My Fall 2009 Quilt Festival Entry

Amy at Park City Girl is again hosting a Quilt Festival.  Welcome to my entries for the Fall 2009 Festival!  Click on the link button on the left side of this post and you'll be guided to her blog where you can find sooooo many wonderful quilts for your visual enjoyment.  I'm sure you'll find some very classy and professional looking quilts there and mine in no way will compete with those!  But I'll show a couple that I've actually fully completed this summer/fall.

This is the newest grandbaby's quilt that I completed back in June shortly before his birth in July.  I used Jungle Jumble fabrics by Michael Miller and the Wild Thing pattern by Thimble Blossoms.  The colors and design looked great in his orange/zoo animal themed nursery.  There are more photos back on this June blog post.   All the quilting on this one was done by me and although nothing fancy, it feels great to be able to say I completed the entire project.  I'm a little embarassed by the photo above though, as it does show a little mistake with the crooked backing.  Oh well, it was so fun to make and the little Peanut will not care! 

 

I just posted about this quilt a few days ago but worth repeating.  Originally not my favorite quilt, but it has been growing on me and I feel that I did a pretty good job on it.  The quilting was done by a LAQ though.  This was a Block of the Month quilt for 2008 at Among Friends Quilt Shop.   I had never done a quilt with the blocks set on point and have to admit a little frightened to cut that one block in half ! 

So if your day is as rainy and dreary as ours is here in Southern Indiana, you can spend hours lost in browsing through the multitude of entries over at Park City Girl.  HAVE FUN!!

He's Back !

In my last post I said D had been busy with work "stuff".  Not your ordinary work "stuff" mind you, but a twelve day jaunt to China to train new employees at a new company office and plant.  He left me behind at the homefront and though I would have loved to go along, I didn't relish the thought of days alone in a hotel room in a strange country.  Maybe next time though! 

The streets of Shanghai were just as busy and crowded in the middle of the night as they were during the daylight hours.

He and two co-workers were able to take a weekend jaunt to Bejing and take in some of the tourist sights. 

He did, in fact, climb the Great Wall !  Though it was hot and humid, they managed to cover at least a couple of miles of the wall.  The entire week the skies were overcast and hazy so photos didn't turn out as good as he'd hoped.  Here's the proof that he was there!

They were also able to go to Tiananmen Square  and the Forbidden City.  Security was stepped up in Beijing as they prepared for their 60th Anniversary and decorations were being put in place for the coming celebration.

Company employees gathered for a group photo.

The new office building and production facility under construction. 

As was the case when he visited here four years ago, the food selections were "interesting"!  I think this is pork and one of the more palatable ingredients he found. 

 He brought home lots of goodies including many of these moon cakes and lots of tea.   

It's nice to have the hubby home, safe and sound, even if he is still suffering from jet lag.  He flew back into Chicago last Thursday and instead of coming on home, I drove up and met him and we spent a couple of days with daughter E.  We drove up to Milwaukee on Friday and toured the Harley - Davidson Museum.  I'll save that for another post.  But it was interesting and definitely worth the trip especially for Harley owners.

Have a great week!