought it was so funny because she just bought new polish for this trip and it was the same color! So all of us girls matched!

One more day to post so please stay tuned.

Hugs,
Tania

Florida - Disney World

We arrived in Kissimmee, Florida on Sunday June 8th.  After we checked into our resort we headed off to the grocery store to stock up our kitchen.  

Our first official day we headed for the lazy river for 6 hours! Mickey enjoyed it so much.  Erica was back at our room working remotely.  She had to do that for two days then she would be on vacation time for the rest.

Tuesday we went to the owners meeting ugh mistake after two hours we headed to a different pool on the resort.  This time we only spent 2 1/2 hours.  I think we were still water logged from the day before.

Our plan was to go to Disney world in the evening so it will be cooler and we would stay for fire works.  But it was raining pretty hard.

We still made our way up to the park gates and it didn't look like it was going to let up anytime soon.  So we opted not to continue in and made our way to Target.

We picked up a few items and a Bingo game. Once back at the resort we played a few games of Bingo.  Mickey did really well calling them off.  My back was hurting so I watched TV but the rest played go fish.

Wednesday morning looked beautiful and we finally made our way to Disney World.

 Our first stop was to meet Tinkerbell, my favorite Disney character.

 On our way to tomorrow land we ran into the mayor and his wife.

 Look at Mickey's fancy face painting.

 One happy girl gets to meet a couple favs.
After this picture we stood in a long line under cover thankfully to go on the Pooh ride and the skies opened up!  I had packed rain ponchos so we put those on.  It was still raining after we got off the ride but not as hard as it was.

 A new set up in Fantasy Land is a big top where you can meet Daisy Duck, Minnie, Goofy and darn if I can't remember the other character.

We had a long day at the park first half sunny and very warm second half cooler with rain.  By the time we were making our way back across the lake the sun was coming out for a very nice evening.  But we were beat.

Erica had a time of it.  While approaching the platform to get on haunted mansion ride this girl in a big hurry to be in front of us stepped on the back of Erica's tennis shoe and when the ride was over she noticed the soul of her shoe was half off.  She couldn't walk in them, so Mr. Man and I said we would go find her some flip flops or shoes as we were making our way back to Main st the skies opened up again.  Oh what we won't do for our family.

Then while approaching the ferry to take back to the parking lot Erica slipped on the wood plank to the ship and fell.  She went to urgent care today her knee is still swollen.  She was quite embarrassed to fall but then the captain of the ship saw it happen and said over the loud speaker "are you alright?"  Urgent care said it is a sprain.

Sorry it's been so long since our last visit, please check back again soon as I will add more about our vacation.

Update on Mr. Man.  He is still out of work and tentatively his return date is July 7th.  He is on a new plan in his pt and we are hoping this will work better for him.

Hugs,
Tania