Jane Seymour at Deseret Book

 As I mentioned yesterday,

I'm a little disappointed that 

I won't be able to attend my guild's Christmas Party

next Tuesday evening.

I even made a quilt for the celebration.

*But, I have a good reason!

Right at the very same time

the Actress

Jane Seymour

is coming to our store

Deseret Book

 in Chandler, Arizona

for a book signing!

I have always been a big Jane Seymour fan,

and I'm so excited to meet her!

One of my all time favorite movies

is

Somewhere In Time 

At the top of my list for

most romantic movie moments

is when she and Christopher Reeves

look at each other

while she is having her picture taken.

And in the 1990's we watched a lot of

 Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman

on TV.

 How did we get so lucky to

have Jane Seymour

come to our store for a book signing?

Last Christmas she read her book

Good King Wenceslas

with the

Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

You can purchase the

DVD or CD

Once Upon A Christmas

from Deseret Book

 Jane Seymour will be signing her book

Good King Wenceslas

at Deseret Book

2860 W. Chandler Blvd. Suite #15 

Chandler Arisona

 

Tuesday December 11th

from 6-8 pm

 

Come join us!

Any questions, feel free to call me

at Deseret Book

480-899-5469



Oh My Stars Quilt

For our guild Christmas Party

we were challenged to make a quilt

that will be used for

the decorations.

It was a "crayon challenge"

and the color I drew

randomly from the bag

was

"Tropical Turquoise"



The  pattern I chose was

Oh My Stars

by Callie of

Make It Do



 A throw size

50" X 68"

I downloaded my pattern from a PDF file

from

www.make-it-do.com

found

Here

Love Callie's version in red :)

 All of my quilt was made from scraps

which stays with Callie's theme

of Make It Do

In today's world we could learn a lot from

 the old Depression Era saying

Use It Up

Wear It Out

Make It Do

Or Do Without

 The backing is even from a piece I found in my stash.

 I used the colors in the birds

to pull for the scraps

on the front.

My many thanks to Pat Roche

for the machine quilting :)

All labeled and ready for our Christmas Party

next Tuesday night.

Which, by the way, I will

NOT be able to attend :(

*for a very good reason,

that I will share with you tomorrow :)

Emily's Circle Block

 Life is feeling pretty

good right now.

I just finished another

Bees Knees block.

Oh, it's so nice to be caught up

in at least one category

this time of year.

For November the

Circle Block

(sometimes called a Dresden Plate)

was sent from

the very talented

Emily Herrick

of

Crazy Old Ladies

 Emily sent each of us a different color range

to make her block.

My color was

Orange

 I did add in a few of my own fabrics to

add in some extra

scrappiness.

 This block was also paper pieced,

although very easy to do.

The pattern comes in half arcs,

and then you sew the two sides together.

I am really curious to see how Emily will be assembling her quilt.

We are to send it back, raw edges and all.

 I wonder if it will look something like

The Cartwheel

made by AngelaFMQ

*found on flickr

Doesn't this look like wonderful flavors of lifesaver candy

or bright

 inner tubes

used to float

on in the pool?

This quilt says summer.

To find out what Emily will be doing with

her blocks,

we will just have to follow her closely

on her blog

Crazy Old Ladies

Which, by the way is a very curious name

because Emily is neither

old or crazy.



April's Lone Starburst

I've now finished

putting together

April Rosenthal's

(Prairie Grass Patterns) 

Lone Starburst block



Whew!

Quite a relief to have this

 12-inch block done.

I will happily drop it off in the mail today,

where it will head to April's house in Utah.

 I really liked the fabrics

April

sent us

in

reds, yellows, grays and teals.

 My block will be added with

11 other

Bee's Knees Quilting Bee blocks

heading April's way.

Being part of a Bee is a great way to get a quilt done.

 The Lone Starburst really is a

wonderful block.

I finished putting together my

practice block, too.

 A nice way to use up scraps.

This one block looks a

little lonely by itself.

At one point

I plan on making more

to keep it company :)

I admit, the paper piecing

was a little challenging at times,

but I was

happy to practice

and gain a little more confidence

in this technique.



Iron-Man-Dan-O

 Best of luck today

to

our Son-In-Law

Dano

as he

participates in the

Ironman (!)

Competition

in Palm Springs, California

Dano will compete in the Half Ironman

which is a series of

middle-distance Triathalon Races = 70.3 miles.

He will

Swim 1.2 Miles

Bike 56 Miles

and then

Run 13.1 Miles

!!!

His goal is to finish in under 6 hours.

o.h.m.y.

How proud we are of him for his

determination

commitment

training

discipline

and

endurance

gives me goosebumps just to think about it



Our cheering will take place from Arizona

while we participate in our own 

semi-triathalon

for a few days

as we

run

chase

and 

corral

these 3 beautiful grandbabies

Little heart stealers :)