Time goes by........

I can't believe that it has almost been a Year since I last posted anything.

Here is Katori's quilt that I finished in Jan 2016 and got it to her for her

first birthday in Feb 2016.  

I will post the finished quilt, have to down load to PC, it's on my phone.

With work and school, there is not much time for quilting any more.  I so want to get back to

working on my quilt pattern and drawing it out, maybe one day I can.

till next time and hope it's not almost  year.

RoseMary

Love the Beach House redo

Love the red Bedroom

http://www.betweennapsontheporch.net/tour-sarah-richardsons-beautiful-island-summer-house

Comfort for those in Trouble

Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of all mercies, and the God of all comfort;

who comforteth us in all our tribulation,

that we may be able to comfort them which are in trouble,

by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted by God.

- 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

The-Bees-Knees-summertime

http://homeiswheretheboatis.net/2015/07/15/the-bees-knees-summertime-sipping-and-giveaway

What a wonderful give away.

RoseMary

On My List Of To Dos.

Saw this quilt at a quilt shop today, easy and love the colors.

Better in person

Happy stitching,

Christmas Stockings for Children in Broward County

Quilting in the Pines (http://www.pinesquilts.com) is getting ready to start making stockings for children who will be in the hospital this year at Christmas time.

We will be having a workshop after our August meeting to work on stockings.

Here is the one I'm making as a sample

Here is the red felt foundation that strips are sewn onto

you can go in any direction you choose. 

Here is what the back will look like before trimming

Make sure you use the same color of thread as the foundation,

so it won't show when done.

Here it is trimmed, now put right sides together 

 and sew.

Here it is sewn together, now turn and push all seams

out and then press with hot iron to help with the shape.

And now we have the stocking front and back done,

onto the cuff, here we go.

All done with Holly and Berries and hook for hanging.

Super Easy and Fun

Happy Stitching,

RoseMary

Helping Dianas-Golden-Needle

When you go to take pictures outside the wind starts to blow,

but you just have to be patient, it will stop for a second.

I'm making these blocks for 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dianas-Golden-Needle/1620860048143753?fref=ts

Read her story at the link above.  Copy and paste link. 

Maybe you would want to join with her project.

Happy Stitching

RoseMary

The New Tea Cup Exchange

Here is my new Tea Cup that I received from Stephanie, from The Enchanted Rose.

For Our Tea Cup Exchange 

 Such wonderful gifts from the Heart.

A little birdy told me that this tea cup is from her own collection.

I will treasure it.

One of the note tags was put in my Bible the same day,

so I will say a pray for Stephanie and her family each time I see it.

The pearls and the little white bird are mine.  

Stephanie puts pearls with some of her pictures, so I tried it out.  

Even loved the paper bag that all the other items came in.

Love it Stephanie

Thank You so much.

Here is the one I sent to my partner in NC.

She liked things from Britain.
Even the Tea Cup is from England.
I made the 10 minute runner from tea cup
and teapot fabric.  we have a shop here that sells
items from that area, so it worked out well.

Hope she is enjoying it.

Blessings to everyone.
RoseMary

My MoJo for Quilting is gone

I am in no mood to quilt, I did straighten up my cutting table tho.

Went yesterday with friends to Stitch Craft Quilt Shop in Boca Raton

and picked up some fabric for our guilds 3 yard quilt challenge for April.

We had to pay $5.00 to play

so here is my choice of fabrics 

After we finish the top and show it in April at our guild meeting, we get 

our $5.00 back

I hope this will bring some motivation back to my quilting mojo.

I really like these fabrics, not usually my choice of colors, but I do like them.

Hope you will come visit again and see the finished quilt.
Hope you will sign up with your email, and follow me to see
if I get my quilting mojo back.

Hope you are keeping warm if you have snow and being safe,

RoseMary

From my Sweetie

My hubby brought these to brighten my day.

