Sue Garman

Sue Garman spoke at our monthly meeting of the Sugar Land Applique Society yesterday. Sue is the designer of the block of the month quilts featured on Alex Anderson/Ricky Tims' Quilt Show. She is an amazing designer as well as quiltmaker. She had a lot of her quilts on a powerpoint but she is also a great speaker. She told us how she is inspired to design. She's quite funny. If you have a chance to hear her speak--Go!!
Oh, she has a blog too. A lot of her pictures are on her blog so there is no need for me to post those here. Go see.

I'm a winner!!

It always makes my stomach sink when I read my name as a winner. Before I began this blog I never won a thing. It is so fun. Thanks Molly.

Magazine give away

Run over to Molly's Place to enter her give away for a magazine subscription. How much better can it get?

What is wrong with me?

Why can't I get motivated? I have several stacks of fat quarter collections and I just can't seem to cut into them. I think I love quilting but maybe I just love fabric.

Yo Yo Mama

Have you seen this post from BunnyHill about YoYo's? I read a suggestion a while back from another blog to save your scraps each year of the projects you do that year. I have a container of 2009 scraps. Wouldn't it be cute to do Anne's idea using the scraps for each year's projects. You could have a 2009 jar, a 2010 jar, etc. Too cute!!

Unnecessary Body Parts

Urrrr! As one of our last hurrahs before school starts again my husband and I went to Mississippi to visit his mom. In case you don't know it feels like they fry everything but water in Mississippi. We enjoyed a lovely fried catfish meal until it upset my little gall bladder. Two days later I had another attack. Long story short is I had my gall bladder removed Wednesday. As I am a school nurse, school started for staff yesterday. Uhhh, what a mistake to try and return to work a day and a half after surgery. Needless to say I will be reclining most of the weekend. No quilting for me. I will never finish...

Sister's Update

I'm back from my trip to the Northwest. Ahhh, warm sunny days, cool nights...

I had a great time with my mom and sisters. Lot's of quilt related activity with mom. I wish my sisters sewed.

Our trip to Sisters was nice but it seemed as if there were fewer quilts this year. They were spread out throughout the town which made for a lot of walking for mom. She did pretty well for 73 years old.

Here's a few pictures though I can't really give credit to the makers. My apologies.