50th

September 17, 1961

We started our weekend celebration Friday night at Seaport Village Edgewater Grill....

50 $1 bills Debbie made into a necklace!!...

Our family treated us to a very special evening.....

On Saturday Dave and I rode 231 miles on a cycle ride to some of our favorite places including Idyllwild...who else goes for a motorcycle ride on their 50th anniversary!!! Then on Sunday we took a car road trip 195 miles to Oak Glen,,,another favorite place!!! Smiles and hugs....Caryl

baby quilt for Murray

Winnie the Pooh baby quilt is done.....

I used the walking foot diagonal across the 4 patches... and free motion stitching on the fussy cut squares....

I used a bright flannel for the back and binding... I free motion stitched Murray's full name across the bottom and date of birth... sure hope he likes it!!...... Smiles and hugs....Caryl

September

September 1961 was a very important month in my life!! I graduated from nurses training on the 1st and got married two weeks later!! It seems like those 50 years have passed so quickly!! I graduated from Iowa Methodist School of Nursing... This year the president of the alumni with the help of some of my classmates.... made a most wonderful Memory Book.... we sent in photos of us and our families... and told about what we all did these past 50 years.....this book is priceless!! So many of us in the class got married just before or just after graduation.... now we are all celebrating our 50th wedding anniversaries..... My husband and I are starting to get anniversary cards.... so the anniversary celebration has begun.... I will be posting our wedding photo in another post this month... Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Awards Banquet

Here is a photo of me and my hubby at the Awards Banquet.... I have worked at KMCH for 29 years... we ate at the Old Spaghetti Factory... then walked to the Horton Grand Theatre... a very entertaining musical by the Lambs Players... called "Mixtape"....songs from the 80's.... thanks to the Hebbels for a very enjoyable evening!! Smiles and hugs....Caryl

the blue hour

yesterday I was catching up reading blogs...
one of the posts was from last week by Susan of Between Naps on the Porch...
she was talking about the blue hour...
AND why haven't I heard of this before?...
I had to experiment...
first a photo of one of my favorite meals...

then a photo from our patio looking to the sky after sunset...
to find out more about this blue hour from Susan check here...
there is also reference to another post and photos....

I checked the website for the time for the blue hour in my area...
to find out the time in your area click here
I only got one photo with the blue and it is blurry....
but I was excited to actually get it!!

The blue hour is not visible to the naked eye....
You can't see it....but the camera can!!!
this is just so fascinating to me...
I can't wait to try for more blue hour photos!!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

unscheduled break

in July I started the FYB makealong...
with the saying above to be embroidered...
then coughing...hacking...and zero energy hit me...
and lots of days of rest....
now finally I am back being creative again...

got the baby quilt top done last weekend....

and now starting the fun quilting....

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

making a baby quilt

Here are some of the blocks...
ready to sew them together....
after I fussy cut some more blocks...
I think it will be a cute baby quilt...

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

do you like quilt alongs?

It seems like there are a lot of quilt alongs in blogland...
so there are tons of choices...
one of them is using the book in the photo...
I was reading Bonnie's blog and it made me curious....
I got the book several days later....

another quiltalong is a plaid string quiltalong at Julie's blog...

another one is 36 patch quilt along by Amanda Jean...

and tomorrow Sarah is starting a makealong...
see the button on the right side bar Follow Your Bliss makealong...

I have joined Sarah's and I really want to do the rest of them too...

one thing for sure....there is never boredom in blogland....
at least the blogs that I follow!!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

my FIU project list

I started a WIP and FIU list on my sidebar....
soooo...trying to get everything listed...
this first photo is Chantelle tulip wallhanging...
I made it after going to Ricky Tim's Super Quilt Seminar in 2007...
I have it on the wall with push pins!!...

Strip Maze is a pattern from GEDesigns...
I started it Nov 2009....

KiwiBerry Bali Pops....
strips sewn together in groups of six started last November...

all of my FIU projects I definitely want to finish...
and there are even more!!
but I also have new things to start....

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

friends and flowers log cabin quilt

this is the final post about the block exchange...
the block exchange started last September...
I put the directions and fabric in a bag...
it was passed along to other members...
this photos shows all the blocks hanging at the May meeting...

I chose to use Amanda Jean's tutorial log cabin quilt blocks...
she gave me permission to use her tutorial...
http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/
I made a block A and a block B....
then others in the block exchange made the rest....

here are the blocks sewn together...
I used Mary Engelbreit friends and flowers fabric...
and the white is garden dot...
now I need to decide if I want borders and what binding?...
this block exchange was fun and stretched me a lot on some blocks!!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

block exchange photos part 2

here are some more photos from the guild exchange....






more photos later...

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

block exchange photos part 1

here are some of the photos at the end of the guild exchange...

I am posting these for inspiration for exchange ideas...

we pinned the blocks to batting and hung for all to view at the meeting...

last September we each picked what we wanted others to make for us....
we put the instructions and patterns and sometimes fabrics in a bag...

each month each person got a bag of instructions and made two blocks....

more photos later.....
Smiles and hugs....Caryl