Happy Girl Gang Veterans Day

A few days ago....................

My grandson is staying with me for a

few days and has been using the computer so

this is my first time to get to it in order to blog.

I could have kicked him off but he's been so helpful

that I hated to do it.

Veterans Day.

My father was Major Glover Wilson Laird (Army) and 

Pep's father was Lt. Commander Byron Patek (Navy)

so Veteran's Day is pretty important to me.

I realized when I was writing this that a

lot of the people who knew and remembered both 

of them aren't around any more and I'm not even

sure what Byron's rank was.  

So this blog has inspired me to get in touch with 

Ancestry.Com or something similar and do some

research so my grandchildren will know who they

were.  This is the quilt I designed to honor them. 

It's called "Wings of Freedom" 

You can go to the

store to get your kit by

   clicking here.

Now, have the best week with the

people and quilts that you love and

I'll see you next week.

Happy Girl Gang Halloween

 And Happy Halloween to

all of you.

I still remember being ready 

to take the kids out to go to every 

house in the neighborhood in town. 

 Now that we live in the country we

don't get Trick or Treaters so I have

to settle for blogging and putting up

a quilt to tablestand  for sale.  And

tonights sale item

is

Dark and Stormy Night.

Blogger is dealing me fits tonight and

as you all know by now, I am not a

left brain person so I'll let you go to the

store to get your kit by

   clicking here.

Now, have the best week with the

people and quilts that you love and

I'll see you next week.

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

Jake and Gabby are coming up tomorrow 

and I might go back with them. 

They have moved to Sedalia which is

quite a bit further away.

Tammy got hurt yesterday so my 

left brain is gone and I can't do much 

without her.

I am going to post a pattern on sale and

I'm sure Zoie will send an email and I think

Tammie can send the patterns from her house.

sooooooooo

Pumpkins Turkeys and Geese should

help you get your house ready for

Thanksgiving.

Make sure you stop quilting long enough 

to go VOTE.

So have the best week with the people and

quilts that you love and  maybe I'll see you next week,

if I go and figure out how to take my

computer with me.

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

It's October 18th

which is Pep and my Anniversary

so the pattern on sale today is

The Anniversary Quilt

I think that when Zoie sent out the email

she put both the "Anniversary Quilt" and

"Jan and Pep's Marvelous Adventure" on sale

so you may find both of them in the store.

If so, you can take your pick or buy

them both.  It has been 56 years since

we walked down the aisle and I must say,

I miss him terribly.

When you spend every day for 56 years

with someone their abscence leaves a 

big hole in your life.

And as I'm 80, I no longer have the energy to  design

6 or 7 quilts to promote a fabric line, so I don't design

fabric any more.

Luckily Deb Strain sends me jpgs of her latest

lines and right now I'm using her line "Red, White and

Bloom" to redo "American Spirit" and "Baskets, Berries

and Leaves"

Pep wanted to be cremated.  I bought a heart necklace

and put some of his cremains in it so now I have

part of him with me again and that is a great

comfort.  The box the necklace came in said 

"No longer by my side but always in my heart."

Meantime life does go on and we have an

election coming up and we all have to be 

sure to get out and vote.

So have the best week with the people and

quilts that you love and I'll see you next week.

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

 On Friday this week.

And aren't we all glad we didn't 

live in the path of Helene.

Our prayers go out to all who did.

And thank you Samaratin's Purse and all 

of the other agencies that have stepped in to help.

I don't get into politics often but I will tell you 

that I was infuriated to learn that all the FEMA

money had been spent housing and feeding

illegal immigrants instead of being available

to take care of Americans.  After all it

was taxpayer money,

On a more pleasant note, we had Pep's

Memorial Service on the farm last week.

 We were married on October 18th fifty-six years ago 

so on the week of the 18th (3 weeks from today)

we'll put the pattern for the Anniversary Quilt

on sale.  For right now I just miss him

terribly and will put the Trick or Treat

pattern on sale.

Each block or costume stands for a grandchild

but I'll have to go get a pattern and tell you who

is who next week.

Meantime, have the best week with the people and

quilts that you love and I'll see you next week.

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

And it's pumpkin time.

I just love pumpkin time

so our special this week, of course, has to

be a pumpkin quilt.  

 We've picked

    Jack Stack

And luckily we have a few

kits as well as some patterns.

To go to our store to buy 

your kit you can  click here.

Now, have the best week with the

people and quilts that you love and

I'll see you next week.

 

Happy Girl Gang Wednesday

And the year is really moving along.

Its Fall already and that means Thanksgiving

and Christmas will be here in no time.

While I'm working on my latest quilt 

(chock full of basket blocks), 

I had Tammy go up to the loft to find

me a Fall Tablestand and she came back

with 

                                                                     Fall Favorites.

This is the front and I just love this turkey.

But before we get to Thanksgiving we have to have

Halloween.

                                                  The grandkids wouldn't want me to leave

that out, so this is the back.

I'm still working out getting to the kids houses but

I'll get there

One of my favorite things about Tablestands is

that I get to make 2 little quilts that kind of go

together but that can stand on their own.

Anyway, I hope you have a great week and

have fun with these quilts.  And of course the

kits are on sale this week.

You can go to the store to get your  quilt kit by 

clicking here.

Now have the best week with the people and quilts that

you love and I'll see you  next week 

    YAY!.