MAKING MEMORIES ONE STITCH AT A TIME

We've been taking a couple of days off from home to go camping with our kids. What fun! I haven't roasted hot dogs or made Smores in years.
Went fishing last night and both the granddaughter and I each caugth a fish. They were too small and we released them. But it was worth seeing the excitement in her eyes when her line started to tug.
this will be a short post , as I have to go get ready to go back. It's only a 45 minute drive from home so the old folks come home to a nice soft bed at night and return with missing supplies in the morning. Just wusses I guess, but I've done a LOT of that stuff with the kids years ago, and roughing it now for us is black and white TV. LOL :c)

Until next time ....

~~ Fran ... :c)

Well that's what I'm literally doing.

For the last 2 days I've been machine quilting my sleepover quilt with my small tabletop machine. Since I'm just learning this skill, hand/eye coordination is not that great, so I decided to quilt the whole thing in country stars of all sizes. You know, primitive wonky little stars, and boy oh boy are some of these primitive LOL...;C)) Cute though, and the best part is that you can't really screw these up because they come in all shapes and sizes. My quilting teacher said that the secret to good machine quilting is to practice, practice, practice!!!! By the time this quilt is done I will be able to make these babies with one eye closed, and the tongue between the teeth is almost eliminated today... as it is I made these all night in my sleep. Hard Work!!!

Today I finished the center and now all I have left to do is the border. ALL...(she says) that border sure looks a lot bigger than what I thought it was. It's going to have to wait until Friday because I have a quilting bee tomorrow and I need a break.

It doesn't look good for sewing next week, as I have commitments Monday and Tuesday and I'm having company for the next 3 days after. Then on Saturday we drive our granddaughter to Detroit to catch her flight back to her home state. She graduated grade 12 this summer and she came and spent the summer here in Canada taking time to visit all of the rest of the family. She was 10 when my daughter and her family moved to the States and now she's 18, quite a change in my little angel. We enjoyed seeing her and getting to spend some "special" time with her.


And I guess since we're going to go across at Port Huron I might just make a fabric run at
Jo-Ann's Fabrics. Wish me luck that they have good sales. I'm going to check out on line to see if there are any quilt shops in that town. I know there are probably 1001 in Detroit city itself, but DH absolutely refuses to get off the interstate for fear of getting hopelessly lost . Can't say I blame him. I'm not a great tourist when I don't know where I'm going or how I'm going to get back. LOL....

Until next time...

~~ Fran :c)

Well, being new at this, I've found out that there are too many choices to make and I've changed the looks of this page several time.

I THINK I like this one. I visit so many other blogs everyday and see all the 'fun' things they have on their blogs and I want to try and figure out how to do these things on here. So you may see this page change a few more times before I'm happy with it.

Hope you will bear with me. :c) In the meantime I just want to give all of you a BIG

and I hope you will drop by often to see the many changes on this blog. LOL!!


Until next time...

~~Fran :c)

Boy, it seems like Meryll Streep hasn't aged a bit in the last 25 yrs. The antics of her two sidekicks are side splitting, and the young actress that plays her daughter is bright , beautiful, talented and believable.

I can't recommend this movie more. You just have to go see it for yourself.

Until next time......

~~ Fran :c)

I hope you like it as much as I do.

Last night I started to hand quilt this baby. Two and a half hours later and only 1/2 a star done , is when I decided that if I didn't want another UFO on my hands I had to re-think my strategy.

The answer is machine quilting. I started it this morning. It's still not going to be a 'cake walk' but at least I know I can do it.
I don't want to finish this post without thanking Belinda at
Browndirtcottage।blogspot.com for inspiring me to get going and start blogging. I must have read her first blog a dozen times or more, and she starts with "I did it" and continues with ....."Because I can".
That's when I thought "it's never to late too learn a new skill and by George, I can too!" and Belinda.... "I did it too" thanks! ....:c))lol

Till next time....I thank you for dropping by, and please come again soon.


~~Fran :c)

Until next time...