O My Gosh!! My grandaughter just finished her first quilt. It's for her dad for Christmas. He's a Nascar fan....loves those races and watches them on TV and attends them when he can. My daughter decorated "his" room (the recreation room) all in a Nascar theme. Chelsea made this lap quilt for him with all the Nascar pizzaz, the colours, and the checkered flags.. I am so proud of her.
.For those of you who have not read my posts of last August ...(We have a new quilter in the family)...she visited me and I taught her how to quilt. Her very first project was a purse, to me a large bag, and she took to quilting like a duck to water. And now would you look at that?
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Of course where you find a quilt you'll find a cat. This is Lucky. So named because Chelsea found her abandoned by the rail way tracks, 2 years ago. She was a pathetic little thing, half starved, with a wicked eye infection. The vet estimated her age to be 6-8 weeks old at the time, lucky kitty he said and I think my grandaughter and the family feel as lucky to have her as she is to be there. But talk about a pampered pet. She rules the roost, even the dog has to give over to her when she gets after him....*lol*
They also have a dog. His name is Moose. As you can see he is very large, and at the moment he is feeling very left out because they are trying to take pictures of the quilt, and this guy is a real ham. He loves to have his picture taken and they kept saying "Moose get out of the way." So this is Moose feeling very rejected.
I haven't posted for awhile but honestly folks I was all done in at the end of the day. BUT...."I'M FINISHED!!!! all my Christmas sewing presents are done. I've put miles and miles and miles on my sewing machine. I had that baby smoking at the end, but I'm done., and I don't believe I will ever do this much again. Too much pressure. Trying to get things done by certain dates so they could be mailed off in time for Christmas....phew....wore me out. I have not been able to post pictures of my endeavours because most of my family read this blog. But get ready for a LOT of pictures come the New Year. The last of the gifts will be received on January 2nd when my 2 grandsons come to visit. After they leave and we take down the tree, this quilter will take a well deserved rest.
In the meantime there is still a week left before Christmas and now I have to move my buns and get this house in tip top ship-shape as I'm giving Christmas dinner this year AND... I have to finish my Christmas shopping. I have nothing bought yet for 1 son, 1 son-in-law and 1 husband. Now the reason for this is that these last three are SO hard to buy for. You know... we all have one of those people on our list, well I have 3, so if you will forgive me for not posting.... ( I'll be in the Mallsfor the next few days )... until the holidays are finished I will wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year
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~~Fran...:c)
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