Sunday, November 29, 2009

Thanksgiving 2009

Well things were going pretty good until I decided I was too tired to drive any longer and let my husband drive. He really was driving very cautiously for the road conditions but it just wasn't to be. We hit a patch of icy slush and went for a real ride.
Fortunately we are all fine. My husband , me and the pets survived and walked away with nothing more than a few sore muscles.

Here he is smiling for the fact that all is well, the truck can be replaced but we can't be.






Well here is what we replaced the truck with. A new to us truck. It is a 2004 4x4. I think we are going to like it.


Here I am smiling with my new vehicle.

Have a great week and keep smiling.
May God show us how to save this great country of ours.
Dot






Saturday, November 21, 2009

More projects completed

I made this cute snowman face during the week. I sort of followed a picture I received from someone and adjusted it to make it my own. He measures 14.5 by 14 if you measure the tips of the hat brim and 10.5 if you measure the main width. This cute little Santa face is from last time the quilting group met. One of our members brought the supplies and patterns for this and I tried one. He is cute. He measures 8 by 5.5.
Here is the complete basket quilt. I titled it "A tisket A tasket", I know it took a long time to come up with that one.

Have a good week and Happy Thanksgiving.
May God help us save this great country.
Dot


Sunday, November 08, 2009

A tisket, a tasket

I finished my baskets. Not the best pictures but you can get the idea of what the quilt top looks like. Those borders take a lot of time. I don't know if I will do that again. Well, I probably will sometime in the future.
I like how it turned out and hope to load tomorrow to start quilting.
May God show us how to save America.
Dot

Saturday, November 07, 2009

Charity donations

I knitted 24 pair of slippers for charity this year. Last year I made hats, this year I decided to make slippers and I am thinking next year mittens. Time will tell. I might just stick with hats and slippers. I did not achieve my goal of 12 quilts but I had 10. I donated these 10 quilts to Frontier Missions this year. This is the charity I have decided to donate to for the last 3 years I believe.
I will start accumulating quilts for next years donations now. I can't start the knitting yet as I have other projects to work on before I can start that.
It is hard to part with these quilts, each one is special in its own way and they are all unique but a girl can have only so many quilts. These quilts will go to people who really need them and I have to leave it as that.
Have a good day
FIGHT ON!!!!!!!!
May God help us save America.
Dot