I hope you have a wonderful day QNS! Happy Birthday! I think you just caught up with me (74). :thumbup:

Yeb!:o It is a good age indeed. My hometown quilt shop's owner, Cindy has a birthday today.She is younger than I am...has more grandchildren, too.

I did something real fun today... cleaned and vaccuumed house and sprayed it all down for fleas... also flea treated the pets! NOT fun... hope Nina had a MUCH better day!

Happy Birthday, Nina...we had a day full of sunshine up here...Hope you had the same...

Cool, sunny and a beautiful day here. Just got back from a Steak Dinner in my hometown cafe. A kind neighbor drove us and paid for the meal. Golly, it was the BEST George and Nick cafe has a 4.5 rating out of five...it should be five. Pizzas are very good there too, I have heard. Service is excellent and the cooks know how to cook good steak.

QNS, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy biiirthdaaaay, deeeeaaaar Nina, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to YOU! <:) :wave: <:)

Happy birthday, QNS, wishing you peace, joy, and many more.

Steak dinner... yummy! What a great neighbor.

Thank you all. It was a wonderful peaceful day. Cell phone rang most of the day. I do not celebrate this much in normal years, but this one was very special...and turned out to be quite a nice day. Now to make up the time in the QR today and finish the top and bottom border on Savannah. Thinking about putting the backing together as a 'second' quilt, reversible with a panel of a Stag deer and trees in autumn shades of orange and yellows. It would go together quickly...and surprise BIL with the two choices. He has always been a brother to dh and Uncle to our children, no matter where we lived, he came to visit. No gifts or money, just was there to know them. Which is more than any other member of dh family did.

Nina....recognize any of these fabrics? These are going to DS and DD as anniversary gifts...both were married in the fall...we have a waterfall about 1/4 mile from the barn and the road that goes south from our driveway looks like the one in the scene...plan on making 2 more for other 2 sons...wish they were summer scenes as they have June anniversaries. Oh well...[ATTACH=CONFIG]559183[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]559184[/ATTACH]

Those are so pretty, OK!

Well done , OK. I wish I had read your message befpre I went to town. I am sure I had some summer landscape in my landscape totes. Yes, I know I have grey/black rocks with green grass, tall green grass....fisherman fly fishing, etc. Will sent you an email tomorrow.

Thanks for the kind comments....there is a nice e pattern on the Red Rooster website, and we have kits made up at the shop with it, but I am kind of a maverick and like to have my own take on it. Had no idea what I was going to do, then thought flying geese in fall. Having the geese in just the corners helped solve the problem of uneven width and length of the panel...I had the rust and the geese came from Nina's box...the binding also came from her...tonight I got them sandwiched and started in the ditch quilting around the geese...plan on doing 3 lines of parallel stitching in the L shaped corners. I think I will get another panel for the other 2...it's not often one finds scenes that look like your own backyard.

QBuddy and I are shop hopping tomorrow...just to see what's new in some of our favorite shops.

QNS I am late at wishing you a HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!!!!!!!

A Poem For You!!!!!!!!

Nina Sue is a Quilter
Friend and Helper
Sharing Love

She Brings Sunshine
Everywhere
She shares All Her Fun

She is creativity With a Smile
Funny and Sweet

She is the Kind of Quilter
That Can't Be Beat

So Quilting Nina Sue
I wish a Happy Birthday
To You

We All Will Celebrate
Another Fun, Loving, Year
With You!!
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Great poem... so sweet! :o

Thank you, BillieJune. How sweet is that? Priceless.

Have a great day everyone!

Sharing the things that make me smile and I hope you will too:[ATTACH=CONFIG]559203[/ATTACH]Finishing a quilt top.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]559204[/ATTACH]Hibus in bloom. [ATTACH=CONFIG]559205[/ATTACH]Second season of Iris blooms[ATTACH=CONFIG]559206[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]559207[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]559208[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]559209[/ATTACH]Roses. [ATTACH=CONFIG]559210[/ATTACH]Growing baby ducks.[ATTACH=CONFIG]559211[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]559212[/ATTACH]Did I mention of finished quilt top?? Yes! Enjoy and smile.

Such a pretty quilt top, and all finished. Oh I love the beautiful flowers, and those sweet ducks. :)

Wow! QNS, some beauties in your yard!
I love that border on your quilt top. You've out done yourself on this one!

Really like the cornerstones and sashing...frames the blocks so well. Nice to see flowering beauties before the first frost...

QNS, thank you for sharing all that beauty! The quilt top turned out STUNNING. I love it. Your flowers are all beautiful too. I especially love irises and have never seen a better yellow one! And your ducks are so cute too. Your pics gave me lots of smiles. Thank you!

The only flowers I have blooming right now are what's left of my geraniums. They are getting pretty shriveled and the leaves keep coming back smaller and smaller when they fall off. But they continue to bloom. They give and give and give.

Today was our first COOL, Fall-like day! The humidity vanished too. I just wanted to stay outside all day.

QNS, Thanks for brightening up my day..the quilt is so bright & cheerful fall colors...Love the flowers & ducks..

