Hi Cuties! Well I finished Eva’s quilt! Yea!!! I do want to embroider her label though, just not sure how I want to word it. Thinking

by toogie 17 Jun 2023

Thanks Patti- Eva will be coming back from Spain in August for college. They all leave tomorrow.

by toogie 11 May 2023

Thank you. I think Eva will be both surprised and pleased to get a quilt.
Eva has been to one of the QOV presentations. A veteran that is a cardiologist here said he served in Spain so after the presentation they stuck up a conversation.
I just got home from my quilting/sewing group. I picked up one of my tops another member quilted. I will sew the binding on and also the label. We needed 16 quilts completed for next month but we found out today, the second presentation was rescheduled for August or September so that’s great. We won’t be too rushed to get them done.

by toogie 09 May 2023

Thank you, I hope so.

by toogie 09 May 2023

Thank you, I put it together without a pattern but I know there is one for it. The picture I saw had red set in triangles with different colors in the squares and 9 patches.
Since I had previously cut my squares at 5 inches, I knew I had to make my 9 patches the same size. I cut the little sqs for the 9 P at 2 1/8 inch, an odd size I know, but my foot takes a bigger seam allowance than 1/4 inch. It gave me just enough extra to sq up my 9P to 5 inches. My set in triangles I cut 8.5 inch square then cut a X through the square giving me 4 set in triangles from each 8.5 in square. The corner triangles I cut at 5 inch square and only needed 2 squares cutting each in half from one corner to opposite corner, like a half square triangle. I laid them all out before sewing any together. Then I started sewing across, like you do on point, starting at left top corner on down.

by ksgram1 10 May 2023

Oh my! Now you have me wanting to try making one. I'm still having vision problems, so maybe not. I'll just enjoy looking at the photo of yours. It's so beautiful.

by toogie 09 May 2023

Thank you, I too, believe she will!

by toogie 08 May 2023

I washed and dried it and it bubbled up so pretty. I love it and think she will too. I made her label in English and Spanish.

by toogie 08 May 2023

Thank you, I made her a pillowcase too. I might have just enough fabric to make a sham, but I may wait and see if she wants one. Thursday our quilt group gets together so I will be helping to get those 16 quilts finished for June’s presentation. Friday I will have my 95 year old brother in law here, so won’t get any sewing done.

by toogie 08 May 2023

If Eva continues her education here, she will be about 80 miles round trip. She plans to stay in the dorms and come ‘home’ on the weekends, so some of us will have to pick her up on Friday afternoon and bring her back Sunday afternoon.
To me too, it seems like her school year with us passed fast. I know she will be glad to see her Spain family when they come in June. We are always giving her hugs, but none feel as good as mom and dads.
I need to go to my home computer and show you the pictures the photographer took of us two. We had just got through taking some group pictures, maybe of me and all the girls , I can’t remember she took so many. Anyway, Eva hung back with me because I walked slower so I didn’t fall. She grabbed me around the neck with a big squeeze and I told her she was choking me-lol well the photographer must have turned back and snapped a few shots. We were laughing but I thought she was gonna squeeze me to death! -lol- she is very lovable and we sure will miss her. She says she will be back in 2 months and I say I’m going with her to make sure she comes back-lol- she jokes and tells me to come and I can stay with her grandmother and eat broccoli-lol- According to Eva her grandmother cooks it every day.

by toogie edited 06 May 2023

Thank you I think she will.

by toogie 05 May 2023

Thank you Suzanna. I don’t know if it’s being a high scoring math student or the fact that her dad is an accountant, but Eva makes only necessary purchases. Her belt and shirt is my daughters, Eva’s host mom, she borrowed so all she bought for the pictures is her skirt.
On the other hand, her brother is also in the exchange program and ran his parents credit card up $1400 in one month! They naturally froze his as punishment-lol Eva has used my other granddaughter’s formal for prom and also borrowed another formal for another occasion so saving her parents so they wouldn’t have to buy gowns. How many American girls would do that or think about the cost to their parents? She has just turned 18 and is very responsible about money.

by toogie 05 May 2023

Thanks Maria, I’m not sure if you’re talking about the quilt colors or Eva’s photo or both but either way, I am pleased and appreciative.

by toogie 05 May 2023

Thank you, I can’t wait to give it to her but her graduation party won’t be, until her parents get here, in June.

by toogie 05 May 2023

Eva is a doll. She loves to joke so much you would think that she really is my biological granddaughter.-lol All my family have accepted her and love her like their cousin, niece whatever. We just had her 18th birthday party at the Crawfish Barn and Caleb’s family were last to get there because Rylan was playing ball. However, there were about 30 of us and the tables were placed together in a L shape. It was funny to see when Eva saw them and they saw her, they got up and met in the aisle for hugs. Caleb has always been, but most all of us are, huggers. We hug when we meet and when we leave. It is usually a sadder hug when the little ones leave, bc they never want to go home-lol I bet your family is like that too. Thanks

by toogie 05 May 2023

Thank you Christine. I can sew all day when I want to get something done, because I am retired. I stop long enough to cook or my husband will cook sometimes to help out. I needed to get this finished for graduation but also bc I need to work on quilts, for Quilts of Valor. We have two presentations next month that require 16 quilts. I have one quilt completed and 3 tops with another member to quilt.

by toogie 05 May 2023

Thank you, blue does seemed to be liked by most people. My oldest sister likes blue, but my middle sister liked red. I was always partial to greens and fall colors but now like bright colors. The bright colors lift your spirits. Anyway, I guess you could say I now like most colors, so I can’t say I have a favorite anymore.

by toogie 05 May 2023

Now Chris, that sounds like something I would do and have done. On a wall hanging I did years ago, I put my grandmother’s birth year, for my oldest daughter. 1889! Marsha was born the day before G-ma’s birthday and I was so consentrated on getting her day right, not G-ma’s day, that I put G-ma’s year🙄🤣
I know how much you love blue so I figured you would appreciate this one, thanks!

by toogie 04 May 2023

I will go to Google translate and see how it converts my English to Spanish- I sure hope it will be correct as I don’t want to put something wrong. Thanks for looking.

by asterixsew 04 May 2023

Google translate isn’t the best. Welsh to English often leaves a lot to be desired and the meaning alters. Can be quite amusing sometimes

by toogie 04 May 2023

Betsey, on her ACT she scored 27 and 28 in Math and such, but her reading (English) comprehension brought her overall average down to 25 bc she got a 20 in that. We told her 25 was a good score!

by toogie 04 May 2023

Thank you Laura. I am pleased with the finish. The blues look good. I had most of them and 3 ladies in my group offered me some blue, some were used but not a lot, so I will return what I didn’t use or need.