Happy Birthday, Mom

Ninety years ago today a nearly ten pound baby girl was born to a tiny little woman - in a farmhouse in Iowa.  Happy birthday, Mom.  She has been an amazing inspiration for all of us as she lives a full and happy life.   Never complaining about becoming a paraplegic seventeen years ago, she continues to celebrate her life with her family and friends.  She is a beautiful woman, inside and out.  Sunday we celebrated with a family dinner. 

Such a beautiful smile as she enters her 91st year!!

Cotton dishtowels are something she has been wanting lately.  I found some terrific towels at http://www.acshomeandwork.com/flour-sack-towels.html.  These are the softest towels and we all know how great they are for drying dishes.  There is nothing like them.  I remember as a child learning to hand embroidery on this kind of towel.  It was also our first experience in ironing!!  Anyway, I ordered some flour sack towels - very reasonable, too - and they included a few extra in my order.  I decided a giveaway was in order.  Just leave a comment and if you are also a follower, leave a second comment to be entered.   I'll draw a winner next Tuesday evening (March 5th).

This is what I did with them.

The designs are from www.designsbyjuju.com .  They have some of my favorite redwork machine embroidery designs as they always stitch out so beautifully.  The best part is that their design SETS are on sale through February for only $5.  You could easily pay that for each design.  Be sure not to miss that offer. 

Her birthday card.......

Our warm weather has finally arrived and I am loving it.  It's time to head out to the garden and play with a little dirt before my sister and I take my mom out to lunch.

Still Waiting

Each week I think I will have the news to report of our newest grandbaby, but this little one is playing stubborn.  It is actually due next Monday, but our DIL has delivered each of her babies three to four weeks early.  So....we wait.  It is actually good that it is late as they have had strep throats and the H1N1 in their household.  You would not want to bring a baby home to that.

Our weather continues to be just gorgeous.  We have been able to enjoy beautiful sunsets each evening as we sit outside.  I love seeing the days becoming longer and know that spring and summer won't be far off now.

What has been going on in my sewing this week?  Actually, there is not as much to show as I would like.  I got into a deep cleaning mood and cleaned all of the floorboards and polished ALL of the wood floors.  Then I cleaned my refrigerator and freezers before I moved onto the pantry - a huge job after the holidays.  My husband even asked if I was the one expecting.  It did feel good to get those jobs out of the way.

I am working on a large embroidery order of eighty shirts.  Each design takes 15 minutes to stitch out. 

One box down....



Two to go.

As well I finished my setting blocks for the Thread Head Quilt Along.  I did not like the ones that I had made as they did not show the blocks off enough. 

This is block #13.  I am making two of each block and will have twenty sets of blocks when finished as well as forty setting blocks.

My Birdie BOM for the month of January is completed.  I am using the Sunkissed fabric line.  I love these cheery fabrics. 

My ALQS5 mini quilt is finished, but we aren't suppose to show it yet on our blogs.  Also, I have my mug rugs cut out for the Quilting Gallery swap.  We received our partner's names this week so I now know the colors that she prefers.  Things are moving along slowly here.  I have so many projects that I really want to do, but the days just seem to slip by in the blink of an eye.

Hopefully, my next post will bring news of a new baby in the family.  I hope everyone has a great week.