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.

Oh, The Memories!

While cleaning up files and going through some old pictures on my computer, I found these wonderful memories of our biker days!

I haven't found a picture of my first bike - a '86 Suzuki 550. I rode it quite a bit and started selling AVON in Odessa and delivering my orders on it. It was chain drive and I told Jerry that it was undignified for me to have chain lube on my pants!

A fellow biker friend had a bike shop in Lubbock and said he had the prefect bike for me. I sold my 550 to an Avon customer and rode behind Jerry on his bike to Lubbock.

I took the '76 Gold Wing for a spin around Lubbock and loved it. I put 50,000 miles on. Jerry made me an Avon sign to hang on the back and I had a little trailer that I picked up my orders with.



Same bike painted after having to lay it down to avoid 18 wheeler who ran a stop sign right in front of me. Looks like a police bike - I had no more problems!

My next bike was an Aspencade but I didn't drive it much. It had battery issues and about that time we decided to give up riding.

I made vests for us and our kids, who always went with us.

I think this was at Ft. Davis in the mountains. We had an interesting time there with a rally. Mother Nature decided to dump snow and ice on us and our tents in the middle of the night. Not fun getting home that time - they sent all of us "blizzard survivor" pins for our vests!









This was Jerry's first sidecar. It did not do well in the rain!! We went on vacation and it rained from Odessa to Oklahoma. It collected water with one of the kids in it. Relatives in Ponca City OK dried us all out and helped Jerry drill drain holes in it.

The kids played musical bikes - one rode behind Jerry, one in the side car and one behind me. When we filled up with gas they changed places. I pulled a camping trailer behind my bike with sleeping bags, tents and ice chests.

Second sidecar was much better. We ordered it from England and it was fully enclosed.  At one point, we did not even own a car, just bikes.

We had a lot of fun on them for many years. Still miss it sometimes.

52 Years. . .

Happy 52nd Anniversary Jerry. I love you more!!

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