Couple of things

First I saw the truck at JoAnn's on West Saginaw a short while ago and she is a woman after my own heart.  Although for our grammar police out there it isn't quite right.

Next I emailed some of you that my brother is running an estate sale this Friday 9 am to 3 pm (full price) and on Saturday from 9-1 (items go 1/2 price) in Grand Ledge.  The lady of the home was a quilter and has passed away.  The sale is advertised at www.estatesales.net and pictures here show the serger and baby lock sewing machine that are in the sale.  The baby lock is also an embroidery machine.  There is not a big fabric stash, but there are lots of books, magazines.  Here are a few photos of some of the more special items.

 

machine embroidery thread

This is a very nice 3 drawer cabinet of Madera thread.  I haven't used these but believe they are for machine embroidery.

 One of a couple of kits

 

another kit

It looked as though all the blocks were done for this quilt and setting fabrics are there.

So I hope these few pictures help.  There are no completed quilts.  She was also a counted cross stitcher.  So there are some finished cross stitches, patterns.  For just one bedrooms worth of stuff, if you are out and about Friday or Saturday it might be work a look see.

Jason & Denise's wedding

This week my mom received some wedding pictures from my niece who got married in August.
So I finally have some decent pictures to share.  It was a lovely affair on a rooftop in Manhatten with the Empire State Building as a backdrop.

 

It all was very lovely.

 

More of NYC Wedding - Friday evening

Friday night the rehearsal dinner was at the Shake Shack near Central Park.  It was a nice casual affair.  Liked this green wall next to the diner's entrance.

Come see all the turtles here!

Intrepid explorer's in Central Park

 

Saturday in NYC

On Saturday the wedding wasn't until 5:30 and only 3 doors from our hotel, so we had a lot of time to do whatever we wanted.  Mom wanted to see the view from the empire state building.  So Mike, Carole, Mom and I did that.  It was only a two block walk from our hotel.  This was the view the first night from our hotel window.

 

Another bucket list tic for Grandma

 

 

After we left the Empire State Building we did a little walking and headed in the direction of the restaurant where Jennifer and Leif wanted to have lunch.  So the 8 of us caught up for lunch.  Then after lunch we split up.  Mike went with Jennifer and Leif and mom, Carole and I headed to Mood fabric.

 





 

After looking around here a bit and trying to wheedle our way into seeing where Denise's office is, since it's in the same building, but Tony the elevator guy stood firm.  no go.  At some point previous in the weekend I had heard Mike talking about getting shirts for Ken, Pamela, Jack and Molly from a fire station.  End up he wanted them from the #10 station, but we didn't know that.  When we came out of Mood, I noticed a station right across the street.

 

So we got shirts for Ken and Pamela who stayed home to look after Grandpa Brown.  This stations id was "the Bat Cave".  They loved the shirts.

 

 

Then it was time to go back to the hotel, which was only about a 6 block walk and rest up for the big event.

 

Busy Summer

Wow!  Where did the summer go?  When I used to hear my grand mother or mother say that I couldn't fathom what they meant.  Now I understand all too well.

The big event in August was my niece's wedding in New York City.  It was a good time in the big Apple, but wish we could have spent a little more time with the bride and groom.  But they had more pressing matters on their mind.  Darryl, Anna, Mom and I went to the Statue of Liberty on Friday. One of mom's bucket list items.  Weather was great, clear and hot.

 

Next stop after the Statue of Liberty was Ellis Island.

Next post will be family pics.

 

 

 

Shipshewana quilt show 2014

The Shipshewana quilt show was this past week.  Because of work mom and I went down on Saturday.  We always go M66 which is the slower day, but it give mom time to reminisce about all the time we have gone down here over the last 45 years.

It's fun as you get into Amish country.  We say a man mowing his lawn with a single horse hitched to a mower that has probably six reel mowers on it.  Mowing and fertilizing at the same time.  Then a little further down the road we saw Some Amish farmers baling hay with a horse drawn, 3 or 4 horse hitch, bailer that was producing the large round bales instead of the rectangular ones.  Then we came to this farm with tons of purple martin houses.  Had to take a picture as I remember the time my dad made a purple martin house for our place.

The Shipshiwana quilt show is in the same building as the Hudson car museum.  So it's a double win, quilts and wonderful antique cars.  Here were a few of our favorite quilts.

There was a challenge hanging that was 6 small wall-hangings that came out of a challenge by Bonnie Rhoby to her friends to try something they hadn't done before.  I believe they were all machine quilted by Bonnie. 

I have a friend who has helped make a lot of quilts for her sister's cottage.  They often use a panel in the center for the twin bed quilts.  Thought this quilt was a great use of a wildlife panel.

 

 

 

More photos to come.

Summer Star Retreat

This past weekend we had a retreat with our variable star group at Turk Lake.  We have found a very nice cottage there, right on the lake.  For once I have no deadline project to work on.  There were 7 of us who were able to attend.  Although we all worked quite steadily, there weren't a lot of "TA-DA's".

Barb worked on finish a bag she has started.  Roxie worked on a gingham quilt for her new guest room. Becky worked on a piecing job.  Carol worked on more borders for her hand dyed challenge.
Melanie was quilting on her double wedding ring quilt for Jim, her husband.  And Gerry was quilting on a wedding quilt.  I worked on a recycled shirt project and got all but 2 corner's done.  Then worked on a 60 degree table runner project.