Gift Quilts and other musings

 I decided to give a quilt to all my close friends before I die.  No, I don't have any plans to die soon, but life is short really and we should do things while we are alive and well.  I"ve gifted the Corey Yoder scrap quilt (from my last post) to a dear friend, Kathy.  I have an Edinburgh Square in green I plan to give to another dear friend.

 And I'm contemplating on which one to give to another.  I believe all my other close and dear friends have a quilt made by me. I hope they use them and put some good memories in them.

Life has been busy, as usual at our home.  My DIL and I have been taking the kids to a friend's house to swim and man, have they had a ball.  Our girl has learned to dive, flip, cartwheel, cannonball, toe touch, and handstand off the diving board and swim to the side.

It's such fun to watch them enjoy the pool.  And...Mamole (Mamaw, UK accent) might have done a couple of flips off the diving board herself on one of those pool days.  But at 62, she couldn't quite make it all the way over and ended up a little bit of a back splat -- ha!  Our boy, has progressed too in the pool.  He now jumps off the diving board, and as of yesterday took his swimmie things off to try to swim in the shallow end.  He is just four so we are proud and think in a week or two he may also be going off the board without his swimmies.

I've been on a roll on these Little Miss Sawtooth quilts.  I finished one and have the other ready for a border and quilting. That beautiful backing was on sale at Keepsake Quilting.  I love it.

I used the pantograph Marmalade and it worked so well!

Funny, how I have tons of natural light in my sewing room, but there are some pieces that always look more yellow outside.  They are barely cream inside, even in my room of four large windows

I put some of these Lori Hold low volume prints in my blue/green version.  Aren't those patterns adorable?

Pictures never do this pattern and these fabrics justice. Little shadow or something on the top part.

I also completed this Stars and Stripes kit I purchased from Thimbleblossoms.com.  Quick, easy cute little quilt.

I'm getting better at machine bindings, especially since I started using the glue stick to iron it in place before sewing.  Cute backing!

My neighbor told me how to make ghee, so I just had to try it.  Now, what to do with it?  It has a nuttier taste than plain butter but I like that it can be stored in the pantry.  I've tried it with Amish friendship bread, she also gave me, and it tastes great.

Summer is whizzing by.....hope you are enjoying it like I am...