I'm SOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!

I ordered a Grace quilt frame the other day. It is the Z44. I got the big one because I tend to make BIG quilts. I don't really know why but I like them big. So more often than not I will choose a pattern not only because I like it but also by how big it is. Silly reason I know but so far anyone I have had in mind for a quilt has a BIG bed, and I like to have them hang over the sides of the bed for a ways.
Anyway back to the frame. I have looked at this frame for several months but I never really had the money. My mom offered to buy it for me last fall but I wasn't going to let her spend the money. She had already spent so much on me when I had to move into this house (as anyone who has read my blog will recall--my life went south about 2 1/2 years ago). So I couldn't let her spend anymore. But (again as you all will recall) my mom passed away in February and she left each of us kids (4 of us) a little bit of money. So I decided she would be happy if I took a little of it and bought this frame. So I did.
Well, anyway, it came today!!!! Now all I have to do is get the sucker put together. I haven't opened the box yet because I am in the middle of cutting fabric for my next project and I wanted to get it done. So I will get it put together in the next couple of days. When I do, I will take some pictures and post them.
I think the first quilt I will do on my new frame is the "James and the Giant Peach" quilt for school. I am only going to tie it but it will be good practice on how to load everything on.
Ok, well back to cutting. I think I might go see the new "Harry Potter" movie after while.

Karen

Finished "Aspen"

I finished this quilt this evening. This baby is huge! 105" X 119" This is a terrible picture but I don't have a wall tall enough to hang it on and I couldn't get far enough away from it to take a good picture. Maybe I will get a better picture tomorrow when I can get someone to help me.

Head on over to Judi's blog Green Fairy Quilts and check out her great giveaway. She has reached that 100th or so post milestone. She has some great prizes for her giveaway. Judi and Clint are also collecting quilts for donations for those in need in Romania. They will be traveling to Romania in September to take these quilts to the needy. They are also collection monetary donations for those needy folks in Romania to purchase food. She is auctioning off a beautiful quilt for this purpose. Please hop on over to her blog and check it out. Sign up for her giveaways and bid (or donate) if you can on her quilt.

Finally Back to Work

I am finally getting back to work. Here is the quilt I am working on right now. It is called "Aspen" and is designed by Marianne Elizabeth. It is on the cover of the 19th Anniversary Issue of Quilter Magazine--March 2008. I had a few rows put together when my mom got sick back in January and I put it aside. When I pulled it out the other day and started on it again, I realized I had 2 rows put on wrong. I really hate it when that happens. So I had to get out the trusty seam ripper and go to work. I took all the rows apart and started over.

I have the body of the quilt put together. I think I will work on getting the borders on tomorrow. I really love the colors. I decided to go with the colors the designer chose.

New Puppy

Today is my daughter's 22 birthday. She has wanted me to get her a puppy that she can keep her. Only problem is I am the one who is going to have to housebreak her and clean up after her and listen to her whimper when she has to sleep in her crate. We are already battling over the puppy sleeping in Cari's bed!! We went to Martinsville today and picked her up.

But she is so cute, and so little. We debated names all the way back. Some of the choices were Lucy, Millie, Pebbles, Scooter, and Hazel. We finally settled on Millie.

So here we are--with this little one and the big one. I think they are both pretty cute. So I guess I will have to keep them both.

Summer School Quilt

Here is a picture of the quilt our kids did for summer school. We read James and the Giant Peach so we deicided to use bugs as the theme for our quilt. I printed the bugs on printable fabric and put them on background fabric. I will have to get it finished before school starts. I think I am just going to tie it though instead of quilt it. We are going to hang it on the wall so I think that will be fine.

Day After Surgery

This is the day after my daughter's knee surgery. Thank the good Lord that she didn't have to have the ACL replaced again! Just a torn meniscus. I know that is nothing to sneeze at but it is when you have already had the ACL replace on that same knee once before. I hated for her to have to go through that again. But God answered our prayer and made it a simple repair this time. I hope we do not have to go through this again!!

She came through the surgery great. The Dr. put a motion sickness patch behind her ear to help with post surgery nausea. It worked really well yesterday. She removed it this morning and almost immediately had an upset stomach. She did go to bed with a headache last night so I'm thinking she probably has a migraine. I want her to let me call the doctor and have him give her something but she doesn't feel like going any where. I know how that is.

I really need to get the James and the Giant Peach quilt put together but I don't want to bother Cari with the noise of my machine while she has a headache. Oh, well, I will work on it tomorrow.

Karen