HALLOWEEN CQ

Last year I made a witches hat for my daughter.  I had seen a couple made by gals in colorado when I was at the CQI retreat.  I started with a Simplicity pattern for a child's costume and just cut it a bit larger.  I am sure my daughter did not wear it but did have it on display with the Halloween books that we both made.

I decided to do another one for a friend and here are pics of the pieced hat and the completed one from last year.  It is a fun project to do.



HARV

This picture of Harv is the one I was trying to find to show you on his birthday.  It was taken last april at a PVA Bass fishing tournament that he goes to every year since we have had the home in Florida.  You can see my smiling happy guy better in this pic.

FAMILY CONT'D

I typed a similar one to this last night and hit publich and it disappeared.  I am having a bad time with blogger. I will start again and hope it goes thru this time.

Monday Harv celebrated his 81st. birthday.  The pic was cropped from a group pic taken in July at the Old timers Lunch some of the retirees in chicago have every summer.  On the Wed. was our 53rd. anniversery and the flowers were a gift from my son and DIL in Minneapolis, MN.  She was in town at Motorola headquArters teaching a seminar to a group of their managers and she came up Wed. to have dinner with H and I.  She arrived with this bouquet my son had ordered from a local florist and she picked it up and brought it with her. 

On Friday evening our son & DIL and our daughter and SIL took us out to a golf course for dinner.  We had a great time. We have a lot of birthdays, etc. from May to Oct. so there is always something to get us together.



FAMILY FUN

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Last Monday Harv celebrated his 81st. birthday

WHITE WORK COMPLETED

I have finally finished my wall hanging with the cloths I did in Karen Ruane's classes.  Most of this came from the first class with just one or two things from the second.  I have never enjoyed a class/classes as much as hers.  It was a great change from crazy quilting with all the colors and decorations  I hd been doing over the past 10 years or more.  I have it hanging in my spare bedroom although the walls are a shade of white also.  It doesn't show up as it would if it were a colored wall but it will do for now.  Here are a few pics.

Some time ago I saw this pattern on Dianne Knott's blog and she had made the pillow.  I emailed her and Dine very kindly sent me the name of the company she purchased the pattern from. I ordered it and as usual it sat for awhile until one day this spring I got it out and started.  The one problem is it is not a printed piece of muslin but a pattern only that you must use a light box or some other method and trace it onto your fabric.  It took awhile to do this but turned out pretty good I think.

Thank you Dianne for sharing the info.

WORLD WAR II SILKS

A few years ago at the antique show in downtown Mt. Dora I picked up these two silk prints that appealed to me.  I did not know what I would do with them and just brought them home and put them in a drawer.

I was cleaning out the dresser where I found a couple of the baby sets and came across the prints. We re-decorated our family room recently and I needed pictures to put over my leather sofa.  My daughter and I decided they would make good pictures for that spot.  We were lucky to find 2 frames in brown wood that matched the other wood in the room and were a good fit.

I was scared to iron them as they were fragile so just framed them the way they were.  We used 1" double sided tape around the perimeter and stuck it down to cream mat board.  They were a B to stick down and keep straight as once it touched it could not be moved.  Took the two of us holding our breath to do as good as we did.  All in all they look good enough plus they are old and should not be perfect.counties of Suffolk and Norfolk and exactly what the areas produced during the war. They are really wonderfl as they show  ow many acreages of different foods farmed  including one quarter of all the sugar ration for the entire country. I hope you can enlarge them enough to be able to read them..

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