Health issues are getting in the way of blogging (and life) as I would like,

hope to be getting answer's soon as I have changed Dr.'s.

I still try and quilt on something everyday just to keep my spirits up.

Hope everyone is doing well?

Keep stitching

RoseMary

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

FROM

SUNNY SOUTH FLORIDA

In time of trouble

In time of trouble, say,

“First, Lord you brought me here.  It is by your will Lord, I am in this strait place, in that I will rest.  

Next, “Lord, you will keep me here in your Love, and give me Grace in this trial to behave as your child.”  

Then say, 

Lord, you will make this trial a Blessing, Teaching me lessons you intend me to Learn, and working in me the Grace you mean to bestow.”  

And last, say, “In your good time Lord, you can bring me out again.  How and when, you know.”

Therefore, say,

 “I am here (1) by your appointment Lord,

(2) in your keeping. (3) under your training, (4) for your time.

AMEN

Andrew Murray

Mug Rug Swap, cont

I told you, I would be back today, that doesn't happen that often, LOL

So, here is my swap partners mug rugs

I just love how we all come up with different 

mug rugs, these will be used with love.  Did you notice the 

Keepsake Needle Card to the left?  Do you remember your grandma 

or mom having these, I do, and I still have some, and others I 

have collected over the years.  They use to be given out by stores our

grandmas and moms use to shop with the the stores names on them.

I love having tea when it is cool enough to have some, so I will enjoy 

my mug rugs with my tea.

Thank You, again Carmie.

I still have pictures to post of projects I will be teaching at Hobby Lobby,

so I will do that the next I come back to visit.  

Till then, Happy Stitching and Blessed Days,

RoseMary

Mug Rug Swap

Quilting Gallery and Little Green Cottage joined together to bring us 

Mug Rug Swap.

We were to make our rug mugs for our partner who lives in a different 

part of the country or in another country.  We were to email our new friend and

get to know them.  My partner is from Liberty Center, IN, pop, 100.  And I live 

in South Florida just north of Miami with a pop. of over 1 million.  I came from 

a small farming community of about 600, and that was in 1975.

Here was the start of my mug rugs, I love it when I go though the scrap 

basket and start pulling little pieces of fabric out.  This is why I save

all of my scraps, (Sam) some of them are very small in size.  

And here are the ones I finished.

A little different then the pattern, I put a bee instead of a butterfly,

and my house on the bottom is going the other way.

I will post my partners tomorrow after I take a picture of them.

Off to bed now.

I hope you have enjoyed the mug rugs,

RoseMary

Harvest Blessings!

I just finished my Harvest Blessings table mat, it has only taken, let me see, I moved to 

North Carolina in 2001, started and finished the hand work there, then moved to Ohio in 

2006, then to Virginia in 2013 and finally to Florida 2014,  somewhere around 13 years,

but it's done now.

 Never give up on getting things done, better late then never!

Just in time for the harvest season.

Matt 9:37-38

Blessings always,

RoseMary

Tea Cup Exchange Lost

My Tea cup that I sent out to my exchange friend was lost in the Miami mail somewhere!

I sent the cup and saucer in different boxes, I could not find one large enough for both to go in.

I didn't even take a picture of it, so sorry i didn't do that now.  I hope it will show up, along with

the history of it.

But here is the tablerunner and tea rugs, I made to go with it.

The tea cups and tea pot in the picture are my. 

See what my new friend Dolores from Anchorage, AK sent me for the 

Tea cup exchange in the last Post.

Till next time enjoy some tea with a friend,

RoseMary

Tea Cup Exchange with NEW Friends

A little while back I found a blog about tea and other items of Friendship.

www.theenchantingrose.blogspot.com/p/tea-cup-exchange.html

Please visit Stephanie at the link above.

