Julia's Quilt

My friend, Julia volunteers at a local thrift store and brought me a bag full of quilt blocks that she rescued from there.  

These are the larger blocks from that bag. ALL the ones in the bag were hand pieced with tiny stitches but these were not only hand stitched but the seams were also whip stitched. 

Now Julia knows how I love to quilt and knew I couldn't resist doing something with them. I decided that, since she rescued them, she should have the quilt. 

This is the layout I chose for the quilt and I was very pleased with the way it turned out. I have blocks for two more smaller quilts I can make that were in the bag as well.

 




Jerry made me a place on our patio to hang my quilts so I can take better pictures.


















 I love the way the patterns show up when picture taken through the back with the sun in front of them.

Patio Upgrade.

We decided to close in the ends of the patio. First we closed in the South side, using leftover metal sheets. We put a window in to catch the South breeze.

Then we went to work on the North side.  We used siding on this end and will paint it brown to match the house.


We used We decided to leave one dining window out of the enclosure

We have used this type of siding in the past on a whole house and had trouble lining it up, so Jerry built these metal jigs to help.


 I think it was our daughter-in-law, Rosario who named them "thingy's". They work really well.

In Memory of Rich. . .

I made these quilts are in memory of our nephew that we lost in a plane accident in 2017. The first two are made from his button down shirts. The third one is made from his and his daughter's t-shirts. They were all given to our nephew's Mom and Dad to enjoy as well as his daughter when she visits.

T-shirt quilt

Jerry's Shop Air Conditioner

We bought a large air conditioner at an estate sale last year for Jerry's shop building. Just now got it put in his window.


First we mounted the case in the window.
















The air conditioner is very heavy so it took awhile to figure out how to raise it up to the window.










Finally decided to use the car ramps but put the in the wrong place and it raised the unit up too high to slide it in place.

So we pulled it back down and moved the ramps down to a cross brace below the window. That did the trick - we slid it right into place.,




































It does put out some cold air so hopefully this summer it will work well for him.

Texas Panel Quilt Number One

Texas Panel Quilt Number One

This beautiful quilt started with half square triangles in red, white and blue and evolved from there, using a panel and Texas and bluebonnet fabric from a lovely quilt shop.

The quilt has cotton batting and muslin backing with red binding. It is long arm quilted in a meandering pattern and measures eighty by eighty-eight inches. It is shown on a king size bed.