I haven't been doing too much..walked into an ottoman with bunn feet and broke 2 toes..Hurts like hell when I walk.. It was dark and I thought I was going in the right direction... I wanted to get a pedicure but that's not possible right now..the black & blue toes won't match the nail polish. :D
That's not too bad..I was reaching to get my eyeglasses off and I gouged my nose with my thumb fingernail..I've been walking around with a very noticeable scab on my nose..What else could happen to me..I'm afraid to go in the sewing room I might break my neck or some other bony part of my body..
It has rained almost every day..I'm almost wishing it's the middle of October and we're heading back up north..but then there's another hurricane in the works and we'll be greeted with more rain..
Sewbiz, I'm going to try to get my DH to think about a day trip to Georgetown before we leave. I'm going to call them first to see what the procedure is
Aghhh, enough complaining...Hope all of you are well and enjoying yourselves..Have a good day.. H.

Feeling like fall today...cooler with some wind...not too cool to have windows open though.

Oh dear, Honchey. I too had problems with my right foot yesterday...found some lead in it...or should I say a Smokie found some lead...$114 later...the thing is I was driving very responsibly all day...was coming down a long hill and there the patrol car was as I wasn't paying attention to my speed...QBuddy and I were gabbing away...other than that twas a great day...found some wide flannel backing to put on a quilt, borders for QOV quilt I'm sewing, a beautiful piece of gold tinged fabric at the end of the bolt and some blue to match it, a pretty blue with some tiny berries in it perfect to use with my minis, and a 4plus yard piece for $5 a yard...should be done buying for a while.

I'm so very lucky as far as Smokies go..My DH is a retired NJSP and the decal on the car has gotten me out of many a "lead " problem... Many of which I have never told him about..Won a trophy in a "Powder Puff" stock care race with my then current boy friend in my much younger days..It was alot of fun.. Loooong time ago..:D

Honchey sorry about the broken toes! That's hurt is incredible. I broke just one a couple of years ago when a chair fell on it-- the back of a metal framed chair that had tipped over. I was trying to catch the cat and didn't move my foot out of the way in time. I thought I would DIE from the pain! Even now, years later, I get twinges of it. Hope you heal up fast and with no complications.

OK sorry about the ticket! I hate getting them and better knock on wood because I haven't had one in a while. They are always such a waste... but I hate poking along slow too. I want to get where I'm going.

I delivered all my stuff for the craft fair today. Just have to show up early and set it all up tomorrow, but at least I won't have to carry it all in. It's at my space now. Wish me luck! I have a lot of stuff to sell.

Everyone have a nice evening...

Honchey, well, you might have thought you were complaining, but... well... it was sort of funny to read that you hurt yourself taking off your glasses. :-) That's a new one!
Hasn't everyone stubbed their toe, and knows how that feels, and worse to break it! Ouch! The thing with feet, I agree with SBG, those foot injuries come back to haunt you. I have two toes that won't give it up, years later.
I'm happy to have my blocks back from the Hunter's Star swap and hoping to get further on that this weekend. Did you girls see the pictures I posted on the Sept swap?

No, but will go and look!

We just got home from the all day craft fair. Dusty, sweaty, dirty from being outside on what turned out to be a HOT day. But we had a great day, saleswise! For me the most exciting part was selling things that were my 'last of's and really need to GO. I'm glad someone wanted to love them! I sold 4 quilts, among many other things. Love it! But I am totally beat. The booth 'next door' to us was selling bath balls, and they gave us some at the end of the day so we could go home and soak and recuperate. Met some great folks today....

Jeanie, You updated your photo!!!! soooo nice!!!

Jeanie, what a pretty picture of you!

Pretty lady Jeanie!!

A lovely younger looking picture, JeanieG. With any luck at all, I will be shipping out your boxes tomorrow; Will update you then.

dublb, prayers for you and your sister caring for you DM. May all go well and she heals quickly.

Quilt inspector on the job here...have added more border on one side...sigh, other side yet to do and binding on top and bottom...but I love its look now.[ATTACH=CONFIG]559543[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]559544[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]559545[/ATTACH]added more on side border. Its the Midnight Garden pattern done has High Noon or California Gold Poppies quilt.

To ease your minds, I still have fabric totes in the guest room[ATTACH=CONFIG]559546[/ATTACH]and closet. And in the Quilt Room:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]559547[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]559548[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]559549[/ATTACH]And the closet picture in QR is not there now..but its almost full, too, so I do have fabric...and more fabric, to offer me challenges this winter. Plus two trips to DM coming up the end of the month...IF there is any $$ to spend or not. Nice shop shop going on now, but have not heard of any offers yet to go now until Friday. Sigh. I would love to go and 'see' but not expecting any contact to go to any of them.

Have a good day. . . and a good week.

OK...I will email you tomorrow when we get home from my hometown.No , I did not use erasable ink, did use a paper in some of them. Decided to be empty totes into empty totes to have more room for more fabric...LOL!

Honchey, thinking of you and your sore toes. Ouch! My MIL kicked a chair with her toes on the way to the bathroom and broke her toes. Very painful. Hope they heal up quickly.