If we chose to be apart of this exchange, we were to send a tea cup to the person who's

name we were given and send some others items that a tea lover would enjoy.
We had to send the tea cup out within a week, I can't make anything in a week to send with
the tea cup, I will have to post what I am sending her when I am done, I just went today to find the
fabric to make it, while I'm still working on a grandchild quilt and a few other things,
you should see my list of  WIP's, I'm working on.

I sent my tea cup without taking a picture of it first, (when will I ever remember to take pictures of everything, no matter what I doing with it).
But, I did send the history of my tea cup with it, where it came from and why it was
used, where it was used and for what reason.
My new friend is not far from where I live in south Florida, she lives in Miami.  I have not heard back from her yet.  

Here is my tea cup, I received from my new friend in Anchorage, AK

Thank You Dolores
I love and collect tea cups with roses and love Lavender.
I can't wait till I sit down and enjoy a cup of tea from your cup.
May I add, I have never used tea that was not in a bag, so I will now have to learn how to
use a  diffuser.  I have wanted to and now I have no reason not to.

Also, Dolores wrote a sweet note with her package at the end she wrote,
Numbers 6:24-26
It reads:
"The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you.
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance (favor) upon you,
And give you peace.

Till next I see you, remember the verse
above.
RoseMary

ThreadHeads Bee

I can't believe it's been been over a month since my last 

post, I've been working on multiple projects and guess I've been too busy

to notice that I have missed posting and keeping up with long distance and blog 

and quilting friends.

Well, fall has not come to South Florida yet, was told 

we only get a few cold fronts, we will see what they call 

cold fronts.

 Here are a few members of our ThreadHeads Bee Group

Kim, RoseMary(Me), LaDonna, Sam and Wendy and D.O.G. putting in

his two cents, and Lisa (not pictured) was

visiting her mom in Georgia.

Kim, Megan, LaDonna, Sam and Wendy

We get together once a month right now, this month we 

 made little pumpkins that could be used for pincushions

or just for fall decorations.

Two of us are from California, two from Massachusetts, 

one from Kansas and two from Florida.  Kim and I, both from Calif have sons in the 

Air Force.

Small world when you start meeting new people and getting to know them.

 Happy Stitching from South Florida

RoseMary

Small Blog Link Up from Lily's Quilts

Lily's Quilts is hosting a link up to small blogs, follow the link below and read small blogs with less than 50 follower.  But then follow them by email or the other ways of keeping up to date with them.

http://lilysquilts.blogspot.com/2014/08/fresh-sewing-day-and-small-blog-meet.html

I am still working on my blog and I'm not here everyday, but hope you will allow me 

to visit your email your email, every now and then.

Just sign up with your email.

RoseMary

Rain, Rain go Away and go to California

This is what it looks like almost every afternoon here in Sunny Florida.  LOL

  

This is every day since we moved here, except for a few days.  I am thankful that on the weekends so far it has been nice (very hot and humid) but at least, Mr.W and I can go do something together.   Yesterday, we went and got some tomatoes at one of the spots we go to for vegetables and fish,  The Flamingo Nursery, yep, a nursery that sells (fish).   Told you last week we went and saw Iguanas, this was the only one we saw on our trip this time.

Saturday we drove south to Biscayne Bay

When Hurricane Andrew hit, Biscayne Bay was in the eye of the hurricane.  Makes you feel small.

Well, I have projects I'm working (WIP) on and hope to get some of them done.  But here are a few of them

 Bertie"s Winter (BOM) just pressed applique pieces down on sat.

Waiting on more thread colors to start my buttonhole stitch. 

 I started this for a demo at our quilt show (Cabin Branch Quilters, VA) March 2014

This is a quilt for a grandchild (started 2011)

just found the fabric for the sashing that was packed away.

Hey, they're not in high school yet.

I finished quilting this one and is squared and ready for binding, also made a pillow to go with it which I will show after it is sent and grandchild gets it.

Closing for now in hopes the binding gets cut today

till next time have a warm and sunny day even if it is raining and gray.

RoseMary