New Grandson

We have a new grandson, Lucas George Thomas, 8 lbs 4 oz, 20 inches long. My son took this picture this morning while I was visiting them at the hospital. I had forgotten already about newborn sounds. Lucas cried, as he had a messy diaper, but his cry was so tiny. He sounded like a little kitten. Then it became a little louder, but still a tiny cry. Mom and Dad decided he must be hungry. It was about time for his next feeding anyway.

Hopefully they will be home tomorrow. Then little sister can see her new brother. Our son may have taken her in this afternoon to meet him. I wonder how she will react? Once they are home with him, and her, I bet the impact will happen that she is not the only little one in the household now. I am sure they will be great friends since they are close in age. They are only 14 months apart! Mom and Dad will have their hands full for a couple of years!

I cannot wait until he gets home tomorrow. We will be taking care of Lissie so I will get to see Lissie and Lucas together.

Happy Babies

Lego Blocks

Tonya is making a quilt which she calls her Lego quilt. I have been watching her progress. I think it is a fun block/quilt. I decided to play along. I started with a couple of blocks since I had a few 1.5 inch strips on my sewing table left over from another project. I started sewing them together and cutting them into 10.5 inch blocks to assemble into a quilt (someday I thought). Well, let me tell you that they are addictive! I cannot stop making them. I am searching through my strip boxes and pulling out everything I can use. I have even cut down some 2.0 inch strips to make them into the 1.5 inch size so that I will have more variety to choose from for my blocks.

I mean it, seriously! I am addicted to these things. I should be working on my exchange blocks, or making backs for the huge pile of tops that I have ready for quilting, or working on a UFO, or organizing stuff. Instead, I am squeezing in (sometimes) minutes to make another block. It seems that I have been sewing forever on these things, and I only have 11 blocks made. I need to get a bin and throw everything into it. I will keep it close so I can pull out some strips when I have a couple of minutes to spare and feel the need to sew a Lego.

I am including a darling pix of our cutie patootie that I took last week. She is getting so big. I know she is still very little, but she has grown so much in these last 15 months. Little brother may be here this weekend. So we will have another smaller cutie patootie to take pictures of and hug and squeeze.

Happy Quilting

Camp Stitches

Last Friday evening and Saturday was our guild's Camp Stitches event. I had such a great time!!! Friday evening was the Mystery Class. Below are two pictures of the teachers' quilts. The first one is the quilt as it was taught. The second one is a variation of the first one. Aren't they both beautiful? The teachers had us make only five blocks at first. I did complete my five before I went home. I want to make a few more and then sew my quilt top together.

Saturday afternoon was our Jelly Roll Race 1600. The next three pictures are of the tops that were completed in our race. I had such a great time running the race. I am so excited that so many racers finished. I told them I would not let them go home until they finished all five laps of the race!

Now that Camp Stitches is over, I can get back to some projects that I need to finish. The last two weeks have been really busy for me with various appointments and the regular things that I do, like baby duty with our precious cutie patootie. Her baby brother is due in a couple of weeks, so we will have two cutie patooties to play with soon. Wow!

Since this is September 11, I want to take a moment to honor the families and friends of the loved ones whose lives were lost 10 years ago today. I cannot adequately describe my feelings, not then and not now. When I put up the flag outside this morning, I said a prayer for them. God bless America.

Purple Pam

And The Winners Are

Thank you all for reading my blog and entering my 200th Post Give Away. Everyone of you are winners in my book. I have stayed up until 12:01 (this morning) September 1 so that the drawing of names could happen before you rise from your comfy beds . The ladies whose names were drawn are:

This and That BOM - Barb

Americana Rose - Anna

Scraps - Linda and Cindy D.

Congratulations ladies. Please email me your mailing addresses and I will send out your prizes within a few days.

Happy Quilting

P.S. I have included of picture of my favorite cutie patootie!